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- A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
- Eva Mozes Kor, who survived Josef Mengele's cruel twin experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp, shocks other Holocaust survivors when she decides to forgive the perpetrators as a way of self-healing.
- "Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic..." Flannery O'Connor, 1958. Shy, funny, devout, disabled--words that describe one of the most acclaimed American short story writers of all time. Flannery O'Connor's stories about the southern U.S. have inspired writers, artists and musicians for decades with their dark humor and "gothic" sensibilities. "Flannery" tells the life story of a brilliant, young woman who died before she was forty through the eyes of contemporary writers and artists with cartoons, animations, never-before-seen archival footage and great music. Tommy Lee Jones, Alice Walker, Mary Karr, Tobias Wolff, Hilton Als, Alice McDermott, Bill T. Jones, Lucinda Williams--all share their opinions, their art and their music in this feature-length, NEH-funded documentary. How can people go to church AND commit murder, she wonders...?
- Former indie film "guru" John Pierson takes his family to Fiji for one year to run the world's most remote movie theater.
- Senator and future Presidential candidate Barack Obama makes an emotional journey to his father's homeland of Kenya in Africa.
- The story of former Congressman, Federal Judge and one-time White House Counsel Abner J. Mikva and his relentless fight against the NRA, the Daley political machine and the larger threat to democracy.
- The Joffrey Ballet: Mavericks of American Dance, narrated by Mandy Patinkin, tells the full story of this groundbreaking company, from their founding in 1956 to the present.
- Corporate America becomes involved in "empowering the homeless" by letting them sell their foreheads as advertising space.
- Four women share their stories of domestic abuse and survival in this poignant documentary.
- A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones for two tumultuous years, as he tackles the most ambitious work of his career, an original dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln's Bicentennial.
- Documentary traces the history of four classic American baseball ballparks using archive footage and modern film.
- When the Goldstein's take their son's new best friend Macauly Culkin on their quiet little get-away it turns into a fun-filled, escapist dream when Michael Jackson joins the vacation for the TRIP of a life time.
- Inspiring 52 minute biography of the turbulent life of All-American, University of Michigan running back, Billy Taylor.