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- "Fighting for Life" follows American military doctors, nurses and medics on the front lines of the Iraq War, young wounded soldiers and marines determined to survive and to heal, and students of USU, the "best medical school no one's ever heard of," on their journey toward becoming career military physicians.
- the Choir and Conductor is about a visionary conductor hired when few women were given the chance to conduct and her extraordinary impact on thousands of children who love to sing together in a Choir, now world renowned. "It's the best children's choir I've ever heard," says conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and one John Williams, Billie Eilish, Gustavo Dudamel, and John Mayer have performed with, the Los Angeles Children's Chorus. The story takes place in Iceland and Norway where conductor Anne Tomlinson leads her last tour with 65 choristers. As they rehearse songs of social justice, of mothers and martyrs, of warriors of change and songs of beauty Allison says: "She doesn't think of us as just kids who are singing. She says we're artists and to think and perform like that." In a Reykjavik rehearsal we see the special skills a great conductor needs to elicit children's musical gifts. "If we hadn't found this choir, we wouldn't be singers - she takes ordinary people and turns them in to extraordinary musicians," says Jamie. With nationwide arts cutbacks Conductor Anne says, "It's so important that our children not lose their voices and that our country not lose the voice of their children." Says Mwi, "She's an incredible example of what it is to be a strong, powerful woman in a world that is mostly controlled by men. She has taught us how to be individuals and how to find who we are through music - she often says we're going to change the world someday."
- A documentary on the personal and political life of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Tony Kushner. The film begins in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play "Homebody/Kabul" and runs through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical "Caroline, or Change."
- How do squeaky-voiced 8 year olds become amazing singers? "Sing!" tells the story of how a community group, amid severe cutbacks in the arts, is able to develop a children's chorus that is one of the best in the country. Artistic Director Anne Tomilson of the Los Angeles Children's Chorus thinks every child needs to sing and can be taught to sing beautifully. "Sing!" is about the importance of art and music in children's lives.
- Sing China! a sequel to the Oscar-nominated Sing! tells the funny, moving story of the China music tour by the world-renowned LA Children's Chorus, which sang with John Mayer on the Tonight Show and at the Hollywood Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel. The talented, cool 11 to 14 year-olds are invited to sing in China's greatest cities a month before the Beijing Olympics and wow the Chinese audiences numbering up to l0, 000. The children sing classic songs from Irving Berlin and Duke Ellington, to Bach and Beethoven, becoming great ambassadors of goodwill for the U.S. A film with lots of laughter.
- Sing Opera!, a follow up to the Oscar Nominated film Sing!, tells the story of how 65 intrepid singers of the Los Angeles Children's Chorus strive to hone their vocal talents for the 2007 world premiere of the family opera Keepers of the Night. From early rehearsals to opening night, the children work with professional opera singers to learn what it takes to stage a production grander than anything they've known.
