Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 - an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level - that also happens to have the best most winning junior high school chess team in the country. If Albert Einstein who was rated 1800 were to join the team hed only rank fifth best. Chess has transformed the school from...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
This film documents the rise and fall of Buddy Cianci former Mayor of Providence RI. It shows how he turned a rundown New England city in a vibrant community. It also shows the corruption of the community from which he benefited. Despite have been convicted on Federal RICO charges and having gone to prison he remains beloved in Providence. Many argue that he could easily be elected...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
This year over 13 million American kids will be bullied at school online on the bus at home through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns making it the most common form of violence young people in this country experience. BULLY is the first feature documentary film to show how weve all been affected by bullying whether weve been victims perpetrators or stood silent...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
The city of Detroit Michigan has been in severe decline in recent decades. Among the resulting problems is the dramatic rise of fires in a decaying urbanscape of abandoned buildings that seems to have no future. This film profiles the lives and trials of the personnel of the Detroit Fire Department who are on the front line of this taxing battle. Facing constant emergencies in the face of...
Country: United States, Uganda
Genre: Documentary, Drama
In Uganda a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Ugandas first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one not even the filmmakers is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the...
Country: Ireland, Norway, Portugal, France, Finland
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Canned Dreams is a film about workers and their dreams on the journey of a canned food...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
In late 2007 filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sensed a story unfolding as they began to film the life of Ariels brother Nev. They had no idea that their project would lead to the most exhilarating and unsettling months of their lives. A reality thriller that is a shocking product of our times Catfish is a riveting story of love deception and grace within a labyrinth of online...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Follow-up interviews with the original child chess prodigies nearly 20 years...
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