Summer 2025 commemorates 25-years of the Metro Arts Apprenticeship Program, who has hired over 1500 young artists over the years to create public art projects for 5-weeks each summer under the mentorship of professional lead artists. This year, three murals were created and a documentary film that explores the history, artwork, and artists produced by the program.
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.
Rated 7.5 on TMDB
Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
Rated 7.4 on TMDB
A struggling musician becomes a 12-year-old musical prodigy's guardian for a summer.
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
