Abby Lynn Kang Davis

It was the late 1990s, and 3,000 young actors around the world were scouted for the role of a lifetime. On the ride home from school, Devon Michael’s mom told him he’d be auditioning for "The Phantom Menace," one of the most anticipated movies ever. From 3,000, the producers narrowed it down to three, and soon Michael was at Skywalker Ranch doing a test screen with George Lucas and Natalie Portman.

In 1992, at the height of the AIDS pandemic, activist Terence Alan Smith made a historic bid for president of the United States as his drag queen persona Joan Jett Blakk. Today, Smith reflects back on his seminal civil rights campaign and its place in American history.

Angela Chaddlesone McCarthy was a teenage mother raised on a Native American reservation who overcame great odds to become a Kiowa tribe legislator in Oklahoma.

A devout Christian, Jerry Givens was Virginia’s chief executioner, before he became an advocate of abolishing the death penalty.

When his son-in-law was killed in a tragic car crash, World War II veteran Calvin Haworth became a surrogate parent and an activist against drunk driving in Minnesota.

A hard-working bricklayer from the projects, Humberto Trujillo helped build the main Phoenix post office — and rose to become his city’s first Hispanic postmaster.

Rosary Castro-Olega was a retired nurse who returned to the frontlines to fight the virus, ultimately becoming one of the Filipino-American nurses who were disproportionately killed by the virus.

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

This vérité documentary follows Nora Sandigo, legal guardian to over 2000 US-citizen children of undocumented immigrants, as she sacrifices everything to keep American-born children with their undocumented parents.

In 1963, Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to be NASA’s first African-American astronaut, until suddenly he wasn’t.

In the mid-1960s, four teenagers from Liverpool were changing the face of pop music. Their names were Mary, Sylvia, Pam, and Val — the Liverbirds!

Kim Hill was a rising singer when she met a young rapper named will.i.am, but she quit the Black Eyed Peas just before they became famous.

In the late 1960s, Haddon Salt built a fast-food empire. Then Kentucky Fried Chicken came knocking.

A world-renowned pastry chef, reflects on his relationship with his deceased father Milton Abel Sr., famed Kansas City jazz musician.

살인 혐의로 체포된 후안 카탈란. 무죄를 주장하는 그에게 희망은 없었다, 영상 하나가 발견되기 전까지는.... 인기 TV 프로그램의 편집 전 영상, 그 안에 증거가 있다!

일밖에 모르는 뉴요커 ‘재키’는 아들 ‘앤젤로’가 자신 몰래 학교를 자퇴한 사실을 알고 아들이 있는 LA로 찾아간다. 자유로운 라이프를 꿈꾸는 ‘앤젤로’는 지나치게 자신의 삶을 간섭하는 엄마에게 ‘편안한 수영장에서만 수영해본 엄마는 절대 거친 자연의 파도를 탈 수 없을 것’이라 호언장담한다. 이에 자극받은 ‘재키’는 무작정 서프보드를 챙겨 바다로 향하는데… 지친 일상을 깨울 유쾌한 감동이 찾아온다!

A New Yorker working as a paralegal searches for a new lease on life before a childhood friend inspires her to take up comedy.