Working alone in Iraq over eight months, filmmaker Laura Poitras (Flag Wars, POV) creates an extraor...

From a snowy, small town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan, Where Soldiers Come F...

Fondly described as “Talladega Nights meets Catcher in the Rye,” Marshall Curry’s Racing Dreams chro...

"There's nobody that's not going to get old — unless they die," says Enola Maxwell at the beginning...

Rich in humor and regional color, this sometimes hilarious film uses the prism of language to reveal...

Based on the autobiography of Nicaraguan author Omar Cabezas, Fire From the Mountain is the lyrical,...

Half comedy, half horror story, this disturbing film focuses on several spokesmen for America's surv...

If Armageddon's Door is about the explosion of community, Living with AIDS is just the opposite. It'...

During the late 1970s, tens of thousands of men, women and even children were abducted by the right-...

Five years before the United States entered World War II, 3,200 Americans went off to Europe to figh...

A lively portrait of 76-year-old Harold "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, musician, artist, raconteur and rog...

On the surface, this is a somewhat unusual film about pet cemeteries and their owners. But then it g...

Hailed by many critics as a classic, Best Boy is the moving story of Philly, a 53-year-old mentally-...

Rate It X is a bitingly funny and disarming journey through the landscape of American sexism. Men on...

Metropolitan Avenue is an inspiring contemporary story about women who strive to combine new roles a...

A heartbreaking yet hopeful portrait of three runaway girls with histories of abuse and neglect. Pin...

On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engin...

The debutante tradition is alive and well. Witness the annual Debutante Cotillion in Washington, DC...

A stamp dealer from Los Angeles, a former school teacher form Miami, a born again Christian from Las...

Home movies and tape recordings collected from 60 different American families comprise a composite l...

Denounced by officials and shunned by broadcasters when it was first released, this exploration of t...

A bold and unconventional film portrait of one of America's leading Social Realist painters doing wh...

On the streets and subways of New York, 101 itinerant performers whirl firesticks, mimic passers-by,...

The untold story of a handful of Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance against the Na...

Moved by the growing desperation of thousands of laid-off steel workers, a group of ministers in Pit...

Videomaker Lynn Hershman places herself center-screen for an intimate, humorous, and piercing narrat...

For more than a hundred years cowboys have written with feeling about the life and land they love. S...

The inner and outer lives of identical twins Doug and Mike Starn, whose collaborative painting and p...

The lives and struggles of a group of homeless people who've been moved into an "urban campground" i...

An underground, high-security isolation unit at the Federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky, was built...

Gary, a 39 year-old successful animation artist and devout Christian, is pursuing a lifelong dream —...

With a subway platform as his stage and a plastic can as his instrument, 14-year-old Larry Wright is...

Cryonics — the freezing of human beings after death for future revival — is the focus of this off-be...

In its national broadcast premiere, this bittersweet classic from pioneering filmmakers follows four...

Three big-city police chiefs reveal sharply differing philosophies of law enforcement. Daryl Gates i...

Two poor women in India attempt to improve their lives. Kamala and Raji's resourcefulness, aspiratio...

Artist Estelle Peck Ishigo went with her Japanese American husband into an internment camp during Wo...

The role of art in America has been debated everywhere from the Halls of Congress to the local shopp...

If a tree can grow in Brooklyn, can an eggplant flourish in the Bronx? Community gardens in New York...

The creation of a skyscraper is transformed into a breathtaking visual experience as time-lapse phot...

Behind the faded signs of three motels in the American Southwest lay entire worlds of passion, loyal...

Ossian Maclise is not an average American teenager. Born in Massachusetts, he has been living in a T...

Founded by a Jesuit priest from St. Louis, a grassroots theatre company takes its shows on the unpav...

After years of witnessing firsthand the horrors of guerrilla wars, Israeli-born producer Ilan Ziv tr...

Are college students today apathetic and self-centered? Twenty years after National Guardsmen opened...

Peter Adair asks 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share thei...

Marc Savoy knows only one way to talk about Cajun music -- with the same passion and conviction as t...

Plena is in Puerto Rico what the blues are in the U.S.: a musical expression abounding with romance,...

Every year 2,500 sets of twins gather in Twinsburg, Ohio for Twins Days. Most are dressed alike, man...

For 99 years, the residents of Salamanca, N.Y. have rented the land under their homes for an average...

A series of accidents at a West Virginia chemical plant producing the same deadly toxins that caused...

The Exxon Valdez disaster left far more than a soiled coastline in its wake. Grief, suspicion, anger...

A search for meaning beyond cliches and nostalgia, as a family farm is lost to speculative suburban...

Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns (and sometimes all at once), this exploration of what it me...

From the Free Speech Movement to the anti-war protests to the last stand over People's Park, Berkele...

A pit bull, his elderly master, and a dog trainer/philosopher form a curious love triangle. Elegantl...

Whether the subject is sex, death, madness or God, The Big Bang never lets up in its weird and wonde...

Maria Serrano, El Salvadoran wife, mother, and guerrilla leader, helps plan a major nationwide offen...

