Steve James Movies

When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s...

Genre: Documentary

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Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Gates

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Gates

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tio Hardiman

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tio Hardiman

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tio Hardiman

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tio Hardiman

In 1995 Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steve James

Former indie film "guru" John Pierson takes his family to Fiji for one year to run the world's most remote movie theater.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Pierson

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Stanton

It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jared Leto

An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages...

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Cast: Tim Meadows

An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages...

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Cast: Tim Meadows

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Theodore Hall

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Stanton

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Stanton

An investigation of the wrongful death of Carlos DeLuna, who was executed in Texas on December 7, 1989, after prosecutors ignored evidence...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Carroll Pickett

Everyone’s talking about it, but who can explain it? Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions and Morgan Spurlock’s Cinelan have...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patton Oswalt

An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages...

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Cast: Tim Meadows

An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages...

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Cast: Tim Meadows

A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andre Braugher

Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Allen Iverson

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Theodore Hall

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Theodore Hall

Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Madio

Former football player and wrestler Chris Nowinski's quest to publicize recent findings about the often dire consequences of head concussions...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christopher Nowinski

Former football player and wrestler Chris Nowinski's quest to publicize recent findings about the often dire consequences of head concussions...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christopher Nowinski

A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes...

Genre: Documentary

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This forty-minute program was produced by the Criterion Collection in 2014

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Arthur Agee

The incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neil Barofsky

Declining participation leads two Milwaukee area high schools—one black and urban, the other white and suburban—to combine their football...

Genre: Documentary

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True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonard Roberts

Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Allen Iverson

Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Allen Iverson

Edith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their unusual and idyllic love story is threatened by a family feud that...

Genre: Documentary

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Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keire Johnson

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Gates

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Gates

Former indie film "guru" John Pierson takes his family to Fiji for one year to run the world's most remote movie theater.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Pierson

Former indie film "guru" John Pierson takes his family to Fiji for one year to run the world's most remote movie theater.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Pierson

Why is minimum wage important? In 2013, Seattle became ground zero for the heated national debate about increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour....

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It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jared Leto

Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Allen Iverson

At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. Armed with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joanna Rudnick

The New Americans follows a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new...

Genre: Documentary

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Two boys escape from slavery, spend a year in a rehabilitation shelter, and eventually reunite with their families. Meanwhile, the man who rescued...

Genre: Documentary

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FOCUS FORWARD - Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the...

Genre: Documentary

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