
Independent Lens
This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable st...
Independent Lens
This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history.
Independent Lens
This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable st...

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Episode 1: Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small Town Gang
Episode 2: Nothing but the Truth
Episode 3: Visas and Virtues; I Am Viet Hung
Episode 4: The Man Who Drove with Mandela
Episode 5: The Jew in the Lotus
Episode 6: Holy Tortilla/Lock and Key
Episode 7: Secret People
Episode 8: I Can't Believe I Married a Lesbian
Episode 1: Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors
Episode 2: No Hair Day
Episode 3: Short Stories
Episode 4: Born in the USA
Episode 5: Girl Gone Bad
Episode 6: Passing Through; Graham's Diner
Episode 7: The Return of Navajo Boy
Episode 8: Music in Their Bones
Episode 9: In Harm's Way; Carved from the Heart
Episode 10: A Wok in Progress
Episode 1: Confederacy Theory
Episode 2: Who Owns the Past?
Episode 3: Secrets of Silicon Valley
Episode 4: Gibtown
Episode 5: Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants
Episode 6: Good Kurds, Bad Kurds
Episode 7: Open Outcry
Episode 8: The Split Horn
Episode 9: Undetectable
Episode 10: Romancing the Throne
Episode 1: Maggie Growls
Episode 2: Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story
“Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story,” a wry exploration of the industry in which record producers s...
Episode 3: On This Island
On an isolated Maine island of 350 people, a clash over arts education spins out of control into van...
Episode 4: Downside Up
Since the 1980s, the rural working class town of North Adams, Massachusetts, has struggled to kick-s...
Episode 5: Los Trabajadores/The Workers
Episode 6: Chiefs
Episode 7: Strange Fruit
Episode 8: Bird by Bird with Annie: A Portrait of Anne Lamott
Episode 9: Sisters in Resistance
Episode 10: Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka'ehukai
Heart of the Sea is an hour-long documentary about Hawaiian legend Rell “Kapolioka'ehukai” Sunn who...
Episode 11: Guns and Mothers
Episode 12: Razing Appalachia
Episode 13: Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer
Episode 14: Daddy & Papa
Daddy & Papa is a one-hour documentary film made by producer/director Johnny Symons in 2002, it expl...
Episode 1: Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
Episode 2: Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'
Episode 3: Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
Episode 4: A Wedding in Ramallah
Episode 5: Be Good, Smile Pretty
Episode 6: Livermore
Episode 7: Eroica!
Episode 8: Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
Episode 9: Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
Get the Fire: Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad is a United States PBS-sponsored documentary, by the...
Episode 10: Man Bites Shorts
Episode 11: Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
Episode 12: Life Matters
Episode 13: Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing
Episode 14: Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Episode 15: A Place of Our Oen
"Black Resort Communities and the African American Dream" Stanley Nelson is a third-generation, uppe...
Episode 16: Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew is a film portrait of the now famous jazz vocalist who was "rediscover...
Episode 17: Sentencing the Victim
Episode 18: T-Shirt Travels
Episode 19: Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
Episode 20: Love Inventory
Episode 21: Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
Episode 22: The Weather Underground
"Hello. I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war... Within the next 14 days we will attack...
Episode 23: One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure
Episode 24: Refugee
Episode 25: Death of a Shaman
Episode 26: Cosmopolitan
Episode 27: Sumo East and West
In recent years, the ancient art of sumo has witnessed the rise of an increasing number of foreigner...
Episode 28: The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
Episode 1: The Political Dr. Seuss
The Political Dr. Seuss is a 2004 documentary film written by Ron Lamothe, Eric Martin and Lois Voss...
Episode 2: Polka Time
Episode 3: Afghanistan Unveiled
Episode 4: Los Angeles Now
Los Angeles Now is a 60 minute documentary by producer/director Phillip Rodriguez. It first aired in...
Episode 5: The Day My God Died
Episode 6: Girl Wrestler
Episode 7: Fine; Doki-Doki
Episode 8: Short, Not Sweet
Episode 9: A Hard Straight
Episode 10: A Touch of Greatness
Episode 11: Power Trip
Episode 12: February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
Episode 13: On a Roll: Disability and the American Dream
Greg Smith and his family bare all in this unflinching portrait of a 65-pound man striving for the A...
Episode 14: Thunder in Guyana/Unites States of Poetry
Episode 15: Sisters of '77
Sisters of '77 is a documentary film that chronicles an unprecedented event in women's history, the...
Episode 16: Sunset Story
Episode 17: Let the Church Say Amen
Episode 18: A Lion's Trail
Episode 19: Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton
Episode 20: End of the Century: The Ramones; Joe Strummer Rocks Again
A profile of seminal punk band the Ramones includes concert footage, interviews with group members a...
Episode 21: The Last Letter; Zyklon Portrait; The Walnut Tree
Episode 22: Imelda
Episode 23: Imelda: Power, Myth, Illusion
How has Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines, managed to court, coddle, use and a...
Episode 24: Red Hook Justice
Episode 25: Double Dare; Piki and Poko: Taking the Dare!
Episode 26: Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Episode 27: Brother to Brother
Episode 1: Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
“One Nation Under a Groove,” a profile of Parliament Funkadelic that features animation (including a...
Episode 2: En Route to Baghdad
Episode 3: The Last Cowboy
Episode 4: A Family at War
Episode 5: Mirror Dance
Identical twins Margarita and Ramona de Saa became acclaimed ballerinas with the National Ballet of...
Episode 6: Race Is the Place
Episode 7: Maid in America
Episode 8: Seoul Train
This film explores the plight of North Korean refugees trying to escape their homeland and China, an...
Episode 9: Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community
This documentary follows the lives of the women of St. Scholastica Monastery in Duluth, Minnesota. T...
Episode 10: Short Stack: Lost & Found
Episode 11: Sheriff
Episode 12: Girl Trouble
Episode 13: Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
Episode 14: July '64
July ’64 tells the story of a historic three-day race riot that erupted in two African American neig...
Episode 15: Almost Home
Episode 16: The Loss of Nameless Things
In 1978, Oakley Hall was a promising playwright on the verge of national recognition when a mysterio...
Episode 17: Troop 1500
Episode 18: Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City
Episode 19: Trudell
Episode 20: La Sierra
Episode 21: A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
Episode 22: Music from the Inside Out
Episode 23: Fishbowl; American Made
Episode 24: Frozen Angels
Episode 25: The Devil's Miner
Episode 26: The Great Pink Scare
Episode 27: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
The Real Dirt on Farmer John is a 2005 documentary film directed by Taggart Siegel about the life of...
Episode 28: A Lion in the House
Episode 29: A Lion in the House
Episode 1: Still Life With Animated Dogs
The World According to Sesame Street is a 2005 feature-length documentary created by Participant Pro...
Episode 2: The World According to Sesame Street
Episode 3: Muskrat Lovely
Episode 4: Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire
Episode 5: Democracy on Deadline
Episode 6: Two Square Miles
Residents, artists and activists in Hudson, N.Y., protest the proposal for a multinational coal-fire...
Episode 7: A Sad Flower in the Sand
Episode 8: Revolucion: Five Visions
This documentary tells the story of five Cuban photographers whose lives and work span more than fou...
Episode 9: Short Stack 2006
Episode 10: A Fish Story
Meet two women who lead in a battle against a coalition of national environmental groups for control...
Episode 11: Shadya
Shadya Zoabi, a charismatic 17-year-old karate world champion, strives to succeed on her own terms w...
Episode 12: Beyond the Call
Episode 13: Twisted
Episode 14: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Episode 15: Motherland Afghanistan
Episode 16: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is a 2006 documentary film written, produced, and directed by Byron...
Episode 17: Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? is a 2006 documentary film written by Matt Coen, Mike Kime...
Episode 18: Stolen
In 1990, two thieves dressed as police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Muse...
Episode 19: Race to Execution
Race discrimination infects America’s capital punishment system. According to a landmark study regar...
Episode 20: China Blue
They live crowded together in cement factory dormitories where water has to be carried upstairs in b...
Episode 21: Black Gold
This eye-opening expose of the $80 billion coffee industry traces one man's fight for fair trade.
Episode 22: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Enron dives from the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in less than a year in this tale told...
Episode 23: The Cats of Mirikitani
In 2001, Japanese American painter Jimmy Mirikitani, over 80 years old, is living in the streets of...
Episode 24: Sentenced Home
Episode 25: Knocking
Episode 26: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
