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Community Cinema Series offers monthly special sneak preview screenings of films scheduled for upcoming broadcast on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. All Community Cinema screenings feature panel discussions with leading community-based organizations, special guest speakers, information and resources, and other programming designed to help people learn about and get involved in some of today's key social issues.
The screenings, which are offered free of charge, will take
place at the History Museum’s Lee Auditorium, located
at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park.
The films themselves will be broadcast at later dates as part
of Independent Lens on Channel 9.
Presented by KETC/Channel 9 and the Missouri
Historical Society, in collaboration with Independent
Lens, ITVS and FOCUS St. Louis
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2008
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I.O.U.S.A
Tuesday, November 18, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Burdened with an ever-expanding government
and military, increased international competition, and
debts to foreign countries, America must mend its spendthrift
ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportion. |
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Helvetica
Thursday, December 4, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
This film about typography, graphic design
and global visual culture explores urban spaces in
major cities and the creative processes that go into
the various typefaces that we see everyday.
Come early at 6:00 p.m. for a printing demonstration
from the Firecracker
Press.
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Tulia, Texas
Thursday, January 8, 2009, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
In 1999, undercover narcotics agent Thomas Coleman
executed one of the biggest drug stings in Texas history.
Tulia, Texas tells the story of a small town's search
for justice and the price Americans pay for the nation's
war on drugs. |
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Arusi Persian Wedding
Thursday, February 5, 2009, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Iranian American filmmaker Marjan
Tehrani chronicles her brother's return to Iran during
the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as he travels
with his American wife to have a traditional Persian wedding
and explore his lost heritage. |
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Taking Root
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Taking Root tells
the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Wangari Maathai, whose simple act of planting trees grew
into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment,
protect human rights and defend democracy. |
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Made in America
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Made in America is the first major
nonfiction film to chronicle the decades-long gang strife
in South Central Los Angeles. |
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Ask Not
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
A rare and compelling exploration of the U.S. military's
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, this film
exposes the tangled political battles that led to the
discriminatory law and the charismatic activists determined
to abolish it. |
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Presented
by KETC/Channel 9 and the Missouri Historical Society,
in collaboration with Independent Lens, ITVS
and FOCUS St. Louis. |
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