Film Category: NEW DOCS

Journeys with George
Alexandra Pelosi

NBC News producer Alexandra Pelosi’s video diary of her year-and-a-half-long road trip with George W. Bush, and the rest of the 2000 presidential campaign bubble.…

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Karaoke Fever
Arthur Borman, Steve Danielson

Some people sing in the shower and have dreams of being the next Barbara Streisand, Phantom of the Opera, or Blues Brother. Forget Star Search…

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Escuela
Hannah Weyer

Liliana Luis is 14 years old, the fifth of six sisters, and she wishes her only problem was whether to “date a fine white boy…

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The Execution of Wanda Jean
Liz Garbus

In 1993 in Oklahoma City, a young woman named Wanda Jean Allen shot and killed her lover, Gloria Wilson. Although it was not her intent…

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Facing the Music
Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson

An Australian heroine is the charismatic center of this nuanced film: Anne Boyd, a professor of music and composer at the University of Sydney. Boyd’s…

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The First Year
Davis Guggenheim

As politicians and the press debate the merits of countless school reforms, it is teachers who enter the classroom every day and fight the real…

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The Fourth Dimension
Minh-ha Trinh

Visually provocative, mysterious and philosophical, acclaimed filmmaker Trinh Minh-ha’s The Fourth Dimension is more than a Japanese travelogue. It is a meditation on life and…

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Ghosts of Attica
Brad Lichtenstein

This straightforward and absorbing film looks back at the Attica uprising and violent suppression with remarkable period footage, shot inside the prison over the course…

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AMANDLA! a revolution in four part harmony
Lee Hirsch

The history of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa as told through the freedom songs that were integral in bringing about the abolishment of…

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The American Egypt
Jesse Lerner

The first quarter of the 20th Century set the stage for a Mexico, specifically a Yucatan, that was free, enlightened, perhaps even one of these…

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