Downtown Community Television Center
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The Downtown Community Television Center or DCTV is a community media center located in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

's Chinatown
Chinatown, Manhattan
Manhattan's Chinatown , home to one of the highest concentrations of Chinese people in the Western hemisphere, is located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City...

 on Lafayette Street
Lafayette Street (Manhattan)
Lafayette Street is a major north-south street in New York City's Lower Manhattan, which runs roughly parallel to Broadway to the west. Originally, the part of the street below Houston Street was called Elm Place....

. It was founded in 1972 by documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 filmmaker
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 Jon Alpert
Jon Alpert
Jon Alpert is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. A native of Port Chester, New York, Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University, and has a black belt in karate....

 and his wife, Keiko Tsuno.

Mission

According to their Web site, DCTV "introduc[es] members of the community to the basics of electronic media through hundreds of free or low-cost production courses and access to broadcast-quality production equipment." DCTV conducts classes enabling people from less privileged backgrounds to learn to create video productions and operates studios available to them for low cost. These programs are funded in part by earnings from DCTV's own documentary films which have won 16 national Emmy awards and many other honors.

Facilities

DCTV is based in a landmark firehouse on Lafayette Street in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

, constructed in 1895 and purchased by DCTV in the 1980s.

Programs

Pro-TV (Professional Youth Media Training) is a program designed to train students from New York City's underprivileged communities in media arts, using state-of-the-art equipment.

Films

DCTV's Productions Include:
  • 1980 - Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive - Winner of the National Emmy, this milestone cinema verité
    Cinéma vérité
    Cinéma vérité is a style of documentary filmmaking, combining naturalistic techniques with stylized cinematic devices of editing and camerawork, staged set-ups, and the use of the camera to provoke subjects. It is also known for taking a provocative stance toward its topics.There are subtle yet...

     documentary tells the stories of six "ordinary" people who live or work along New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

    's Third Avenue, which runs for sixteen miles through Manhattan
    Manhattan
    Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

    , Brooklyn
    Brooklyn
    Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

    , and the Bronx, cutting through the complex social strata of the city to reveal wildly different economic and ethnic subcultures. The subjects speak for themselves, offering candid glimpses into the disparate worlds of a junkyard dealer who steals cars, a Bowery bum and the wife he abandoned, a welfare mother living in a burnt-out building with her five children, a male prostitute, a God-fearing Puerto Rican factory worker, and an aging Italian barber and his wife. Calling it "a triumph of its kind and a guidepost to a new age of television," The Washington Post
    The Washington Post
    The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...

     raved, "This program is essentially about whatever it is that makes people stand up and curse and dare anybody to trample them again."

  • 1983 - Invisible Citizens: Japanese Americans - In the first days of World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

    , 120,000 Japanese-Americans were taken from their homes and locked in concentration camps for the duration of the war. It is the first in-depth look at a group of people whose pride has kept their pain and suffering concealed from the general public. Invisible Citizens prompts viewers to consider America’s "hidden histories" and how we, as a people, look at our past.

  • 1986 - Junkie Junior - A five-year portrait of Junior Rios' descent into the black hole of drug addiction which will ultimately cost him everything.

  • 1986 - The Philippines: Life, Death & Revolution - An in-depth look at the Philippines
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

     at the height of the turmoil leading up to and following President Ferdinand Marcos
    Ferdinand Marcos
    Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...

    ' departure from power. From the smoking garbage heaps of Manila
    Manila
    Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...

     to an armed rebel camp deep in the mountains, the Filipino people tell their story with dignity and passion.

  • 1987 - Hard Metals Disease - This Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

     winning documentary examines the "Hard Metals Disease" epidemic among workers at GTE's Valenite Corporation and raises questions about corporate responsibility.

  • 1987 - Hunger in the Suburbs - It seems hard to believe that in the world's most affluent country, where farmers are paid millions of dollars not to produce food, hunger is a growing epidemic. Foodbanks throughout the country continue to report a tremendous rise in the demand for their services. Hungry families struggle to feed themselves in their middle class neighborhoods. This documentary sheds light on what some hungry Americans are doing to feed themselves. Their ideas may inspire more communities to create innovative local solutions.

  • 1989 - One Year in a Life of Crime: Part I - One Year In a Life of Crime documents 12 months in the lives of Robert, Mike, and Freddy, three professional criminals from Newark, NJ, whose tangles with the law prompt viewers to consider the social issues which underlie criminality and reassess the remedies in which our society places its faith.

