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...
She is one of the greatest living women’s basketball players. 3 national trophies. Scored the first basket in women’s Olympic basketball at the ‘76 Olympics. Drafted to the NBA. But...
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.
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...
In the United States, about two thirds of released prisoners are rearrested within three years. Joe was determined never to go back. This is Joe’s story of pugilism, prison, and...
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...
Life on the Bering Sea is one of the most treacherous and rewarding ways to make a living. For Captain Sean Dwyer, the youngest captain in the region, it’s all...
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...
As the son and grandson of fish fryers in coastal Massachusetts, Dan Portelance dreamed of a life elsewhere as a famous chef. Just when his goal was within reach, his...
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...
Breakwater Studios Ltd. presents LIFE’S WORK, a series of short documentaries that follows the stories of six master makers, exploring their craft, their process, and ultimately, their lives.
A team of seven expats living in Tokyo are changing (and challenging) the formula of indie game creation with their highly anticipated mystery exploration game, Vane.
Step into the world of the Northways, a Canadian couple who live together, travel the globe together, and make cutting-edge virtual reality game together, Fantastic Contraption.
After-hours on a quiet suburban street somewhere in South Carolina, young Thomas Brush has spent the last three years creating Pinstripe, an adventure platform game about heaven and hell –...
“The stars of this program have been nominated for 73 Academy Awards and won 9. You know their work. But do you know them?” “Montage: Great Film Composers and the...
