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SIMA Docs: Marie’s Dictionary

By Mary Wang September 6, 2019

Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, one of the roughly 130 endangered Native languages in the United States. This documentary follows her efforts to keep her mother tongue alive.

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Presented by SIMA: Hotel USA

By Mary Wang May 6, 2019

This intimate documentary follows a group of refugees as they spend their first night in the United States in a New Jersey roadside motel. Watch here.

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Five Writers on Climate Change and Popular Culture

By Amy Brady April 23, 2019

Five contemporary writers and critics discuss how climate change is represented in novels, film, comic books, and even in the works of Plato.

Climate & Environment

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Presented by SIMA: Sanctuaries of Silence

By Mary Wang April 1, 2019

This virtual reality documentary follows an acoustic ecologist's journey to document noise pollution in one of the quietest places in North America. Watch it here.

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Presented by SIMA: The Super Salmon

By Mary Wang February 15, 2019

Watch the gorgeously-shot, deliriously-paced documentary that follows an Alaskan salmon on an unlikely journey on "the Mount Everest of rivers," as residents consider the costs and benefits of a mega-dam.

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Lauren Groff: Stories Should Ask Difficult Questions

By Amy Brady February 6, 2019

Watch the video of our talk with Lauren Groff to hear her discuss climate change and her writing process.

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Presented by SIMA: The Walls

By Mary Wang December 21, 2018

Watch this month's documentary, in which a prison debate team joins forces with college students to discuss gun control, even though some inmates have landed there precisely for firearm-related crimes.

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SIMA Docs

By Mary Wang November 16, 2018

Our new documentary series, presented by SIMA.

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Presented by SIMA: Noise Runs

By Mary Wang November 7, 2018

In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, a group of young Haitians produces a radical newspaper to democratize information and offer hope to the population.

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Let’s Get to Know Each Other At A Studio Visit

By Einat Amir January 15, 2014

Jerusalem-born artist Einat Amir creates environments for strangers to interact.

Arts & Culture

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Studio Visit: Sangram Majumdar

By Haniya Rae May 14, 2012

Painter Sangram Majumdar invites Guernica to his studio to view a few in-progress paintings and learn about his process.

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أنا وبس: My People Love Me

By Bruce Wallace April 15, 2012

Through YouTube and Vimeo, these artists give their fellow Syrians a voice.

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Celebrating One Year Since Egypt’s Uprising

By Joel Whitney January 26, 2012

This week marks the one-year anniversary of Egypt’s landmark protests. A new film collective reminds us of the courage that spawned it, and the work yet to do.

MENA

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Conversations With History: U.S.-Iranian Relations in the 1970s

By Harry Kreisler December 30, 2011

How the Shah’s dependence on the rise of oil prices and his need to fund his new military role ultimately led to his downfall and the implosion of Iran.

History

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Conversations With History: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

By Harry Kreisler December 14, 2011

Glenn Greenwald analyzes the relationship between principle, power, and law, and describes the erosion of justice in the United States.

Government

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Video: President Obama’s Osawatomie Speech

By Joel Whitney December 7, 2011

Video footage of what Robert Reich calls Obama’s most important speech on the economy

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Haskell Wexler at Occupy L.A.

By Justin Alvarez November 11, 2011

Academy Award-winning cinematographer and long-time activist Haskell Wexler points his camera at Occupy L.A.

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We’re All In This Together (Online)

By Justin Alvarez August 18, 2011

PBS Arts’s new video series Off Book explores new definitions of art. Their latest episode explores the world of online memes and remixes. Yes, that includes the Youtube Nyan Cat.

Arts & Culture