Sundance DocSource

All That Glitters reveals how strange capitalism and democracy can be when introduced to a former Soviet country, where people have never faced their own decisions and always lived under strict authority.

Camp Victory, Afghanistan tells the story of several rotations of U.S. National Guardsmen stationed in Herat, Afghanistan and a few of the Afghan officers they have been sent to train. These men have been given the enormous task of building the 207th Corps of the nascent Afghan National Army into an institution capable of providing security, stability, and a civilian government to a tattered, volatile nation.

Russia’s Pepsi Generation (working title) tells the story of the last generation of Soviet children brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition.

Filmed in Yemen, Release is a family drama about two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that would lead to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo Bay, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Release is the second documentary (after My Country, My Country) in a trilogy titled The New American Century about America post 9/11.

Over the course of several school years, Roma children struggle to break the barriers of segregation in a small Transylvanian town. Our School documents one of the first integration efforts similar to Brown v. Board of Education in the United States.

Lioness tells the story of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first women in American history to be sent into direct ground combat. Lioness re-broadcasts on Tuesday, June 2 on Independent Lens. Check local listing for air time.

Directed by Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer
The filmmaker’s same-sex wedding announcement  ignites a firestorm of controversy and a quest for change in his rural Pennsylvania hometown.
Out In the Silence captures the remarkable chain of events that unfold when the announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson’s wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy in the [...]

Directors: Priya Giri Desai and Ann S. Kim
In a culture steeped in tradition and obsessed with marriage, how do you find love, companionship, and partnership when you are HIV-positive? MATCH + is a narrative documentary film that tells the story of the growing movement for HIV-positive marriage matchmaking in India.
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Director: Glenn Baker
Producer: Stephen Sapienza
Social Entrepreneur: Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan
Easy Like Water is the story of how solar-powered floating schools are turning the front lines of climate change into a community of learning.
In Bangla, “easy like water” translates roughly as “piece of cake.” The irony is that in Bangladesh — with a population half [...]