This film tells the true story of a bohemian St. Francis and his remarkable relationship with a floc...
Episode 27: La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul
Legendary Afro-Cuban pop singer Lupe Victoria Yoli, “The Queen of Latin Soul Music,” aka La Lupe or...
Episode 1: Wordplay
Fifty million Americans do crossword puzzles each week, many in the venerable New York Times , where...
Episode 2: Please Vote for Me
This film follows eight-year-old students in an elementary school in China as they campaign for scho...
Episode 3: Storm of Emotions
This is a film explores the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip and efforts to achieve democra...
Episode 4: Red White Black & Blue
U.S. soldiers who fought on the island of Attu in Alaska during WWII journey back to the location.
Episode 5: Miss Navajo
Episode 6: The Creek Runs Red
Episode 8: The Paper
Chronicles the pressure of a year in the life of Pennsylvania State University's Daily Collegian.
Episode 9: An Unreasonable Man
This program offers an unsparing look at Ralph Nader, one of the most important and controversial po...
Episode 10: Today's Man
Episode 11: A Son's Sacrifice
Dr. Jack Kessler, a prominent neurologist, shifts his diabetes research to stem cell research when h...
Episode 12: American Made
Episode 13: How Is Your Fish Today?
While working on his latest screenplay in Beijing, Hui Rao experiences writer's block and begins to...
Episode 14: Banished
Episode 15: Hard Road Home
Banished is a documentary film about four U.S. cities, which were part of many communities that viol...
Episode 16: Iron Ladies of Liberia
Follows two former felons in different stages of life "on the outside." / Examines the challenges fa...
Episode 17: Compañeras
With unprecedented access, this intimate documentary goes behind the scenes with Africa's first free...
Episode 18: Water Flowing Together
Episode 19: Water Flowing Together
Jock Soto, who is Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican as well as gay, retired in June 2005 from the New Y...
Episode 20: Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula
King Corn is a feature documentary film released in October 2007 following college friends Ian Chene...
Episode 21: A Dream in Doubt
Episode 22: New Year Baby
Episode 23: The Cool School
This film follows one woman's quest to uncover the secrets of how her family survived the Khmer Roug...
Episode 24: Writ Writer
Reveals a little-known battle of the Civil Rights Movement, led by an indigent, under-educated priso...
Episode 25: Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Episode 26: Deep Water
The amazing and compelling true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsma...
Episode 27: Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
A Japanese family searches for their daughter who was abducted by North Korean spies in 1977. / Reca...
Episode 1: Chicago 10
This program combines bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage to explore the...
Episode 2: Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf addresses his ideas for a democratized society.
Episode 3: Knee Deep
Josh Osborne hatched a plan with his friends and relatives to kill his mother after she reneged on a...
Episode 4: Lioness
The story of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first women in American history...
Episode 5: March Point
Meet Cody, Nick and Travis—three teenagers from the Swinomish Tribe. After hard times on the rez lea...
Episode 6: The Atom Smashers
THE ATOM SMASHERS explores what happens when politicians, not scientists, decide which scientific pr...
Episode 7: Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic"
Filmmaker Immy Humes presents a portrait of her father, the legendary forgotten novelist and counter...
Episode 8: Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'
This program tells the story of making a grand opera about the birth of the atomic bomb. This behind...
Episode 9: Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway
his 50-minute documentary unfolds the creative journey of Albert Maysles' cult classic, GREY GARDENS...
Episode 10: Helvetica
Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed gets his dream job working on a Hollywood movie, where expectation...
Episode 11: Adjust You Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Helvetica is about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferati...
Episode 12: Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
America's original shock-jock, Petey Greene overcame poverty, drug addiction and prison time to "tel...
Episode 13: The Order of Myths/Bi-Racial Hair
A lone undercover cop moves into a small farming town. By the end of the blazing summer of 1999, 46...
Episode 14: The Order of Myths
The doctrine, “separate but equal” ended in the 1950s, right? Think again. At America’s oldest Mardi...
Episode 15: Lakshmi and Me
Iranian American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani chronicles her brother's return to Iran during the start o...
Episode 16: Recycle
Have you ever dreamed of being waited on hand and foot? For the past six years, Lakshmi has been doi...
Episode 17: Milking the Rhino
Abu Amar, an ex-Mujahideen soldier, is trying to build a peaceful life after years of fighting in th...
Episode 18: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Everyone has seen a nature documentary with a ferocious kill on the Serengeti Plain. Well, here’s a...
Episode 19: Steal a Pencil for Me
How does the simple act of planting trees lead to winning the Nobel Peace Prize? Ask Wangari Maathai...
Episode 20: At Home in Utopia
A home of your own: that’s the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, fa...
Episode 21: Wings of Defeat
What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? When Risa Morimot...
Episode 22: Crips and Bloods: Made in America
It’s a civil war that’s lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15...
Episode 23: Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
This is the story of a group of young men who survived for 72 days after their plane crashed in the...
Episode 24: Steal a Pencil for Me
In June 1943, Ina Soep, the rich and beautiful daughter of an Amsterdam diamond cutter, met a marrie...
Episode 25: Ask Not
As wars rage in the Middle East, the U.S. military is eager for more recruits—unless you happen to b...
Episode 1: Our Disappeared
During the 1976-1983 military dictatorships in Argentina, thousands of citizens were kidnapped and n...
Episode 2: Butte, America
Five generations of mining families illustrate the story of Butte, Mont., once the world's largest p...
Episode 3: Journals of a Wily School
Pickpocketing is common practice in Kolkata, India. In an attempt to crack down on more serious crim...
Episode 4: Power Paths
This program follows the efforts of American Indian tribes to bring renewable energy projects into t...
Episode 5: D Tour
When indie rock drummer Pat Spurgeon finally gets his big break, his body breaks down. Refusing to m...
Episode 6: No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos
They took Hollywood by storm -- escaping the brutal Soviet oppression of the Hungarian Revolution an...
Episode 7: Objectified
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects...
Episode 8: Between the Folds
A documentary exploring the art and science of origami. / Think origami is just paper planes and cra...
Episode 9: Scenes From a Parish
A young, irreverent priest arrives at Saint Patrick Parish in Lawrence, Massachusetts, only to confr...
Episode 10: Young@Heart
A documentary following an New England senior citizens chorus preparing a one-night-only concert of...
Episode 11: Copyright Criminals
This program examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related d...
Episode 12: Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
Who has the authority to define your identity? Considered one of the most controversial scholars of...
Episode 13: P-Star Rising
This is the story of a single father who is determined that his nine-year-old daughter become a rap...
Episode 14: Mine / Home
Mine tells the poignant and powerful story of animals left behind during Katrina, and of the struggl...
Episode 15: Behind the Rainbow
With engrossing interviews and archival footage, filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri exposes the power struggle...
Episode 16: The Eyes of Me
This is an up-close look at four teens who have lost their sight. The film follows their struggles t...
Episode 17: Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)
In 1999, filmmaker Monika Navarro's uncles were deported from the United States to Mexico, forced to...
Episode 18: Whatever It Takes
What's a child's education worth? For one visionary rookie principal, it's priceless. At the Bronx C...
Episode 19: Unmistaken Child
After world-renowned Tibetan master Geshe Lama Konchog passed away in 2001 at age 84, the Dalai Lama...
Episode 20: Blessed Is the Match
Joan Allen narrates this film about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became...
Episode 21: Dirt! The Movie
Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, "DIRT! The Movie" digs into the fascinating history of this lowly subs...
Episode 22: Garbage Dreams
Filmed over four years, GARBAGE DREAMS follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and grow...
Episode 23: Sunshine
In 1975 rural Texas, a local mayor's daughter grapples with an unplanned pregnancy -- finally decidi...
Episode 24: The Horse Boy
Explore one family's unforgettable journey as they travel halfway across the world in search of a mi...
Episode 25: Project Kashmir
Two filmmakers, one Hindu and the other Muslim, sneak their cameras into one of the most beautiful,...
Episode 26: A Village Called Versailles
Versailles, a tight-knit neighborhood on the edge of New Orleans, is home to the densest ethnic Viet...
