Sheila Nevins Movies

  • 2000
    Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

    Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

    Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

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    An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a photographer, novelist, journalist, poet,...

    Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
  • 2019
    17 Blocks

    17 Blocks

    17 Blocks

    7.42019HD

    Using two decades of intimate home video, the story of the Sanford family, whose struggles with addiction and gun violence eventually lead to a...

    17 Blocks
  • 2016
    Class Divide

    Class Divide

    Class Divide

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    A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea...

    Class Divide
  • 1996
    Without Pity: A Film About Abilities

    Without Pity: A Film About Abilities

    Without Pity: A Film About Abilities

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    Without Pity: A Film About Abilities is an HBO film narrated by Christopher Reeve. This documentary celebrates the efforts of the disabled to live...

    Without Pity: A Film About Abilities
  • 1997
    The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row

    The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row

    The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row

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    Explores the realities of death-row inmates inside Huntsville (Texas) Unit, a prison with the highest number of executions in 1997. Features...

    The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row
  • 2009
    The Trials of Ted Haggard

    The Trials of Ted Haggard

    The Trials of Ted Haggard

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    A documentary by Alexandra Pelosi takes a behind-the-scenes look at a recent life and hard times of ex-minister, Pastor Ted. Ted Haggard had it all:...

    The Trials of Ted Haggard
  • 2023
    Mourning in Lod

    Mourning in Lod

    Mourning in Lod

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    MOURNING IN LOD, takes a microcosmic look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through Musa, Yigal, and Randa — three people whose fates become...

    Mourning in Lod
  • 2020
    American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

    American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

    American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

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    Acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi captures a snapshot of The United States of America as the country faces a pandemic, a presidential election and...

    American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself
  • 2022
    Alive in Bronze

    Alive in Bronze

    Alive in Bronze

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    Sculpturist Dana King embarks on molding a bust of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton, and to get it done right, she calls for help from the...

    Alive in Bronze
  • 2009
    Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain

    Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain

    Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain

    6.72009HD

    An age-obsessed daughter of a plastic surgeon takes a journey through America's $60 Billion a year anti-aging world. In this Alice-in Wonderland...

    Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
  • 1994
    Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

    Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

    Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

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    If you're arrested in New York City and can't make bail, you'll be sent to Rikers Island -- a mammoth holding facility for 17,000 men and women...

    Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
  • 2011
    The Education of Dee Dee Ricks

    The Education of Dee Dee Ricks

    The Education of Dee Dee Ricks

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    The story of one woman's mission to defeat cancer and help others do the same.

    The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
  • 2023
    Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney

    Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney

    Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney

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    Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney explores the story of forced reproduction in the antebellum South and reveals the agency of Mary...

    Birthing a Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney
  • 1996
    Prisoners of the War on Drugs

    Prisoners of the War on Drugs

    Prisoners of the War on Drugs

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    From its beginning during the Reagan years through current times, the War on Drugs has left many victims stranded in the prison system. PRISONERS OF...

    Prisoners of the War on Drugs
  • 1996
    Memphis PD: War on the Streets

    Memphis PD: War on the Streets

    Memphis PD: War on the Streets

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    A documentary examining the battle scars of the profession and the perils of law enforcement

    Memphis PD: War on the Streets
  • 1995
    5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids

    5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids

    5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids

    6.41995HD

    When a child gets hold of a loaded handgun, someone often dies. Last year, 24,000 Americans lost their lives to handguns...and 3,600 of them were...

    5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids
  • 1998
    Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?

    Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?

    Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?

    6.51998HD

    Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a...

    Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?
  • 2016
    Suited

    Suited

    Suited

    6.82016HD

    Going deeper than fine fabrics and silk linings, Suited takes a modern, evolved look at gender through the conduit of clothing and elucidates the...

    Suited
  • 1999
    The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years

    The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years

    The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years

    6.31999HD

    Documentary about a Jewish senior citizens' acting group on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The film covers both the progress and impediments of a...

    The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years
  • 2015
    Living With Lincoln

    Living With Lincoln

    Living With Lincoln

    7.42015HD

    Filmmaker Peter Kunhardt examines how a one-of-a-kind collection of Abraham Lincoln photos and memorabilia have profoundly shaped the lives and...

    Living With Lincoln