This Academy Award-nominated film takes a moving personal story, illuminates it with insight and humor, and makes it universal. In recounting her attempts to come to terms with her mother's advancing Alzheimer's disease, Deborah Hoffmann explores the relationship between mother and daughter, parent and child, and the tenacity of love. (1995, 60 min.)

"A rare combination of intelligence, dry wit and deep emotion." — San Francisco Examiner

Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during pregnancy. Refusing to confine the tears, rage, laughter and hope to dinner table conversations, Helfand invites us to witness her personal journey from radical hysterectomy patient to vocal opponent of toxic exposure. From her suburban home to the halls of Congress, the intensely private becomes widely public, and an American family is transformed and strengthened. (1997, 60 min.)

Winner of a 1997 Peabody Award
"A devastatingly sad, funny and all-embracing work." — Newsday

Arthur Campbell, Jr. doesn't want your sympathy; he just wants what most people do: a living wage, a meaningful social life, a few good laughs and the means to get around. Filmmaker Walter Brock offers an unflinching portrait of one man with a disability who, with many others, is pushing for independence and an equal slice of the American pie. From the remote hills of Kentucky to the hallowed halls of Congress, join Arthur on his own unforgettable ride through life and the disability rights movement. (1998, 60 min.)

Winner of a 1998 duPont-Columbia Award

The Vietnam War Memorial was one of the most controversial monuments of its time. Thrust in to the eye of the storm was architect-sculptor Maya Lin, whose design for the memorial was chosen when she was a 21-year-old college student. Withstanding bitter attacks, she held her ground with clarity and grace. In this 1995 Academy Award winner, Freida Lee Mock follows a decade in the life of this visionary artist. (1996, 60 min.)

"Two Thumbs Up!" — Siskel and Ebert

"Olivia's Puzzle" explores a day in the life of two seven-year-old girls, Reshma and Olivia. Although both are of Goan heritage, they lead distinctly separate lives. Reshma was born and raised in Goa, India; Olivia was born and raised in British Columbia, Canada. They talk about their lives, their hopes, dreams and aspirations, and what kind of opportunities may lie ahead. "Olivia's Puzzle" creates a cross-cultural bridge between two young children, who in spite of living thousands of miles apart, have many things in common. (2001, 12 min.)

Winner of a 2002 Documentary Film Award, Chicago International Children's Film Festival
Official Selection, 2003 Sundance Film Festival

In this Academy Award nominee, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn makes a brave pilgrimage to the remote Vietnamese countryside where her husband died. Weaving interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid tableau, she explores the meaning of war and loss on a human level. Thirty years after the war's end, these stories are stirring reminders that the battle scars are life-long, but that shared sorrow can inspire healing and reconciliation. (2000, 60 min.)

Winner of a 1999 Sundance Award for Best Director and Cinematographer

How could such a pivotal moment in American history be kept a secret for 60 years? Textile workers recall with pride the long-suppressed story of the General Textile Strike of 1934 when 500,000 Southern mill laborers walked off their jobs. George Stoney and Judith Helfand's probing film explores how the strike still impacts labor, power and economics in the South today. (1995, 60 min.)

Winner of a 1995 Gold Hugo award, Chicago International Film Festival