Episode 27: Our Disappeared
An elderly man hires Solo, a Senegalese cab driver, to drive him to a mountaintop in North Carolina...
Episode 1: The Parking Lot Movie
This documentary is about a singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the select group...
Episode 2: Art & Copy
A look at the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time - ar...
Episode 3: Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian
The portrayal of Native Americans in cinema. / Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining, in...
Episode 4: The Longoria Affair
Private Felix Longoria fought and died while fighting the Japanese during World War II. When his bod...
Episode 5: Lost Sparrow
Filmmaker Chris Billing investigates the deaths of his adopted brothers, two Crow Indian boys who di...
Episode 6: Deep Down
Beverly May and Terry Ratliff grew up on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. Whe...
Episode 7: 45365
An inquisitive look at everyday life in Middle America. "45365" explores the vagaries of daily life...
Episode 8: The Calling, Part 1
This mini-series follows seven Muslims, Catholics, Evangelical Christians and Jews in training to be...
Episode 9: The Calling, Part 2
Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, and Jewish seminarians embark on their life path in a secul...
Episode 10: Men Who Swim
A group of middle-aged men who have found unlikely success as members of Sweden's all-male synchroni...
Episode 11: Children of Haiti
In the midst of Haiti's lush mountains and historical relics are 500,000 orphan children who live in...
Episode 12: For Once in My Life
Made up of 28 musicians and singers with severe mental and physical disabilities, the Spirit of Good...
Episode 13: When I Rise
A profile of Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student, who finds herself at...
Episode 14: William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
An iconoclast who himself became an icon, William Burroughs explored the outer boundaries of culture...
Episode 15: Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
At the age of 16, Cyntoia Brown, who had suffered a long history of abuse, killed a man who picked h...
Episode 16: Pushing the Elephant
Civil war came to Rose's Congolese village, with it the nighttime arrest of her entire family, the e...
Episode 17: The Desert of Forbidden Art
This story of how a treasure trove of banned Soviet art worth millions of dollars was stashed in a f...
Episode 18: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. Discovered in the late 1970s through his...
Episode 19: Waste Land
Artist Vik Muniz journeys from to his home country of Brazil, and to Jardim Gramacho, the world's la...
Episode 20: Marwencol
After being beaten into a coma, Mark Hogancamp is left brain damaged and traumatized. He devises his...
Episode 21: A Film Unfinished
This haunting film about a film examines a classic Nazi propaganda movie used by historians for deca...
Episode 22: Bhutto
As the first Muslim woman to lead an Islamic nation, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto...
Episode 23: Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Beginning in the modern day and working backward, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo explores the history o...
Episode 24: Welcome to Shelbyville
Welcome to Shelbyville is a glimpse of America at a crossroads. In this one small town in the heart...
Episode 25: Two Spirits
Fred Martinez was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murd...
Episode 1: Wham! Bam! Islam!
Episode Synopsis: Season 13 premieres with new host Mary-Louise Parker introducing "Wham! Bam! Islam...
Episode 2: Donor Unknown
Episode Synopsis: "Donor Unknown" charts the story of 20-year-old JoEllen Marsh, who was raised by t...
Episode 3: Lives Worth Living
"Lives Worth Living" tells the story of the disability rights movement in America, which began after...
Episode 4: Deaf Jam
"Deaf Jam" chronicles the experiences of Aneta Brodski, a deaf Israeli teen living in New York, as s...
Episode 5: We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean
Anne Makepeace's "We Still Live Here—As Nutayunean" tells the story of linguist Jessie Little Doe Ba...
Episode 6: The Woodmans
"The Woodmans" charts the short life of influential photographer Francesca Woodman, who took her own...
Episode 7: These Amazing Shadows
"These Amazing Shadows" focuses on the National Film Registry, an eclectic collection of movies cons...
Episode 8: Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance
The five-part "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?," a history of the global anti-apartheid movement,...
Episode 9: Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The New Generation
Part 2 of 5 of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?" examines "The New Generation," and its effort to...
Episode 10: Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma to Soweto
Part 3 of 5 of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?," "From Selma to Soweto," details the anti-aparthe...
Episode 11: Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line
Part 4 of 5 of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, The Bottom Line," details how international grass...
Episode 12: Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last
The conclusion of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, Free at Last," recalls the end stage of South...
Episode 13: Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
Daisy Bates was a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movemen...
Episode 14: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community an...
Episode 15: More Than A Month
Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, is on a cross-country campaign to...
Episode 16: You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't
In Danville, California, Lee Gorewitz wanders on a soul-searching odyssey through her Alzheimer’s &...
Episode 17: Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Every day, millions tune in to Sesame Street to see one of the world’s most adored and recognizable...
Episode 18: When the Drum Is Beating
Interweaves the extraordinary story of Septentrional’s six decades of creativity with the history of...
Episode 19: Revenge of the Electric Car
Revenge follows four entrepreneurs from 2007 through the end of 2010 as they fight to bring the elec...
Episode 20: Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison
Millions of bison once roamed the Great Plains. Can this nearly extinct icon of the American West ma...
Episode 21: Circo
The Ponce family circus has been living and performing in rural Mexico for seven generations. Its hi...
Episode 22: Summer Pasture
Locho and Yama are nomadic herders in Tibet's high grasslands, who carve their existence from the la...
Episode 23: Precious Knowledge
When a highly successful Mexican American Studies program at a high school in Tucson comes under fir...
Episode 24: Left by the Ship
JR, Charlene, Margarita, and Robert are half American; they are among the many children born to loca...
Episode 25: Hell and Back Again
U.S. Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris, 25, leads his unit to fight a ghostlike enemy in Afghanistan. Wo...
Episode 26: We Were Here
When AIDS arrived in San Francisco in 1981, it decimated a community, but also brought people togeth...
Episode 27: Strong!
A formidable figure standing at 5'8" and weighing more than 300 pounds, Cheryl Haworth struggles to...
Episode 1: As Goes Janesville
Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera,...
Episode 2: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Part 2)
Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera,...
Episode 4: Love Free or Die
Episode 5: Solar Mamas
Episode 6: Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream
Episode 7: Soul Food Junkies
Food traditions are hard to change, especially when they're passed on from generation to generation....
Episode 8: Beauty Is Embarrassing
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly...
Episode 9: The Revisionaries
The Texas State Board of Education rewrites teaching and textbook standards once every decade.
Episode 10: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights
Episode 11: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Profiling Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei, who helped design Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest Olympic...
Episode 12: The House I Live In; As I Am
Episode 13: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Wonder Women! explores the nation’s long-term love affair with comic book superheroes and raises que...
Episode 14: The Island President
Episode 15: The Undocumented
Thousands of migrants have perished in recent years while trying to cross the unforgiving Sonora des...
Episode 16: Seeking Asian Female
Two strangers — an aging white man and a young Chinese woman — pursue a marriage brokered by the Int...
Episode 17: The Invisible War
The most shameful and best-kept secret in the U.S. Military? The epidemic of rape and sexual assault...
Episode 18: Detropia
Can the Motor City rise from its ashes? A dynamic cluster of local innovators, entrepreneurs, and pr...
Episode 19: The Revolutionary Optimists
Amlan Ganguly, a lawyer-turned social entrepreneur, has sown hope in the poorest neighborhoods of Ca...
Episode 20: Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman's Journey
Episode 21: The Waiting Room
Episode 22: The Graduates
Episode 24: Young Lakota
Episode 25: Playwright: From Page to Stage
Episode 26: Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Episode 1: The Graduates - The Girls
Part 1 of 2. The Latino dropout crisis is examined through the eyes of six students from across the...

