Saxophonist Art Pepper (1925-1982) lived the kind of jazz life only found in Hollywood movies. His prodigious talent led him to top gigs as a teenager, but drugs and attendant criminal activity knocked him out of commission for virtually all of the 1960s and early 1970s. This documentary, shot shortly after his searing memoir, {-Straight Life}, was published in 1979, shows Pepper in the full flower of a remarkable comeback. His third wife, Laurie, is featured prominently; they met in the drug treatment facility Synanon in 1969 and were married in 1974. She took over his business affairs and helped him write {-Straight Life}. Pepper tells his own story here, but the emphasis is on an evening's performance at a club in Malibu, with the musician in fine form, backed by a terrific trio. (Tom Wiener, Rovi)
Memphis slacker Courtney clashes with his tough-love parents who want him to grow up. Secretly, Courtney leads a notorious robbery crew targeting the city's elite. One mistake sparks chaos, forcing Courtney to confront his successful lawyer brother Jarvis, their strained relationship, and a dark family secret that brings deadly consequences.
Determined to find answers, LaDonna Humphrey and her team spent eight years on a journey like no other. Never before seen case files, interviewing witnesses, potential suspects, and working alongside retired detectives to find justice.
In a region marked by gun violence and homicide, where victims even happen to be children, watch how the community has begun dealing with the dire issues. Get inspired by the soulful interventions of Rosalin, be motivated by the initiatives taken by Kansas police department and get to know how the touching way in which a community can begin to heal itself.
A young, and talented aspiring singer must decide whether to escape the crime-ravaged city where she grew up and go to Julliard, or stay on her quest to end the violence and rebuild her community.
Berlin criminal investigator Sara Stein cultivates a low-key style. No superwoman, she abhors violence and relies on her gift for convincing others that she‘s trustworthy. Above all, she enjoys working in Berlin and Tel Aviv. Her being Jewish is a major asset, since she can navigate sure-footedly through the morass of explosive and impenetrable conflicts among Jews, Arabs and Palestinians. Sara‘s a team worker, whether she and her colleagues are working on the case of a murdered woman DJ in Berlin or that of a manslaughter out of compassion in Tel Aviv. Though she falls in love with the Israeli pianist David, she is fiercely independent and reluctant to commit herself. She lives for her cases and, beyond this, for a dream of peace in her beloved Israel.