T. Griffin

Songwriter, Composer, Producer

The Walk

Blood Orange Sky

Through intimate portraits of three individuals living in the poorest areas of Kenya, Good Fortune explores how massive, international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.

Good Fortune

A look at how one woman obsessively collects material things and how her family pulls together to help her out.

My Mother's Garden

East New York, Brooklyn - the city's most notorious gangland has more than its fair share of the bad and the ugly. On this urban frontier, the good guys are The Federation of Black Cowboys. Seven days a week these modern-day wranglers can be found at the Cedar Lane Stables, fulfilling their mission to pass down the legacy of the black cowboys to inner city youth.

The Federation of Black Cowboys

The lives of people who live with mental health disorders.

Mind/Trip

Today, nearly 2 million Americans are being held for ransom. Without insulin, they'll be dead in days. This is the story of 3 families who are on the receiving end of ransom notes, revealing the reality of life with this chronic illness.

Pay or Die

In 1998, 26-year-old Terri Schiavo suffered a brain injury that left her in vegetative state with no chance for recovery. What started as a personal family dispute between Terri's husband, who fought to let her peacefully pass, and Terri's family, who fervently insisted that she be kept alive, soon erupted into a national media frenzy. With nearly 20 years of hindsight and deploying a trove of bracing archival footage, Between Life & Death: Terri Schiavo's Story, hauntingly traces how the religious right harnessed Terri’s story to further the pro-life movement, setting the stage for a post-Roe America.



Between Life & Death: Terri Schiavo's Story 

Black 14 is an archival social study examining white pathology and cognitive dissonance via media coverage of a 1969 racial protest at the University of Wyoming.

Black 14

The Foxx and Little Vic

A look at the life, work and political activism of one of the most successful television producers of all time, Norman Lear.

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

Op-Docs is The New York Times editorial department's award-winning section for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with wide creative latitude and a range of artistic styles, covering current affairs, contemporary life and historical subjects.

Op-Docs

Renee Bach was a young American missionary who set up a charity for malnourished children in Jinja, Uganda. But shocking allegations arose that Renee was treating the sick children herself, without any medical qualifications.

Savior Complex

Follows Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington revisiting their modeling careers and how they disrupted the 90s' fashion scene.

The Super Models

If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis

Follows actor, model, and icon Brooke Shields as she becomes a woman who discovers her power after being a sexualized young girl. She shows the dangers and triumphs of gaining agency in a hostile world.

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

An unlikely meeting between a legendary American forensic scientist and a group of Argentine students ultimately changes the course of forensic science and international human rights.

El Equipo

An investigation of threats against journalists in the United States and internationally, from intimidation to physical violence.

Endangered

An exploration of Richard Davis, the inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest who shot himself at least 192 times to prove his product worked.

2nd Chance

In the lazy days of a Texas summer, three teenage girls navigate friendship, relationships, and toxic masculinity as they make the transition to the adult world.

Cusp

Documents the chilling 70s-80s era of rampant serial killers in Los Angeles. Features first-hand accounts from the detectives, who tracked down these killers bringing justice for the victims and survivors.

City of Angels, City of Death

Five Years North is the coming-of-age story of Luis, an undocumented Guatemalan boy who just arrived alone in New York City. He struggles to work, study, and evade Judy - the Cuban-American ICE officer patrolling his neighborhood.

Five Years North

Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most impactful children's series in TV history. From the iconic furry characters to the songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed our world.

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

An archive-based feature documentary viewing the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of the ABC network, as it narrowly succeeds in producing the most watched, most controversial made-for-TV movie, THE DAY AFTER (1983).

Television Event

This four-part docu-series follows the search of Richard Scott Smith, who used the internet and his dubious charms to prey upon women looking for love. The story unravels in real time as Smith's victims band together to seek sweet revenge.

Love Fraud

A thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.

Boys State

Digging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.

Rewind

An artist fights to make the archives of Mexico's most famous architect available to the public.

The Proposal

DNA, the very essence of life, can now be altered. Not only by Harvard geneticists and multi-billion dollar corporations, but also by renegade biohackers working out of their garages.

Unnatural Selection

In Florida, parents can hire Wrinkles the Clown to scare their misbehaving children.

Wrinkles the Clown

An enigmatic Christian group known as The Family wields enormous influence in Washington, DC, in pursuit of its global ambitions.