Episode 2: The Graduates - The Boys
Conclusion. The Latino dropout crisis is seen through the eyes of three young men. One, whose parent...
Episode 3: Indian Relay
Episode Synopsis: "Indian Relay" chronicles a season of Indian relay-horse races, which are popular...
Episode 4: Young Lakota
Three young people living in the Pine Ridge Reservation try to forge a better future. When the first...
Episode 5: Playwright: From Page to Stage
The lives of two outstanding young playwrights — an African American from Miami’s inner city and an...
Episode 6: Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Eighty-five-year-old Jiro Ono, considered the world’s greatest sushi chef, is the proprietor of Suki...
Episode 7: How to Survive a Plague
This acclaimed film tells the story of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), two groups whose act...
Episode 8: At Berkeley
Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman goes back to school for this intimate yet sprawling film a...
Episode 9: Blood Brother
An intimate portrait of Rocky Braat, who travels to India as a disillusioned tourist. When he meets...
Episode 10: The State of Arizona
The turbulent battle over illegal immigration in Arizona that came to a head with Senate Bill 1070 f...
Episode 11: Spies of Mississippi
The story of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a secret agency created by the state during the...
Episode 12: Las Marthas
Dating from the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the annual debutante ball in Laredo, Texas is...
Episode 13: All of Me: A Story of Love, Loss, and Last Resorts
A group of women friends who met via the Austin chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat A...
Episode 14: Medora
The story of a high school basketball team suffering from a long losing streak in a small town.
Episode 15: Brother's Hypnotic
Eight brothers who were forged into a band as children by their father, Chicago jazz maverick Phil C...
Episode 16: The Trials of Muhammad Ali
The story of the explosive crossroads of Muhammad Ali’s life, after the famed boxer’s conversion to...

