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1. Saul & Ruby's Holocaust Survivor Band (2020)
80 min | Documentary
In a South Florida retirement community, 91-year-old Saul Dreier starts a klezmer band with fellow concentration camp survivor Ruby Sosnowicz, hoping to use music to celebrate life and memorialize those who perished in the Holocaust.
Director: Tod Lending
Votes: 19
2.
The Atlanta Film Chat Podcast (2014– )
Episode 267 - Tod Lending (Sal and Ruby, To Life!) & Kenny Blank (Executive Director of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival)
(2020 Podcast Episode)
Talk-Show
Tod Lending (Saul and Ruby, To Life!) and Kenny Blank (Executive Director of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival) discuss the making of the film and the closing night of the festival.
Stars: Kenny Blank, Tod Lending, Rob Shimer, Charles Thomas
3. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (2019)
76 min | Documentary
A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code.
Director: Judith Helfand | Stars: Valerie Brown, Richard M. Daley, Michelle Landis Dauber, Edmund Donoghue
Votes: 91
4. All the Difference (2016)
83 min | Documentary
Filmed over five and a half years, ALL THE DIFFERENCE (83 min.) weaves together the stories of two tough, yet promising young black men, Robert and Krishaun, as they navigate their lives ... See full summary »
Director: Tod Lending
Votes: 8
6.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
Growing Up Trans
(2015)
TV-PG | 84 min | Documentary, News
An intimate exploration of the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their parents. Through moving, personal stories of children, parents and doctors, the film examines new ... See full summary »
Directors: Miri Navasky, Karen O'Connor | Stars: Sarah Childress, Robert Garofalo, Miri Navasky
Votes: 92
7. The Atlanta Film Chat Podcast (2014 Podcast Series)
60 min | Talk-Show
Producer and screenwriter Chuck Thomas interviews directors, producers, screenwriters, and more. Learn how to make your own projects, navigate set protocols, gain distribution, and more in this series that's been running weekly since 2014.
Stars: Charles Thomas, Rob Shimer, Molly Coffee, Emir Yakamoz
8. Vezo (2014)
Not Rated | Short
A 9 year-old girl tells the tale about how her family and village came back from near starvation after their fishing village adopted sustainable fishing practices.
Director: Tod Lending
11. Burden of Silence (2012– )
Documentary
One in three Native American women will experience sexual abuse at some point in their lifetime. That is more than twice the national average. We hear from Donna Erikson, a native Alaskan ... See full summary »
12.
The First 48: Missing Persons (2011– )
Episode:
Desperate Measures/The Big City
(2012)
TV-14 | 43 min | Reality-TV
Detectives Ayanna Corbin and Michael Cochran rush to save a missing mother of four children who's left behind a suicide note. And Detective Bob Berent goes looking for a disoriented and ... See full summary »
Stars: Bill Mondy, Ayanna Corbin, Mike Cochran, Bob Berent
Votes: 10
13. The First 48: Missing Persons (2011– )
Reality-TV
This show follows detectives from the Chicago Police Missing Persons Unit as they work cases from initial report to conclusion. There are both happy and tragic endings.
Stars: Bill Mondy, Pam Childs, Selles Morris, Joe Struck
Votes: 184
14.
The First 48: Missing Persons (2011– )
Episode:
Critical Care
(2011)
TV-14 | 44 min | Reality-TV
When a caretaker reports her 63-year-old cancer patient missing, Detectives Ayanna Corbin and Mike Cochran learn the woman has left behind a 15-year-old son. Detectives sift through false ... See full summary »
Stars: Bill Mondy, Ayanna Corbin, Mike Cochran, Kathy Hicks
Votes: 15
15. My So-Called Enemy (2010)
89 min | Documentary
In July 2002, 22 Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls came to the U.S. to participate in a women's leadership program called Building Bridges for Peace. "My So Called Enemy" is a coming of... See full summary »
Director: Lisa Gossels
Votes: 53
16. The Edge of Joy (2010)
61 min | Documentary, News
The Edge of Joy follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and religious leaders as they battle the world's highest maternal mortality rate. The documentary is a character ... See full summary »
Director: Dawn Sinclair Shapiro
17.
P.O.V. (1988– )
Episode:
The Principal Story
(2009)
Documentary
Directors: Tod Lending, David Mrazek
18. Aimee's Crossing (2008 TV Movie)
25 min | Documentary
An intimate portrait of juvenile offender Aimee Myers and her incarceration in a detention center.
