Search results for "Steve James"
A Compassionate Spy

A Compassionate Spy

A Compassionate Spy
IMDb: 6.5
102

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he’ll be working on. When he learns the…

Genre: Documentary
Head Games

Head Games

Head Games
IMDb: 7.3
96

Former football player and wrestler Chris Nowinski’s quest to publicize recent findings about the often dire consequences of head concussions sustained by athletes in contact sports — injuries that have…

Genre: Documentary
Prefontaine

Prefontaine

Prefontaine
IMDb: 6.8
106

It’s the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial “James Dean of Track,” whose spirit captured the heart of the nation! Cocky, charismatic, and…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams
IMDb: 8.3
174

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban…

Genre: Documentary
The Interrupters

The Interrupters

The Interrupters
IMDb: 7.5
125

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once caused.

Genre: Documentary
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
IMDb: 7.2
88

The incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.,…

Genre: Documentary
Life Itself

Life Itself

Life Itself
IMDb: 7.8
121

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership…

Genre: Documentary