Episode 17: Muscle Shoals
How a small town in Alabama became influential in the music of Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and A...
Episode 18: A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The New York Times
A Fragile Trust tells the shocking story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our...
Episode 19: Let the Fire Burn
This documentary brings to life one of the most tumultuous clashes between government and citizens i...
Episode 20: God Loves Uganda
Inspired by his own African American Baptist roots, director Roger Ross Williams explores a place wh...
Episode 21: The New Black
How African-American churches and gays deal with the rise of the gay-rights movement.

Episode 1: Bully
The story of the children bullied at school and online. The film questions assumptions about bullyin...

Episode 2: Twin Sisters
Two sisters adopted in China as infants by Californian and Norwegian parents grow up knowing they ha...

Episode 3: Brakeless
In April, 2005 a Japanese train engineer accelerated beyond permissible speeds in order to make up a...

Episode 4: Powerless
Powerless tracks the battle between an Indian electric company and a renegade electrician who illega...

Episode 5: Happiness
A nine-year-old child in Burma is spurred to leave his village for the first time in his life when h...

Episode 6: Rich Hill
Rich Hill, winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, goes ins...

Episode 7: Evolution of a Criminal
Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe explores what led him to pull a...

Episode 8: The Kill Team / Confusion Through Sand
Winner of the Best Documentary Feature award at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Kill Team tells the h...

Episode 9: Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
For the last 170 years, pioneering African American photographers — men and women, celebrated and an...

Episode 10: American Denial
In the wake of recent events that have sparked a national dialogue, American Denial explores the pow...

Episode 11: Little White Lie
Lacey Schwartz grew up in an upper-middle-class household with two loving Jewish parents. When she d...

Episode 12: Little Hope Was Arson / A City in Flames
The investigation into a spate of church burnings that occured in East Texas during January and Febr...

Episode 13: The Homestretch
Three homeless Chicago teens strive to graduate from high school despite the difficulties inherent i...

Episode 14: The Great Invisible
First hand accounts of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and its impact on the Gulf of Mexico.

Episode 15: Kumu Hina
A Hawaiian transgender woman finds acceptance, but still is searching for love.

Episode 16: Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
Examining daredevil choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her STREB Extreme Action Company. Included: th...

Episode 17: 1971
The story of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, which broke into an FBI field office i...

Episode 18: Limited Partnership
Married in 1975, Richard and Tony lead a 40-year fight for legal immigration status for same sex spo...

Episode 19: In the Shadow of Ebola
An African family’s tense experience during West African Ebola outbreak. This intimate film brings u...

Episode 1: Stray Dog
The portrait of a motorcycle-riding Vietnam veteran. There’s much more to Ron “Stray Dog” Hall than...

Episode 2: India's Daughter
The story of the brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi of 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Singh, wh...

Episode 3: Mimi and Dona
What happens when love runs out of time? For 92-year-old Mimi, who has spent much of her life caring...

Episode 4: East of Salinas
Born in Mexico but living in Salinas, California, 3rd-grader Jose loves school. With little support...

Episode 5: Chuck Norris vs. Communism
1980s Romania: thousands of American movies were smuggled through the Iron Curtain, opening a window...

Episode 6: Autism in Love
Finding love can be hard enough for anyone, but for those on the autism spectrum, the challenges may...

Episode 7: No Más Bebés (No More Babies)
The story of a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of Mexica...

Episode 8: In Football We Trust
Transporting viewers deep inside the tightly-knit and complex Polynesian community in Salt Lake City...

Episode 9: A Ballerina's Tale
Misty Copeland is on a mission to make history by becoming the first African American principal danc...

Episode 10: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Weaving together a treasure trove of rare footage with the voices of a diverse group of people who w...

Episode 11: (T)ERROR
With twists and turns fit for an espionage thriller, (T)error goes deep inside an active terror stin...

Episode 12: Wilhemina’s War
A Southern grandmother struggles to help her granddaughter survive the health risks and social stigm...

Episode 13: An Honest Liar
Fed up with faith healers, fortune-tellers, and psychics using his beloved magician’s tricks to swin...

Episode 14: Welcome to Leith
When a notorious white supremacist and his followers hatch a scheme to gain electoral control of Lei...

Episode 15: Democrats
Rival political operatives attempt to make history as they navigate Zimbabwe's volatile political la...

Episode 16: My Nazi Legacy
My Nazi Legacy explores the relationship between two men, each of whom are the children of Nazi war...

Episode 17: Peace Officer
Meet Dub Lawrence, a crusading former sheriff whose investigations highlight increasingly militarize...

Episode 18: The Armor of Light
The Armor of Light follows the journey of Evangelical minister Rob Schenck, who is trying to find th...

Episode 19: Dogtown Redemption
Dogtown Redemption is the story of three recyclers struggling to survive in West Oakland, a neighbor...

Episode 20: TRAPPED
Trapped goes inside the contentious issue of abortion rights through the story of health care provid...

Episode 21: T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold
Flint, Michigan’s Claressa "T-Rex" Shields won a Gold Medal in 2012, the first time women were allow...

Episode 1: Best of Enemies
Best of Enemies captures the legendary 1968 debates between two famed intellectuals and ideological...

Episode 2: Meet the Patels
Ravi Patel is almost 30, an actor, and, worst of all to his traditional Hindu parents, still unmarri...

