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Since 1999, 18 of the last 22 winners of the Scripps National Spelling Bee have been Indian-American, making the incredible trend one of the longest in sports history. “Breaking the Bee” is a feature-length documentary that explores and celebrates this new dynasty while following four students, ages 7 to 14, as they vie for the title of spelling bee champion.
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Genre: Documentary
Director: Sam Rega
Actors: Ashrita Gandhari, Hari Kondabolu, Jacques Bailly, Jaideep Janakiram, Paige Kimble, Pawan Dhingra, Ratnam Chitturi, Sanjay Gupta, Shourav Dasari, Srinivas Ayyagari, Valerie Browning
Unbroken: The Snowboard Life of Mark McMorris
After a horrific backcountry accident leaves professional snowboarder Mark McMorris in the ICU, he fights for his life and faces an existential crisis.
The Greater Good
The film looks behind the fear, hype and politics that polarize people into emotionally charged pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine camps with no room for middle ground. Verite stories of individuals and…
Buck
An examination of the life of acclaimed ‘horse whisperer’ Buck Brannaman, who recovered from years of child abuse to become a well-known expert in the interactions between horses and people.
One Soldier’s Story: The Journey of American Sniper
Join director Clint Eastwood and his creative team, along with Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, as they overcome enormous creative and logistic obstacles to make a film that brings the…
Straight Up: Kentucky Bourbon
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew…
The Rachel Divide
Rachel Dolezal became infamous when she was unmasked as a white woman passing for black so thoroughly that she had become the head of her local N.A.A.C.P. chapter. This portrait…
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
In 1996, Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, British producer Nick Gold, and American guitarist Ry Cooder convened in Havana to produce a Cuban-Malian collaboration. When the Malians couldn’t get…
When A City Rises
Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as diverse as the youths of the rest of the world. But they share…
My Beautiful Broken Brain
A profoundly personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of the human brain, after Lotje Sodderland miraculously survives a hemorrhagic stroke and finds herself starting again in an alien…
The Most Unknown
“The Most Unknown” follows nine scientists across the globe who are engaged in research to answer really deep questions, like the nature of consciousness and how life began.
40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie
TV writer/producer Lee Aronsohn tracks down the scattered members of a beloved early 1970’s band with the hope that, 40 years after they broke up, he can get them to…
Born to Play
Spends a season with the Boston Renegades, a womens’ tackle football team on the path to redemption after going undefeated but losing their championship the previous year. These unpaid athletes…
Snow Chick: A Penguin’s Tale
A chronicle of the birth and development of one penguin chick, born late and smaller than any of its fellow toddlers.
Charles Lloyd – Arrows Into Infinity
Charles Lloyd was one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 1960s. His music crossed traditional boundaries and explored new territories. Catapulted into worldwide fame in his 20s, by…
The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl
Fighter pilot, inventor, spy – the life of Roald Dahl is often stranger than fiction. Through a vast collection of his letters, writings and archive, the story is told largely…
It’s Not Yet Dark
The story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a young filmmaker who becomes completely paralyzed from motor neuron disease but goes on to direct an award-winning feature film through the use of his…