Cynthia Wade
The Flagmakers
From National Geographic Documentary Films, Academy Award-winning director Cynthia Wade, award-winning director Sharon Liese and executive producer Giannis Antetokounmpo, "The Flagmakers" poses one of today’s most pressing questions: who is the American flag for? Employee-owned Eder Flag in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, sews and ships five million American flags a year. The flagmakers — locals, immigrants and refugees — stitch stars and stripes as they wrestle with identity and belonging.
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Grit
When Dian was six she narrowly escaped a tsunami of boiling mud that completely submerged 16 villages under a moonscape of grit, leaving 60,000 people displaced. Lapindo, an Indonesian drilling company, had unleashed a violent, unstoppable flow from the earth's depths, estimated to continue for another decade. Shot over six years, GRIT witnesses Dian's transformation in to a politically active teen, as she and her mother take on the perpetrators.
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Mondays at Racine
Denne Oscar®-nominerte korte dokumentaren forteller historien om to søstre på Long Island, som en gang i måneden åpner sin skjønnhetssalong for kvinnelige kreftpasienter, og gratis hjelper dem med å føle seg vakre mens de kjemper mot den fæle sykdommen.
Freeheld
Laurel Hester, en New Jersey politiløytnant, og hennes partner og samboer, Stacie Andree, kjemper for å sikre Hesters pensjonsrettigheter når hun får diagnosen dødelig kreft. Men byråkratene i fylkesadministrasjonen, Freeholders, gjør alt de kan for å ødelegge for Laurel.
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