Toby Shimin

Editor and Vice President at Dovetail Films, Inc

A Bronx beekeeper and his daughter care for their hives, and each other, in the wake of a life-threatening cancer diagnosis.

Keeper

Follows Charlie Hess and his wife, Heidi Levitt, over four years as they navigate the challenges of his early-onset Alzheimers disease.

Walk with Me (2024)

The stories of a courageous activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read.

The Right to Read

Nearly 2 million Americans with Type 1 Diabetes are held for ransom by the high cost of insulin, which they will die without. Three families reveal the reality of life with this chronic illness.

Pay or Die

A wicked picture of the New York yuppie scene in which nine upwardly mobile Manhattanites all receive a chain letter. Depending on their decision to either pass the letter on or to break the chain, the various characters encounter romance, fulfillment, and sudden death.

Chain Letters

Profiles Roy Smeck, a former vaudeville star known as "The Wizard of the Strings" because of his virtuoso talents on the guitar, banjo, ukelele and Hawaiian guitar, and who is shown to be still active, in his mid-80s, teaching students and giving occasional public performances.

The Wizard of the Strings

The Garden of Eden is a 1984 American short documentary film directed by Roger M. Sherman. The film posits that in the next 30 years, 20% of all forms of life will cease to exist.

The Garden of Eden

Documentary showing the history of the world-famous Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, the impact it still has on people and the state of liberty as a personal and political concept in America in 1985.

The Statue of Liberty

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.

Traces the music and sounds from its Appalachian roots to the present. The rise, fall, and consistent revival of bluegrass chronicled through oral history and visual record.

High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music

In July 2002, 22 Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls came to the U.S. to participate in a women's leadership program called Building Bridges for Peace.

My So-Called Enemy

The story about The Children's Storefront School, an independent tuition-free school in Harlem, set up in 1966 to help kids from poor neighborhoods get better education and support.

The Children's Storefront

Fire from the Mountain

This Oscar nominated short documentary presents the inspiring and real life story of the pioneers of environmental protection in America, their contributions to the cause of saving thousands of acres of natural territories and wild life preservation, all which led to the Creation of the Wilderness Act, law passed in 1964.

Wild by Law

Eighty percent of women in US prisons today are mothers of school-age children. Filmmaker Jenifer McShane spent four years visiting Bedford Hills and following the women and their families. A mother herself, Jenifer was drawn to the universal themes of motherhood and the staggering power of the mother-child relationship.

Mothers of Bedford

Eight miles inland of Miami's beaches, Liberty City residents fight to save their community from climate gentrification: their land, sitting on a ridge, becomes real estate gold.

Razing Liberty Square

Decades after Tanya Tucker slipped from the spotlight, music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya's extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.

The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile

The Cabinet wife who spoke out during Watergate and the Nixon administration's campaign to gaslight her into silence.

The Martha Mitchell Effect

Former leaders of the "pray the gay away" movement contend with the aftermath unleashed by their actions, while a survivor seeks healing and acceptance from more than a decade of trauma.

Pray Away

Art Cullen and his family and colleagues at Iowa's Storm Lake Times, fight-at the local level-for the survival of their biweekly small-town newspaper

Storm Lake

Follow the story of young people who have attempted suicide or had suicidal ideations as they share their experiences and the ways they have sought help.

Each and Every Day

For more than 30 years, Dr. Quincy Fortier covertly used his own sperm to inseminate his fertility patients. Now his secret is out and his children seek the truth about his motives and try to make sense of their own identities.

Baby God

"Cured" takes viewers inside the campaign that led to a pivotal yet largely unknown moment in the struggle for LGBT equality: the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.

Cured

Little Miss Westie chronicles a year in the life of two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, a local beauty pageant, and transitioning in the Trump era.

Little Miss Westie

A look at the group of people who built the Biosphere 2, a giant replica of the earth's ecosystem, in 1991.

Spaceship Earth

A pair of officers with the San Antonio Police Department mental health unit work to divert people away from jail and into mental health treatment.

Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops

When Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina, his mother's search for justice begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.

