The Garden (2008)
From the ashes of the L.A. riots arose a lush, 14-acre community garden, the largest of its kind in the United States. Now bulldozers threaten its future.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Actors: Antonio Villaraigosa, Danny Glover, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen
I Dreamt I Woke Up (1991)
Film about the influences in director John Boorman’s life and work, including family and neighbors and the landscape of the Wicklow mountains surrounding his home in Ireland.
Crash and Burn (2016)
The story of Irishman Tommy Byrne, the greatest racing driver you never saw.
Passfire (2016)
A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film…
Capturing Avatar (2010)
Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film’s development, as well as stock footage from as far back as…
God’s Country (1985)
Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe, Minnesota — 60 miles west of Minneapolis — was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six…
Spelling the Dream (2020)
Since 1999, 18 of the last 22 winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee have been Indian-American, making the incredible trend one of the longest in sports history. “Breaking the…
Behind the Burly Q (2010)
Dive into more than a century of decadence with this tantalizing look at the evolution of burlesque. Cabaret star Leslie Zemeckis traces the art form from vaudeville-style variety show through…
He Dreams of Giants (2019)
15 years after “Lost in la Mancha”, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe come back to follow Terry Gilliam’s new (successful) attempt at filming “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”.
S Is for Stanley (2015)
S Is for Stanley is the story of Emilio D’Alessandro, Stanley Kubrick’s personal driver. A friendship that lasted through 30 years of their lives, helped create four cinema masterpieces, and…
Last Party 2000 (2001)
Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside,…
Athlete A (2020)
Follow the Indianapolis Star reporters that broke the story about USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s abuse and hear from gymnasts.