Todd Boekelheide

Documentary about a group of Jews, who collected and hid a lot of stories and documents about everyday jewish life in the Warsaw Getto.

A profile of Dr. Marian Diamond, a brain scientist who is considered one of the founders of modern neuroscience.

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving November 2012, four boys in a red SUV pull into a gas station after spending time at the mall buying sneakers and talking to girls. With music blaring, one boy exits the car and enters the store, a quick stop for a soda and a pack of gum. A man and a woman pull up next to the boys in the station, making a stop for a bottle of wine. The woman enters the store and an argument breaks out when the driver of the second car asks the boys to turn the music down. 3½ minutes and ten bullets later, one of the boys is dead. 3½ MINUTES dissects the aftermath of this fatal encounter.

Follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families.

Seen through the eyes of family farmers in southwest France, AFTER WINTER, SPRING is an intimate portrait of an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increasingly dominated by large-scale industrial agriculture.

Colombia is the center of a new global gold rush, and Marmato, a historic mining town, is the new frontier. Filmed over the course of nearly six years, Marmato chronicles how townspeople confront a Canadian mining company that wants the $20 billion in gold beneath their homes.

Six thousand miles west of California, the Mariana Islands are American territory; but after generations of loyalty, the people of Guam and the Northern Marianas still remain second-class US citizens. Following the personal stories of four indigenous island leaders, this provocative film explores the history of American colonization in the Pacific - a moving story of loyalty and betrayal, about a patriotic island people struggling to find their place within the American political family.

The story of Hannah Senesh, a Hungarian poet who was captured by the Nazis, while trying to rescue Jews in WWII.

Ten families read letters from their loved ones killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in this powerful and moving HBO documentary by Oscar and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Bill Couturie (Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam). Photos of the soldiers in military and civilian life are shown as family members read the final correspondence received from Iraq and share their thoughts and memories about the fallen troops and the realities of war.

Jean-Michael Cousteau's documentary about the Great Barrier Reef keeps getting interrupted by characters from Disney's Finding Nemo.

"Spin" tells the story of a boy who loses his parents in a plane crash, is taken in by his uncle (Tucci), who then leaves him for ten years in the care of his Hispanic ranch hand (Blades) and his wife (Delany). Once in high school, Eddie (Merriman) reconnects with a girl from his past (Garces), and their growing interracial relationship teaches the sometimes-sullen Eddie to think of others before himself.

夫と離婚して間もないメグは、11歳の娘・サラと共に、少し前に死去した老富豪が住んでいたニューヨークの豪邸に引っ越してくる。その豪邸は法律上あと数日は入居してはならないと決められていた物件だったが、販売業者のミスでメグ達は予定より早く入居してしまう。 その夜、メグ達が入居していることを知らずに、富豪の遺族の一人であるジュニアが仲間であるラウールとバーナムを連れて邸内に侵入する。ジュニアは屋敷に設けられた緊急避難用の密室「パニック・ルーム」に隠し財産があることを知り、屋敷が人手に渡る前に仲間を連れてこれを秘密裏に奪取しようと考えていたのだった。 強盗達の存在を監視カメラと物音で確認したメグはすぐに事態を察知し、娘と共にパニック・ルームへと逃げ込む。それに対し強盗達は、数々のパニック・ルームの建設に携わってきたバーナムの知識を頼りに、中から出てこさせようと様々な行動に出る。

Montana sheep farmer Rebecca Yoder offers sanctuary to an on-the-lam outlaw, Johnny Gault, who is suffering from a gunshot wound. Yoder is a recent widow, and her decision to help the outsider doesn't sit well with her Quaker community. As a romance brews between her and Gault, it puts in jeopardy her standing among her devout neighbors. But when an evil rancher makes a play for the community's land, Gault's sharpshooting skills might prove his worth after all.

