Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.
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An examination of the how television news in the US has covered war from Vietnam to the present day
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Every January, the country's largest jigsaw puzzle contest is held in St. Paul, Minnesota. Choose yo...
Evaporating Borders is a poetically photographed and rendered film on tolerance and search for ident...
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Follow professional climber Sasha DiGiulian as she rises from child prodigy to a champion sport clim...
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Interviews with the owners and diverse patrons of a Jerusalem gay bar called "Shushan."
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