Detropia (2013)

Directors: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Run Time: 91 min.

“In 1930 Detroit was the fastest growing city in the world. Today it’s the fastest-shrinking city, with families fleeing every day. That’s one of the sobering facts shared in Detropia, the powerful 2012 documentary about the once-thriving Motor City. Though the economy has affected all of us, what has happened to Detroit is particularly dramatic and shocking.”
– Whitney Matheson, USA Today, May 24, 2013

Scenes of a Crime (2012)

Directors: Grover Babcock , Blue Hadaegh

Run Time: 88 min.

"If you watch "Scenes of a Crime"—and you very much should—be prepared to be outraged. A cool documentary that makes the blood boil, it examines how people can be psychologically manipulated into confessing. Not only to crimes they may not have committed but, even worse, to crimes that may never have happened.

—Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Booker's Place (2012)

Director: Raymond De Felitta

Run Time: 91 min.

“In 1966 Frank De Felitta made a documentary for NBC News about life for Southerners in Mississippi. The content of the film upset many white Southerners and led to the beating of a black man, Booker Wright, the loss of his job, and eventually his murder. Forty-six years later Booker's granddaughter, Yvette Johnson, and Frank's son, director Raymond DeFelitta, are on a quest to discover who Booker was and how he changed life for black people.”

—Wiener-Rogers Law Library Catalog

No Way Out But One (2011)

Directors: Barry Nolan, Garland Waller

Run Time: 88 minutes

“Holly Collins came to the family court of Minnesota with the intention of bringing charges of domestic violence against her ex-husband. The courts granted full custody of her children to her and her children's abuser. In 1994, Holly Collins became an international fugitive when she ignored the court's ruling, grabbed her three children, and went on the run from her abusive ex-husband.”
—Wiener-Rogers Law Library Catalog

Le Fils du Marchand d’Olives (2012)

Director: Mathieu Zeitindjioglou

Run Time: 82 min.

“For their honeymoon, Anna and Mathieu traveled to Turkey with their camera in hand to learn about Mathieu's Armenian heritage and to learn what modern day Turks think about the Armenian Genocide that occurred in 1915….Using footage from their trip mixed with interviews, news footage, historical documents and animation, this documentary emerges into one of the most powerful films ever made about the Armenian Genocide.”
— Le Fils du Marchand d’Olives DVD Cover