The Prince of Chess

Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d o...

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Katie Dellamaggiore

Cast

John Galvin, Elizabeth Vicary, Rochelle Ballantyne

Four blind Indian boys compete to become chess masters.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Ian McDonald

Cast

Darpan Inani, Charudatta Jadav, Anant Kumar Nayak

Interwoven portraits of Anatoli Karpov and Garry Kasparov, whose 25-year bitter rivalry accompanied the fall of the USSR. The story of a duel between two chess giants, fighting a personal war in a world gone to ruin. This battle of black and white was more than a face-off over a chessboard. Part psychological drama, part political thri...

Runtime

52m

Cast

Anatoli Karpov, Garry Kasparov

With capitalism and corruption becoming more entrenched in Russia, a father and his teenage son gear up for a yearlong political campaign to unseat President Putin in the 2008 elections and shift the country back toward socialism. Aliona Polunina's thoughtful documentary follows Anatoly and Andrei in their struggle to recreate a revolu...

Runtime

1h 35m

Cast

Eduard Limonov, Anatoliy Tishin, Grigory Tishin

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany the Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond exhibition at the California Museum of Science and Industry and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Runtime

2m