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...

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...

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

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

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

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....

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...

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

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

This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned world of five obsessed movie buffs. These human...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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.