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“Outstanding!  Very entertaining… perfect for PBS” / Bob Swerer / “Alone in the Wilderness”

Could you spend 394 days traveling from Canada to Mexico in a 21-square foot, solar powered, one mule wagon

IN THE SUMMER OF 1969 a group of high school students developed a worldwide sport in a parking lot in Maplewood, NJ. They never thought it would grow to 10 million players in 100 countries — nor still

30 years after a missionary is assassinated in the Philippines, the missionary’s family re-investigate the truth behind the cause of the murder and learn a shocking discovery: the assassin is still at

A diverse group of creative older adults share moving, insightful episodes from their very different life stories, some with harrowing war and immigrant experiences, and form a close community as they

Georg is an Austrian retiree whose mother witnessed the crash of an Allied B-17 near their home during World War II. When he takes up metal detecting to find the wreckage, a growing fascination leads

THE MINDFULNESS MOVEMENT feature documentary was supposed to open in theaters across the US and Canada in late March. The filmmakers had to cancel the entire theatrical run and quickly pivot to a

THE MONSTER is a feature documentary about Paige Tolmach's journey to uncover the truth and institute change.  Told from her POV, Paige tells us the story that after a late night revelation of

The Music of the Golden Triangle and the Cycles of Life, a one-hour documentary film formatted for public television, bears witness to the ancestral songs and ceremonies of many of the 130 different

Each year tens of thousands of people are killed, injured or forced from their homes as a result of ongoing conflicts. Global instruments and institutions of peace have occasionally delivered powerful

THE OAKLAND PROMISE (working title)

What happens when an entire city prioritizes college completion for every public school student? We are documenting the multi-faceted Oakland Promise education

As the nation struggles with the systemic history of mass incarceration, four courageous incarcerated youth of color, inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, strive to avoid becoming victims of the prison

THE OPIOID TRILOGY is a triptych of short, animated documentaries looking at the opioid epidemic through the demand side of addiction. Each film is a conversation between an individual in recovery

In less than four years, Frederik Willem de Klerk went from being Nelson Mandela's jailor to his Deputy President.

De Klerk served as President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. Initially a supporter

Released in 1981, the original film, The Park That Kids Built is a transformative documentary of urban renewal. The film is set in South Los Angeles and depicts how two teachers, their fifth and sixth

Dallas, Texas.  November 22, 1963.  The thirty-fifth President of the United States is gunned down.  As the world watches in horror, the news fumbles into action desperately trying to make sense of

A group of mariners' lives are changed when they find adventure, danger, and belonging on the high seas as they pursue their ultimate dream: navigating the western coast of the United States on an

State Trooper Jessie Osborn is called to check out a suspicious sedan on a remote Alaskan Highway. The brief encounter leaves one man dead and turns Jessie’s life into a nightmare. The incident

In Ethiopia, there is a community of over nine thousand Jews. They speak Hebrew, keep kosher and have relatives in Israel, yet Israel continues to deny their appeals for aliyah — the Jewish birthright

In a fresh twist on traditional perceptions, host and producer Jane Turville travels across America to explore the underlying impacts of population growth on human ability to thrive in a modern world

At a time when a decades old ethnic war split the country in two, an unconventional team of diverse players led Sri Lanka to one of the finest and most unforgettable World Cup performances in cricket

From opposite sides of the world, farmers, journalists and activists fight Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. Together, they expose a human cost behind feeding Canadians.

The Only Film Ever Made to Change the AUTISM Epidemic. Autism is the largest, most urgent childhood health epidemic in the world today, dwarfing AIDS, childhood cancers, and all childhood disorders

Howard Suber is one of the foremost minds in cinema that you’ve never heard of. Long before Howard Suber wrote THE POWER OF FILM, his lectures at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television were

Discover an invention from the 1870s that has outlasted technological innovations — the almost random arrangement of the typewriter keyboard – through the revealing personal journeys of three

The Race to Save the World is a feature documentary film that follows the inspiring stories of everyday people who are devoting their lives to fighting climate change. This film follows the passion

In the summer of 1973, five men and six women embarked on a 101-day scientific sea-adventure, drifting on a small raft named ‘Acali’ across the Atlantic. In an experiment initiated by Mexican

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama.  Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives.  Not Recy Taylor, who

Thank you for visiting the donation home page for the Raymond Lewis Documentary Project. If you have come this far, you must have a special appreciation for the subject matter and the story we are

The story of how an American treasure hunter and a Mexican artist transformed a dying desert village into a flourishing home for world-class art.

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LA Times: 'Renaissance of Mata Ortiz'

The S Word will give voice to those who have not only survived, but have courageously transformed their personal struggles into strength, action and even humor - providing a window into the lives of

"You must see Sable Island - it is a non-verbal place. It is in the eye that you must know it" --Roberto Dutesco, photographer

The Story of Sable Island chronicles a year on a tiny crescent of sand

At Standing Rock, a two-spirit Jicarilla Apache/Navajo youth leader, a Lakota matriarch, and a non-binary Appalachian join the resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline. They each discover their

One of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century is making a comeback, and a familiar name is helping lead the charge.

Robert Oppenheimer unleashed the atom to end our last World War, but he also