The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

June, 2003. During the final month of their year-long stay in Fiji, indie-film gurus John and Janet Pierson and their two children host a documentary film crew. John's been showing free movies at the 288-seat 180 Meridian Cinema, in remote Natokalan Village on the island of Taveuni. Reality intrudes in paradise: their home is burgled, the local Catholic priest criticizes John's project, their daughter's behavior may be threatening the reputation of her friend, and John's prickly personality follows him. Against this backdrop, the Fijians laugh at the Three Stooges, Buster Keaton, and "Jackass: The Movie." John finishes the year with ten movies in ten days: do movies matter?

When American physicist Ted Hall joined the ultra-secret Manhattan Project in 1943, he became the youngest scientist working on the development of the plutonium bomb. He was so shocked by the results that he decided to hand over atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. He later described it as an act of compassion. It was 1951, at the height of the Cold War, and Hall’s act was tantamount to suicide—the nuclear spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for less serious crimes. As if by some miracle, however, Ted and his wife Joan managed to stay out of the hands of the FBI.
Now nearing the end of her life, Joan Hall looks back on those years and talks about her love for the man who perhaps saved the world from a catastrophe. A Compassionate Spy is the portrait of an intensely civilized and modest couple in a barbaric time. “If you think the United States is not a good place now,” says Joan, “it was worse then.”

斯蒂夫·詹姆斯（《篮球梦》的导演）在国际纪录片论坛上详细介绍了那部略带神秘感的艾弗森纪录片----《No Crossover：TheTrial of Allen Iverson（审判艾弗森）》，据詹姆斯介绍“片子的拍摄工作已经全部结束，目前正在后期制作，影片将于明年四月和观众见面”
该片在艾弗森的家乡汉普顿拍摄，“这部纪录片不是艾弗森的个人传记，我只是拍摄拍摄他人生中的一些重要事件，他当时是个什么样的人，到底做了什么，然后探寻这件事对他今后的影响”詹姆斯说。

Life and times of Steve Prefontaine, a young long-distance runner from Oregon who pursued the dream of Olympic gold in Munich and became one of the biggest, yet most tragic sport stars in America.

This 10-part documentary series spends a year at Oak Park and River Forest High School, a diverse and high-achieving school outside of Chicago. Digging deep into the experiences of black students, America to Me sparks extremely candid conversations about what has succeeded and what has failed in the quest to achieve racial equality and overcome bias in our education system.
Award-winning filmmaker and Sundance Film Festival veteran Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Life Itself) crafts a humble and daringly honest portrait of these students and the systemic racism they face. Part observational character story and part private confessional, James captures critical moments within this vibrant high school ecosystem.
The Festival is excited to present the first five episodes of this captivating docuseries, which aims to bring us one step closer to change and understanding by confronting our fear head-on.

通过对前德州监狱死刑执行官Carroll Pickett(1982~1995)的采访，对美国德州的死刑判决提出了挑战。Carroll曾在教会作牧师，当德州监狱开始执行死刑处决时，他被作为前神职人员代表死刑犯，给犯人以最后的安慰。而当他回到家中，他会对所执行处决，都作了语音录音，描述了执行当时的经过，在95次处决中，其中一例是误判案件中，Carlos DeLuna被误判为杀人凶手，一旦死刑被执行后，犯人将再也无法翻案，洗脱罪名。
退休后，Carroll公开了这些录音，描述死囚犯的最后时刻，不人道的死刑处决，并开始公开表明反对德州的死刑。死刑执行狱警Fred Allen原本支持死刑，但在目睹120次死刑后，当Fred不得不处决女囚犯Karla Faye后，再也无法承受，最终选择了辞职。

由于一场有争议的市长选举恰逢对杀害拉泉·麦克唐纳的警官的审判，芝加哥成为了一个热点，这个城市就像一个火药桶，市民们随时准备着点燃它。城市中蜿蜒的摄像机如此真实地捕捉到了从亲密的家庭聚会到易燃的街头抗议等各种各样的声音和视角。候选人、选民、抗议者和旁观者都参与进来，热情的争论和随意的见解以同样的尺度呈现出来，创造了一个长期被视为政治避雷针的城市的广阔视野。

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once caused.

1994 documentary film by Steve James

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.