documentaries

PBS docs depict Frederick Douglass’ and Harriet Tubman’s paths of freedom, faith

By Adelle M. Banks — October 11, 2022
(RNS) — ‘Religion for both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass was the foundation in many ways of who they are,’ said co-director Stanley Nelson.

‘Dalya’s Other Country’ portrays Muslim American mother and daughter

By Kimberly Winston — June 23, 2017
(RNS) A new film follows a teenage Syrian girl, as she becomes the only Muslim in an all-girl Catholic school in Los Angeles, and her mother, whose marriage dissolves.
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