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America ReFramed

America ReFramed brings to life compelling stories, personal voices and experiences that illuminate the contours of our ever-changing country. Since 2012, the series has premiered 170 films - more than half helmed by female makers and a third credited to BIPOC makers - centering stories of the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities, the formerly incarcerated, veterans, immigrants and more.

The Cost of Inheritance

55m 23s

THE COST OF INHERITANCE, an America ReFramed special, explores the complex issue of reparations in the U.S. using a thoughtful approach to history, historical injustices, systemic inequities, and critical dialogue on racial conciliation. Through personal narratives, community inquiries, and scholarly insights, it aims to inspire understanding of the scope and rationale of the reparations debate.

Episodes

  • Kid Candidate: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Kid Candidate

    S10 E9 - 1h 8m

    A viral joke video catapults Hayden Pedigo – a 24-year-old artist and musician in Amarillo, TX – into the spotlight and prompts him to make a surprise bid for city council. With his goal of upending the status quo and ousting corrupt incumbent politicians, KID CANDIDATE follows Pedigo’s unorthodox campaign while unpacking issues of race, income inequality and gentrification in small-town America.

  • La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered

    S10 E8 - 52m 16s

    On May 5th, 1991, people took to the streets of Washington D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood to protest the police shooting of a young Salvadoran man, Daniel Gomez. Through testimony, song, poetry, and street theater, LA MANPLESA: An Uprising Remembered weaves together the collective memory of one of D.C.’s first barrios and dives into the roots of the '91 rebellion.

  • Any Given Day: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Any Given Day

    S10 E7 - 1h 24m

    Filmmaker Margaret Byrne follows three formerly incarcerated Chicagoans as they manage their respective mental illnesses while searching for stability in their families, friendships, jobs and housing. While documenting the challenges that are faced at the intersections of a punitive carceral system, poverty and substance use, Byrne reckons with her own history of mental illness.

  • Sapelo: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Sapelo

    S10 E3 - 1h 31m

    On Sapelo island, two young brothers, JerMarkest and Jonathan, are coming of age in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee. As Sapelo’s storyteller and elder matriarch, their adoptive mother, Cornelia Walker Bailey, works to preserve what remains of her African-American community in the face of encroachment by property developers.

  • For the Love of Rutland: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    For the Love of Rutland

    S10 E2 - 1h 24m

    An attempt to bring Syrian refugees to invigorate the economically struggling and predominantly white town of Rutland, VT unleashes deep partisan rancor. Despite a lifetime of feeling invalidated and shamed for her poverty and addiction, long-time Rutland resident, Stacie, emerges as an unexpected and resilient leader in a town divided by class, cultural values and political leanings.

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    Fannie Lou Hamer's America: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fannie Lou Hamer's America

    S10 E1 - 58m 41s

    Fannie Lou Hamer's America is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential. Through public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist, Fannie Lou Hamer's America explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders.

Extras + Features

  • For The Love of Rutland | The Working Poor: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    For The Love of Rutland | The Working Poor

    S10 E2 - 1m 46s

    For many Americans, they are living and working in poverty every single day. In Rutland, VT, which is welcoming Syrian refugees, long-time town residents like Stacie and her family question why when they themselves struggle with being employed and putting food on the table.

  • For the Love of Rutland | Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    For the Love of Rutland | Preview

    S10 E2 - 30s

    An attempt to bring Syrian refugees to invigorate the economically struggling and predominantly white town of Rutland, VT unleashes deep partisan rancor. Despite a lifetime of feeling invalidated and shamed for her poverty and addiction, long-time Rutland resident, Stacie, emerges as an unexpected and resilient leader in a town divided by class, cultural values and political leanings.

  • For the Love of Rutland | Growing Up Black in Vermont: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    For the Love of Rutland | Growing Up Black in Vermont

    S10 E2 - 1m 7s

    In a state that is ranked as the second whitest in the US, Lisa Ryan knows what it is like growing up and living as a Black woman in Vermont. She shares her experience as the town of Rutland is divided on refugee resettlement.

  • For the Love of Rutland | Trailer: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    For the Love of Rutland | Trailer

    S10 E2 - 1m 14s

    An attempt to bring Syrian refugees to invigorate the economically struggling and predominantly white town of Rutland, VT unleashes deep partisan rancor. Despite a lifetime of feeling invalidated and shamed for her poverty and addiction, long-time Rutland resident, Stacie, emerges as an unexpected and resilient leader in a town divided by class, cultural values and political leanings.

  • For the Love of Rutland | White Syndrome: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    For the Love of Rutland | White Syndrome

    S10 E2 - 2m 1s

    What is 'White Syndrome'? In other words, white privilege. Stacie and her foster moms, Penny and Cassy, sit and talk about why they are able to enjoy freedoms that others do not simply because of the color of their skin.

  • Fannie Lou Hamer's America | Registering to Vote: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fannie Lou Hamer's America | Registering to Vote

    S10 E1 - 1m 34s

    For Fannie Lou Hamer, registering to vote in Mississippi meant being a first-class citizen in the U.S. But in doing so, her life and livelihood were threatened. Intimidation and violence were not new to Mrs. Hamer, and they would continue to follow her as an activist and as a Black woman.

