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Standing Silent Nation

by Suree Towfighnia, Courtney Hermann

Premiere: July 3, 2007

In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota after other crops had failed. But when federal agents raided the White Plumes' fields, the Lakota Nation was swept into a Byzantine struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights and common sense.

Roger and Me

by Roger and Me

Premiere: September 28, 1992

Michael Moore embarks upon a filmic odyssey to meet General Motors Chairman Roger Smith and convince him to visit Flint, Michigan for a first-hand look at how massive layoffs had devastated the local economy.

Pets or Meat

by Michael Moore

Premiere: September 28, 1992

Filmmaker Michael Moore revisits his now famous hometown in a new film, Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint.

Fast Food Women

by Anne Lewis Johnson

Premiere: August 10, 1992

Anne Lewis Johnson documents the low-wage, no-benefit jobs of the 'working poor' in America's new 'service economy'.