Four children enter a high-stakes lottery. If they win, they can attend one of the best schools in New York. A look at the crisis in public education, The Lottery makes the case than any child can succeed.

The story of a major art collection of the Louis-Dreyfus family to be sold to create an endowment for education of African American kids in the Harlem Children's Zone. It is the story of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus discovering how her father William's passions for art, justice and education connect in a single act of generosity.

Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.