New York City--Behind every landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, there’s an actual human story. Director-producer Nancy Buirski uncovers a particularly poignant one in her documentary, “The Loving Story,” which is showing at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Her film is about Richard and Mildred Loving, who wed in 1958 in Washington, D.C. He was white and she was African-American and Native American. When the young couple returned to their home in rural Virginia, they were arrested in the middle of the night and charged with having violated the state’s ban against inter-racial marriage. If they wanted to...

On the heels of the film's Sunday debut at the Tribeca Film Festival, Corinth Films has acquired all North American rights to the boxing documentary "Klitschko."

The film deals with Wladimir Klitschko, the current IBF, IBO, WBO and Ring Magazine heavyweight champion, and his brother Vitali Klitschko, who holds the WBC crown. The Ukranians are the first pair of brothers to simultaneously hold heavyweight crowns. Wladimir's win-loss record is 55-3, while his brother's is 42-2.

The brothers are also known, says one observer in the film, as "the most intelligent heavyweights ever." They have both earned PhDs, and have sworn never to fight each other. (...

As the Tribeca Film Festival hits its mid-point, this year’s well-organized and diverse festival once again seems to offer more strong documentaries than narrative features.

But hope springs eternal, and a dip into festival screenings in the narrative category was rewarded with “Roadie,” an absorbing drama from director-cowriter Michael Cuesta (“L.I.E.” and “Twelve and Holding”). In the 95-minute film, the underrated Ron Eldard gives a moving performance as Jimmy, a roadie for two decades with Blue Oyster Cult.

After being fired, Jimmy heads home to visit his mother (the redoubtable Lois Smith) in Queens, New York. Over the course of a single day and night, as...

‘The Revenge of the Electric Car,’ which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday night, is a welcome revisiting of the American auto industry’s decision to abandon electric cars.

Guess what: Now they love them again!

Volt, the Leaf, the Tesla experiment – big automakers to small ones, from Detroit to Silicon Valley are now adopting the gospel of no-emission vehicles with an eye to serving the mass market as well as the high-end treehuggers (yeah that’s us!)

“The public expects it of us,” explains Bob Lutz, the legendary chief of GM, a stunning change of faith from one of the key purveyors of Detroit gas-guzzler dogma. The unctuous Lutz was instrumental...