Director: Tod Lending
19. Spirit of the Marathon (2007)
PG | 104 min | Documentary, Sport
The first ever feature-length film to capture the essence, drama and unique spectacle of the famed 26.2-mile race, the production features five runners - three amateurs and two elites - as ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Dunham | Stars: Dick Beardsley, Ryan Bradley, Leah Caille, Deena Kastor
Votes: 624
20. Omar & Pete (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 71 min
Examines the social, economic, and personal barriers two ex-offenders face as they try to reintegrate into their communities and families. In and out of prison for more than 30 years, Omar ... See full summary »
Director: Tod Lending
Votes: 47
21. Rosevelt's America (2005)
26 min | Short
ROSEVELT'S AMERICA is a cinema verite profile of the struggles of a Liberian refugee to build a new life in America. After being tortured and narrowly escaping execution during Liberia's ... See full summary »
Directors: Tod Lending, Roger Weisberg
22. Unbreakable Minds (2004)
55 min | Documentary
Director: Abbey Neidik | Star: Irene Lilienheim Angelico
Votes: 25
23. Legacy (2000)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A documentary that tracks five years and three generations of a Chicago family's life in public housing. The murder of a family member has an immediate impact, but eventually changes them toward a more positive outlook on life in the end.
Director: Tod Lending | Stars: Alaissa Collins, Marquis Collins, Nickcole Collins, Terrell Collins
Votes: 161
24. Time to Speak (1998 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
Documentary featuring young survivors who are at different stages of struggling to overcome their experiences of abuse and neglect.
Director: Tod Lending
25. Breaking Ties (1996 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
Overcoming the weight of poverty is at the heart of Breaking ties, the second video in the No Time to be a Child series.
Director: Tod Lending
26. Growin' Up Not a Child (1995 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
The violent living conditions of urban America, exposing communal violence on a scale that we never thought was possible in the U.S.
Director: Tod Lending
28. Meet the Applegates (1990)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman, Bobby Jacoby
Votes: 2,610 | Gross: $0.49M
29. World of Discovery (1990– )
60 min | Documentary
World of Discovery - The Complete Series
Stars: James Brolin, Richard Crenna, Richard Kiley, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 42
30.
World of Discovery (1990– )
Episode:
Inventors: Out of Their Minds
(1990)
49 min | Documentary
World of Discovery - Inventors: Out of Their Minds They've given us light, photographs, electricity, lasers, cars, movies, and videocassettes. This delightful program gives you a rare look ... See full summary »
31. P.O.V. (1988– )
60 min | Documentary
POV, a cinema term for "point of view," is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented more than 300 of the best, boldest, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Stacey Abrams, Rashida Tlaib, Lucy McBath, Veronica Escobar
Votes: 244
32. Daniel and the Towers (1987 TV Movie)
61 min | Drama, Family
The story of Simon Rodia, the real-life artist who spent 30 years constructing Los Angeles' Watts Towers, a monument to Christopher Columbus, and his fictional relationship with Daniel, a young boy.
Director: Paul Schneider | Stars: Miguel Alamo, Shawn Harrison, Jimmy Yung, Allan Arbus
Votes: 35
33. The Infinite Voyage (1987–1991)
G | 60 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi, Sport
An exceptional series about of humanity, the stars, the dinosaurs, and other mysteries of the world and the universe.
Stars: Richard Kiley, Paul Shenar, Josef Sommer, Fritz Weaver
Votes: 23
34.
The Infinite Voyage (1987–1991)
Episode:
Unseen Worlds
(1987)
G | Documentary, Sci-Fi, Sport
Star: Richard Kiley
35. Doorman (1985)
84 min | Horror, Thriller
When the doorman of an expensive apartment building turns up with a broken neck, it doesn't attract much attention. But when it happens a second time, and then a third, the city starts to ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Youngman | Stars: Sharon Sharth, Bradley Whitford, Haru Aki, Allison Biggers
Votes: 66
36. Frontline (1983– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary, News
FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world and American television's top long-form news and current affairs series since 1983
Stars: Will Lyman, Sarah Childress, Priyanka Boghani, Arun Rath
Votes: 2,295
37.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby Is a Friend of Mine
(1982)
Not Rated | 52 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The arrival in a small town of a stranger who calls himself 'Charles Dickens' makes a magical and lasting change in the lives of an imaginative 12-year-old boy and a loving young woman.
Director: Ralph Rosenblum | Stars: Donna Gibbons, Brian Svrusis, George Womack, Fred Gwynne
Votes: 48
38. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.
Stars: Jeffrey DeMunn, Elizabeth Franz, Edward Herrmann, Sada Thompson
Votes: 413