Steve James Filmes

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the world...

Why is minimum wage important? In 2013, Seattle became ground zero for the heated national debate about increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour....

At 31, filmmaker Joanna Rudnick faces an impossible decision: remove her breasts and ovaries or risk incredible odds of developing cancer. Armed with...

An investigation of the wrongful death of Carlos DeLuna, who was executed in Texas on December 7, 1989, after prosecutors ignored evidence...

This forty-minute program was produced by the Criterion Collection in 2014

An educational companion piece to Hoop Dreams, Higher Goals features NBA star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining PBS special that encourages...

Four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America.

A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes...

A man moves to a new house and through the window notices two naked lovers in the house next door.

When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s...