American Dream Movies

It’s been widely reported that Detroit is making a comeback, but long-term residents of Detroit’s mostly black neighborhoods aren’t seeing much benefi...

Ever since he was a kid, Johnny Castle had a dream: to become a movie star. Driven by his obsession, Johnny moved to Los Angeles, and the corner of Ho...

All Denny wants to do is get by like everybody else, but there always seems to be something in the way.

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for...

Twenty-Five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of eco-pioneers, teenage runaways, war veterans and drop-...

A journey into time, landscape and consciousness: The Southwestern United States in the black-and-white moving images and unsettling instrumental musi...

Why don't we do something to ease the suffering of the poor, the excluded? Because we live in fear of "the other," the stranger. Filmed a few months b...

A celebrity petroleum engineer discovers a rundown property in Park City.

What chance does a young hustler from Anchorage, Alaska have after a long prison sentence that feeds him back to the same violent street life?

After being captured by a self-proclaimed border guard, a Mexican boy tries to cook his way to freedom.