Films, reporting and books for the next generation.
A free country is handed down one childhood at a time.
We keep the values that made America free alive for its children, and give every family the means to pass them on.
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Why we exist
Children are still paying for decisions adults made in 2020.
Schools closed for months and then years. The damage shows up in every national measure. Parents deserve the full record, and the tools to act on it.
eighth graders now read below the most basic level, the largest share ever recorded.
The Nation's Report Card, 2024states have surpassed their 2019 eighth grade scores in reading or math.
The Nation's Report Card, 2024of students were chronically absent in the 2024-25 school year, far above pre-pandemic levels.
American Enterprise Institute data, via Chalkbeat, 2026What we defend · Our mission
Every generation inherits a civilization. Ours is being handed down with pieces missing.
Free speech, real learning, sound medicine and the courage to stand up. Children only inherit them if adults pass them on.
Tell the truth
We document what institutions did to children, with evidence and on the record.
Preserve the inheritance
We put history, great stories and American heroes back in children’s hands.
Protect body and mind
We give families the evidence on medicine, screens and the culture kids grow up in.
Honor courage
We tell the stories of people who stood up, so the next generation knows it can.
Our films
15 DAYS asks who closed America’s schools, and why.
America kept its schools closed longer than almost any other nation. Director Natalya Murakhver spent more than three years asking the people who lived it why.
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In the film
The closures took Bam's junior season. Then they took his shot.
Garrett “Bam” Morgan Jr. was a standout football player at a New York City public high school when the city shut down public school sports. Private and parochial schools kept playing. With no games there were no scouts. Bam repeated his senior year at an upstate military academy, then became student body president at his community college.
Read Bam's story“An institutional autopsy with a pulse.”
“The film has the facts, and outrage, on its side.”
Premiere on Capitol Hill
15 DAYS: How the Illusion of Consensus Closed America’s Schools
A screening of the film, then a keynote and a conversation about what the closures cost a generation of children.
- In conversationSen. Ron JohnsonUnited States Senate
- In conversationNatalya MurakhverDirector of 15 DAYS
- ModeratorJan JekielekHost, American Thought Leaders
Congressional Auditorium, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, DC. Free, by invitation and RSVP.
On the road
15 DAYS has screened in more than a dozen states.
Universities, theaters, libraries and community groups have hosted the film, often with the director and the people in it there to take questions.
New York premiere · November 17, 2025
Presented by the Manhattan Institute
A full house at LOOK Cinema on West 57th Street. After the film, John Tierney of City Journal led a panel with Dr. Kristen Walsh and Garrett “Bam” Morgan Jr., the student at the heart of 15 DAYS. A reception followed.
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“15 DAYS documents the complete story of the school closures. It is important that parents, teachers, administrators, and students understand what happened so that the devastating failure does not happen again. How do I know it was a devastating failure? I saw that the students coming into Cornell post-lockdown were unprepared for college compared to previous classes.”
Randy Wayne, Cornell University
- Dec 8, 2026Washington, DCU.S. Capitol Visitor Center, with NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
- Oct 2026Burlington, VTUnited We Stand Media Fest
- Aug 2026OnlineFAIR Summer Film Series, with producer Eli Steele
- Jul 2026Dallas, TXTeachers Summit, standing room only
- Jun 2026ColoradoHosted by Moms for Liberty
- Mar 2026Ithaca, NYCornell University, with a director talkback
All 15 screenings
- Mar 2026Santa Clarita, CAHosted by Moms for Liberty, Los Angeles County
- Feb 2026Bucks County, PAHosted by Broad + Liberty
- Jan 2026Los Gatos, CACineLux theater, with a panel discussion
- Nov 2025New York, NYNew York premiere, presented by the Manhattan Institute
- Nov 2025Austin, TXTexas premiere
- Oct 2025New Canaan, CTNew Canaan Playhouse
- Oct 2025Orlando, FLHosted by Moms for Liberty
- Sep 2025OnlineFree premiere on X, seen more than one million times
- Jan 2025Los Angeles, CAWorld debut at the University of Southern California
A partial list. The film has also screened in Fairfax, Virginia, and at schools, churches and living rooms we have not listed. Hosted one? Tell us.
