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Hoop Dreams. Hoop Dreams is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Steve James, and produced by Frederick Marx, James, and Peter Gilbert, with Kartemquin Films. It follows the story of two African-American high school students, William Gates and Arthur Agee, in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players.
Documentary. The documentary is about the senior prom in Charleston, Mississippi. The high school in Charleston (a community of 2,100 residents) has an average of 80 graduates per year, and up until 2008 had separate, segregated proms for Black students and White students, despite Mississippi fully integrating their schools in 1970.
2 Million Minutes. 2 Million Minutes is a series of documentary films exploring how students in the United States, India, and the People's Republic of China spend the nominal 2,000,000 minutes of their high school years. [1] The film has been supported by Newt Gingrich and Al Sharpton.
High School is a 1968 American documentary film by Frederick Wiseman that shows a typical day for students and faculty at a Pennsylvanian high school during the late 1960s. It is one of the first direct cinema (or cinéma vérité) documentaries [citation needed] . It was shot over five weeks between March and April 1968 at Northeast High ...
Heart of Stone is a 2009 documentary film about Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey, the United States, directed by Beth Toni Kruvant, with Zach Braff serving as executive producer. The film relates the struggles of Principal Ron Stone and the rest of the school's administration, plus students and alumni to return the school, working ...
In 2010, Jones staged a musical called The Wave, written with some of the students in the class. The events were adapted into a non-musical stage play in 2011 by Joseph Robinette and Ron Jones. In 2020, a Netflix miniseries called We Are the Wave premiered in Germany. The show is about high school students, and their own activism. See also
Homeroom is a 2021 American documentary film directed and produced by Peter Nicks. The film, which is the final chapter of Nicks' Oakland trilogy (following The Waiting Room and The Force), follows the lives of the Oakland High School class of 2020 as they try to make the most of their final year in high school amidst district budget cuts and ultimately the COVID-19 pandemic and the George ...
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight. [1] They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. [2]