Obamas Unveil Set of Series, Documentaries for Netflix

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New York (AP) -- Barack and Michelle Obama on Tuesday unveiled a slate of projects they are preparing for Netflix, a year after the former president and first lady signed a deal with the streaming platform.

The Obamas' production company, Higher Ground Productions, on Tuesday announced a total of seven films and series that Barack Obama said will entertain but also "educate, connect and inspire us all."

Higher Ground is producing a feature film on Frederick Douglass, adapted from David W. Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. Also in the works is a documentary series that adapts Michael Lewis' "Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy," the "Moneyball" author's 2018 best-seller about government servants working under the political appointees of Donald Trump's administration.

The production company's first release will be Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert's Sundance Film Festival documentary "American Factory," about a Chinese-owned factory in post-industrial Ohio. Netflix and Higher Ground also acquired Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham's "Crip Camp," a documentary about a summer camp for disabled teenager founded in upstate New York in the early 1970s.

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1. Those sound worth paying Netflix's raised monthly cost for!