Cynthia Wade

Cynthia Wade

Cynthia Wade's 2008 documentary Freeheld won a 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and 13 other awards. She was a lead producer on the 2015 fictionalized adaptation of Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Steve Carell and Michael Shannon. Wade's 2013 HBO documentary Mondays at Racine was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013. She is the director of the documentaries Grist for the Mill (1999, HBO), Shelter Dogs (2004, HBO), Born Sweet (2009), Living the Legacy (2009, Sundance Channel) and Generation Startup (2016, Netflix), Grit (2019, PBS) and producer of The Gnomist (2015, CNN). She holds a BA from Smith College and an MA in Documentary Film Production from Stanford University. Wade has won more than 50 film awards worldwide.

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Cynthia Wade Movies

  • 1999
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    Grist for the Mill

    Grist for the Mill

    1 1999 HD

    Documentary filmmaker Cynthia Wade is trying to get her divorced parents to talk to each other, but that is the last thing they want to do. Nothing...

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  • 2003
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    Shelter Dogs

    Shelter Dogs

    1 2003 HD

    This feature length documentary takes the viewer into the gray zone of the national animal welfare system where quality-of-life issues take center...

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  • 2012
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    Mondays at Racine

    Mondays at Racine

    6.1 2012 HD

    Every third Monday of the month, two bold, brassy sisters open the doors of their Long Island hair salon to women diagnosed with cancer. As locks of...

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  • 2007
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    Freeheld

    Freeheld

    5.4 2007 HD

    Lieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner - Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their...

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  • 2005
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    Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family

    Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family

    5.6 2005 HD

    In his early twenties, Sam Cagnina, oldest son of a Mafia hit man, meets Steven, a handsome 19-year old college student and they fall in love. Then,...

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  • 2010
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    Born Sweet

    Born Sweet

    4 2010 HD

    Arsenic-laced water has poisoned a 15 year old boy from a small, rural village in Cambodia.

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  • 2021
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    Sproutland

    Sproutland

    1 2021 HD

    What happens when the health guru of your town — the one guy who got everyone to love sprouts — is killed in a sudden accident? For his...

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  • 2022
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    The Flagmakers

    The Flagmakers

    5.4 2022 HD

    THE FLAGMAKERS is a film about the unexpected people who make the American flag and invites us to ask the question: who is America and who is the...

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  • 2022
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    The Flagmakers

    The Flagmakers

    5.4 2022 HD

    THE FLAGMAKERS is a film about the unexpected people who make the American flag and invites us to ask the question: who is America and who is the...

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  • 1999
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    Grist for the Mill

    Grist for the Mill

    1 1999 HD

    Documentary filmmaker Cynthia Wade is trying to get her divorced parents to talk to each other, but that is the last thing they want to do. Nothing...

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  • 1999
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    Grist for the Mill

    Grist for the Mill

    1 1999 HD

    Documentary filmmaker Cynthia Wade is trying to get her divorced parents to talk to each other, but that is the last thing they want to do. Nothing...

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  • 1999
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    Grist for the Mill

    Grist for the Mill

    1 1999 HD

    Documentary filmmaker Cynthia Wade is trying to get her divorced parents to talk to each other, but that is the last thing they want to do. Nothing...

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  • 2015
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    Heart Felt

    Heart Felt

    1 2015 HD

    This documentary film captures the stories of people across five different countries engaged in a fight against the same common enemy-LDL cholesterol...

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  • 2016
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    Generation Startup

    Generation Startup

    6.7 2016 HD

    Generation Startup takes us to the front lines of entrepreneurship in America, capturing the struggles and triumphs of six recent college graduates...

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  • 2015
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    The Gnomist

    The Gnomist

    5 2015 HD

    Deep in the forest of Overland Park, Kansas little gnomes made a home. But how did they get there? Experience the feel-good story of paying it...

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  • 1999
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    Grist for the Mill

    Grist for the Mill

    1 1999 HD

    Documentary filmmaker Cynthia Wade is trying to get her divorced parents to talk to each other, but that is the last thing they want to do. Nothing...

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  • 2002
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    The Collector of Bedford Street

    The Collector of Bedford Street

    7 2002 HD

    The Collector of Bedford Street is a 2002 documentary film about director Alice Elliott's neighbor, Larry Selman, a community activist and fundraiser...

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  • 2008
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    In the Family

    In the Family

    8 2008 HD

    At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. Armed with...

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  • 2018
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    Grit

    Grit

    7 2018 HD

    When Dian was six years old, she heard a deep rumble and turned to see a tsunami of mud barreling towards her village. Her mother scooped her up to...

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  • 2007
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    Freeheld

    Freeheld

    5.4 2007 HD

    Lieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner - Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their...

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  • 2015
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    Freeheld

    Freeheld

    7.248 2015 HD

    New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was...

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  • 2018
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    Grit

    Grit

    7 2018 HD

    When Dian was six years old, she heard a deep rumble and turned to see a tsunami of mud barreling towards her village. Her mother scooped her up to...

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  • 2024
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    Good Enough Ancestor

    Good Enough Ancestor

    1 2024 HD

    Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s first Minister of Digital Development and the world’s first transgender minister, faces a 50% chance of waking each...

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  • 1970
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    7.4 1970 HD

    Welcome to the whimsical world of professional mermaiding, where people's passion for swimming in fins has exploded into a half-billion-dollar...

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