Always in Season

A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.

Museum Town

One woman and her family trek the broken mental health system in an effort to save her brother as he descends into madness. Beginning as a testimony of his sanity, his iPhone video diary ultimately becomes an unfiltered look at the mind of a man with untreated schizophrenia.

That Way Madness Lies...

Three young people battle to change their lives through a three-month odyssey of the New York Daily News Golden Gloves-the biggest and oldest amateur boxing tournament in the world.

Cradle of Champions

In her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career.

Love, Gilda

Four Syrian families struggling to find their way in America.

This Is Home

She's beautiful, artistic, loved and can't stand to be alive. 32 PILLS traces the fascinating life and mental illness of my sister, New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and my struggle to come to terms with her tragic suicide.

32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide

Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, three men from the outside participate in a four-day group-therapy retreat with a group of incarcerated men for a real look at the challenges of rehabilitation.

The Work

A documentary about the incredible communities in Alabama where LGBT rights are embraced, despite the history of obstacles.

Out in Alabama

The Leprechaun's Wife

Showmen riding cinema lorries have brought the wonder of the movies to faraway villages in India once every year. Seven decades on, as their cinema projectors crumble and film reels become scarce, their patrons are lured by slick digital technology.

The Cinema Travellers

A documentary that follows the struggle for exoneration of four Latina lesbians who were wrongfully convicted of gang rape against two young girls.

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

INDIAN POINT looks at nuclear power by going inside the core activities at an aging nuclear plant and posing the simple question: is this safe?

Indian Point

In Columbus, Ohio, a group of teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum prepare for an iconic American rite of passage -- a Spring Formal. They spend 12 weeks practicing their social skills in preparation for the dance at a local nightclub.

How to Dance in Ohio

After a mine explosion kills her brother, a pro-coal activist joins forces with a tree-hugging grandmother to take down the most dangerous coal company in the United States.

Overburden

From award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions, Amazon Prime Video presents a groundbreaking new series that brings America's most award-winning magazine, The New Yorker, to the screen with documentaries, short narrative films, comedy, poetry, animation, and cartoons from the hands of acclaimed filmmakers and artists.

The New Yorker Presents

A film about denial, race, family secrets and a search for identity.

Little White Lie

Filmed in a Massachusetts prison, DOGS ON THE INSIDE follows the birth of a relationship between abandoned rescue dogs and prison inmates as they work together toward a second chance at a better life. Giving a voice to a forgotten dog and a forgotten man, the film is a life-affirming testament to the power of second chances.

Dogs on the Inside

Comprised of smuggled footage and uncensored interviews, DANGEROUS ACTS gives audiences a front row seat to a resistance movement as it unfolds both on the stage and in the streets.

Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus

An examination of the life of acclaimed 'horse whisperer' Buck Brannaman, who recovered from years of child abuse to become a well-known expert in the interactions between horses and people.

Buck

You Got to Move is a documentary by Lucy Massie Phenix (Winter Soldier) and Veronica Selver (Word Is Out) that follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social change.

You Got to Move

A documentary on the life and career of Joan Rivers, made as the comedienne turns 75 years old.

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

In an interview at age 84, Chuck Jones (1912-2000) talks about his life, particularly his childhood: he describes an adventurous uncle; his mother, who never said no; his father, a critical and abusive man who had his uses; Chuck's going to art school and studying the human body; success as an animator; and, old age.

Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood

A life-long sportsman and retired educator, Sven Huseby considers himself a well-informed environmentalist. But he is caught by surprise when he reads about the effect of excess carbon dioxide on the ocean in Elizabeth Kolbert's New Yorker article, "The Darkening Sea.

A Sea Change

Documentary about red-beret-ed Jimmy Mirikitani, a feisty painter working and living on the street, near the World Trade Center, when 9/11 devastates the neighborhood. A nearby film editor, Linda Hattendorf, persuades elderly Jimmy to move in with her, while seeking a permanent home for him.

