In a nondescript warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain over 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its...
Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawaii who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress, on...
The French Laundry, run by legendary chef Thomas Keller, has often been recognized as the best restaurant in the world, but few know the story of its original founder, Sally...
From director Ben Proudfoot and executive producers Shaquille O’Neal and Stephen Curry, The Queen of Basketball is an Academy Award® winning, electrifying portrait of Lusia “Lucy” Harris, who scored the...
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.
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...
Nearly 20 years ago, an investigation by The Boston Globe into sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests ignited a firestorm of scandal that has traveled around the world. For many...
For child actor Devon Michael, the coveted role of Anakin Skywalker in George Lucas’ hotly anticipated THE PHANTOM MENACE was the part of a lifetime. Chosen as one of George’s...
Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors to make one of the greatest astrophysical discoveries of the twentieth...
As told by his granddaughter, the Olympian Kara Goucher, whose career he inspired. When his son-in-law was killed in a tragic car crash, World War II veteran Calvin Haworth became...
As told by his colleague and friend Abe. A devout christian, Jerry Givens was Virginia’s chief executioner, before he became an advocate of abolishing the death penalty.
As told by her cousin Robert. Angela Chaddlesone McCarthy was a teenage mother raised on a Native American reservation who overcame great odds to become a Kiowa tribe legislator in...
As told by his daughter Mikki, the first in the family to graduate from college. A hard-working bricklayer from the projects, Humberto Trujillo helped build the main Phoenix post office...
As told by her twin sister, fellow nurse and lifelong dance partner Rosalie. Rosary Castro-Olega was a retired nurse who returned to the front lines to fight the virus, ultimately...
Fifty years later, the real Melvin Dismukes, portrayed by John Boyega in Kathryn Bigelow’s DETROIT, chronicles his first-hand experience of the infamous Algiers Motel Incident, for which he was wrongly charged with first-degree...
Using a combination of rescanned and remastered archival documentary footage and new cinematic recreations, “George” tells the story of one soldier’s experience and memory as a Canadian soldier in the...
McManus & Morgan is the oldest (and once most prosperous) paper shop in Los Angeles. Aardvark Letterpress is a family-run printing business dating back to the 1940s. Located on the...
“Did you ever hear the story of how the chickens saved my life?” Inspired by the extraordinary true story of a brilliant young poultry scientist in WWII Canada, Dinner with...