The library campaign
Put 15 DAYS in 100 school libraries by December 31.
Every $150 sends a school or public library the film with public performance rights, so teachers can show it in class and librarians can host free screenings. The first 100 libraries are the start. Our goal is 1,000.
Each dot is one library. $150 fills the next one.
Our second film
Uncancellable
Maud Maron, a former public defender and public school mom, ran for Manhattan District Attorney in 2025. This documentary follows her race and asks what it costs a parent to speak up.
More hero stories are in production. Your support decides how many we can tell.
For parents
Questions about gender at your child's school? Start here.
An Urgent Conversation is our free, evidence-based gender toolkit written with child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Kris Kaliebe. It explains what is happening in schools and what your rights are as a parent, with the research behind every page.
New tools for parents are on the way. Get them by email the day they come out.
Help us launch
Bring back the books that taught American children to love their history.
The great children’s histories went out of print. We are raising the founding funds to return them to readers 11 to 14.
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Own 15 DAYS. Wear the cause.
DVD, Blu-ray and 4K digital copies of the film, school and library licenses, posters, shirts and more. Every purchase supports our work.
The Restore Childhood newsletter
Investigations, interviews and ideas for everyone raising the next generation.
We break stories on what is happening to children in schools and clinics, and sit down with the thinkers who are willing to say it out loud.
Read all stories15 DAYS: Reviews, Press and Where to Watch
Every review, interview and article about the film, collected in one place.
October 15, 2026 EssayWhat They Never Knew
A generation lost more than reading and math.
October 14, 2026 InterviewThey Taught Our Kids America Is Only Racist: Eli Steele on White Guilt
Based in part on Shelby Steele's book, the film shows what schools stopped teaching our kids.
October 13, 2026About us
Started by a parent. Guided by doctors and scholars.
Natalya Murakhver
Co-founder and Executive Director
Led the 2021 parent lawsuit to reopen New York City’s public schools. Directed 15 DAYS, made Uncancellable as a Palladium Pictures Incubator Fellow, and built the Restore Childhood newsletter and An Urgent Conversation, our gender toolkit for parents.
Dr. Ram Duriseti
Stanford Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, with more than 20 years in pediatric emergency care and a PhD in computational decision modeling.
Dr. Naya Lekht
Scholar and educator
A scholar of Jewish history, Soviet history and contemporary antisemitism, with a PhD from UCLA. Co-founder of Stop Antizionism.
Dr. Houman Hemmati
USC Keck School of Medicine
Board-certified ophthalmologist and physician-scientist whose research protects children’s sight, the foundation for learning.
Our record
Restore Childhood began in 2021 with a lawsuit to reopen New York City’s schools. Here is what has happened since.
- 2021
Natalya Murakhver leads New York City parents in a lawsuit to reopen public schools.
- 2024Jun
We publish An Urgent Conversation, our gender toolkit, with child psychiatrist Dr. Kris Kaliebe. It is now used by parents around the world.
- 2025Jan
15 DAYS debuts at the University of Southern California to a standing ovation.
- 2025Nov
The Manhattan Institute hosts our New York premiere.
- 2026Mar
15 DAYS streams on Prime Video, Apple TV and Google Play, and screens at Cornell University.
- 2026
15 DAYS passes more than a dozen states, with screenings from Dallas to a statewide tour of Vermont. Our second film, Uncancellable, is released free on YouTube.
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No one’s coming to save our kids but us.
Restore Childhood is funded by people who care what kind of country our children will grow up in. Right now, gifts pay for the next documentary and for 15 DAYS in 100 school libraries.
- New filmsMore hero stories, and 15 DAYS in schools and libraries across the country.
- An Urgent ConversationAn updated edition of our gender toolkit, free to every parent who needs it.
- BooksThe first reprints of the classic children's histories.
natalya@restorechildhood.com
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