Geeta Gandbhir

New Wave (2024)

An endearingly nostalgic exploration of the defiant Vietnamese new wave music scene, as well as a vulnerable and personal look at the filmmaker and her community's revisiting of their unexamined past. ...

Black Table (2024)

In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to abolish affirmative action, this film thoughtfully looks back at the largest class of Black students at Yale in the 1990s, the dining table that bonded them, and how their story informs our future. ...

Family Tree (2024)

North Carolina's sustainable forestry movement is a rare gesture towards community-based climate action. Seen through the stories of two Black families who fight to preserve their land and generational legacy, Family Tree's cinema vérité approach reveals ...

Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story (2023)

Tyler Perry is America's consummate multihyphenate. But underneath this entertainment behemoth is a man working humbly to heal his childhood trauma by transforming his pain into promise. This documentary, a nod to his mother's love, is an intimate portrait ...

How We Get Free (2023)

In Denver, an intrepid activist runs for office with the aim of eliminating cash bail. ...

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022)

Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes C ...

A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting (2022)

On October 27th, 2018, a gunman opened fire inside a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing eleven people as they prayed, in what would become the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. This documentary is a deeply personal portrait of the survivors, vic ...

Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities (2022)

Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities follows realtor Brenda Dixon, mayoral candidate Khalid Kamau, club owner Devon Woodson, and social change artist Erika Allen as they build economic justice through homeownership, local politics, urban farming, and e ...

Learning to Breathe (2021)

The lives of these young men are compared and contrasted with who they were five years ago, about who they are now, and how their perspectives on race, justice, and social inequality have changed. ...

And She Could Be Next (2020)

The story of a defiant movement of women of color transforming American politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the series follows organizers and candidates as they fight on behalf of black, brown, immigrant and poor ...

Call Center Blues (2020)

A cinematic tale of deportation, migration, displacement and opportunistic capitalism, Call Center Blues follows four characters as they struggle to make sense of their lives in Tijuana. Each with a vastly different story, they are all linked by their disp ...

Hungry to Learn (2019)

The cost of college is forcing students to make choices that put eating regular meals and their education at odds. Director Geeta Gandbhir and executive producer Soledad O'Brien's poignant film follows four college students as they navigate food insecurity ...

The Feeling of Being Watched (2018)

Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored by the FBI. ...

The Sentence (2018)

Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier. This intimate portrait of mandatory minimum drug sentencing's devastating consequences, captured by Cindy' ...

Armed with Faith (2017)

Armed With Faith follows the men of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bomb Disposal Unit (KPK BDU) to the front lines of the war against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan. The lawless province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa -- considered the gateway for terrorists from nei ...

Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS (2017)

A look at the current state of Syria amidst war and chaos in 2017, featuring stories of survival and observations by political experts from around the world. ...

I Am Evidence (2017)

The modern criminal justice system is hindered by the fact that countless rape kits remain untested in police evidence storage facilities across the United States. Only eight states currently have laws requiring mandatory testing of rape kits. ...

Love the Sinner (2017)

A short documentary exploring the connection between Christianity and homophobia in the wake of the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. ...

The Talk: Race in America (2017)

Documentary about the increasingly necessary conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police. ...

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017)

An intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty featuring Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher, and Carrie Fisher. ...

Risky Drinking (2016)

Are you a risky drinker? Nearly 70% of American adults drink alcohol and nearly 1/3 of them engage in problem drinking at some point in their lives. Produced with The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Risky Drinking is a no-holds- ...

O.J.: Made in America (2016)

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation. ...

Prison Dogs (2016)

Prison Dogs is a story of redemption, strength, fear, love, and dedication. In this wonderfully human tale, prison inmates, along with veterans suffering with PTSD, find a path to a second chance at life through their love and care of a puppy. ...

A Conversation with Black Women on Race (2015)

In this short documentary, black women talk about the challenges they face in society. ...

A Conversation With Police on Race (2015)

A Conversation with My Black Son (2015)

For generations, parents of black boys across the U.S. have rehearsed, dreaded and postponed œThe Conversation. But when their boys become teenagers, parents must decide how to handle discussions about race. In this short film originally published by The ...

A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers (2015)

Follows three women in an all female, predominantly Muslim unit of police officers sent to post-earthquake Haiti as UN Peacekeepers for one year. The mission challenges these women while shattering commonly held stereotypes. ...

A Conversation with White People on Race (2015)

This short documentary features interviews with white people on the challenges of talking about race. ...