  • 1991 - Rape: Cries from the Heartland - Rape is the fastest-growing and most under-reported crime in America. Every five minutes a woman is raped. This video profiles seven victims whose ages range from eight to seventy-two, and includes interviews with rape crisis counselors, and with the police. This film brutally portrays the physical and emotional trauma suffered by rape victims, who are often further victimized by the legal inability to bring their assailants to justice. Filmed at the rape crisis center in Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis, Tennessee
    Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

    , the program presents a disturbing portrait of rape as it really is — an act of violence, not sex.

  • 1991 - The Story of Vinh - As many as 100,000 Amerasian
    Amerasian
    In its original meaning, an Amerasian is a person born in Asia, to a U.S. military father and an Asian mother. The term has sometimes been used to describe a person in the United States of mixed Asian and non-Asian ancestry, regardless of the circumstances....

     children were left in Vietnam
    Vietnam
    Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

     by their American Fathers when the U.S. troops pulled out in 1973. In the years following the war, the United States allowed some Amerasians to migrate to the United States. The Story of Vinh unflinchingly focuses on one such refugee from the streets of Saigon who arrives with no English Language skills and little tolerance for the American foster care system. The program shows our failure to integrate Vinh into the social fabric and forces us to examine the legacy of the Vietnam War
    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

    , the limits of our societal obligations to refugees and their assimilation into American society. It is also a story about transition - youth to manhood, Vietnamese to American, and dreams to reality.

  • 1994 - Chiapas: The Fight for Land and Liberty - This collection of reports delves into the heart of Chiapas
    Chiapas
    Chiapas officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas is one of the 31 states that, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 118 municipalities and its capital city is Tuxtla Gutierrez. Other important cites in Chiapas include San Cristóbal de las...

     in the early months of the Zapatista
    Zapatista Army of National Liberation
    The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is a revolutionary leftist group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico....

     uprising led by Subcomandante Marcos, the ski-masked leader of the movement.

  • 1994 - Snakeheads: The Chinese Mafia & The New Slave Trade - Every year millions of impoverished Chinese men and women risk their small fortunes and their lives to place themselves at the mercy of the Chinese Mafia in order to find work in the United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    . The squalid conditions under which they live once they arrive pose thoughtful questions about the economic forces and social policies working to create such conditions. Despite the risks, there is an endless pool of Chinese who dream of making the voyage to the land they call The Golden Mountain.

  • 1995 - High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell  - In blue-collar Lowell, Massachusetts
    Lowell, Massachusetts
    Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 106,519. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County...

    , where disappearing industry has produced high unemployment, some residents have turned to crack for relief - only to see their dreams of a better life go up in smoke. High On Crack Street is a harrowing documentary chronicling 18 months in the lives of three crackhouse friends whose addiction has lead them to crime and despair.

  • 1995 - Lock Up: The Prisoners of Riker's Island - If you’re arrested in New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

     and you can’t make bail…welcome to Riker’s Island. Most young men in New York City have a better chance of doing time in Riker’s than of getting into college. Each night they spend there will cost the taxpayer more than a night in the Waldorf Astoria. An uncompromising picture of America’s incarceration system, this gripping documentary will provoke serious discussion about our society’s distribution of resources. Is this vast penal institution the best solution to crime?

  • 1998 - Canal Street: First Stop In America - From the bustling underground world of counterfeit goods, street vendors, shantytowns and sweatshops, witness the struggle of hardworking people subject not only to the difficulties of their labor but to a street with a law of its own.

  • 1998 - A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back" - Winners of the 1996 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship, the University of Tennessee
    University of Tennessee
    The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...

    's Lady Volunteers seemed poised to contend for the trophy again. But halfway through the 1997 season, the team were not living up to their promise. They were losing almost every important game of the season. Injury to a star player, Kellie Jolly, didn't help. It seemed that even the remarkable efforts of Chamique Holdsclaw would not keep the team from falling apart. Could this team really win again?

  • 2001 - Campaign Confidential - Throughout July and August 2001, Jon Alpert
    Jon Alpert
    Jon Alpert is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. A native of Port Chester, New York, Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University, and has a black belt in karate....

     and the DCTV and WNET staff spent many days on the campaign trail with each of the seven major party candidates who want to be the next Mayor of New York City. The idea was to capture a "day in the life" of each of these men competing to be the person who is often considered the second most powerful man in the country.

