News Archive
Study Guide Genre: Documentary
April 13, 2020
Public Enemy
Four past members of the Black Panther Party -- playwright and former prisoner Jamal Joseph; renowned musician and record producer Nile Rodgers; law professor and lecturer Kathleen Cleaver; and founding party member Bobby Seale -- share their personal memories and thoughts on the historic, milita...
April 13, 2020
P*Star Rising
P*Star Rising follows the story of a retired rapper who guides his nine year old daughter through the music business in this exploration of the elusive nature of fame, the determination of youth and the seductive power of celebrity culture.
April 13, 2020
Pressure Cooker
Pressure Cooker profiles the lives of three high school seniors from Northeast Philadelphia, each with unique hardships but with the shared goal of winning scholarships to the country's best culinary schools.
April 13, 2020
My Architect
Louis Kahn, a giant among twentieth-century architects, left a legacy of brilliantly designed and engineered buildings. Kahn's personal life was mysterious, and his death, alone and unidentified in Penn Station in 1974, revealed that he led not a double but a triple life, shuttling between his le...
April 13, 2020
More Than a Month
Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African American filmmaker, is on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. Through this thoughtful, humorous journey, More Than a Month investigates what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a “post-racial” America.