The Conversation (2015)

This short film explores the conversations that the parents of African-American boys have had with their sons regarding how they may become targets for police brutality. ...

A Conversation About Growing Up Black (2015)

In this short documentary, young black men explain the particular challenges they face growing up in America. ...

We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss (2014)

Everyone's talking about it, but who can explain it? Paul G. Allen's Vulcan Productions and Morgan Spurlock's Cinelan have partnered to produce WE THE ECONOMY 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss. Each film is helmed by an acclaimed filmmaker, each wit ...

Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. (2014)

Robert De Niro, Sr., was a celebrated painter obscured by the pop-art movement. His life and career are chronicled in the artist's own words by his contemporaries and, movingly, by his son, the actor Robert De Niro. ...

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014)

James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, James Brown was a self-made man who became one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, not just through his music, but also as a social activist ...

American Promise (2013)

In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, as they started kindergarten at the prestigious Dalton School just as the private institut ...

Gasland Part II (2013)

Two years ago, Josh Fox introduced us to hydraulic fracturing with his Oscar®-nominated exposé Gasland. Now this once-touted energy source has become a widely discussed, contentious topic. In his follow-up, Fox reveals the extreme circumstances facing th ...

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (2013)

A feature documentary about Jackie "Moms" Mabley, an African-American stand-up comic and show-biz pioneer who emerged from the Chitlin' Circuit of African-American Vaudeville to become a mainstream star. Once billed as "The Funniest Woman in the World," Ma ...

Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington (2013)

A portrait of photographer Tim Hetherington's work in war zones around the world. ...

See You Soon Again (2012)

The story of Leo Bretholz, who was born to Jewish parents in Vienna in 1921 and fled Nazi Austria in 1938 at the urging of his mother. Starting with this, the documentary depicts the community of Holocaust survivors in Baltimore, one of the largest in the ...

God Is the Bigger Elvis (2012)

The Oscar®-nominated documentary about a promising young actress who left Hollywood to become a nun. ...

My Neighbourhood (2012)

Mohammed El Kurd is a Palestinian boy growing up in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the heart of East Jerusalem. When Mohammed turns 11, his family is forced to give up part of their home to Israeli settlers, who are leading a campaign of court-sanct ...

The Education of Dee Dee Ricks (2011)

The story of one woman's mission to defeat cancer and help others do the same. ...

The Carrier (2011)

Told through the eyes of an increasingly empowered heroine, THE CARRIER is a powerful and moving portrait of an unconventional family, set against the backdrop of the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zambia. This lyrical film follows Mutinta Mweemba, a 28-year ...

Budrus (2010)

Follows a Palestinian leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter jumps into the fray. ...

Pushing the Elephant (2010)

Pushing the Elephant tells the extraordinary story of a mother and daughter reunited after a decade separated by civil war. In the late 1990s, Rose Mapendo lost everything to the violence that engulfed the Democratic Republic of Congo. She emerged from the ...

Music by Prudence (2010)

Music by Prudence tells a self-empowering story of one young woman's struggle who, together with her band, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds and, in her own voice conveys to the world that disability does not mean inability. In addition to its sheer ...

By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (2009)

By the People: The Election of Barack Obama is a documentary film produced by Edward Norton broadcast in November 2009 on HBO, which follows Barack Obama and various members of his campaign team, including David Axelrod, through the two years leading up to ...

Take It From Me (2001)

Captured over two years, Take It From Me is a feature-length documentary about four women struggling against great odds to raise themselves and their families out of poverty in New York City. ...

Bamboozled (2000)

Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit. ...

Summer of Sam (1999)

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. ...

Girl 6 (1996)

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator. ...

Clockers (1995)

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn't bu ...

Joy Street (1995)

A nightmare of a woman depressed by the concrete world she lives in, and her journey from suicidal despair to personal renewal with the help of an unlikely spirit guide. ...

Surviving the Game (1994)

A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey. ...

Short Cuts (1993)

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's gr ...

Kisses on a Train (1993)

The story of Sukhadi, a twelve-year-old Adivasi girl who makes a daily trip to a sleepy railway station to fetch water. This banal activity is transformed into an adventure by her chance meeting with Zainaab, a beautiful and mysterious, thirteen-year-old g ...

Malcolm X (1992)

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of ...

The Conversation (2015)

This short film explores the conversations that the parents of African-American boys have had with their sons regarding how they may become targets for police brutality. ...