An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small screen and decades before housewives had screaming matches with each other on camera in public. CINEMA VERITE tells the behind-the-scenes story of the groundbreaking documentary "An American Family," which chronicled the lives of the Louds in the early 1970s and catapulted the Santa Barbara family to notoriety while creating a new television genre: the reality TV series.