  • 2001 - Papa - Jon Alpert
    Jon Alpert
    Jon Alpert is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. A native of Port Chester, New York, Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University, and has a black belt in karate....

    's documentary portrait of his father's struggles with aging and failing health.

  • 2002 - Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero - The story of Masuda Sultan, a 23-year-old Afghan-American woman who travels back to Kandahar, Afghanistan
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

     after the WTC fell on September 11th, 2001. Masuda is delighted to see the yoke of the Taliban lifted, but horrified to find that American bombs killed 19 members of her family.

  • 2003 - Bridge to Baghdad I - Filmed on March 1, 2003, just two weeks before the start of the Iraq war, the youth of New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

     and the youth of Baghdad
    Baghdad
    Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...

     meet for an unprecedented conversation about the futures of the lands they will someday govern.

  • 2003 - Bridge to Baghdad II - Only days after the U.S. declared the war officially over, the American and Iraqi teens from Bridge to Baghdad I reunite to talk about what has happened and what is to come.

  • 2003 - Coca and the Congressman - In recent years Bolivia has been roiled by competing political forces, with the indigenous coca grower's union (the “Cocaleros”) becoming an unexpected powerhouse. Their hero is ex-Congressman Evo Morales, a former coca farmer from indigenous peasant roots, who rose up last year to defend the coca growers against the Bolivian military's crop eradication program. This prescient documentary predicted the ensuing resignation of the President, rise of the indigenous people and subsequent revolution. Coca and the Congressman illuminates the shifting balance of power that's underway in Bolivia
    Bolivia
    Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

     - and spreading across Latin America.

  • 2003 - Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story - The Latin Kings are New York's largest, most dangerous street gang. For decades they were synonymous with drugs, guns, and murder. In 1995 Antonio "King Tone" Fernandez became the leader of the Latin Kings. He vowed to lead the Kings away from violence and crime. The cops said it was a smoke screen. This is his story.

  • 2004 - Dope Sick Love - The story of two drug addicted young couples living on the streets of New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

    . With no music, and no narration, Dope Sick Love is cinema verite
    Cinéma vérité
    Cinéma vérité is a style of documentary filmmaking, combining naturalistic techniques with stylized cinematic devices of editing and camerawork, staged set-ups, and the use of the camera to provoke subjects. It is also known for taking a provocative stance toward its topics.There are subtle yet...

     at its rawest and most pure form. No film has ever taken the viewer this far, and this close, into a life of crime, drugs, and addiction. Both couples in the film claim to be in love, but their relationships are at the mercy of drugs, and the lifestyle that addiction demands. All attempts to get clean end in failure, while the couples desperately try to hold on to the only thing meaningful they have left on the streets - each other.

  • 2005 - Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story - A film produced by Bedford-Stuyvesant resident and DCTV student Terrence Fisher whose friend was shot by a police officer while he was in the process of producing a documentary about gun violence
    Gun violence
    Gun violence defined literally means the use of a firearm to threaten or inflict violence or harm. Gun violence may be broadly defined as a category of violence and crime committed with the use of a firearm; it may or may not include actions ruled as self-defense, actions for law enforcement, or...

    .

  • 2005 - The Last Cowboy - Shot in Porcupine, South Dakota
    Porcupine, South Dakota
    Porcupine is a census-designated place in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,062 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Porcupine is located at ....

     over 24 years, The Last Cowboy is a remarkable slice of American history. While 250 families leave their farms and ranches every week in the U.S., this documentary follows a young man, Vernon Sager, and watches him grow old as he fights to maintain a way of life and sees it fade away.

  • 2005 - Off to War (1-10) - From the farms and fields of Arkansas to the deadly streets of Baghdad, Off to War tracks the citizen Soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard
    Arkansas National Guard
    The Arkansas National Guard comprises both Army and Air components. The Constitution of the United States specifically charges the National Guard with dual federal and state missions. In fact, the National Guard is the only United States military force empowered to function in a state status...

     as they come face to face with the horrors of war.

  • 2005 - Siberian Adoption Story - Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

     is only second to China
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     for children adopted by American parents. The process is expensive and arduous. A personal chronicle about an American couple from Fort Myers, Florida
    Fort Myers, Florida
    Fort Myers is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. Its population was 62,298 in the 2010 census, a 29.23 percent increase over the 2000 figure....

