Film Category: NEW DOCS

Return with Honor
Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders

The people of America, during the Vietnam War era, were split over their country’s involvement overseas. But in 1973, thousands united to welcome home 462…

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In My Corner
Ricki Stern

In My Corner is an intimate and explosive portrait of what it means for young men to come of age within the world of a…

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Driver 23
Rolf Belgum

Meet Dan Cleveland, frontman for the heavy metal band, Dark Horse who is also a delivery driver and amateur physicist. Follow Cleveland’s quixotic quest for…

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School Prayer
Slawomir Grunberg

This is a riveting “you are there” account of the disruption of community, and the people involved, during a clash between religion and law. One…

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Henry — One Man’s Way
John Swindells

A portrait of the immensely appealing and articulate activist Henry Spira and his successful media-savvy campaigns for animal rights against such formidable foes as chicken…

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American Hollow
Rory Kennedy

What happens when a sensitive documentarian spends a year with an Appalachian family living amidst extreme poverty? Filmmaker Rory Kennedy’s extraordinary work shows how deeply…

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Concert of Wills
Susan Froemke, Bob Eisenhardt, Albert Maysles

This film examines the making of the spectacular Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It provides intimate access to the participants, their intentions and interaction, as…

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Assassinated: The Last Days of Kennedy and King
Vince DiPersio, William Guttentag

The filmmakers expertly shape a moving, even surprising, documentary that links the lives of two of this nation’s great prophets of peace, Martin Luther King,…

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Confronting the Crisis: Childcare in America
Lee Grant

Academy Award-winning director and actress, Lee Grant, has created a moving account of the complex and sometimes dismal state of child care in late 20th…

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The Death Train
Tom Roberts

At the end of WWII, Josef Stalin ordered a grandiose, improbable project: the construction of a railroad across the Arctic Circle. For eight tortuous years,…

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