America Documentary Videos

Filmmaker Aron Gaudet and producer Gita Pullapilly talk about their film, "The Way We Get By," which takes an intimate look at three elderly troop greeters in Maine, one of whom is Gaudet's mother Joan. (8 minutes)

Filmmaker Annie P. Waldman talks about her short film, "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away," which tells the story of a determined group of teenagers living alone in New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina. (4 minutes)

Filmmakers Yoni Brook and Musa Syeed talk about their film, "Bronx Princess," which follows Rocky Otoo, the sassy teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents. After Rocky rebels against her mother's rule in the Bronx, she fleds to her father, a chief in Ghana. (5 minutes)

Filmmakers Tod Lending and David Mrazek talk about their film, "The Principal Story," which follows two public school principals over the course of a year as they make a difference in the lives of their students. (7 minutes)

Filmmaker Geoffrey Smith talks about his film, "The English Surgeon," which follows Dr. Henry Marsh, a neurosurgeon who is committed to relieving suffering and bringing hope to a desperate people in the Ukraine. (8 minutes)

Filmmakers Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco talk about their film, "Ella Es El Matador (She is the Matador)," which follows two female matadors who are gender pioneers due to their passion for bullfighting. (6 minutes)

Filmmaker Georgi Lazarevski talks about his film, "This Way Up," which features the fesity, fascinating residents of a nursing home in the West Bank that has been isolated by the security barrier being constructed by Israel. (8 minutes)

Filmmaker Sam Green talks about his short documentary, "Utopia Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall," which takes a look at an empty mall in China. Watch the entire film online. (4 minutes)

Filmmaker Jesse Epstein talks about her short documentary, "34x35x36," which examines issues of body image by heading to a mannequin factory. Watch the entire film online. (4 minutes)

Filmmaker Nicholas Berger talks about his short documentary, "Nutkin's Last Stand," about the battle between the English red squirrel and the North American grey squirrel. Watch the entire film . (5 minutes)

Filmmaker Eva Weber talks about her short documentary, "City of Cranes," which takes the viewer into the poetic, mesmerizing world of cranes. Watch the entire film online. (4 minutes)

Filmmaker Kim Longinotto talks about the making of "Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go," an unblinking look at Oxford's Mulberry Bush School for emotionally disturbed children. (5 minutes)

Filmmakers Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath talk about "The Betrayal," their Academy Award-nominated documentary about the Phrasavath family's escape from Laos after the Vietnam War. In America, they find a different kind of war. (5 minutes)

Filmmakers Pamela Yates, Paco de Onis and Peter Kinoy talk about their film, "The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court." The film follows the court as it tries to prosecute the perpetrators of genocide. (8 minutes)

Filmmaker Olivier Meyrou talks about "Beyond Hatred," the story of a family's struggle to seek justice for their murdered son while trying to transcend hatred and the desire for revenge. (5 minutes)

Filmmaker Olivier Meyrou talks about "Beyond Hatred," the story of a family's struggle to seek justice for their murdered son while trying to transcend hatred and the desire for revenge. (5 minutes)

Filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor talks about her film, "New Muslim Cool," which follows Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Perez, who pulled himself out of street life 12 years ago and became a Muslim. (10 minutes)

Filmmaker Elizabeth Westrate talks about her film "A Family Undertaking," which explores the growing home-funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life. (10 minutes)

Filmmaker Mel Stuart has been directing feature films and documentaries for over 40 years. Listen as he reflects on the making of "The Hobart Shakespeareans" and why, along with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, he counts it among his favorites. (12 minutes)

Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck talks about his film, "Following Sean." Arlyck first met 4 year old Sean in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury at the height of the 1960s. Thirty years and a lifetime later, Arlyck returns in search of the adult Sean might have become. (11 minutes)