In 1963, Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to be NASA’s first African-American astronaut. Until suddenly he wasn’t. “Almost Famous” is a Breakwater Studios x New York Times Op-Docs series of films featuring people who nearly made history — and were happy anyway.

A man must decide whether to intervene and stop a casual commuting rule breaker, or live with a lifetime of regret. A comedy about a passive man with an overactive imagination.

Iktamuli is an autobiographic story about the conflict of a mother and her feelings of love, connection, self-pity and denial for her disabled son.

As a boy, Clark always felt like the odd bird in his conservative ranch family. To cope, he created a comic book, “The Adventures of Odd Bird,” making himself the hero of his own story. Now 19, a publisher is interested in his work and Clark needs to return home to get the comic manuscript…and tell his mom his truth. Clark fears once he tells her he’s gay, he won’t be welcome there again.

Die 25-jährige Gefängnisinsassin Kathi erhält am Geburtstag ihres Sohnes Freigang aus einer Wiener Justizanstalt.

In hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, medicine can be hard to come by. A little boy has to grow beyond his limits if he is to help his grandfather.

Malik Khan, a struggling actor trying to break through the racial and diversity barriers of Hollywood, has to embrace his stereotype in order to save lives on and off the screen.