Documentary film has developed a new minigenre in the past few years: kids in competition. In Spellbound it was a spelling bee, and in First Position it was ballet. Now, chess in Brooklyn Castle ...

"Brooklyn Castle," directed by Katie Dellamaggiore, is an inspiring and delightful documentary about an unlikely school in Brooklyn that breeds chess champions. The film is playing at the Harvard ...

Rochelle's the only girl featured in Brooklyn Castle, and she has her sights set on becoming the first African-American female master in the history of chess.

Early in “Brooklyn Castle,” a film about the championship chess team at high-poverty, racially diverse Intermediate School 318 in New York City, the principal observes that “in some schools ...

What makes “Brooklyn Castle” stand out is the way it focuses just as much on the children as the chess, showing these young people negotiating the multiple up-and-down complexities of their ...

Check out Brooklyn Castle, a new documentary showing what happens when you invest time into inner-city kids.

The chess team and their school’s financial woes are profiled in an education documentary called Brooklyn Castle that opens today in select theaters.

With its appealing real-life cast of economically disadvantaged kids who become winners through hard work and risking their egos, "Brooklyn Castle" easily checkmates your inner cynic. The ...