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The Hobby
Filmmaker Simon Ennis examines the massive subculture of modern board games, featuring personal stories of competition, compulsion, creativity and connection.
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Armadillo Man: The Trips of Jim Franklin
Interviews, archival footage and animation illustrate the spirit of concert poster artist Jim Franklin's art and legacy.
The Hermit of Treig
After 40 years of solitude, a spirited hermit opens up to a filmmaker about his life as he tackles ill health, a declining memory, and uncertainty about whether he can continue his life in the wilderness he calls home.
The Sentence of Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson is serving the longest sentence for a non-violent offender in the history of Michigan and finally has a chance at freedom after being incarcerated for 25 years for selling three pounds of marijuana.
The Spiritual Advisor
Spiritual advisor Jeff Hood travels to Oklahoma to fight for the stay of an incarcerated man's execution.
When the LAPD Blows Up Your Neighborhood
Tensions rise on a busy street as news organizations and local residents witness a volatile situation turn into a literal powder keg.
Homeless
A story of fur and friendship. After lockdown, a couple's dog becomes too destructive for their home, so they leave him to an unlikely owner.
Range Rider
In the Kettle River Range of Northeastern Wash., wolves are being killed to protect livestock that graze on public lands; a lone range rider, Daniel Curry, works year-round using non-lethal mitigation methods to help save wolves.
School Of Fish
School of Fish offers an intimate portrait inside one family's seasonal salmon rituals and their connection to the Bristol Bay Fly-Fishing and Guide Academy, where local youth are empowered through fly-fishing to serve as guides and conservationists.
The Heartbeat of Life
In the sunlit hills of Sicily, artisan Francesco transforms goatskin into tambourines, each drum a reincarnation of life's rhythm; through his craft, he gives voice to the cycle of life and death.
Finding Gulo
Finding Gulo follows a ski guide & field biologist who document an elusive population of wolverines.
Understory
Follow three women who set sail on a 350-mile expedition through Alaska's massive Tongass National Forest. Their goal is to explore how clear-cut logging in this coastal rainforest could affect local communities and our planet's climate.
Mississippi River Styx
An enigmatic drifter with terminal cancer lives his dream of floating the Mississippi Rive on a ramshackle houseboat, until locals start to question his story.
Come to Brasil
A look at the passionate, pop music superfans behind the most popular comment on the internet.
Rio Breaks
Best friends Fabio and Naama navigate their way through life in a slum and surfing on their favorite beach.
Wicker Kittens
Top teams in competitive puzzling prepare for the largest contest in the country.
Blood, Sweat, & Beer
Three entrepreneurs struggle to start a brewery, while one restaurateur fights to keep his empire afloat.
Deprogrammed
Ted Patrick's anti-cult crusade began in the early '70s and quickly became an underground movement of concerned parents, ex-cultists and law enforcement officers working to deprogram those affected by cults.
Hi I'm Blake
After a gymnastics accident leaves him severely brain-damaged, Blake Hyland creates a platform to bring awareness and hope to everyone he meets on the road to recovery while his family wrestles to restore him to his former self.
Disaster Playground
Scientists work to predict and stop future outer space catastrophes.
Crestone
In a world that undulates between fact and fiction, digital and physical, a group of SoundCloud rappers lives a solitary, post-societal existence in the desert town of Crestone, Colo.
Turning Point
A deep dive into the process of developing and testing one potential drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
The International Space Orchestra
Nelly Ben Hayoun assembles the world's first orchestra made up of space scientists.
Pig Show
Kids come from across the country to the nation's biggest junior swine show to prove that there's more to pigs.
La Lucha: Getting Schooled in America
Following five students from underserved California communities as they navigate poverty, trauma, and systemic educational barriers. With expert insight and national data, the film reveals institutional failures and asks: can shifting our approach to meet each student's needs transform education?
The Magic Of Chess
A group of children share their insights about the benefits of chess.
Wrestle
Four teens and their coach face personal challenges as they try to win the Alabama state wrestling championship.
Lunch Hour
Filmmaker James Costa investigates the National School Lunch Program and childhood obesity, and shows what schools, parents, authors, doctors, politicians, celebrities, and chefs are doing to combat the problem.
Nothing But a Winner: The Alabama Football Story
The Decathletes
Granada Hills Charter High School in Los Angeles sets out to cement their legacy in the academic decathlon.
A Swim Lesson
An ode to an everyday hero: Bill Marsh, a swim teacher who helps children manage their fears.
The Magic Of Chess
A group of children share their insights about the benefits of chess.
A Swim Lesson
An ode to an everyday hero: Bill Marsh, a swim teacher who helps children manage their fears.
Nothing But a Winner: The Alabama Football Story
Lunch Hour
Filmmaker James Costa investigates the National School Lunch Program and childhood obesity, and shows what schools, parents, authors, doctors, politicians, celebrities, and chefs are doing to combat the problem.