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An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.

A clinically-depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.

Dominican baseball star Miguel "Sugar" Santos is recruited to play in the U.S. minor-leagues.

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.

Paul is an actor who feels bogged down by his participation in a production of Chekov's play, Vanya.

An Albanian family is torn apart by a murder, resulting in a blood feud that makes eldest son Nik a prime target and forces his sister, eldest daughter Rudina, to leave school in order to take over the family business.

Lost on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued, Wendy must fight to save her family, her freedom, and the joyous spirit of youth from the deadly peril of growing up.

A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.

The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery.

An ex convict befriends an elderly coworker as they both try to find meaning in life and forgiveness for their past.

The Olympian who pioneered Greece's MeToo movement inspires a younger athlete to break her own silence. In a milestone trial, Sofia stands with Amalia, who is seeking justice for the abuse she endured by her coach when she was a child.

Fifteen years ago, their Washington Heights neighborhood was dubbed the crack-cocaine capital of the world, but today it is transforming into one of the most vibrant, Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. While the drug dealers continue to disappear, their violent legacy still casts a shadow over the neighborhood and its residents. Junior, an ex-convict struggling to get his life back on track, is a product of this legacy. His younger brother Manny, the salutatorian of his high school class, embodies the hope of the future. On the night of his graduation party, Manny finds himself faced with an ill-fated decision that could change his life forever.

Focusing on the bonding between three girls in Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" and the choices the girls face once their high school closes down for asbestos removal.

One woman's unshakable connection to the JFK assassination continues to haunt her fifty years later.

With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. She explores who he is and how he got there, working back and forth between archival and contemporary footage. Born in 1932 in Brooklyn, busking through the South and West in the early 50s, a year with Woody Guthrie, six years flatpicking in Europe, a triumphant return to Greenwich Village in the early 60s, mentoring Bob Dylan, then life on the road, from gig to gig, singing and telling stories. A Grammy and the National Medal of Arts await Jack near the end of a long trail. What will Aiyana find for herself?

An important day in two peoples lives. While both at a crossroad in their lives, a school advisor helps out a troubled teenager, Angel, which steals and quarrels with her family to get attention.

When his self-reliant mother dies unexpectedly, Atticus flees deep into the forests surrounding his Catskills home. Wandering the woods in shock, relying on what meager food and shelter he comes across, Atticus' grasp on reality begins to fray. His nerves worn thin, Atticus latches on when he encounters Carter, a scruffy, pot smoking drifter, who lives out of his car and sells handmade necklaces on the festival circuit. A wary alliance forms, with each dependent on the other, but neither sure he is making the right decision.

The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.

You See Me Laughin' is a personal journey into the lives and music of the last of the hill country bluesmen who've kept their music alive on the back porches and in the tiny juke joints of the Mississippi backwoods.

Promo video for R.E.M.: It Happened Today.

After shoplifting lighters, three young friends venture into the woods behind their neighborhood to create an explosion.

In 1992 five American nuns working in Liberia were murdered during that country's bloody civil war. Although the war has been over for more than 20 years, no one has ever been held accountable for the murders. "Frontlne" has been investigating the incident and sent a crew to Liberia to confront the men the investigation has indicated were responsible and to find out why neither the American nor Liberian governments have ever prosecuted them.