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While tracing Dolores Huerta's trajectory through radical social and cultural movements of the past 50 years, Dolores provides an unflinching look at the barriers faced by women and people of color within the very communities they're fighting for.

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The Tallest Dwarf

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Vivien’s Wild Ride

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TheyDream

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Buried Under Years of Dust

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What Will I Become?

Delwin Fiddler Jr. and daughter Kassi Fiddler in Eagle Butte South Dakota

Without Arrows

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Far East L.A.

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Bike Vessel

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The Opioid Trilogy, Episode 3: Coming Home

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True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power

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The Road to Oaxaca

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We Arrive With Fire | Ne-kah Nuue’m Mehl Mech

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Higher 15

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Evidence Lost

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Kids in Confinement

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Flood

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Storming: Seasons of Care

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Brigidy Bram: The Life and Mind of Kendal Hanna

Rev. Robert Clement, a resident at the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Triangle Square, is crowned prom queen at the annual Senior Prom.

Senior Prom

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Children of Las Brisas

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