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Documentary exploring the horrific Carrollton, Kentucky bus crash, which killed 27 people, mostly children, and injured many others. It was the worst drunk-driving related accident in US history.

Disenfranchised high school seniors become academic warriors and community leaders in Tucson, Arizona's embattled Ethnic Studies classes while state lawmakers attempt to eliminate the program.

Have schools inadvertently put relationships at the back of the class, and made test scores and discipline the focus of education? Has our approach to education created an environment where teachers struggle to keep up with the curriculum paradigm, while losing sight of the individual? DARE TO CARE explores both the current state and the history of our North American educational system.

Bravo's Top Chef Master Art Smith and artist/partner Jesus Salgueiro end up on the front lines in fighting obesity, food deserts, and the dying family meal tradition, when they respond to the 9/11 tragedy by spearheading Common Threads, an organization that teaches kids in the inner-city about the world and its cultures through cooking, and how we are more alike than different by exploring the traditions and cuisines from around the globe. Top restaurant and television chefs have answered the call to work side by side with low-income kids in Los Angeles, Miami, DC, and Chicago. In the end, individual lives and entire families are changed well beyond the lessons to paint their plates with the colors of the garden.

Blue-collar tradesmen navigate the challenges of their vocations, grappling with socioeconomic realities while showcasing the resilience and craftsmanship integral to their professions in modern America.

A powerful documentary examining education in America and inspiring school communities to re-imagine what students and teachers are capable of doing.