Waiting for "Superman"

Bus 174

2002

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

No Regret

1993

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality.

Comprehensive School

1962

The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.

Freakonomics

2010

Some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side of everything.

Eine geschlossene Gesellschaft

1987

Follows the lives of students and their teachers based on the director's childhood memories. The events of the film take places in the actual boarding school called "Gymnasium Canisianum", founded in 1946 by a German catholic priest.

The University of Sing Sing

2011

An inside look at the notorious Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where one of the U.S.’s only in-prison college programs, Hudson Link, offers long-time inmates an education – and a new lease on life.

Les chiens-loups

2019

Backpack Full of Cash

2016

Documentary warning about the decline of American public schools as they become more and more privatized.