Sheila Nevins Movies

  • 2008
    The Boys from Baghdad High

    The Boys from Baghdad High

    The Boys from Baghdad High

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    During 2006-07, four students keep a video diary of their final year at Tariq bin Ziad High School in Baghdad. As violence escalates, the four...

    The Boys from Baghdad High
  • 2017
    Cries from Syria

    Cries from Syria

    Cries from Syria

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    An attempt to re-contextualize the European migrant crisis and ongoing hostilities in Syria, through eyewitness and participant testimony. Children...

    Cries from Syria
  • 2023
    Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later

    Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later

    Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later

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

    Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
  • 2000
    The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

    The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

    The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

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    Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses...

    The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
  • 2025
    Vanishing: A Love Story

    Vanishing: A Love Story

    Vanishing: A Love Story

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    Vanishing: A Love Story is a documentary about award-winning novelist Cai Emmons and her loving, open-hearted journey towards death. In 2021, at the...

    Vanishing: A Love Story
  • 2004
    Elaine Stritch at Liberty

    Elaine Stritch at Liberty

    Elaine Stritch at Liberty

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    With only an oversized shirt, black tights, and a chair, Elaine Stritch performs her autobiographical one-woman show at London's Old Vic Theatre...

    Elaine Stritch at Liberty
  • 2022
    Last Flight Home

    Last Flight Home

    Last Flight Home

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    Eli Timoner, a dedicated husband, father, and entrepreneur who founded the airline Air Florida in the 1970s, decides to medically terminate his life....

    Last Flight Home
  • 2011
    Koran by Heart

    Koran by Heart

    Koran by Heart

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    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...

    Koran by Heart
  • 2015
    Everything Is Copy

    Everything Is Copy

    Everything Is Copy

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    A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.

    Everything Is Copy
  • 2007
    Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

    Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

    Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

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    In a war that has left more than 25,000 wounded, ALIVE DAY MEMORIES: HOME FROM IRAQ looks at a new generation of veterans. Executive Producer James...

    Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
  • 2023
    Pay or Die

    Pay or Die

    Pay or Die

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    Today, nearly two million Americans are being held for ransom. Without insulin, they'll be dead in days. This is the story of three families who are...

    Pay or Die
  • 2026
    Musk. Check One Two

    Musk. Check One Two

    Musk. Check One Two

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    Set on the shores of Langebaan, South Africa, the film follows Errol Musk (father of Elon Musk) as he speaks about family, race, politics, and power...

    Musk. Check One Two
  • 2011
    Vito

    Vito

    Vito

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    In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBTQ+ representation in the media. He...

    Vito
  • 2011
    Hot Coffee

    Hot Coffee

    Hot Coffee

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    Most people think they know the "McDonald's coffee case," but what they don't know is that corporations have spent millions distorting the case to...

    Hot Coffee
  • 2024
    I Am Ready, Warden

    I Am Ready, Warden

    I Am Ready, Warden

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    In the days leading up to his execution, Texas death row prisoner John Henry Ramirez seeks redemption from his victim's son; an elegy about the death...

    I Am Ready, Warden
  • 1998
    Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

    Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

    Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

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

    Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
  • 2020
    My Father the Mover

    My Father the Mover

    My Father the Mover

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

    My Father the Mover
  • 2012
    Mondays at Racine

    Mondays at Racine

    Mondays at Racine

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    Every third Monday of the month, two bold, brassy sisters open the doors of their Long Island hair salon to women diagnosed with cancer. As locks of...

    Mondays at Racine
  • 2023
    Rosie's Theater Kids

    Rosie's Theater Kids

    Rosie's Theater Kids

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    Ten years ago, inspired by the teacher who inspired her, actor-comedian Rosie O’Donnell established a school, giving public school kids access...

    Rosie's Theater Kids
  • 2011
    Reagan

    Reagan

    Reagan

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    Based on the story of Americas enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world - icon, screen star, and two-term president,...

    Reagan