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Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.

At the urging of his former mentor and Magic Camp owner Roy Preston, Andy returns as a counselor to the camp of his youth hoping to reignite his career.

A coming of age tale about Kanto, a 14 year old boy, and a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, who struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of his father. One day, he learns about the small hole in the cliff in nearby forest that Ainu people considered a path to the other side of the world - where dead people live. Kanto decides to visit the hole, hoping to see his deceased father.

Members of an all-Native girls lacrosse team try to prove the game is their rightful inheritance, putting more than just a championship on the line.

Without one eccentric first-generation Jewish immigrant from Transylvania, the New York City Marathon simply wouldn't exist. Ehrlich's fun, loving, and inspirational tribute to the late Fred Lebow shows how one man's imagination, determination, and love for running created one of the world's most popular sporting events.

A look into the inner workings of the NRA and its influence, featuring interviews with government leaders, NRA representatives and people whose lives have been personally touched by gun violence.

Germantown and Martin Luther King High Schools were bitter rivals for over 40 years. This past year, a budget crisis caused Philadelphia to lay off over 4000 employees and close two dozen schools, including Germantown High. Now Germantown must merge with their former rival, King. Against overwhelming odds, a 27-year old first time head coach and a new principal fight to inspire young men from difficult circumstances to come together and lift each other toward a better future.

Welcome to the real Hogwarts. To cope with the pressures of growing up, magic-obsessed kids congregate at the one place where they can be themselves: Tannen's Magic Camp, the most prestigious magic institution in the world.

A team of young New York City Slam Poets finds its voice as it competes for the National Championship during the summer of 2016.

Church Forest uncovers the rich heritage and troubled future of the sacred forests of the Ethiopian Highlands. In these mysterious groves, the viewer encounters a unique cast of devout monks and eccentric scientists. Personal histories, religious scriptures and scientific hypotheses combine in this kaleidoscopic reverie of man and nature.

When Palestinian Lutheran Pastor Khader El-Yateem decides to run to become NYC's first Arab American elected official in his conservative Brooklyn neighborhood, he does what no one thinks possible, igniting his marginalized community's hopes and dreams. In the election's aftermath, an unforeseeable blow threatens the foundation of the movement they started, and the community finds their newfound optimism tested to its limit. Father K must face the realities of what it takes to build lasting power in a divided America, but through it all, his voice emerges as funny, bold, and defiantly hopeful - a bridge-builder in a polarized time.

Follow Coach Dunn's Martin Luther King Cougars in Philadelphia (We Could Be King) as they endure a week of hardcore training in preparation to build on their success from last year. Welcome back to #HellWeek.

The complex coming of age story of Mark Puddington, a teenager with multiple disabilities and local celebrity in his New York City neighborhood. As Mark prepares for his religious rite of passage, a family and community must begin to consider his life away from home and the West Side.

NOTES FROM LIBERIA traces the journey of the late Japanese cinematographer Ryo Murakami to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Plantation in Liberia. Under the cover of night, Ryo trespasses onto the plantation grounds and enters a scarcely seen world, where coercive living conditions and labor practices have changed alarmingly little since the plantation opened in 1926. Journalistic access to the plantation is tightly controlled and monitored by the company, and Ryo's footage is a rare independent vision of the lives of plantation workers.

Almost 20 years after Duane Edward Buck was convicted of capital murder, his siblings -- Marvin, Phyllis, and Monique -- reflect on their brother's resilience in the face of an extraordinary injustice: a piece of explicitly racist testimony from a psychologist that likely sent him to Death Row. After years of setbacks and poor work by court-appointed attorneys, Mr. Buck's family and legal team from the Texas Defender Service and, later, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund prepare for what is possibly their last chance to give him the fair sentencing trial he deserves. Produced by Flatbush Pictures, OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER retraces the long path Mr. Buck's case has taken over the years, from the poverty-stricken Third Ward in Houston, all the way to a ruling at the Supreme Court of the United States, and ultimately to a new sentence of life in prison.

After three long years in a Ugandan military prison, George - a former student activist - escaped captivity, seeking asylum far away from the torture he had endured at the hands of an oppressive and brutal regime. In the U.S., he met Grace, a fellow Ugandan refugee, and everything changed as they started a family and a life together in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. In GEORGE and GRACE, their story takes a dramatic turn as George is again detained, this time by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who threaten to turn him back into the hands of his former captors.

In-depth look at the 10-mile, 23-obstacle "Tough Mudder" race, considered one of the toughest adventure courses in the world.

In sunny Los Angeles, home to the largest concentration of domestic workers in the country, Teresita and Emily are on the front lines, fighting to bring the care-giving workforce out of the shadows. When they arrived from the Philippines, their first jobs in elderly care were exploitative and isolating. Now, they are fighting to pass a law that will give overtime protections to all domestic workers in California. In the meantime, they continue their work as caregivers under happier conditions. RIGHT TO CARE is a moving portrait of the fast-changing caring economy of the 21st century, where we're all caregivers in one form, and all in need of care in another.

After a summer at the Alameda County Juvenile Hall, Orlando's trying to settle back into a normal routine this fall semester at Skyline High. Saba, the school's guidance counselor, is doing everything in her power to give Orlando the stability and support he needs to stay on track before his probation hearing for the two gun possession charges that had landed him in detention. FULL CIRCLE shows the innovative Restorative Justice programs working to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline in Oakland, CA, which has some of the highest numbers of African American and Latino student suspensions in the nation.