Steve James Movies

At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. Armed with...

Former indie film "guru" John Pierson takes his family to Fiji for one year to run the world's most remote movie theater.

A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes...

Declining participation leads two Milwaukee area high schools—one black and urban, the other white and suburban—to combine their football...

When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s...

An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages...

This forty-minute program was produced by the Criterion Collection in 2014

Why is minimum wage important? In 2013, Seattle became ground zero for the heated national debate about increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour....

FOCUS FORWARD - Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the...