Downtown Community Television Center Movies

Uncover the insidious ways in which our daily lives are being surveilled by the state. In a gripping chase, Ronan Farrow travels across the world...

An intimate documentary that looks at the vicious cycles of drug addiction and street crime in one of the roughest parts of New Jersey.

Curtain Up! follows elementary school kids in New York’s Chinatown as they prepare for a production and begin to discover themselves. Behind...

On March 13, 2022, filmmaker Brent Renaud was killed by Russian soldiers, the first American journalist to die while reporting on the war in Ukraine....

Filmmaker Jon Alpert turns the camera on his own family in this intimate portrait of his aging father. As illness and declining vitality reshape his...

A father exits prison and tries to integrate with his two children and girlfriend while living in a halfway house and on parole.

A five-year portrait of Junior Rios' descent into the black hole of drug addiction which will ultimately cost him everything.

Auto racing is an obsession in Anderson, Indiana. Even with local auto factories closing down and jobs being lost, the town's residents continue to...

Painter Titus Kaphar looks to film as a medium in the face of an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism.

Not since the invention of the Internet has there been such a disruptive technology as Bitcoin. Bitcoin's early pioneers sought to blur the lines of...

"Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life" (1977) is a DCTV investigative documentary examining the impact of budget cuts and resource shortages on a...

It has been called "the saddest acre in America." It is also one of the most sacred. Section 60 in Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting...

Allyson Felix is the most decorated track and field athlete of all time. At the peak of her career, she faced a life-threatening pregnancy and saw...

Produced by DCTV in response to what its makers saw as distorted media portrayals of New York City’s Chinatown, "Chinatown: Immigrants in...

During the upheaval surrounding the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, filmmaker Jon Alpert travels across the Philippines documenting everyday life...

An intimate exposé of the dark side of social media and its devastating impact on young users. Directors Matthew O'Neill and Perri Peltz take...

An insider's tour of this bustling street, where immigrants are caught between the forces of the law and a street with a law of its own.

As the first American television crew allowed into Cuba since the 1959 revolution, filmmakers Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno travel across the island...

The University of Tennessee lady volunteer basketball team is followed during their 1996 season.

When Diana Levine went to the hospital in April 2000 seeking relief for a severe migraine headache, the professional musician and children's record...