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March 21, 2025

A record in 35mm film of the first drenching rain on Los Angeles after the devastation of the wildfires.

February 16, 2024

In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing so much more than music to the schoolchildren of this city.

June 10, 2021

Part of the Almost Famous series. She was arguably the greatest women's basketball player. She won three national trophies; she played in the ’76 Olympics; she was drafted to the NBA. But have you ever heard of Lucy Harris?

November 24, 2020

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

October 18, 2024

A devoted Philadelphia Phillies fan inspires his city to give a struggling shortstop a game-changing standing ovation in this rousing short documentary.

Oscar®-winning director Ben Proudfoot brings the inspiring untold story of UNICEF to life through first-person interviews and UNICEF’s never-before-seen archive. Discover this story of optimism as UNICEF celebrates 75 years of defending the rights of the world's youngest and most vulnerable citizens.

March 20, 2021

In 1992, at the height of the AIDS pandemic, activist Terence Alan Smith made a historic bid for president of the United States as his drag queen persona Joan Jett Blakk. Today, Smith reflects back on his seminal civil rights campaign and its place in American history.

January 11, 2021

Part of the Cause of Life series. Angela Chaddlesone McCarthy was a teenage mother raised on a Native American reservation who overcame great odds to become a Kiowa tribe legislator in Oklahoma.

December 16, 2019

Part of the Almost Famous series. Kim Hill was a rising singer when she met a young rapper named will.i.am, but she quit the Black Eyed Peas just before they became famous.

June 13, 2019

A world-renowned pastry chef, reflects on his relationship with his deceased father Milton Abel Sr., famed Kansas City jazz musician.

November 11, 2013

A portrait of master woodworker and Vietnam veteran Eric Hollenbeck

The Final Copy of Ilon Sprecht is an intimate deathbed account of the unsung advertising genius who coined L'Oréal's iconic "Because I'm Worth It" slogan in 1971, a four-word feminist manifesto that, against all odds, changed advertising forever.

March 6, 2011

During World War II, Fred Conrad was taken from a troop train in Europe and sent home to Canada to use his pre-war chicken raising skills to stop war-time food shortages. Fred and his wife Hilda turn a misfortunate change-of-plans into a career in humane poultry science that proves to hold meaning and purpose beyond Fred's wildest dreams.

June 23, 2022

Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawai'i who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress, on her harrowing mission to co-author and defend Title IX, the law that transformed athletics for generations in America for girls and women.

September 3, 2022

Film reveals the true origins of The French Laundry, which Schmitt shaped into one of the world’s great restaurants before selling it to the now-legendary Thomas Keller .

September 15, 2017

A veteran glassmaker explains his work in avant-garde stained glass designs.

April 21, 2015

Part of the Life's Work series. In an industry forever ­dominated by men, Heather Lawson defied expectations and stereotypes to become the first and last female trained to be a production stone mason in Canada. With robust individuality, Lawson lives her life by the backroads, creating one of a kind stone sculptures and exemplifying the freedom associated with being true to yoursel

August 20, 2019

In the late 1960s, Haddon Salt built a fast-food empire. Then Kentucky Fried Chicken came knocking.

December 28, 2020

Part of the Cause of Life series. When his son-in-law was killed in a tragic car crash, World War II veteran Calvin Haworth became a surrogate parent and an activist against drunk driving in Minnesota.

January 4, 2021

Part of the Cause of Life series. A devout Christian, Jerry Givens was Virginia’s chief executioner, before he became an advocate of abolishing the death penalty.

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