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Provides an introduction to resources in the field of documentary film.
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Filmakers Library Online

  • Filmakers Library Online
    Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. This release now provides 924 titles, equaling approximately 738 hours.

Ethnographic Video Online

  • Ethnographic Video Online
    The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. Includes 292 videos totaling roughly 192 hours.

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Seven Dancers, Chasing Big Dreams At The Barre

Bess Kargman/IFC Films First Position profiles dancers at the Youth America Grand Prix, a prestigious ballet contest. Rebecca Houseknecht, 17, is a dancer with a lot of talent — and a painful awareness that her chances of signing with a top company are growing slim

For Americans' Water, It's 'Last Call At The Oasis'

Participant Media In building its case for the need to address flaws in current water management practices, the documentary Last Call at the Oasis shows the negative effects of such systems on communities, including this dry lake in Australia.

'Inventing' A Way Of Life, And A Nation With It

First Run Features This 1948 photo shows children from Hulda, a collective community, or kibbutz, located in central Israel.

Demanding 'Payback' That May Never Come

Zeitgeist Films A migrant Florida tomato grower and member of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers drinks from a jug of water. As part of a larger discussion of societal thinking about debt, Payback looks at the sometimes harsh treatment by companies of migrant workers.

Economist Film Project

The Economist Film Project is an initiative by The Economist, in partnership with PBS NewsHour, to share the work of independent, international documentary filmmakers with global audiences interested in learning more about our world and its untold stories

From Nigeria to China, from maternal health to international development to cross-border tensions, the project will feature films whose new ideas, perspectives, and insights not only help make sense of world events, but also take a stand and provoke debate. Selected films have been jointly curated by The Economist and PBS NewsHour to bring to the fore work by filmmakers who share these goals. We welcome your voice in this conversation.

The films you can explore on this website were first featured in news segments aired on PBS NewsHour. More films will be added on a regular basis through the end of 2011, so check back frequently to explore new stories.

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The New York Documentary Center

  • The New York Documentary Center
    he New York Documentary Center was founded in 1997 to provide the public with an ongoing series of programs exploring all facets of non-fiction documentary making, past, present and future. Activities tailored to the evolving needs of documentary makers will establish The New York Documentary Center as a vital clearinghouse for resources and information, as well as a crossroads where documentary makers meet and exchange ideas.

Ai Weiwei Documentary Planned for Summer Release

Ted Alcorn Ai Weiwei in a scene from Alison Klayman’s documentary “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.”

A forum for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with creative latitude by independent filmmakers and artists.

They Will Say We Are Not Here by Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall

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