Episode 3: Best and Most Beautiful Things
Michelle, a precocious 20-year-old woman living in rural Maine with her mother, is legally blind and...

Episode 4: Containment
Left over from the Cold War are a hundred million gallons of radioactive sludge, covering a great am...

Episode 5: What Was Ours
Residents of Wyoming's isolated Wind River Indian Reservation, a young Arapaho journalist, and a tee...

Episode 6: The Witness
After Kitty Genovese was repeatedly attacked on a street in Queens, New York in 1964, The New York T...

Episode 7: Birth of a Movement
In 1915, African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D....

Episode 8: Accidental Courtesy
Renowned musician Daryl Davis has an unusual, controversial hobby: meeting and befriending members o...

Episode 9: TOWER
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation in a dynamic, never-before-seen way, TOWER reve...

Episode 10: The Bad Kids
Located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, Black Rock Continuation High School is a last-ch...

Episode 11: Ovarian Psycos
Ovarian Psycos is about a new generation of fierce, unapologetic and feminist women of color from th...

Episode 12: Newtown
Filmed over the course of nearly three years, Newtown uses deeply personal, never-before-heard testi...

Episode 13: SEED: The Untold Story
Worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind, few things on Earth are as miraculous and vita...

Episode 14: The Last Laugh
The Holocaust would seem to be an absolutely off-limits topic for comedy — but is it? History shows...

Episode 15: National Bird
National Bird follows whistleblowers who, despite possible consequences, are determined to break the...

Episode 16: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
More people are imprisoned in the U.S. at this time than any other time or place in history, yet pri...

Episode 17: Forever Pure
The story of how Beitar Jerusalem, the most popular and controversial soccer team in Israel, spirale...

Episode 18: They Call Us Monsters
They Call Us Monsters goes behind the walls of the Compound, a high-security facility where Los Ange...

Episode 19: Farmer/Veteran
Home from three combat tours in Iraq, Alex Sutton forges a new identity as a farmer, hatching chicks...

Episode 20: Real Boy
A moving and intimate story of a family in transition, Real Boy follows the journey of trans teen Be...

Episode 1: Chasing Trane
Set against the social, political and cultural landscape of the times, Chasing Trane brings saxophon...

Episode 2: Shadow World
Explore the shocking realities of the billion-dollar global arms trade through those who perpetrate...

Episode 3: Supergirl
A profile of a seemingly ordinary Orthodox Jewish preteen from New Jersey whose extraordinary talent...

Episode 4: The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
A profile of "Tales of the City" creator Armistead Maupin, including his evolution from a conservati...

Episode 5: Unrest
Director Jennifer Brea, confined to her bed due to chronic fatigue syndrome, documents how people ar...

Episode 6: I Am Not Your Negro
Filmmaker Raoul Peck examines James Baldwin's unfinished book about the lives and assassinations of...

Episode 7: The Force
A cinema vérité look at the Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands fo...

Episode 8: I Am Another You
Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows a homeless man on a journey across America, exploring the meani...

Episode 9: Winnie
One of the more misunderstood and intriguing contemporary female political figures, Winnie Mandela's...

Episode 10: Tell Them We Are Rising
Historically black colleges and universities play a pivotal role in shaping American history, cultur...

Episode 11: Rat Film
The history and cultural fabric of Baltimore is explored through the lens of the city's rat infestat...

Episode 12: Dolores
The story of Dolores Huerta, among the most important, yet least-known, activists in American histor...

Episode 13: When God Sleeps
The story of Iranian musician Shahin Najafi's stand for freedom of expression, after he was forced i...

Episode 14: The Art of the Shine
Shining shoes is a calling and a passion, a way to be one’s own boss and connect with other people f...

Episode 15: What Lies Upstream
Investigative filmmaker Cullen Hoback travels to West Virginia to study the unprecedented loss of cl...

Episode 16: Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky
A portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America through the voice of writ...

Episode 17: True Conviction
After serving a combined 60 years in prison for crimes they did not commit, three recently exonerate...

Episode 18: No Man's Land
A detailed, on-the-ground account of the 2016 standoff between protesters occupying Oregon’s Malheur...

Episode 19: ACORN and the Firestorm
For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN sought to empower poor and marginalized communiti...

Episode 20: Served Like a Girl
A candid look at a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of homeless women veterans who served...

Episode 1: Wildland
Filmed during two recent wildfire seasons, Wildland is a sweeping yet deeply personal account of a w...

Episode 2: Dawnland
Dawnland reveals the untold story of Indigenous child removal in the United States through the first...

Episode 3: The Cleaners
"Delete...Ignore...Delete… Ignore…" Someone is out there censoring your social media feed. Do their...

Episode 4: The Judge
Showing Shari’a law in a way we've never seen before--through the story of the first-ever female jud...

Episode 5: Man on Fire
In 2014, 79-year-old white Methodist minister drove to an empty parking lot in his old hometown of G...

Episode 6: My Country No More
Following the rise and fall of the oil boom in North Dakota, My Country No More paints a portrait of...

Episode 7: Rodents of Unusual Size
Rodents of Unusual Size is a real-life horror "tail" about the various and eccentric methods Louisia...

Episode 8: RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked The World
RUMBLE is the electric story of how Native American influence shaped rock and roll, a missing chapte...

Episode 9: The King
Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-R...

Episode 10: Black Memorabilia
What does it mean when Americans rebuke racism yet hold on to nostalgic objects that embrace it? Bla...

Episode 11: Hale County This Morning, This Evening
RaMell Ross's Hale County This Morning, This Evening, one of the year's most critically acclaimed fi...

Episode 12: People's Republic of Desire
In an age where the power of technology helps us connect, are we as isolated as ever? People’s Repub...

Episode 13: Tre Maison Dasan
Told directly through the eyes of the children themselves, Tre Maison Dasan is an up-close and unfil...

Episode 14: The Providers
Three rural healthcare providers try to make a difference in the lives of their patients against ove...

Episode 15: Marcos Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Elizabeth Perez, a decorated U.S. Marine veteran living in Cleveland, fights to reunite her family a...

Episode 16: Charm City
In Baltimore, the murder rate is high and trust in law enforcement is low—meet the engaged citizens...

