Movies: Moxie Firecracker Films

Tulsa, Oklahoma. A rigged Homecoming Queen election and a rich older man comspire to turn 18 year old Jewel Offor from a little girl into a woman....

Filmmaker Rory Kennedy interviews her mother, Ethel Kennedy, who discusses family, marriage and politics....

The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer....

Xiara Trujillo is a precocious seven-year-old who moved from the Bronx to Maryland with her mom, Aracelli Guzman, four years ago. Though she seems happy hanging out and playing with her pal Melissa, Xiara becomes defensive and emotional when talking ...

Twenty million people live within a 50-mile radius of the Indian Point Energy Center and its three nuclear reactors. This film takes a cautionary look at the possible consequences of an accident or terrorist attack on the facility--a catastrophe that...

This is the remarkable story of an American icon who changed the sport of big wave surfing forever. Transcending the surf genre, this in-depth portrait of a hard-charging athlete explores the fear, courage and ambition that push a man to greatness—an...

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The Execution of Wanda Jean chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman to be put to death in the United States in the modern era....

Filmmaker Liz Garbus investigates the mysterious tragedy of Diane Schuler in an effort to understand what went wrong....

Follows a Mississippi family's attempts to deal with an increasingly violent and erratic child....

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"Juvies" follows the cases of three teenagers assigned to Cheltenham, a Maryland reformatory where children go before being assigned sentences at reform schools or other institutions. One of the boys has been accused of burning his mother's house dow...

This documentary profiles iconic journalist Helen Thomas who has held a front-row seat at White House press conferences for more than 60 years....

In Oct. 2006, the U.S. government decided to build a 700-mile fence along its troubled 2000-mile-plus border with Mexico. Three years, 19 construction companies, 350 engineers, thousands of construction workers, tens of thousands of tons of metal and...

Covers the key aspects of the world AIDS epidemic through powerful documentary stories about five victims and their communities, on five continents....

An examination of the prisoner abuse scandal involving U.S. soldiers and detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in the fall of 2003....

During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront a moral quandary: whether ...

Each year, mothers with mental impairment give birth to an estimated 120,000 children. Approximately half of these children remain with the mother. "Different Moms" briefly documents the lives of three mothers with mental impairment ~ Elaine Mayfield...

Born into one of the wealthiest and best-known families in American history, Gloria Vanderbilt has lived in the public eye for more than 90 years, unapologetically pursuing love, family and career, while experiencing extreme tragedy and tremendous su...

This documentary follows the lives of the Bowling family as they fight to survive in dirt-poor Appalachia. Matriarch Iree has given birth to 13 children, but only two have left to seek better lives in Ohio while the rest have married and started thei...