Society

This Film Is Not Yet Rated looks at the film rating system in America, managed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and how it affects American culture. Specifically, it examines depictions of men and women, s...

TV Junkie tells the striking story of Rick Kirkham, a former TV reporter and correspondent for Inside Edition. Kirkham’s battle with drug addiction, particularly crack cocaine, ultimately cost him his career, family and nearl...

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the world’s most well-known suicide locations. Originally constructed to connect Marin County with San Francisco, it has become a tragic point of departure for people determined to end their l...

The Tank Man recounts the iconic moment when an unidentified Chinese man stood in front of a column of tanks on June 5, 1989, one day after the Chinese army’s violent suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. T...

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, by Robert Greenwald, explores the multinational American retail giant Walmart and the negative effects of its business practices. Set across three continents, it shares the personal stori...

The Merchants of Cool, by Rachel Dretzin and Barak Goodman, delves into the phenomenon of pop culture and its influence on teenagers. Correspondent Douglas Rushkoff interviews market researchers about how they identify emergi...

Tokyo Girls is a journey into the lives of four Canadian women who, lured by glitz and glamour, move to Japan in search of greener pastures. Upon arrival, they take up work as well-paid hostesses in Japan’s exclusive nightclu...

Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street follows the lives of five young heroin addicts in San Francisco over a period of three years. It chronicles the experiences of Jake, Jessica, Tracey, Oreo, and Alice as they naviga...

Paris Is Burning offers a vibrant glimpse into the New York drag and ball subculture of the 1980s, along with the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. It examines the system of ‘houses’,...

Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a third-grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa, found that she was unable to properly explain the impact of racial prejudice to a mostly homogeneous class. In an effort to driv...