Documentary Film
Documentary films about faith, ambition, and what people do when the path they're on stops being the one they planned.
Andy sets out to run the grueling Comrades Marathon, inspired by his father Mark's runs 35 years earlier. But the race becomes the backdrop for a harder journey, through Mark's battle with alcoholism, his departure from evangelical Christianity, and the spiritual path he found on the other side. What starts as a story about running becomes a story about what fathers and sons can finally say out loud when the miles strip everything else away.
The life of former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders, from the cotton fields of rural Arkansas to the halls of power in Washington, D.C. The film traces her path from childhood through her controversial tenure as Director of the Arkansas Health Department, where she fought to establish school-based health clinics and comprehensive sex education in the face of fierce opposition.
A portrait of watercolor painter George Dombek and the body of work he's built over a lifetime. What it looks like when someone commits fully to a single medium and keeps showing up.
