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Weapons of Mass Disruption

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Birth of a Movement

Susan Gray, Bestor Cram

Danny Glover, Spike Lee

In 1915, Boston-based African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith’s technically groundbreaking but notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly The Birth of a Nation, unleashing a fight that still rages today about race relations, media representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement, based on Dick Lehr's book The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights, captures the backdrop to this prescient clash between human rights, freedom of speech, and a changing media landscape.

You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men

Bestor Cram, Candace Schermerhorn

Max Wolf Valerio, Jamison Green

This compelling and thought-provoking documentary provides riveting portraits of a diverse group of six men who once were women and chose to change their gender. The award-winning film is an unforgettable story of self-discovery and challenges all of us to re-examine the foundations of our ideas and feelings about gender, sexuality, and identity.

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Bestor Cram

Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash

Cash's concert at Folsom State Prison in California in January 1968 touched a raw nerve in the American psyche and made him a national hero at a troubled time in American history. Using the stark images of rock photographer Jim Marshall, graphic techniques, archive footage and interviews with Merle Haggard, Cash's daughter Rosanne, band members Marshall Grant and WS 'Fluke' Holland, alongside former inmates of the prison, the film documents this explosive concert, the live album that followed and a transformative moment in the lives of Cash, the inmates of Folsom Prison and the American nation in the troubled year of 1968.

Midnight Ramble

Pearl Bowser, Bestor Cram

Herb Jeffries, James Avery

A documentary chronicling the pioneering efforts of black filmmaker William D. Foster in the early years of the industry and Oscar Micheaux's controversial impact on the subsequent "race movies".

The Special

Mike Majoros, Bestor Cram

A documentary dedicated to the bluegrass standard "Orange Blossom Special" and Ervin T. Rouse, the fiddle virtuoso who composed the tune. Includes performances by Johnny Cash, Bela Fleck, Charlie Daniels, and String Cheese Incident.

Beyond the Wall

Jenny Phillips, Bestor Cram

Filmed largely in Lowell and Lawrence over four years, Beyond the Wall is a raw and honest chronicle of one man’s efforts to help former convicts stay on the straight and narrow, away from the needle that sent them spiraling into prison.