Rory Kennedy Movies

A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when...

Investigators reveal how Boeing’s alleged priority of profit over safety could have contributed to two catastrophic crashes within months of...

During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Examine the remarkable role NASA plays both in our country and for our planet. Covering sixty years and beyond, the film celebrates past...

A welcome intervention into the ongoing global refugee crisis. Adopting personal and historical perspectives as well as testimonies from experts and...

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...

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

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...

Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal war come together for the first time in an unprecedented reconciliation program of grassroots...

Documentary chronicling America's justice system. Follows two female inmates – victims of horrific violence and tragedy – who are serving...

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...

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...

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

Many of us assume that the world, or at least the country, is now fully connected, but throughout American classrooms there exists a digital divide....

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