This film shines a light on one of our greatest unsung allies in the fight against climate change: "Blue carbon". This is the term given to three coastal ecosystems -- seagrass meadows, mangroves, and tidal marshes -- that recently have been found to absorb huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.
The film reveals the daring, extraordinary, defiant life of the creative genius behind "Tutti Frutti," "Long Tall Sally," and even "The Magic School Bus Theme."
HQ Trivia, the revolutionary "game show on your phone" app, went viral, swept the nation, then crashed and burned. This is the story of a startup sh*tshow.
This deeply personal, intimate portrait of the velvet-voiced songstress, shows her rise to music stardom, while standing up to discrimination in America and around the world.
Following a 2011 assassination attempt that left her with partial paralysis, former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords made a remarkable recovery and his now determined to share her story.
Directed by Ethan Hawke, the six-part documentary celebrates the enigmatic personas, incandescent talent, and love story of actors Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman.
The documentary tells the story of the groundbreaking cookbook author and television superstar who forever changed the way Americans think about food, about TV, and even about women.
The revealing fly-on-the-wall documentary thriller is about how Alexey Navalny survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent and the shocking discoveries about how it all unfolded.
Crafted from a newly-discovered trove of 70mm footage and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, this CNN Film takes viewers straight to the heart of NASA's most celebrated mission -- the one that first put men on the moon and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin household names.
An award-winning documentary from director Tim Wardle that explores questions of parenting, nature vs. nurture and medical ethics, as told through the incredible story of three men separated at birth.
Directed and produced by award-winning filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen, "RBG" details the incredible life and legal legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to ever serve on the Supreme Court.
In this provocative and personal film, Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams explores the forces that fuel America's sprawling prison system.
CNN Films' "Enlighten Us" explores the meteoric rise and fall of motivational speaker James Arthur Ray, who was convicted of negligent homicide in the deaths of three followers.
Join First Lady Michelle Obama, Meryl Streep, Freida Pinto, and CNN's Isha Sesay on a journey to Morocco and Liberia, where you'll meet young women overcoming incredible odds to change their lives.
From their Windy City roots through their rise to the top of the charts, Chicago's success is legendary. Find out how this "rock and roll band with horns" became one of the best-selling groups of all time in CNN Films' "Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago."
"Holy Hell" reveals an intimate, never-before-seen world inside Buddhafield, a mysterious spiritual sect that filmmaker Will Allen joined and became its unofficial documentarian for 22 years.
The feature documentary about sexual assault on American college campuses -- the failure of universities to address the problem, and the rise of a new student movement. Original song "Til It Happens To You" by Lady Gaga nominated for an Oscar.
A beautiful, funny, inspiring film about music superstar Glen Campbell's struggle with Alzheimer's disease before and throughout his sold-out "Goodbye Tour."
When Roger Ebert died in 2013 after battling cancer, he was arguably the world's most famous film critic. "Life Itself" is a revealing documentary based on Ebert's memoir.
CNN Films' "Dinosaur 13" documents the discovery of the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil ever found -- and the incredible legal battle to determine who owned it.
"Ivory Tower" questions the cost, value and methods of America's higher education system. The documentary explores a potential crisis that could touch an entire generation of young Americans.
Only a handful of people have come through major plane crashes alive and alone. CNN Films' "Sole Survivors" examines four of those stories: The toddler, the "Miracle Girl," the co-pilot and the seeker. They survived when no one else did.
Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted in his wife's murder, says he forgives a prosecutor who failed to share evidence in his trial.
Blackfish traces a 39-year history of killer whales in captivity leading up to the 2010 killing of Sea World trainer Dawn Brancheau by the 12,000-pound orca, Tilikum, a whale previously associated with the death of two other people.
Through the intensely personal stories of environmental thinkers, "Pandora's Promise" reveals a rift within the environmental movement as they describe their individual journeys of "defection," in the debate over how to manage climate change.