The Family

A dozen years after his Oscar-nominated Iraq in Fragments, American documentarian James Longley delivers a sweeping, profoundly compassionate group portrait of Afghan students and teachers still weathering national turbulence.

Angels Are Made Of Light

A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code.

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Mario Guevara, a reporter for Mundo Hispanico, investigates the impact of ICE arrests on his Atlanta community.

Wolf's Mouth

Imagine the defining moment of your life. Then imagine never talking about it with anyone. This sets the stage for the documentary film 3 Days 2 Nights. In 1974, Mark and Andy Godfrey went on a family ski vacation to Aspen, Colorado. Tragically, the plane they were traveling on crashed. The world, as they knew it, was changed forever.

3 Days 2 Nights

Following a new generation of young Afghan women cyclists, Afghan Cycles uses the bicycle to tell a story of women's rights - human rights - and the struggles faced by Afghan women on a daily basis, from discrimination to abuse, to the oppressive silencing of their voices in all aspects of contemporary society.

Afghan Cycles

On New York's Governor's Island, an unprecedented program has an ambitious goal: to restore once-bountiful oysters, and the environmental benefits they bring to New York Harbor. The foot soldiers of this environmental movement are an unlikely group--high school students at a public school that teaches stewardship of the waterways.

Take Back the Harbor

Three seniors at Brooklyn high schools are determined to get their entire classes to college, even though they aren't even sure they are going to make it there themselves. They are working as college counselors in their three schools because many of their friends have nowhere else to turn for support.

Personal Statement

Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are dedicated to changing our thinking about both.

End Game

Charm City delivers a candid portrait of citizens, police, community advocates, and government officials on the frontlines during three years of unparalleled, escalating violence in Baltimore.

Charm City

Four Syrian families struggling to find their way in America.

This Is Home

A Netflix Original Series documenting various stories about exposing the greed, corruption, and crime spreading through the global economy.

Dirty Money

A husband and wife live in an impoverished neighborhood in north Philadelphia while they raise their daughter and run a recording studio in their basement.

Quest

Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.

One of Us

In The Family I Had, a mother recalls how her brilliant teenage son came to shatter their idyllic family through one horribly violent and shocking act.

The Family I Had

Filmed over four years. Taken from 1200 interviews. New York City, one story at a time.

Humans of New York: The Series

See what it's like inside the maximum security prison. Kristi goes inside where no cameras are allowed. Red onion state prison is in southwest Virginia. mountains in all directions.

Solitary

A coming-of-age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood.

Life, Animated

The story of one of the most infamous books ever written, "The Anarchist Cookbook," and the role it's played in the life of its author, now 65, who wrote it at 19 in the midst of the counterculture upheaval of the late '60s and early '70s.

American Anarchist

A short, bringing all of the side kick characters in Walt Disney's animated films expressing their importance.

Land of the Lost Sidekicks

Burt Reynolds and other crew members from the 1977 classic "Smokey and the Bandit" share their experiences with the late director and stuntman Hal Needham.

The Bandit

They were media pioneers, capturing the counterculture from the inside.

Here Come the Videofreex

When a noted white supremacist moves into their town, the residents of Leith, North Dakota do what they can to prevent him from taking control of the municipality.

Welcome to Leith

Bernardo Ruiz takes an unflinching look at the human cost of the U.S.-Mexico drug war through the perspectives of three unlikely individuals.

Kingdom of Shadows

Rise: The Promise of My Brother's Keeper

An intimate, 25-minute portrait of a gender-creative boy growing up in conservative rural Florida. Butch lesbian BJ successfully avoided dresses her entire life until she adopted Jeffrey, who to her shock, starts to dance in gowns and perform for his parents.

Pink Boy

In this intimate character-driven film, three blind women from Havana, Cuba confront their heartbreaks and hopes, and navigate their profound desires for personal independence.

Tocando la Luz

A fearless sea captain sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.

Vessel

Broken, desperate men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor risks everything to help them.

The Overnighters

When atrocities are committed in countries held hostage by ruthless dictators, Human Rights Watch sends in the E-Team (Emergencies Team), a collection of fiercely intelligent individuals hired to document war crimes and report them to the rest of the world.

E-Team

A small-town murder in New England became one of the highest-profile cases of the twentieth century. As the first fully televised court case, the Pamela Smart trial rattled the consciousness of America. From gavel to gavel, a nation tuned in, and reality TV was born.

Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart

Determined that his last act will be a gift to the planet, a man prepares for his own green burial.

A Will for the Woods

Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe returns home to examine how his actions affected the lives of family, friends...and victims.

Evolution of a Criminal

A documentary on radical left-wing activist turned FBI informant, Brandon Darby.

Informant

No Sour Meadows

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day. "This is powerful reportage, beautifully shot and gracefully laid out." VILLAGE VOICE

La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus

"The Education Of Mohammad Hussein" is an intimate look at how the largest Muslim community in the U.S. responds to the provocations of an anti-Islamic preacher. Through the eyes of children, the film examines what it is like to come of age as a Muslim in the United States a decade after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The Education of Mohammad Hussein

Mr. Cao Goes to Washington is a fascinating character study of New Orleans Congressman Joseph Cao, an idealist confronted with the realities of racial and partisan politics in the South. Will Cao make it through his term with his idealism intact?

Mr. Cao Goes to Washington

A soldier returns to her family, friends, and old job after a tour of duty, though she finds herself struggling to find her place in her everyday life.

Return

A former Britpop rocker who now works on a farm gets caught driving drunk and faces deportation after living in Los Angeles for many years. His efforts to stay in the U.S. force him to confront the past and current demons in his life.

California Solo

Josh 'Skreech' Sandoval, a local skate legend and new father in Fullerton, California, has to come to terms with the fact that it's time to grow up and be responsible for his son and family.

Dragonslayer

An FBI raid on Jeanette Maier's infamous family-run brothel in New Orleans destroyed her livelihood. Stigmatized by felony, fearing recrimination from clients & determined to protect her children, Jeanette sets out to reinvent herself.

The Canal Street Madam

Imagining tomorrow's America today, "Futurestates" is a series of independent mini-features--short narrative films created by established filmmakers and emerging talents transforming today's complex social issues into visions about what life in America will be like in decades to come.

Futurestates

Throughout human history, people have had giddy dreams and fantastic notions about what the future would bring. Today the future has become more of a threat than a promise-a knot of intractable problems looming menacingly on the horizon.

Utopia in Four Movements

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A short portrait of Patti Smith in the city where she lives. Patti recites the very first poem-song she ever wrote. We take a walk in her changing neighborhood, and I ask her what she saw.

Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)

Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears.

Children of Invention

'Empires of Tin' is a meditation on the decline of empires, juxtaposing the twilight stages of the Habsburg empire with scenes of modern America, using archival imagery, live readings from the texts of Joseph Roth, and a live musical score.

Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin

Filmmaker Kimberly Reed returns home for her high school reunion, ready to reintroduce herself to the small town as a transgender woman and hoping for reconciliation with her long estranged adopted brother Marc.

Prodigal Sons

A year after Hurricane Katrina, Henry, a surgeon in the affluent Garden District of New Orleans, is attempting to get his life back on track. He is remarrying his ex-wife, renovating her house and restarting his medical practice.

New Orleans, Mon Amour

Esther Robinson's portrait of her uncle Danny Williams -- Warhol's onetime lover, collaborator and filmmaker in his own right -- offers a exploration of the Factory era, an homage to Williams's talent, a journey of family discovery and a compelling inquiry into Williams's mysterious disappearance at age 27.

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory

Blasted!!! follows the many "Gonzo Patriots" across America that volunteered their personally owned artillery to fulfill journalist, Hunter S. Thompson's last wish to have his ashes fired from a cannon.

Blasted!!! The Gonzo Patriots of Hunter S. Thompson

Iraq War veteran Herold Noel suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and lives out of his car in Brooklyn. Using Noel's story as a fulcrum, this doc examines the wider issue of homeless U.S. military veterans-from Vietnam to Iraq-who have to fight tooth-and-nail to receive the benefits promised to them by their government.

When I Came Home

A portrait of New York in full post-9/11 paranoia, in which the police confiscates the camera containing the short.

NYC Weights & Measures

Different celebrity hosts present new independent documentaries..

Independent Lens

POV, a cinema term for "point of view," is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented more than 300 of the best, boldest, and most innovative documentaries to PBS audiences across the country.

P.O.V.

Examines the rise of Warren Jeffs in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and his shocking criminal case.

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

Roger Ross-Williams and Brooklyn Sudano's deeply personal and form-bending documentary is now streaming on HBO, with T. Griffin's original score alongside Summer's iconic music.