Direction: Steve James

Direction Steve James

Synopsis Two ordinary inner-city kids dare to dream the impossible — professional basketball glory — in this epic chronicle of hope and faith. Filmed over a five-year period, Hoop Dreams follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates as they navigate the...

Direction Steve James

Synopsis He began a film, a search, to discover not only what had happened to Stevie over the past ten years but to understand the forces that had shaped his entire life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested and...

Direction Steve James

Synopsis The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually...

Direction Steve James

Cast Roger Ebert · Errol Morris · Werner Herzog · Martin Scorsese

Synopsis It's the first-ever feature-length documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, which is enough of a reason for us to see it. But the fact that it's directed by Steve James ("Hoop Dreams") and features interviews with filmmakers such as...

Direction Steve James

Cast Jared Leto · R. Lee Ermey · Ed O'Neill · Breckin Meyer

Synopsis 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.

Direction Steve James

Cast Leonard Roberts · Til Schweiger · Peta Wilson · Richard Roundtree

Synopsis American boxer Joe Louis (Leonard Roberts) meets German champion Max Schmeling (Til Schweiger) in the ring in 1936, and Schmeling emerges victorious. They fight in the ring once again in 1938, and Louis hospitalizes his German counterpart. Schmeling, a member...

Direction Steve James

Cast Allen Iverson

Synopsis On Valentine’s Day 1993, 17-year-old high school basketball and football star Allen Iverson was bowling in Hampton, Virginia, when an argument erupted into a brawl pitting Iverson’s African-American friends against a group of white patrons. The fallout from the fight...

Direction Steve James

Cast Neil Barofsky · Ti-Hua Chang · Jiayang Fan · Roman Fuzaylov

Synopsis A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States' 2008 mortgage crisis.

Direction Steve James

Synopsis The life of Bill Walton, from his earliest days as a high school basketball phenom to some of his wildly successful years at UCLA.

Direction Peter Gilbert · Steve James

Cast Carroll Pickett · Steve Mills · Maurice Possley · Anne Ellis

Synopsis Pickett presided over 95 executions in his 15 year career, including the very first by lethal injection. He kept his feelings about his work from his family, instead audiotaping an account of each one. Initially pro-execution, he became an anti-death...

Direction Steve James

Synopsis Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to be the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, to create a bomb before the Germans did, Ted Hall didn't share his colleagues' elation after the successful detonation of the world's first...

Direction Steve James

Cast Georgia Pierson · Janet Pierson · John Pierson · Wyatt Pierson

Synopsis 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...

Direction Susana Aikin · Carlos Aparicio · Jerry Blumenthal · Steve James

Synopsis This documentary miniseries follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America. The immigrants were filmed both in their countries of origin before immigrating as...

Direction Jonathan Demme · Jyllian Gunther · Ryan Miller · Jed Rothstein

Cast Alan Cumming · Brett Gelman · Marina Abramovic · Ariel Levy

Synopsis America's most award-winning magazine comes to life in this new docu-series. Produced by Oscar & Emmy winner Alex Gibney, the pilot features a doc from Oscar winner Jonathan Demme based on Rachel Aviv's article "A Very Valuable Reputation," writer Ariel...

Direction Steve James · Bing Liu · Rebecca Parrish · Kevin Shaw

Synopsis TV Series (2018). 10 Episodes. A look inside one of Chicago's most progressive public schools, located in suburban Oak Park.

Direction Steve James

Cast André Braugher · Rip Torn · Sean Squire · Ruby Dee

Synopsis A talented all-black high school basketball team challenges the top all-white team in civil-rights-era New Orleans.

Direction Steve James

Synopsis As a factious mayoral election coincides with the trial of the police officer who killed Laquan McDonald, Chicago becomes a flashpoint, with the city as a tinderbox and its citizens ready to spark.