Episode 17: Out of State
In Out of State, two native Hawaiians sent thousands of miles away to a private prison in the desert...

Episode 18: Harvest Season; The Seed Saver
California’s Napa Valley is one of the premier wine growing regions in the world, celebrated as an i...

Episode 19: Wrestle
Wrestle goes inside the lives of four members of the high school wrestling team at Huntsville’s J.O....

Episode 1: Made in Boise
In Boise, nurses, nail technicians, and stay-at-home mothers are choosing to become paid reproductiv...

Episode 2: Decade of Fire
Decade of Fire covers a shocking but untold piece of American urban history, when the South Bronx wa...

Episode 3: The Interpreters
The Interpreters is a poignant but tense portrayal of a very human and high-stakes side of war's aft...

Episode 4: Conscience Point; Jewel's Hunt
A Native American activist fights to protect her tribe from the onslaughts of development in the Ham...

Episode 5: ATTLA
ATTLA tells the gripping story of George Attla, a charismatic Alaska Native dogsled racer who, with...

Episode 6: Accept the Call
25 years after Yusuf Abdurahman left Somalia as a refugee to begin his life anew in Minnesota — whic...

Episode 7: The First Rainbow Coalition
In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party formed alliances across ethnic and racial lines with other...

Episode 8: Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic...

Episode 9: Leftover Women
Leftover Women follows three successful Chinese women who, despite thriving careers, are still label...

Episode 10: We Believe In Dinosaurs
In We Believe in Dinosaurs the Bible and science collide amid the battleground of a Creation Museum...

Episode 11: Always in Season
Always in Season follows the tragedy of African American teenager Lennon Lacy, who in August 2014, w...

Episode 12: One Child Nation
After the birth of her first child, filmmaker Nanfu Wang returns to China to speak with her family a...

Episode 13: Bedlam
Shot over the course of five years, Bedlam examines the mental health crisis through intimate storie...

Episode 14: The Hottest August
Brett Story’s critically acclaimed documentary The Hottest August raises the specter of climate chan...

Episode 15: Jim Allison: Breakthrough
The story of one warmhearted, stubborn man’s visionary quest to find a cure for cancer, Jim Allison:...

Episode 16: Rewind
Made up of home video footage that reveals a long-kept secret, Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s Rewind is a...

Episode 17: Eating Up Easter
More than just a picture-perfect postcard of iconic stone statues, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is a...

Episode 18: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
For 30 years, Marion Stokes records American television, creating a comprehensive archive of the med...

Episode 19: Pipe Dreams
Pipe Dreams challenges preconceived notions about an age-old instrument—the pipe organ—while introdu...

Episode 1: Feels Good Man
Feels Good Man is the story of how artist Matt Furie, creator of a once-benign comic character named...

Episode 2: Represent
Represent follows three women running for office in the heart of the Midwest leading up to the 2018...

Episode 3: Jonathan Scott's Power Trip
In Jonathan Scott's Power Trip, the HGTV home makeover guru shines a light on the obstacles and oppo...

Episode 4: Belly of the Beast
An unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women’s prisons, shielded by prison...

Episode 5: A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem
A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem sheds light on the continued fight to end the gender p...

Episode 6: A Day in the Life of America / American Nomads
A Day in the Life of America: Director Jared Leto crafts a sweeping yet intimate cross-section of Am...

Episode 7: 9to5: The Story of a Movement
When Dolly Parton sang “9 to 5,” she was singing about a real movement that started with a group of...

Episode 8: Women in Blue
With the national conversation around police reform still resonating, Women in Blue shines a spotlig...

Episode 9: Mr. SOUL!
Premiering in 1968, SOUL! was the first nationally broadcast all-Black variety show on public televi...

Episode 10: Coded Bias
Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, m...

Episode 11: Down a Dark Stairwell
Down a Dark Stairwell chronicles the tragic shooting of Akai Gurley, an innocent Black man, in Brook...

Episode 12: The Donut King
An immigrant story with a (glazed) twist, The Donut King follows the journey of Cambodian refugee Te...

Episode 13: Two Gods
An intimate documentary about faith, renewal, and healing, Two Gods follows a Muslim casket maker an...

Episode 14: The People vs. Agent Orange
The People vs. Agent Orange closely follows two activists as they take on the chemical industry, and...

Episode 1: Cured
When doctors classified homosexuality as a mental illness to be “cured,” they employed cruel treatme...

Episode 2: Ferguson Rises
How does a father find purpose in pain? In 2014, Michael Brown Sr.’s son was killed by white police...

Episode 3: Storm Lake
Does American democracy survive without the backbone of independent local journalism? Go inside The...

Episode 4: Duty Free
75-year-old Rebecca loses the only job she's even known. She has no savings, no 401K safety net, and...

Episode 5: Home From School: The Children of Carlisle
"Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” This was the guiding principle that removed thousands of...

Episode 6: A Reckoning in Boston
What happens when you discover that your assumptions are flawed? A white filmmaker starts his academ...

Episode 7: Missing in Brooks County
Migrants go missing in rural South Texas more than anywhere else in the U.S. For many families whose...

Episode 8: Owned: A Tale of Two Americas
Is the "American Dream" of home ownership a false promise? While the government’s postwar housing po...

Episode 9: Bulletproof
What is the cost of feeling safe? In an era of mass shootings, lockdown drills and teacher firearms...

Episode 10: Apart
Since the beginning of the War on Drugs, the number of women in U.S. prisons has grown drastically....

Episode 11: Writing With Fire
In a male-dominated media landscape, the women journalists of India's all-female Khabar Lahariya ("N...

Episode 12: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
What is the science behind consciousness? Six brilliant researchers from around the world—a brain sc...

Episode 13: Try Harder!
At Lowell High School, San Francisco's academic pressure cooker, the kids are stressed out. With a m...

Episode 14: When Claude Got Shot
In Milwaukee, a 15-year-old attempted to carjack law student Claude Motley and shot him in the face....

Episode 15: Scenes From The Glittering World
Three Indigenous students experience the highs and lows of adolescence while attending one of the mo...

Episode 1: Hazing
Hazing is a widespread, far-reaching practice fueled by tradition, secrecy, groupthink, power, and t...