    , and others like them, who traveled to Russia to adopt their babies.

  • 2005 - Venezuela: Revolution in Progress- About the recall election for President Hugo Chávez
    Hugo Chávez
    Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías is the 56th and current President of Venezuela, having held that position since 1999. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when he became the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela...

     in Venezuela

  • 2006 - Baghdad ER
    Baghdad ER
    Baghdad ER is a documentary released by HBO on May 21, 2006. It shows the Iraq war from the perspective of a military hospital in Baghdad and by that, illustrates what war really means. It has some relatively disturbing scenes in it , therefore the U.S...

     - Shows the lives of the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad
    Baghdad
    Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...

    , Iraq
    Iraq
    Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

     as they work to save the lives of U.S. soldiers and Iraqis, winner of four Emmy awards.

  • 2006 - India Journal - Nine American schoolgirls travel from the United States to the rural villages of India, where they meet Indian girls and discover the obstacles these girls encounter - including heavy workload and gender bias - in trying to stay in school.

  • 2007 - The Bridge - Egypt, USA is a documentary reality series co-produced with Common Ground Production, DCTV and Baraka Productions. The show follows two Americans and two Egyptians as they share their lives and their countries.

  • 2007 - The Russians are Coming!!! - To create communication and understanding, five of Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    ’s most talented television reporters hopped aboard the CyberCar - a 40-foot bus with a Times Square
    Times Square
    Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets...

     video wall its side. From the hollowed hills of Kentucky
    Kentucky
    The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

     to the horrors of Hurricane Katrina
    Hurricane Katrina
    Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...

     - from the beaches of Brooklyn
    Brooklyn
    Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

     to the bayous of Cajun country - the inquisitive Russians searched for the soul of America. Concurrently, they shared slices of Siberian and Post-Soviet life through reports they played on the TV wall to crowds of Americans who gathered around the bus, eager to exchange ideas and experiences.

  • 2008 - Dirty Driving - Anderson, Indiana
    Anderson, Indiana
    Anderson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is the principal city of the Anderson, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses Madison county. Anderson is the headquarters of the Church of God and home of Anderson University, which is...

     is a rusty manufacturing town way past its industrial prime that used to boast 33,000 General Motors
    General Motors
    General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...

     jobs. Now, the factories stand empty, and the stores are shuttered. Everyone who can is getting out. What’s left of the town gathers every Friday night at the Anderson Speedway
    Anderson Speedway
    Anderson Speedway is a quarter mile high-banked paved short track in Anderson, Indiana. Weekly racing includes several stock car divisions.The corners are banked at 17 degrees. The 2010 track record of 10.28 seconds in a winged sprint car was the world record for quarter-mile paved ovals until a...

    . Here, you’ll find NASCAR
    NASCAR
    The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...

     at its fender-rubbing, bumper-bumping, tire-trashing rawest. A DCTV / HBO Production.

  • 2008 - A Woman Among Boys: A Brooklyn Basketball Story - As the only woman coach of a boys team in New York City’s toughest AA basketball division, Ruth Lovelace faces unique challenges, but “Coach Love” has built the Kangaroos into a powerhouse - with playoff appearances in every year of her tenure. Players on her teams work to overcome significant obstacles both on and off the court. Their neighborhood is one of the most dangerous in the city, and players battle homelessness and the stress of having a parent in jail, while battling for victory on the court. Love and her assistant coach Elmer Anderson know where the kids are coming from - and where they have the potential to go. Both were star athletes at Boys and Girls High, who used basketball skills to secure full-scholarships. They know that for their boys there’s more at stake in basketball than the score of the game - scholarships are on the line. With intimate access to Love, Anderson and the team, “A Woman Among Boys” follows the Boys High Kangaroos through the 2007-2008 season as they battled archrival Lincoln High School for the top spot in NYC basketball.

  • 2009 - "China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" - this documentary from Jon Alpert and Matt O'Neill, which was nominated for an Academy Award, details the aftermath of the earthquake that struck China's Sichuan Province in 2008. The earthquake killed over 70,000 people, 10,000 of which were the province's children. Alpert and O'Neill's documentary uncovers the sorrow, pain and outrage of the bereaved families as they cope with their loss and demand answers of the government.

  • 2009 - "Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery"

  • 2010 - "WARTORN: 1861-2010"

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