
March 8, 1958 · 68 years old
Steve James is an American film producer and director of several documentaries, including the award-winning Hoop Dreams and Stevie. He is also the director of the 1997 feature film Prefontaine. His newest film, The Interrupters, a portrayal of a year inside the lives of former gang members in Chicag…

A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

The life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert.

Filmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity.

Based on the life of Olympic hopeful Steve Prefontaine, a long distance runner who lived in Oregon and died young.

A year in the life of a city grappling with urban violence.

A small financial institution called Abacus becomes the only company criminally indicted in the wake of the United States' 2008 mortgage crisis.

In 1995, director Steve James (of 'Hoop Dreams') returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy to whom he had been an "Advocate Big Brother" ten years earlier.

Set in 1964, a camera crew follows Willie Pep, retired featherweight boxing champion. Down and out in Hartford CT, married to a woman half his age and with a drug-addled son and mounting debts, Pep decides to make a return to the ...

The incredible story of Manhattan Project scientist Ted Hall, who shared classified nuclear secrets with Russia.

A documentary that follows football player and pro-wrestler Chris Nowinski's quest to uncover the truth about the consequences of sports-related head injuries.