Episode 2: TikTok, Boom.
What does it mean to be a digital native? TikTok, Boom. dissects the platform along myriad cross-sec...

Episode 3: Move Me
At 27, Kelsey Peterson dove into Lake Superior as a dancer and emerged paralyzed. But within the Spi...

Episode 4: Children of Las Brisas
In Venezuela, amidst a backdrop of poverty, murder, and corruption, the El Sistema youth orchestra o...

Episode 5: The Big Payback
An Evanston, Illinois rookie alderwoman led the passage of the first tax-funded reparations bill for...

Episode 6: No Straight Lines
When Alison Bechdel received a coveted MacArthur Award for her best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home,...

Episode 7: The Picture Taker
The vibrant life of Ernest Withers—civil rights photographer, and FBI informant—was anything but bla...

Episode 8: Outta the Muck
Wade into the rich soil of Pahokee, Florida, a town on the banks of Lake Okeechobee. Beyond its foot...

Episode 9: Love in the Time of Fentanyl
As fentanyl overdose deaths in Vancouver, Canada reach an all-time high, the Overdose Prevention Soc...

Episode 10: Storming Caesars Palace
After losing her job as a hotel worker in Las Vegas, Ruby Duncan joined a welfare rights group of mo...

Episode 11: Hidden Letters
The bonds of sisterhood, and the parallels of struggles among generations of women in China, are dra...

Episode 12: Free Chol Soo Lee
Sentenced to life for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after...

Episode 13: Matter of Mind: My ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neuromuscular disease with an average survival time of 2-5...

Episode 14: Sam Now
In this coming-of-age documentary about generational trauma, follow Sam Harkness from age 11 to 36 a...

Episode 15: Silent Beauty
In this autobiographical exploration of survivorship, New Orleans journalist and filmmaker Jasmin Ma...

Episode 16: Mama Bears
They call one another “mama bears” because of the ferocity with which they fight for their children’...

Episode 1: Sansón and Me
Filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes wants to document Sansón's story, an immigrant serving life in prison. Unabl...

Episode 2: El Equipo
Legendary U.S. anthropologist Dr. Clyde Snow sets out to train a new group of Latin American student...

Episode 3: Three Chaplains
Muslim chaplains uphold the First Amendment and vow to protect service members' right to practice th...

Episode 4: A Town Called Victoria | Episode 1
A south Texas town is thrown into the national spotlight when a local mosque is burned down in an ap...

Episode 5: A Town Called Victoria | Episode 2
With the arson trial near, the suspect’s family argues his innocence. Meanwhile, facets of Victoria...

Episode 6: A Town Called Victoria | Episode 3
The prosecution presents shocking evidence. As the trial concludes, the engaged citizens of Victoria...

Episode 7: Beyond Utopia
They grew up believing their land was paradise. Now, they risk everything in escaping it. In an unfo...

Episode 8: Racist Trees
Were trees intentionally planted to exclude and segregate a Black neighborhood? Racial tensions igni...

Episode 9: Razing Liberty Square
Liberty City, Miami, is home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now...

Episode 10: Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
Following a cancer diagnosis, Sister Úna—a mischievous, rule-breaking Catholic nun dedicated to soci...

Episode 11: Breaking the News
Who decides which stories get told? A scrappy group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists buck the white m...

Episode 12: Greener Pastures
There is a mental health crisis happening for many American farmers. A combination of climate change...

Episode 13: A Thousand Pines
Over the course of a grueling eight months, a crew of Oaxacan guest workers plant trees throughout t...

Episode 14: Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s
In Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's, three people navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determ...

Episode 15: One With the Whale
Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence. When a shy Alaska Nat...

Episode 16: Space: The Longest Goodbye
NASA's goal to send astronauts to Mars would require a three-year absence from Earth, during which c...

Episode 17: The Tuba Thieves
What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel...

Episode 1: One Person, One Vote?
At a time when many Americans question democratic institutions, One Person, One Vote? unveils the co...

Episode 2: Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen
Riddled with survivor's guilt after his unit lost 17 men during "Operation Enduring Freedom" in Afgh...

Episode 3: Dallas, 2019 | Episode 1
Tornados. Drive-by shootings. Environmental racism, The stark North-South Dallas economic divide. Da...

Episode 4: Dallas, 2019 | Episode 2
Dreaming of a brighter future through the eyes of three people: a graduating high school student pre...

Episode 5: Dallas, 2019 | Episode 3
Three spirits with longstanding Texas roots struggle with their place in the world: a transgender wo...

Episode 6: Dallas, 2019 | Episode 4
Meet a criminal district attorney bringing reform to a complex and disparate justice system; a judge...

Episode 7: Dallas, 2019 | Episode 5
Featuring intimate stories of workers and young people—the chief medical examiner, a hospital worker...

Episode 8: Minted
An insider’s look at the rise and fall of the NFT (non-fungible token) phenomenon and how technology...

Episode 9: Without Arrows
After 13 years living in Philadelphia, Delwin Fiddler Jr., a champion grass dancer, embraces indigen...

Episode 10: The Strike
The high-security Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary confinement, often for a d...

Episode 11: The In Between
Following her brother's death, a filmmaker returns to Eagle Pass, the Texas bordertown where she gre...

Episode 12: Skin of Glass
A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers he...

Episode 13: Bike Vessel
Knowing his dad miraculously recovered from three open-heart surgeries after discovering a passion f...

Episode 14: Home Court
Home Court is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Sou...

Episode 15: WE WANT THE FUNK!
WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, s...

Episode 16: Free For All: The Public Library
Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea...

Episode 17: Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's
Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer’s is an intimate portrayal of three families confronting the unique cha...

Episode 18: And So It Begins
And So It Begins follows the Philippines’ turbulent 2022 presidential race, with the son of ousted f...

Episode 19: Who is Michael Jang?
After a long career as a commercial and portrait photographer, mischievous San Francisco artist Mich...
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After discovering they are dragon-marked and cursed to serve the evil Dragon King, adversarial werewolf twins must trust...
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Lone Target
Ex-Navy SEAL Joel Lambert is pit against the world's most elite military and law enforcement tracking teams. With only w...
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Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret American governmen...
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Princess Power
Princess friends from four different Fruitdoms — Blueberry, Kiwi, Pineapple and Raspberry — spring into action to make t...
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