親子ほど歳の違う男女が恋に落ち、幸せの絶頂かに思えたとき、彼女の命があと1年しかないことを知らされて……。美しいニューヨークの秋の風景を背景に描かれる感動のドラマ。

空虚な生活を送るヤング・エグゼクティブのジャックは、謎の男テイラーに導かれるまま、謎の秘密組織「ファイト・クラブ」のメンバーになる。そこは鍛え抜かれた男達が己の拳のみを武器に闘いを繰り広げる、壮絶で危険な空間だった。

In the predawn hours of March 28, 1979, a reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, began to overheat. The lives of half a million people soon hung in the balance, as human error and mechanical failure combined to create the worst nuclear accident in American history.

A docudrama adaptation of Ulrich's Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The movie intercuts between reenactments of Ballard doing her Maine midwifery and related tasks, and Ulrich in her eight years of research on her book; in the end, clear comparisons are made between the work of the two women.

大富豪だった父の財産を引き継いだ実業家・ニコラスは、父親が自殺した年齢である48歳の誕生日を迎える。久しぶりに会った弟は誕生日プレゼントとして、CRSという会社の紹介状を渡す。その後、たまたまCRS社のオフィスを見つけたニコラスは軽い気持ちでCRSの提供するゲームに参加することとなったが、その後、次々とニコラスの身の回りで不思議な出来事が起き始める。

Filmmaker Ronald Levaco, journeys back to China, the nation of his boyhood days, to discover what became of an old friend of his family, Israel Epstein.

A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness living of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the agrarian lifestyle of the 18th century, the changes from the Industrial Revolution, to the 20th century when most of the planet’s resources have been depleted — this film examines the North American landscape and all the wildlife destruction, deforestation, soil depletion and pollution that have been wrought to make the American Dream come true.

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers when he sets out to find the killer of a local call girl.

The enigmatic nature of the Nixon presidency combined comparatively progressive legislative initiatives with a flagrant abuse of presidential power and the public trust. His achievements in expanding peaceful relations with China and the Soviet Union stand in stark contrast with his continuation of the war in Vietnam. Finally brought down by scandal and duplicity, his administration did much to erode the citizenry's faith in government.

舞台は1931年のパリ。国際銀行家を夫に持つアナイスは、無名の作家ヘンリー・ミラーと出会う。野性的な彼に惹かれるが、彼の妻が現われると……。愛を求めて官能に溺れる3人の男女を描いた話題作。

It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the front lines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war.

Documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who won two Academy Awards and was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s. The story is told through interviews with collaborators and friends such as Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jon Voight, John Schlesinger and with clips from Salt's films, chiefly Midnight Cowboy.

Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. However now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl he and his team find they have one last chance for glory

A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.

San Francisco's Richmond District. A widow welcomes the Chinese New Year. 62 years old, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors. A fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine's boyfriend lives in Los Angeles and she's not sure she's ready for marriage, nor does she want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan's cheerful brother-in-law, Uncle Tam, tries to help out.

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.

1823年11月のある晩、ウィーンの街でひとりの老人が発狂して自殺を図り、病院へ運ばれた。この老人は、かつてウィーンで最も尊敬された宮廷音楽家、アントニオ・サリエリ。数週間後、サリエリの告白を聞くために若年の神父・フォーグラーが病室を訪れた。やがて、サリエリの回想が始まった…。イタリアに生まれたサリエリは、作曲家として優れた才能を持っていた。やがて音楽の都ウィーンへ赴き、皇帝ヨーゼフ2世付きの宮廷音楽家になった。そんな順調なサリエリの人生も、天才ヴォルフガング・アマデウス・モーツァルトに出会ったことで狂わされていく…。

1950年代後半。宇宙計画でソ連に遅れをとったアメリカは、マーキュリー計画を実現させるべく、急遽7人のパイロットを選出。新世界へと旅立つヒーローとして、彼らの前途は約束されてはいたが、ロケットも未完成の計画は無謀といえるものであった。その一方で、初めて音速の壁を破った伝説のテスト・パイロット=チャック・イエガーは、自らの手で大空へ挑戦し続けていた。