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Nature Boy, 30 for 30 (directed by Rory Karpf, 2017)

By Christopher Babits Growing up, I enjoyed going over to my Uncle Glenn’s house on Saturdays. In the afternoons, he and my Uncle Jeff would tune trucks and fix lawn mowers, rototillers, and other machinery. I was too young to fix anything, but I wasn’t there to help my blue-collar uncles with these tasks. I […]

The Battle of Chile

by Nathan Stone “Where is that terrible beauty we planted so long ago?”  -Santiago del Nuevo Extremo  Rodolfo Müller is almost a hundred years old, now.  He still lives in the same house as always, off Simón Bolivar, between Hamburgo and Coventry. That’s in Ñuñoa, a township on the near west side of Santiago.  It’s […]

Elevate (2012)

Anne Buford’s documentary Elevate focuses on several Senegalese youths and their attempts to make it out of Senegal through basketball.

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2002)

This film tells the story of Nat Turner’s 1831 Virginia slave revolt. For years, historians have grappled with the details of the affair and debated about the ways Nat Turner should be remembered.

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