From award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter comes "The Lady Bird Diaries," a groundbreaking all-archival documentary film about Lady Bird Johnson, one of the most influential and least understood First Ladies. The feature film looks at the 123 hours of personal and revealing audio diaries that Lady Bird recorded during her husband’s administration, one of the most tumultuous and consequential periods in modern American history.
"37 Words" tells the inspiring story of Title IX - the hard-fought battle to push for equal rights in education and athletics; the decades spanning effort to nullify its impact; and the rippling impacts of the landmark civil rights law that continue to resonate today. The four part series charts the spectacular transformation that 37 words have inspired in American culture and the lives of women, as well as the many ways in which the spirit of this bold law has yet to be fully realized.
National Geographic Documentary Films partners with filmmaker Dawn Porter on feature documentary RISE AGAIN: TULSA AND THE RED SUMMER, which follows journalist DeNeen Brown as she digs into the events that lead to one of the worst episodes of racial violence in America's history.
CONVERSATIONS WITH GAY ELDERS was a cross-generational collaboration in which producer/ director David Weissman (then in his early 60s) worked in partnership with gay men in their 20s and 30s as editors to profile gay men in their 70s and 80s. The conversations explore how these men navigated being “different” long before there was any social or political context for a positive LGBT self-image.