Movies: Steven Bognar

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with worki...

The inside story of the last days of a General Motors plant in Moraine, Ohio, as lived by the people who worked the line....

Barack and Michelle Obama talk with the directors of the documentary American Factory about the importance of storytelling and the impact of their film....

Goose leaves the gang life behind after pleas from his girlfriend. But it isn't long before he's pulled back into the world of violence....

From Dave: Normally I wouldn't show you something so unrefined, I hope you understand....

An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen, who escorts him to h...

In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a movement to force changes in their workplaces. This movement became national, and is a largely forgotte...

Sheri "Sparkle" Williams has been a star dancer with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) for nearly 40 years, a track record virtually unheard of in the professional dance community. The powerhouse dancer suffers her first serious injury, on...

Dave Chappelle provides the community he calls home with two things desperately needed in difficult times – economic and comic relief. What began as an experimental socially-distanced live comedy show in a neighbor's cornfield, grew into an unforgett...

Pioneering filmmaker Julia Reichert, who passed away in 2022, shares the intimate story of her youth, as a working-class girl, and how she began to dream of a larger life for herself, coming to embrace her working-class identity, and discovering femi...

Alice and Eddie, two misfit political activists challenge the problems of their time....

Shot in Cincinnati, Making Morning Star presents a behind-the-scenes look at the joys and challenges of developing a new American opera. Featuring interviews with composer Ricky Ian Gordon, librettist William M. Hoffman, and director Ron Daniels, the...

Documents a southern Ohio story of partnership and creative problem-solving that helped a hospital tackle its PPE shortage....

An eight-year chronicle of the filmmaker's father....

As cinemas across the United States transition to digital projectors, this short documentary celebrates the beauty of traditional 35-millimeter film....