Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema

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Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt

Documentary · Biography · History

The Memorial Quilt was started by the NAMES Project in the summer of 1987...and by the fall of '88, the quilt had grown to include 8,288 panels. Through on-the-scene documentation, filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman wove the NAMES Project's efforts to memoralize AIDS victims into an emotion…

Dance of Hope

Documentary

Academy Award winning filmmaker Deborah Shaffer directs this documentary of the aftermath of the political repression of General Augusto Pinochet. The wives, mothers and sisters of the disappeared courageously struggle for the truth and justice in Chile.

Fire From the Mountain

Documentary

Nicaraguan author Omar Cabezas’ personal memoir of revolution and reconstruction.

From the Ashes - 10 Artists

Documentary

Artists in downtown Manhattan pick up the shattered pieces of their lives and reconsider their work after September 11.

From the Ashes: Epilogue

Documentary · Artists

One year later in the aftermath of September 11, downtown Manhattan artists are in their studios.

Paragraph 175

Documentary · History

Directed by Oscar winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, this documentary about the persecution of homosexuals by the Third Reich raises provocative questions about memory, history and identity through survivors' testimonials.

To Be Heard

Documentary

Three Bronx teens search for their voices and an answer to the question: Can language change lives? Karina, Pearl, and Anthony are precariously balanced on the edge. Inspired by three teachers in a radical poetry workshop, can they write their own life stories, imagining a future where fathers aren'…

Where Are We?: Our Trip Through America

Documentary · Politics

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman set out on the open road to explore America's heartland and interview ordinary people in this timely, funny and moving documentary about trying to find common ground.

The Wobblies

Documentary · National Film Registry · American Independent

“Solidarity! All for One and One for All!” Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird’s impassioned documentary is a history of the radical labor union the Industrial Workers of the World, whose members are better known as Wobblies, through a combination of rare archival footage and ill…

Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

Documentary · LGBTQ · Lesbian

Led by Peter Adair, the Mariposa Film Group made the first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identity made by gay filmmakers. Their 1977 film is a collage of interviews, funny and heartbreaking.