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Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about the TV series “Free to Choose” which deals with the neo-liberal writings of Milton Friedman. Arnold tells us “I want to share my experience with you. I came here to America from a socialist country (Austria), where the government controls the economy and you always feel their breath on the back of your neck, where 18 year olds only talk about their retirement. But I want more, I want to be the best. That's why I came to America and put my muscles to work in the film business, to be able to save and invest".

Free to Learn is a 70 minute documentary that offers a "fly on the wall" perspective of the daily happenings at The Free School in Albany, New York. Like many of today's radical and democratic schools, The Free School expects children to decide for themselves how to spend their days. The Free School, however, is unique in that it transcends obstacles that prevent similar schools from reaching a economically and racially diverse range of students and operates in the heart of an inner-city neighborhood. For over thirty years in perhaps the most radical experiment in American education, this small inner-city alternative school has offered its students complete freedom over their learning. There are no mandatory classes, no grades, tests, or homework, and rules are generally avoided. As a last resort, rules are created democratically by students and teachers, often at the prompting of a student. At a time when U.S. educators are mandated to march forward with no child left behind, the students of the Free School, many of whom would have fallen through the cracks of today's failing public school system, have managed to slip out of education's back door and have run away free. Free to Learn follows a handful of these children courageously meeting the daily challenges of hope, acceptance, loss, friendship, conflict, and the difficult task of deciding, for themselves, what to do with each day.

Video letters from Beirut to the World. July 21, 2006. Calling outside Lebanon, the bombings in 2006.