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Meet the Rethinkers-a group of elementary, middle-school and high-school students in New Orleans who are determined to bring healthier (and tastier) options to their district's school cafeterias.

Every year, close to one million people from over 100 countries all over the world choose to become American citizens. These new Americans are not just coming to the big cities anymore, they are settling in communities all across America. Filmmaker Andrea Pelosi went to naturalization ceremonies in all 50 states to explore why so many people still want to become Americans. The documentary intersperses stories of newly naturalized citizens with interviews...

Habla y Vota is the fourteenth installment of HBO Latino's award-winning Habla series, which comprises over 200 testimonials from U.S. Latinos - including celebrities, recognized professionals, and everyday Latinos - who've shared their funny, poignant, and honest stories about being Latino in the U.S. Featuring leading Latino celebrities and inspiring personalities and in order to raise the voice of the Hispanic community during the 2016 elections,...

Students of varying ages and activity levels test their nutritional knowledge and learn how to live healthier lifestyles in this documentary.

Produced and directed by Alexandra Pelosi, Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County follows children living in California motels as their families struggle to survive in one of the wealthiest zip codes in America. The documentary chronicles a summer in the lives of a class of homeless kids who attend a year-round school serving the children of the working poor in Orange County California.

Narrated by Lily Tomlin, An Apology to Elephants explores the beauty, majesty, and intelligence of elephants as well as threats to their survival. Focusing on the lives of elephants in captivity, the film tells the troubling story of the exploitation of elephants in the name of entertainment. A call for compassion and the better treatment of elephants, the film is also a plea to save what's left of the wild in our world.

With the election of 2016 shaping up to be the most expensive in U.S. history, candidates from both political parties are relying on the generosity of big donors to get their message out to the American people. With more money pouring into campaign coffers than ever before, a collective cry has been raised to curtail the spending of individuals and special-interest groups capable of raising billions of dollars for a single campaign. Who are the high...

Every year for the past 40 years, students from across Oakland are invited to participate in the MLK Oratorical Festival, a city-wide speech contest inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “We Are the Dream” follows several young people as they prepare their original and adapted speeches and poems in the weeks leading up to the final competition.

This cautionary program pulls no punches as it tracks the downward spiral of a successful suburban husband and father who, at 40, becomes addicted to the drug ecstasy and ruins his family and his marriage. A powerfully unsettling firsthand account of middle-class drug abuse, the program documents Scott’s dive into the rave scene, where he encourages his teenage children to do drugs with him; his acrimonious divorce and custody battle; his arrest...

The number one drug problem in rural America, methamphetamine, or “crank,” is cheap, easy to make, and has the lowest recovery rate for addicts. By looking at a number of people in Iowa—even whole families—who are struggling with methamphetamine, this program lays bare the drug’s tragic effects. Chilling computer graphics illustrate how the drug works on the brain. Dr. David Musto of Yale University discusses the history of “crank,”...