Part of the Almost Famous series. As an investigative reporter, Jason Berry exposed the church’s systematic cover-up of sexual abuse. Somehow, it wasn’t enough.

Part of the Almost Famous series. It was the late 1990s, and 3,000 young actors around the world were scouted for the role of a lifetime. On the ride home from school, Devon Michael’s mom told him he’d be auditioning for The Phantom Menace, one of the most anticipated movies ever. From 3,000, the producers narrowed it down to three, and soon Michael was at Skywalker Ranch doing a test screen with George Lucas and Natalie Portman.

Part of the Almost Famous series. In 1963, Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to be NASA’s first African-American astronaut, until suddenly he wasn’t.

Part of the Cause of Life series. A devout Christian, Jerry Givens was Virginia’s chief executioner, before he became an advocate of abolishing the death penalty.

Memories of the first World War told by an elderly man who remembers moments from the past while he wanders around his Nova Scotia farm. Using a combination of rescanned and remastered archival documentary footage and new cinematic recreations, George tells the story of one soldier’s experience and memory as a Canadian soldier in the First World War, which ended a century ago on 11 November 1918.

Part of the Life's Work series. Mother Earth is a portrait of Louise Pentz, a production potter turned feminist sculptor.

A documentary love letter to Lisbon, Portugal.

Part of the Life's Work series. Turns is a portrait of master woodturner Steven Kennard.

Part of the Life's Work series. Rust is a portrait of master iron artist Gordon Kennedy.

Part of the Life's Work series. Ladybug is a portrait of Elizabeth Goluch, a metalworker whose art solely focuses on the overlooked world of insects.

Part of Cause of Life series. Rosary Castro-Olega was a retired nurse who returned to the frontlines to fight the virus, ultimately becoming one of the Filipino-American nurses who were disproportionately killed by the virus.

Part of Cause of Life series. A hard-working bricklayer from the projects, Humberto Trujillo helped build the main Phoenix post office — and rose to become his city’s first Hispanic postmaster.

Part of the Cause of Life series. When his son-in-law was killed in a tragic car crash, World War II veteran Calvin Haworth became a surrogate parent and an activist against drunk driving in Minnesota.

A portrait of master woodworker and Vietnam veteran Eric Hollenbeck

Part of the Life's Work series. In an industry forever ­dominated by men, Heather Lawson defied expectations and stereotypes to become the first and last female trained to be a production stone mason in Canada. With robust individuality, Lawson lives her life by the backroads, creating one of a kind stone sculptures and exemplifying the freedom associated with being true to yoursel

Renowned Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha prints his newest work,”ZOOT SOOT” at Aardvark Letterpress.

Part of the Cause of Life series. Angela Chaddlesone McCarthy was a teenage mother raised on a Native American reservation who overcame great odds to become a Kiowa tribe legislator in Oklahoma.

Part of the Almost Famous series. In the mid-1960s, four teenagers from Liverpool were changing the face of pop music. Their names were Mary, Sylvia, Pam, and Val — the Liverbirds!

A record in 35mm film of the first drenching rain on Los Angeles after the devastation of the wildfires.

Fifty years later, the real Melvin Dismukes chronicles his first-hand experience of the infamous Algiers Motel Incident, for which he was wrongly charged with first-degree murder in 1967.