Kirsten Johnson Movies

Khader El-Yateem, an Arab American Pastor from Palestine, and Linda Sarsour, organizer of the Women's March on Washington, come together in the wake...

A young woman named Juliette reminisces a series of recent confrontations. We hear, off-screen, the voices of her loved ones, her mother, her former...

The Edge of Joy follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and religious leaders as they battle the world's highest maternal mortality...

The documentary follows the revival production of the Broadway musical including casting, rehearsals, and opening night.

Native American Natural Foods is one of the only private enterprises on the Pine Ridge Reservation. When their new energy bar gains national...

Three extraordinary young people battle to change their lives through the three-month odyssey of the New York Daily News Golden Gloves - the biggest,...

An innovative project in South Florida is raising academic achievement in public grammar schools by partnering teachers with artists to work together...

The Gift is a feature-length film exploring a major transformation in peoples' relationships with animals.

Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to...

As her storied and rebellious Congressman husband enters his final years, civil rights activist Helen H. McCloskey reflects on their unusual...

Provocative in its cinematic simplicity, THE VIEWING BOOTH recounts an encounter between a filmmaker and a viewer, exploring the way meaning is...

Will you kill for a good story? If you are James Cooper, a 28 year old copy editor with dreams of literary stardom, you will. After all, your...

Documentary about the life and career of Rokia Traoré, a musician from Mali, an African country, who is one of the few women in her country,...

Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and one unrelenting private investigator...

The following roundtable conversation features director Kirsten Johnson along with documentary filmmaker Gini Reticker and sound recordists...

Filmmaker Sam Green, in collaboration with writer and editor Joe Bini, takes the stage with the legendary classical-music group Kronos Quartet to...

It’s a medical breakthrough that might never have happened - if not for the persistence of one man. A woman is fighting cancer - with the help...