  • Fannie Lou Hamer's America | Is This America?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fannie Lou Hamer's America | Is This America?

    S10 E1 - 2m

    Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. introduce Fannie Lou Hamer at the 1964 Democratic National Party. As a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, she testifies about her terrifying experiences with voter registration as a Black woman and as a voting rights activist.

  • Fannie Lou Hamer's America | A Childhood in Mississippi: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fannie Lou Hamer's America | A Childhood in Mississippi

    S10 E1 - 3m 22s

    In childhood, Fannie Lou Hamer, her parents and her nineteen siblings lived with hunger. Like many young Black children, she began picking pounds and pounds of cotton in the fields, dropping out of school at the age of twelve. It was a lesson about poverty and race that was not lost on her.

  • Fannie Lou Hamer's America | Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fannie Lou Hamer's America | Preview

    S10 E1 - 30s

    Fannie Lou Hamer's America is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential. Through public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist, Fannie Lou Hamer's America explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders.

  • Fannie Lou Hamer's America | The Brutality in Winona, MS: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fannie Lou Hamer's America | The Brutality in Winona, MS

    S10 E1 - 3m

    Fannie Lou Hamer describes the ill-fated day she, Annell Ponder and Euvester Simpson were arrested in Winona, Mississippi. The interrogation of Mrs. Hamer would forever change her work and life as the brutal police beating left her physically scarred, affecting her health in later years.

  • Fannie Lou Hamer's America | Beyond the Lens: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fannie Lou Hamer's America | Beyond the Lens

    S10 E1 - 23m 18s

    For the family of Fannie Lou Hamer, she was a woman of power and presence as a civil and human rights activist. But to Jacqueline Hamer Flakes, Monica Land, and Jimmy Lee Lacey, she was also so much more - a mother, a wife, and a friend who was loving and giving. The in-depth interview provides an intimacy to Mrs. Hamer's life, work and legacy that can only be told by those who knew her best.

  • Fannie Lou Hamer's America | The Beginnings of an Activist: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fannie Lou Hamer's America | The Beginnings of an Activist

    S10 E1 - 2m 46s

    In August of 1962, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee traveled to Ruleville, Mississippi to talk to the residents about voting. In the audience was Fannie Lou Hamer. From that day forward, Mrs. Hamer became invested in voting rights for the Black people of Mississippi.

Schedule

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    America ReFramed

    The Woman on the Outside

    Friday
    Mar 29

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Kristal Bush reunites with other Philadelphia families divided by incarceration, but faces her greatest challenge when her father and brother come home after decades behind bars.
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    America ReFramed

    The Woman on the Outside

    Friday
    Mar 29

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Kristal Bush reunites with other Philadelphia families divided by incarceration, but faces her greatest challenge when her father and brother come home after decades behind bars.
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    America ReFramed

    The Woman on the Outside

    Friday
    Mar 29

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Kristal Bush reunites with other Philadelphia families divided by incarceration, but faces her greatest challenge when her father and brother come home after decades behind bars.
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    America ReFramed: TVSS: Iconic

    America ReFramed

    The Woman on the Outside

    Saturday
    Mar 30

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Kristal Bush reunites with other Philadelphia families divided by incarceration, but faces her greatest challenge when her father and brother come home after decades behind bars.
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    America ReFramed

    The Woman on the Outside

    Sunday
    Mar 31

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Kristal Bush reunites with other Philadelphia families divided by incarceration, but faces her greatest challenge when her father and brother come home after decades behind bars.
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    America ReFramed: TVSS: Iconic

    America ReFramed

    The Woman on the Outside

    Sunday
    Mar 31

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Kristal Bush reunites with other Philadelphia families divided by incarceration, but faces her greatest challenge when her father and brother come home after decades behind bars.
  • Image
    America ReFramed: TVSS: Iconic

    America ReFramed

    The Woman on the Outside

    Sunday
    Mar 31

    1 Hour 30 Minutes

    Kristal Bush reunites with other Philadelphia families divided by incarceration, but faces her greatest challenge when her father and brother come home after decades behind bars.
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    America ReFramed: TVSS: Iconic

    America ReFramed

    What These Walls Won't Hold

    Thursday
    Apr 11

    1 Hour

    Filmmaker Adamu Chan documents his path through incarceration at San Quentin State Prison during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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    America ReFramed

    What These Walls Won't Hold

    Friday
    Apr 12

    1 Hour

    Filmmaker Adamu Chan documents his path through incarceration at San Quentin State Prison during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.
  • Image
    America ReFramed: TVSS: Iconic

    America ReFramed

    What These Walls Won't Hold

    Friday
    Apr 12

    1 Hour

    Filmmaker Adamu Chan documents his path through incarceration at San Quentin State Prison during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.
  • Image
    America ReFramed: TVSS: Iconic

    America ReFramed

    What These Walls Won't Hold

    Friday
    Apr 12

    1 Hour

    Filmmaker Adamu Chan documents his path through incarceration at San Quentin State Prison during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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