Tag: emmy
Scared Straight!
This Academy Award® and Emmy® award-winning film recounts the day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the Rahway maximum security prison with the most dangerous criminals New Jersey had to offer. These convicts gave the youths an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, hoping to change the course of the teens’ lives.
Sister Helen
One of the most unanimously acclaimed documentaries in recent years and winner of the coveted Sundance Film Festival Directing Award, this emotionally compelling film is an inspirational and uplifting portrait of a truly colorful and [...]
The Police Tapes
Winner of three Emmys, a Peabody and the duPont Award, THE POLICE TAPES is a harrowing, real-life autopsy of the dangerous nighttime work of beat cops as they try to contain a community coming unraveled.
Of Civil Wrongs and Rights
This Emmy Award winner brings to life for the first time the inspirational story of an unsung American civil rights hero, and demonstrates the power of ordinary citizens to rise up against injustice. In 1942, [...]
Lost Boys of Sudan
Winner of an Independent Spirit Award and named Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, LOST BOYS OF SUDAN follows two teenage Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America, offering [...]
Marshall University: Ashes to Glory
In one of the greatest and most inspiring comeback stories of all time, this film chronicles how a grief-stricken football team rose from unfathomable ruin and despair to achieve one of the most remarkable victories in the history of sports.
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
The award-winning and internationally acclaimed film, GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST is a gripping, unparalleled account of the most sensational kidnapping in American history. On February 4, 1974, college student Patty Hearst (the granddaughter [...]
Dark Circle
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and recipient of a national Emmy Award, DARK CIRCLE follows the trail of plutonium from the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons facility in Colorado, to the [...]