Movies: Downtown Community Television Center

  • 2016
    Banking on Bitcoin

    Banking on Bitcoin (2016)

    Banking on Bitcoin

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    Not since the invention of the Internet has there been such a disruptive technology as Bitcoin. Bitcoin's early pioneers sought to blur the lines of sovereignty and the financial status quo. After years of underground development Bitcoin grabbed the ...

    Banking on Bitcoin
  • 2021
    Life of Crime: 1984-2020

    Life of Crime: 1984-2020 (2021)

    Life of Crime: 1984-2020

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    An intimate documentary that looks at the vicious cycles of drug addiction and street crime in one of the roughest parts of New Jersey....

    Life of Crime: 1984-2020
  • 2002
    Cinemania

    Cinemania (2002)

    Cinemania

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    This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned world of five obsessed movie buffs. These human encyclopedias of cinema see two to five films a day, and from 600 to 2,000 films per year. This is the s...

    Cinemania
  • 1987
    The Story of Junkie Junior

    The Story of Junkie Junior (1987)

    The Story of Junkie Junior

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    Junior Rios started using heroin when he was 15. At age 29, Junior is a father of three. To support his $200-a-day heroin habit, he scours the rooftops of the South Bronx for materials he can sell. When he's finally caught, he enters an aggressive re...

    The Story of Junkie Junior
  • 2010
    No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike

    No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike (2010)

    No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike

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    Follows the struggle of 138 mostly immigrant workers who strike to save their jobs at a famous bakery in the Bronx when a private equity firm buys the bakery and demands wage cuts of up to 30%....

    No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
  • 2008
    Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

    Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (2008)

    Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

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    It has been called "the saddest acre in America." It is also one of the most sacred. Section 60 in Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting place for young men and women who died fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. This emotional documentary fi...

    Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
  • 2008
    Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

    Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana (2008)

    Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

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    Auto racing is an obsession in Anderson, Indiana. Even with local auto factories closing down and jobs being lost, the town's residents continue to flock to the local speedway every Friday night--and its drivers continue to pour their dwindling resou...

    Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
  • 2002
    Papa

    Papa (2002)

    Papa

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    This is Jon Alpert's portrait of his father's struggles with growing old and nearing the end of life....

    Papa
  • 2014
    When Life Hands You Lemons

    When Life Hands You Lemons (2014)

    When Life Hands You Lemons

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    Homeless student in New York City documents her family struggles....

    When Life Hands You Lemons
  • 2020
    Halfway Home: A Father's Story

    Halfway Home: A Father's Story (2020)

    Halfway Home: A Father's Story

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    A father exits prison and tries to integrate with his two children and girlfriend while living in a halfway house and on parole....

    Halfway Home: A Father's Story
  • 2022
    Shut Up and Paint

    Shut Up and Paint (2022)

    Shut Up and Paint

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    Painter Titus Kaphar looks to film as a medium in the face of an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism....

    Shut Up and Paint
  • 2020
    Curtain Up!

    Curtain Up! (2020)

    Curtain Up!

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    Curtain Up! follows elementary school kids in New York’s Chinatown as they prepare for a production and begin to discover themselves. Behind the scenes, they face families’ expectations and uncertainties post-graduation. Interestingly, it is through ...

    Curtain Up!
  • 1980
    Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive

    Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive (1980)

    Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive

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    The stories of six "ordinary" people who live or work along New York City's Third Avenue, which runs for sixteen miles through Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, cutting through the complex social strata of the city to reveal wildly different econom...

    Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
  • 1974
    Cuba: The People, Part I

    Cuba: The People, Part I (1974)

    Cuba: The People, Part I

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    The first American television crew to be allowed into Cuba since the 1959 revolution, DCTV toured the country for six weeks to produce this candid portrait of life in Castro's Cuba....

    Cuba: The People, Part I
  • 1978
    Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life

    Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life (1978)

    Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life

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    A classic exposé on the disparity of health care services for the rich and poor in America, this incisive investigative report exemplifies the advocacy journalism of the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV)...

    Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life
  • 1998
    Canal Street: First Stop in America

    Canal Street: First Stop in America (1998)

    Canal Street: First Stop in America

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    An insider's tour of this bustling street, where immigrants are caught between the forces of the law and a street with a law of its own....

    Canal Street: First Stop in America