United States [1976-present]

113 minutes

Source: First Run Features

A Life Apart relates the story of the creation of the Hasidic post-Holocaust communities in the United States with particular emphasis on New York City. Seven years in the making, this film takes the viewer into the depths of Hasidism's sometimes harsh, and often beautiful, world. From mystical tales to mesmerizing music, and from Rebbes to Holocaust survivors, it reveals an insular world few outsiders have seen.

86 minutes
Source: California Newsreel

A. Philip Randolph began his career during the Harlem Renaissance as a radical soapbox orator and journalist, and went on to become an influential black labor leader. Partly because of his efforts, President Roosevelt banned discrimination in defense industries and President Truman signed an executive order to desegregate the military. In 1963, Randolph called for a March on Washington and became known as a father of the modern civil rights movement.

88 minutes
Source: First Run Films

After Stonewall, the sequel to Before Stonewall, chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots of Stonewall in 1969 to the end of the 20th century. Narrated by Melissa Etheridge, it captures the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting victories experienced since then. It explores how AIDS literally changed the direction of the movement.

by Michael Patrick MacDonald

(Beacon Press)

The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed South Boston’s working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. MacDonald grew up in 'Southie’s' Old Colony housing project and describes the way this world within a world felt to this troubled yet keenly gifted observer. All Souls is testimony to lives lost too early to violence, drugs, and poverty, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be “the best place in the world.”