Sheila Nevins Movies

Pearl Randall, a 66-year-old widow, announces that she is planning to remarry, but her three grown children express conflicting emotions. Daughter...

This is the story of a year in the life of one mother whose daily struggles illuminate the challenges faced by more than 42 million American women...

Thirty years after Ford Motor Company began dumping toxic waste in their backyard – and after one too many premature deaths – the Ramapo...

Documentary following three families each coping with a child affected by serious emotional or mental illness. The families explore treatment...

An intensely personal exploration of an explosive issue -- abortion in America. Wrenching first-person narratives from seven decades of women, each...

A documentary that explores the world of children who reside in discounted motels within walking distance of Disneyland, living in limbo as their...

Documentary account of George W. Bush's presidential campaign during the 2000 election.

Filmmaker Peter Kunhardt examines how a one-of-a-kind collection of Abraham Lincoln photos and memorabilia have profoundly shaped the lives and...

Follows the struggle of 138 mostly immigrant workers who strike to save their jobs at a famous bakery in the Bronx when a private equity firm buys...

Documentary about moms using drugs while pregnant.

A documentary examining the end of live for five hospice patients and their families.

Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his lifelong battle with insomnia in this intimate documentary. The cameras roll as he tries to quiet his overly...

Sculpturist Dana King embarks on molding a bust of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton, and to get it done right, she calls for help from the...

From its beginning during the Reagan years through current times, the War on Drugs has left many victims stranded in the prison system. PRISONERS OF...

Documentary about the first human to donate his body to science so that it could be studied in the form of a 3D database of the entire anatomy that...

A growing chorus of Palestinians and Israeli Jews speak up often in cross-cultural pairs against war, occupation and violence, and for peace,...

Vanishing: A Love Story is a documentary about award-winning novelist Cai Emmons and her loving, open-hearted journey towards death. In 2021, at the...

They're the real 'goodfellas': 'Joe Dogs' Iannuzzi, Tommy DelGiorno, 'Big Dom' Lofaro. For the first time on television, Mafia turncoats give...

A young boy with down syndrome attends his first year in a "regular" classroom. This documentary traces that year and the changes that take place for...

If you're arrested in New York City and can't make bail, you'll be sent to Rikers Island -- a mammoth holding facility for 17,000 men and women...