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"Looking Toward Home Part One" begins an exploration of urban Indian life in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco with a look at off-reservation relocation in the 1950s and 1960s and the present-day native community life of U.S. cities. "Looking Toward Home" explains how government relocation programs enticed significant numbers of Native Americans to leave the reservation for life in major cities, an exodus that continues today.

Two filmmakers infiltrate an underground bicycle club. Directors Jacob Sepitmus and Anthony Howard create a gritty, conceptually dichotomous and visually stylistic film with "B.I.K.E. Part One," a depiction of the Brooklyn chapter of the Black Label Bike Club (BLBC), a fringe network of tall bike jousters that combine and justify their medieval inspired competitions with environmentalist and anti-consumerist rhetoric and politically radical ideals.

In a time of illicit war, unchecked corporate greed, and a presidential regime that supports such indecencies, two sisters take the media into their own hands seeking change. Antonia writes a potential anti-Bush bestseller for a mainstream publisher and goes on a corporate book tour. Alex documents her sister's "scale-shift," following Antonia's ups and downs on the road. Divisions and connections between the sisters mirror those within the left itself, as the sisters experience the power of individual action, media attention, and grassroots movements for social justice.

"Stolen Spirits of the Haida Gwaii Part Two" continues the story of the Haida. In the last century, many Haida people were forced by disease to abandon 35 of their ancient villages. Their Northern Pacific Coast Islands became a paradise for early 20th-century relic hunters, greedy for the totem poles and ceremonial masks desired by museums worldwide. The adventurers also dug up graves and looted mortuary poles, taking away hundreds of skeletons to be used in bizarre scientific experiments.