"One high school's unlikely success story." 28 May 2015 Factual 102 mins
Follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families.
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Steven as Himself
Dianna as Herself
Aron as Himself
Eternity as Herself
Gustavo as Himself
Jim Sporleder as Principal
Brooke Bouchey as Intervention Specialist
Erik Gordon as Science Teacher
James Redford Director
James Redford Producer
James Redford Story
Todd Boekelheide Original Music Composer
Karen Pritzker Producer
Karen Pritzker Executive Producer
Regina K. Scully Executive Producer
Brook Holston Supervising Producer
United States 28 May 2015
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26 April 2015
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15 May 2015
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28 February 2015
Two brothers from southwest Detroit struggle to improve their lives. Unable to afford college and faced with expulsion - and meanwhile supporting his mother - Jason turns to stripping which turns to prostitution, posing a huge dilemma since he has just begun the first true love relationship of his life.
20 March 2015
We seek to find the inner light of each one and thus turn on new lights, to leave the paths illuminated, so as not to walk blindly and alone.
05 September 2015
Who needs school, who needs baseball, and who needs friends? That's the attitude of high school delinquent, Taishi Fura, who became a loner after falling out with his peers.
18 December 2015
The octogenarian Angono Mba recalls the expedition in which he worked as porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán who, between 1944 and 1946, traveled through Spanish Guinea documenting life in the colony as he obsessively searched for a mysterious lake.
29 December 2015
Cameras follow David Beckham as he attempts to play a football match on all seven continents and get back in time for his own UNICEF fundraising match at Old Trafford.
22 January 2015
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03 April 2015
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24 November 2015
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06 October 2015
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19 August 2015
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