The Cats of Mirikitani

Researchers, activists, scientists and more and more politicians have been actively fighting for several decades to wake up the public and governments of various countries to take responsibility for global warming. At the same time, those who deny global warming-industry-funded pundits and lobbyists-work tirelessly to deny, distort, and ridicule the cause.

Everything's Cool

Stagedoor is a documentary about the Stagedoor Manor summer camp, a theatrical program in the Catskills where all kinds of kids go to participate in productions. The documentary focused on five kids, but didn't delve too deeply or focus too much on just these five kids. The movie spent a lot of time looking at the overall camp culture.

Stagedoor

In his early twenties, Sam Cagnina, oldest son of a Mafia hit man, meets Steven, a handsome 19-year old college student and they fall in love. Then, after a few years Sam offers Steven a "visionary" idea.

Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family

Reporting America at War

Wide Angle

Filmmaker Julia Pimsleur used to make up elaborate lies about her brother Marc, rather than explain that he had dropped out of college, turned his back on his Jewish heritage and moved to a Christian commune in Alaska. She and her mother initially feared that Marc had joined a cult.

Brother Born Again

Cornerstone: An Interstate Adventure is an intimate, humorous and provocative look at three very different Americans and the way that theater changed their lives.

Cornerstone

Different celebrity hosts present new independent documentaries..

Independent Lens

In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school.

Out of the Past

A Leap of Faith

Stephen Ives' "The West" is a PBS 4-Video Series co-produced by Ken Burns: - "Death Runs Riot" 85 min. - "Fight No More Forever" 85 min. - "Ghost Dance" 58 min. - "The People" 82 min.

The West

The story of 2 lifelong nannies and the two families they worked for in Manhattan and Greenwich, Connecticut from the 1940's up to the 1990's. A film that shows the flip side of the privileged lifestyle.

Martha & Ethel

Chimps: So Like Us

A series showcasing documentaries on American history.

American Experience

Jewish family history is reconstructed in this documentary about the traces of German terror in Eastern Europe during World War II.

Voices from the Attic

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.

A day in the life of several prostitutes in an upscale Manhattan whore house. The film is a stark portrayal of the women prostitutes, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch as the madam manipulates her "girls". Watch as she answers the phone by saying "Hello John, what's new and different?" Watch as the "johns" try to manipulate the "girls".

Working Girls

Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.

American Masters/Neil Simon: Not Just for Laughs

FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world and American television's top long-form news and current affairs series since 1983

Frontline

This is Home

Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops follows San Antonio, Texas police officers Ernie Stevens and Joe Smarro and their daily encounters with people in crisis. The film documents how their innovative approach to policing – which takes mental health into account – is having a dramatic effect on the way police respond to these challenges.

Toby Shimin

Editor and Vice President at Dovetail Films, Inc

Pay or Die

32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide

Ernie & Joe

Keeper

Walk with Me (2024)

The Right to Read

Chain Letters

The Wizard of the Strings

The Garden of Eden

The Statue of Liberty

Pay or Die

High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegra...

My So-Called Enemy

The Children's Storefront

Fire from the Mountain

Wild by Law

Mothers of Bedford

Razing Liberty Square

The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuri...

The Martha Mitchell Effect

Pray Away

Storm Lake

Each and Every Day

Baby God

Cured

Little Miss Westie

Spaceship Earth

Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops

Always in Season

Museum Town

That Way Madness Lies...

Cradle of Champions

Love, Gilda

This Is Home

The Work

Out in Alabama

The Leprechaun's Wife

The Cinema Travellers

Southwest of Salem: The Story of th...

Indian Point

How to Dance in Ohio

Overburden

The New Yorker Presents

Little White Lie

Dogs on the Inside

Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstabl...

Buck

You Got to Move

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood

A Sea Change

The Cats of Mirikitani

Everything's Cool

Stagedoor

Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Famil...

Reporting America at War

Wide Angle

Brother Born Again

Cornerstone

Independent Lens

Out of the Past

A Leap of Faith

The West

Martha & Ethel

Chimps: So Like Us

American Experience

Voices from the Attic

P.O.V.

Working Girls

American Masters/Neil Simon: Not Ju...

Frontline

This is Home