Stand Up & Shout: Songs from a Philly High School
Documentary featuring Philadelphia teenagers from HIll-Freedman World Academy engaged in a unique songwriting collaboration that captures both the hard times they’re living in and the joy that music brings.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Amy Schatz
Actors: Andrew Lipke, Bethlehem Roberson, Ezechial Thurman, Kristal TyteWriter Oliver
Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron
The Academy Award-winning director and National Geographic Explorer-at-Large James Cameron adds a postscript to his fictional retelling of the tragedy. After hearing fans continue to insist Jack didn’t have to…
Extraordinary: The Revelations
The unsolved rape, mutilation and murder of young G.I. Darlene Krashoc has haunted Joe Kenda in the years since he turned in his gun and badge. Until a crack team…
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating sublime works, were haunted by the ghosts of the past,…
He Named Me Malala
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban’s attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls’ education and the aftermath, including her…
To Be Determined
After years spent grinding at low-stakes poker tables, Oscar is ready to take his game to the next level. Can his mentors Matt Berkey and Christian Soto at the Solve…
Big Time
Big Time gets up close with Danish architectural prodigy Bjarke Ingels over a period of six years while he is struggling to complete his largest projects yet, the Manhattan skyscraper…
First Descent
First Descent is a 2005 documentary film about snowboarding and its beginning in the 1980s. The snowboarders featured in this movie (Shawn Farmer, Nick Perata, Terje Haakonsen, Hannah Teter and…
Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story
Murder In The Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story. In the early 1980’s, a small group of dedicated Bay Area headbangers shunned the hard rock of…
House of Flying Arrows
The popular rise of darts is charted in this pin-sharp documentary that follows the trajectory of arrows from local pub to beer-soaked arena. Featuring archive footage, behind-the-scenes access and interviews…
Mai presus de orice
Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. The film was not broadcast in the country.
Prescription Thugs
Americans consume 75% of the world’s prescription drugs. After losing his own brother to the growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse, documentarian Chris Bell sets out to demystify this insidious…