Movies: American culture

  • 2002
    Bowling for Columbine

    Bowling for Columbine (2002)

    Bowling for Columbine

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    This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School secur...

    Bowling for Columbine
  • 1991
    Pushing Hands

    Pushing Hands (1991)

    Pushing Hands

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    Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, ...

    Pushing Hands
  • 2008
    The Onion Movie

    The Onion Movie (2008)

    The Onion Movie

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    Venerable newscaster Norm Archer reports the latest news in politics, health, culture and entertainment - such as an automotive recall of decapitation-inducing "Neckbelts" and a study finding that "depression hits losers hardest". This compilation of...

    The Onion Movie
  • 2019
    Skin

    Skin (2019)

    Skin

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    In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash....

    Skin
  • 2013
    Propaganda

    Propaganda (2013)

    Propaganda

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    An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean perspective....

    Propaganda
  • 2017
    Don't Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker

    Don't Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker (2017)

    Don't Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker

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    In 2007, 11 years after one of the most influential American punk bands, Jawbreaker, called it quits, the three members, Blake Schwarzenbach, Chris Bauermeister, and Adam Pfahler reconnect in a San Francisco recording studio to listen back to their a...

    Don't Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker
  • 2022
    Salvia Divinorum: A Western Approach

    Salvia Divinorum: A Western Approach (2022)

    Salvia Divinorum: A Western Approach

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    Salvia Divinorum is an often misunderstood and powerful psychedelic plant used by the Mazatec shamans in southern Mexico for centuries. This entheogen's mysteries are thoroughly explored, by Director Erin Wyche, from an American view point....

    Salvia Divinorum: A Western Approach
  • 1983
    Anarchism in America

    Anarchism in America (1983)

    Anarchism in America

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    A colorful and provocative survey of anarchism in America, the film attempts to dispel popular misconceptions and trace the historical development of the movement. The film explores the movement both as a native American philosophy stemming from 19th...

    Anarchism in America
  • 2024
    The American Question

    The American Question (2024)

    The American Question

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    An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polarization and distrust through past the past and present, revealing how communities can restore trust in each other to unite our country....

    The American Question
  • 1985
    God's Country

    God's Country (1985)

    God's Country

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    In 1979, Louis Malle films the thriving lives of a Minnesota farming community, but returns six years later to document its drastic economic decline, offering a poignant look at the impact of political changes....

    God's Country
  • 2005
    The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken

    The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken (2005)

    The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken

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    The life and times of The Carter Family, one of the earliest and most-influential group in American country and roots music....

    The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  • 1984
    Murder: No Apparent Motive

    Murder: No Apparent Motive (1984)

    Murder: No Apparent Motive

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    This documentary about serial killers and FBI Behavioral Sciences profilers features interviews with Ed Kemper and Ted Bundy as well as crime victims and law enforcement officials. The film includes some dramatic recreations....

    Murder: No Apparent Motive
  • 2008
    Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut

    Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut (2008)

    Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut

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    Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a full-time vocation. Controversies swirling within modern monastic Buddhism are examined, from celibacy and the role of women to racism and concerns abo...

    Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut
  • 2013
    Philip Roth: Unmasked

    Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013)

    Philip Roth: Unmasked

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    Philip Roth, arguably America’s greatest living novelist, turns 80 on March 19. In 1959, his collection of short stories, Goodbye, Columbus, put him on the map, and 10 years later his hilarious, ribald best-seller, Portnoy’s Complaint, gave rise to t...

    Philip Roth: Unmasked
  • 1998
    I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America

    I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America (1998)

    I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America

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    Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt explores what it means to be a Black man in America. Traveling to more than fifteen cities and towns across the country, Hurt gathers reflections on Black masculinity from men and women of a variety of socioeconomic...

    I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
  • 1969
    High Landz

    High Landz (1969)

    High Landz

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    High up in the Northern California mountains there is a place, where not too many get to visit. Its called - The Emerald Triangle, real mecca of Americas cannabis game. Follow a ukrainian journalist Luka on a journey that explores lifes of real growe...

    High Landz
  • 1984
    Go for It, Mike

    Go for It, Mike (1984)

    Go for It, Mike

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    A parodic music video that re-envisions the Horatio Alger myth of the American Dream via 1950s-style cultural cliches, advertising and Reagan-era media propaganda. Smith's 'regular guy' Mike embodies a series of all-American male stereotypes, from th...

    Go for It, Mike
  • 1977
    The Police Tapes

    The Police Tapes (1977)

    The Police Tapes

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    The Police Tapes is a 1977 documentary about a New York City police precinct in the South Bronx. The original ran ninety minutes and was produced for public television; a one-hour version later aired on ABC. Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond spent th...

    The Police Tapes
  • 2002
    The Main Stream

    The Main Stream (2002)

    The Main Stream

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    Humorist Roy Blount Jr. takes viewers on a journey down the Mississippi River, showcasing everything from areas with spectacularly beautiful scenery to ugly and dangerously polluted stretches bordered by industrial development....

    The Main Stream
  • 2006
    Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home

    Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home (2006)

    Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home

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    Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by everyone from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to U2. Originally blowing out of the Dust Bowl in Depression...

    Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home