The award-winning documentary offers an intimate portrait of Robinson Crusoe Island, a remote community off the coast of Chile.
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October 02, 2025
Join us for a screening and discussion of Jessie Maple's groundbreaking basketball film "Twice as Nice" with Dr. Samantha N. Sheppard ('07).
April 18, 2025
Professor Noah Tsika '05 has published his ninth book, "African Media in an Age of Extraction: Nollywood Geographies" (Amsterdam University Press, 2025).
February 08, 2022
Dr. Sheppard on TCM's Black History Month. Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans in recognition of their role in U.S. history. TCM host Jacqueline Stewart and special guests share a collection of films honoring Black History Month each Sunday this month.
August 24, 2021
In a new video for The New York Times, Alexander Stockton '15, a producer on the Opinion Video team, explores two of the main reasons the number of Covid cases is soaring once again in the United States: vaccine hesitancy and refusal.
June 18, 2021
THE FIRST STEP tells a story about Van Jones and others' efforts to bring people together on criminal justice reform and addiction under the divisiveness of the Trump years.
June 14, 2021
Using a collection of banknotes and sand gathered from over 50 countries, "Foreign Exchange" looks like nothing you have seen before, taking you into a tiny world of dazzling details. What you observe there, and the meaning you derive from that observation depends on where you start your journey. Look closely, it's all in the details...
June 03, 2021
Deer, who grew up in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake in Quebec, was 12 when her father started renting a VHS player and movies. That's when she set her sights on a career in film, an "impossible dream for an Indigenous girl," she says, "but I wanted it so badly."
June 03, 2021
Samantha Knowles' film career began her senior year at Dartmouth, after her culminating project, the documentary short "Why Do You Have Black Dolls?", was accepted into the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival and later played at four other festivals.
February 26, 2021
Alex Stockton '15's new short film for the New York Times helps us experience first-hand what caring for the most serious Covid patients looks like, one year into the pandemic.