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Meet the Patels - Patels Must Marry Patels - Clip

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In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Meet the Patels, Ravi Patel arrives in India for a trip with his parents, who are very eager for him to marry, and not so eager for him to date a white woman. As Ravi explains, everyone in his huge family have the last name Patel. "Patels must marry Patels," meaning that all come from same region of India, not literally related.
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Meet the Patels - Trailer

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Ravi Patel is almost 30, an actor, and, worst of all to his traditional Hindu parents, still unmarried. After he breaks up with his white girlfriend, Ravi submits to his parents' wishes and allows them to play matchmaker. The true-life romantic comedy Meet the Patels explores the influences of culture and identity on the most intense, personal, and important part of one's life — love.
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Meet the Patels - Trailer

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Ravi Patel is almost 30, an actor, and, worst of all to his traditional Hindu parents, still unmarried. After he breaks up with his white girlfriend, Ravi submits to his parents' wishes and allows them to play matchmaker. The true-life romantic comedy Meet the Patels explores the influences of culture and identity on the most intense, personal, and important part of one's life — love.
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Gore Vidal: Revolutionary or Degenerate?

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This excerpt from the Independent Lens film Best of Enemies takes a closer look at Gore Vidal, iconoclastic writer and intellectual, who was picked to represent the left in debates with right-wing William F. Buckley on ABC News in 1968. While Buckley basically saw Vidal as an evil degenerate, others saw him as revolutionary. Vidal here quotes Thomas Jefferson about the "tree of liberty."
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America Split at the Seams

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In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Best of Enemies, on the eve of the first of a series of TV debates between conservative William F. Buckley and liberal Gore Vidal, we learn that for all their bitter differences, one thing both agree on is America of 1968 was severely divided. We also hear the men's personal thoughts as read by Kelsey Grammer and John Lithgow.
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"Crypto-Nazi" and Other Insults

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This excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Best of Enemies shows the ninth in a series of 1968 debates between famed intellectuals William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal. In this edgy encounter yet, they squared off over the issue of police use of force during the Democratic Convention. Seething with contempt for each other, they almost come to physical blows after devolving into name calling.
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Best of Enemies - Trailer

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Best of Enemies captures the legendary 1968 debates between two famed intellectuals and ideological opposites: leftist Gore Vidal and neoconservative William F. Buckley. Their televised sparring shaped a new era of public discourse in the media, marking the moment TV’s political ambition shifted from narrative to spectacle.
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(T)ERROR: The Conflicted Ideologies of a Black Panther

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In this short excerpt we follow “Shariff,” a 62-year-old-former Black Panther who has worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an informant for decades, helping foil several suspected terrorist plots and becoming involved in one particularly murky case.
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In Football We Trust - Harvey Langi

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Harvey Langi is among a growing number of Pacific Islanders recruited to play football in Utah. Many Polynesian families, Langi’s included, have come to view football as their ticket out of economic hardship and gang life.
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Little White Lie Lacie Schwartz

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Lacey Schwartz from Little White Lie, a documentary about her racial identity, spent her childhood believing she was white. As a college student, she discovered her father was black. This follow-up video shows Schwartz, now a mother, discussing her new-found sense of herself with two close friends.
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T-Rex: Boxing and Dating

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In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold, Claressa "T-Rex" Shields talks about dating her boyfriend Rell, and how she hasn't told her coach Jason Crutchfield about it because it's a violation of his "law." We see Claressa all dressed up for her big date at a school dance before a cynical Jason confronts her about this relationship.
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T-Rex: Coaching Claressa

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In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold, Claressa "T-Rex" Shields and her coach Jason Crutchfield reminisce about how she first began as a boxer. Crutchfield first saw Shields box when she was all of 11 years old. Despite his reservations about girls boxing, Crutchfield took Claressa under his wing when he saw how quickly she excelled in the sport.
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T-Rex: Her Own Harshest Critic

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In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold, Claressa "T-Rex" Shields is upset with herself for not achieving a higher score in a bout even though she won the fight. As reporters stand by, her coach tries to get her to move past it ("We won...it's a business"), but Claressa's not having any of it.
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T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold - Trailer

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17-year-old boxer Claressa "T-Rex" Shields rose from the streets of Flint, Michigan to the gold medal podium at London 2012, the first time women were allowed to box in the Olympics. But as we see in the coming-of-age story T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold, life outside the ring may be an even tougher fight.
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Trapped: Teen Rape Victim Turned Away

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In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film Trapped, a 13 year-old victim of rape who is on the cusp of her 5-month legal abortion window is turned away from a Texas clinic because the clinic cannot find an available anesthetist to put the girl to sleep — required by state law — in time to perform the procedure.
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