Sheila Nevins Movies

A look at the distressing circumstances for millions of children living in orphanages and other institutions around the world as J.K. Rowling's LUMOS...

Breaion King, a 26 year-old African-American school teacher from Austin, Texas - is pulled over for a routine traffic stop that escalates into a...

In 1948, Lenny Bruce was just another comic who couldn't get arrested. By 1961, all that would change.

Follows the lives of four queer masculine-presenting BIPOC – all assigned female at birth – as they challenge conceptions of gender...

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....

Xiara Trujillo is a precocious seven-year-old who moved from the Bronx to Maryland with her mom, Aracelli Guzman, four years ago. Though she seems...

In this 80-minute documentary, three 10-year-old children leave their native countries to participate in one of the Islamic world’s most famous...

Filmmaker Alan Berliner documents his first cousin, the poet-translator Edwin Honig, as he succumbs to Alzheimer's.

Documentary of S.K. Thoth, a multi-ethnic street performer whose music marries cultures and blurs gender lines.

This HBO special, based on Rosie O'Donnell's book of the same name, uses animated and live action segments to explore the vital role that humour...

Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd's bestselling children's book headlines this winning 25-minute collection of sleepytime tales from HBO. Susan...

Puentes de Salud is a volunteer-run clinic that provides free medical care to undocumented immigrants in south Philadelphia. Here, doctors and nurses...

Documentary account of George W. Bush's presidential campaign during the 2000 election.

Alatha's father calls himself a Mover. Using African dance moves, he helps kids in Khayelitsha township to transcend their hardship (drugs, poverty...

Judy at the Palace. Sinatra at Carnegie Hall. Streisand at the Garden. Stritch on Broadway. Legendary performances come along so rarely. Elaine...

This is the story of a year in the life of one mother whose daily struggles illuminate the challenges faced by more than 42 million American women...

Documentary about Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who was performing euthanasia in the US in 1990's

Documentary about the first human to donate his body to science so that it could be studied in the form of a 3D database of the entire anatomy that...

Bruce Franks Jr. is a 34-year-old battle rapper, Ferguson activist and state representative from St. Louis, Missouri. Known as Superman to his...

On Easter Eve, 1991, the normalcy of 76-year-old Florence Holway's rural life came to a shocking, abrupt end when a 26-year-old intruder broke in to...