Films

Reveals one of the 20th century's most important but least understood stories—how millions chose to battle the forces of brutality and oppression with nonviolent weapons and won.

Documents the spectacular defeat of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, not by force of arms but by an ingenious nonviolent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience.

The story of a people united, not by one leader or one party, but by one idea: a better future, in a country of their own.

How an emerging opposition created the 2011 uprising, and how its aspirations were thwarted by entrenched forces.

Tells the human stories behind the truth and reconciliation commissions in Morocco, Peru, South Africa and East Timor.

A feel-good documentary following a group of quirky teenage outcasts as they create and perform a musical based on their funny and sometimes painful experiences in an elite high school.

This half-hour television documentary is a first-person account of a filmmaker's visit to Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied territories in May, 1988. An intimate personal view of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation in which the filmmaker becomes a participant in the story.

In November 1982, 150,000 Vietnam veterans came to Washington, D.C. to participate in five days of emotional ceremonies ending in the dedication of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall. This film is about those five days of healing, sadness, joy and pride.

When the PBS Smithsonian World series decided to include a program to introduce Americans to one of the world's great religions and civilizations, it asked Steve York to produce the film.

This unusual co-production of NHK (Japanese) television and ABC News was undertaken for the 50th anniversary of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - a historic event seen very differently by the American and Japanese people.

Profiles the personal, social and political aspects of Islamic activism in Egypt, asking why people become fundamentalists, how fundamentalist communities coalesce, how they attempt to change their society, and how they view their relationships with the secular world.

Follows Milhem and Bar-On for five weeks as they travel across America to advocate and explain their fundamental convictions: that neither side can be defeated by violence and that the only solution is to divide the land into two states, Israel and Palestine.

Steve York and his team of researchers and producers traveled to Germany, France, England and dozens of cities in the U.S. to record veterans' recollections of that momentous day in June 1944.

Explores the United States Supreme Court as both a source of stability and a force for social change, while affording the viewer unprecedented glimpses of life inside the Supreme Court building.

Explores the powerful world of advertising images and those who create them.