Participant Movies

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to...

Barack and Michelle Obama talk with the directors of the documentary American Factory about the importance of storytelling and the impact of their...

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the...

Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert land grabs by some of the world’s most powerful...

Parents of children who have Down syndrome, dwarfism or autism share intimate stories of the challenges they face. Tracing their joys, challenges,...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Although the Cold War is behind us, the threat of nuclear disaster remains very real. Director Lucy Walker discusses the invention of the atomic bomb...

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control...

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln...

This documentary puts a spotlight on the White House’s failed response to the global pandemic and how it could have been prevented. Featuring...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison,...

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking...

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented...

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of...

Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the...