Although it's full of information, the documentary Ivory Tower at its core poses a question: Is the price of college worth it? The film touches on a host of issues beyond finances, including the party culture at some schools, the unique value of historically black colleges, and experimentation with online...

In If You Build It, a documentary about a high-concept high school product-design class in, of all places, rural North Carolina, director Patrick Creadon collects rich material but builds a rickety structure. The program is Studio H, led by two enterprising, idealistic architects who are brought to rural Bertie County...

A sommelier can incite intimidation, scorn or trust, depending on who's drinking and who's pouring. Rarely, at least in America, do we take full advantage of proximity to those nerds with corkscrews. Somm follows four young men training hard to be Master Sommeliers, of which there are only 200 worldwide...