Ten million families were separated between North and South Korea when the Korean War ended in 1953....

Romance novels comprise nearly half the paperback books sold in America. Chiffon-shrouded, jewel-lad...

Abortion has been at the center of one of the most dramatic and wrenching debates of our times, but...

Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance Vs. Judas Priest is a TV series.

Cousin Bobby is a 1992 American documentary film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film focuses on Dem...

Passin' It On is a 1993 documentary film directed by Jon Valadez.

Dialogues with Madwomen is a 1993 documentary by Allie Light focusing on mental illness in women.

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter is a 1994 documentary film directed by Deborah Hoffmann, with her w...

Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy is a 1995 short documentary film directed by Ellen Bruno.

Dealers Among Dealers is a 1995 documentary film directed by Gaylen Ross.

A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde is a 1995 documentary film directed by Ada G...

"Although Ny admits that it is very uncomfortable for a traditional Cambodian family to talk about i...

This documentary exposes the role of General Motors' in the "Great American Street Car Scandal" of t...

Who Is Henry Jaglom? is a 1997 documentary film directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Jeremy Workman.

Takes a critical look at the long-standing practice of 'honoring' American Indians by using their na...

Disproving the adage that there are no second acts in American life, Iran/Contra legend Oliver North...

Well-Founded Fear is a 2000 documentary film from directors Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini. Th...

Corpus: A Home Movie about Selena is a film by filmmaker, Lourdes Portillo about Mexican American si...

The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez is a TV episode/documentary film directed by Gary Weimberg an...

Regret to Inform is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated...

Chronicling the two-year “tree-sit” by environmental activist Julia Hill, examining the controversy...

“La Boda” (The Wedding) follows a Mexican-American migrant farmworker during the six days prior to h...

Stranger With A Camera is a 2000 documentary film by director Elizabeth Barret investigating the cir...

Ex-white supremacist Ron Withrow, who founded the White Students Union at a California college, disc...

Following Cuban expatriate Silvia Moroni Heath, the daughter of a sugar planter, as she returns to h...

Gambling hits home in filmmaker Lisanne Skyler's perceptive profile of Las Vegas residents living wi...

Exploring the secretive and largely unassimilated Romani culture as it follows one Spokane, Wash., G...

A heartfelt history of KFPA, the nation's oldest alternative radio station, the Pacifica Foundation'...

Following abortion politics as they played out during the 1990s in one U.S. town, Bedford, N.H. It f...

A Korean-American adoptee tries to forge relationships with her biological family as she sorts out h...

A beautifully rendered account of the struggles of the Lakota in the Black Hills, the Hopi in Arizon...

Life and Debt is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican w...

Milford Beeghly discusses his company Beeghly's Best Hybrids.

It is America of the 1950s and 1960s, when a woman's most important contribution to society is gener...

How black and white populations in Norco, La., have responded to links between a refinery's activiti...

Sweet Old Song is a 2002 documentary film directed by Leah Mahan.

A high school girl leaves Hanoi and comes to Mississippi.

Circumstances surrounding the discovery of the remains of more than 200 murdered girls in the desert...

A Mexican-American migrant teenager's freshman year in high school and how she handled work, educati...

Surgeon Gino Strada and coordinator Kate Rowlands try to provide medical and humanitarian support to...

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin is a 2003 documentary film written by Marc Weiss and dir...

Two film crews document the aftermath of the murder of a black man by three white men in 1998 and th...

A black community in Columbus, Ohio, struggles with cultural and legal conflicts while experiencing...

A farmer in Lockney, Texas, makes headlines after he refuses the school permission to test his son f...

Massacre survivor Denese Becker returns to her Guatemalan village on a journey of self-discovery and...

What are the chances that a former prostitute could be elected a Member of the Parliament of New Zea...

Musician Arn Chorn-Pond, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, travels to his native Cambodia to fac...

90 Miles is a 2001 documentary film written and directed by Juan Carlos Zaldívar. The film is a reco...

Few American icons are as well known for their popular kitsch as the hula dance. From old Hollywood...

West 47th Street is a documentary film produced by Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples of the Peabody...

Three Christian families who have gay children campaign against gay rights.

The experiences of Mexican-Americans participating in the Vietnam War.

State of Denial is a 2003 documentary film about AIDS in Africa, produced and directed by Elaine Eps...

Eve Ensler conducts a writing workshop for female inmates at a state prison in New York.

Filmmaker Richard Kassebaum chronicles his brother Bill's run for the Kansas House of Representative...

Flag Wars is a poignant account of the politics and pain of gentrification. Working-class black resi...

"In the current frigid national climate facing economic migrants, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tamb...

War Feels Like War is a 2004 British documentary film. It was broadcast in the United States as part...

Global corporations who buy up local water supplies and sell for profit, including a look at tension...

What is old is often new again. Most funerals today are part of a multimillion-dollar industry run b...

The movement to take the end of life process out of corporate funeral parlours and put it back into...

A profile of demolition-derby driver Ed "Speedo" Jager.

Three New York mothers unite to seek justice for police brutality.

Freedom Machines is a 2004 PBS/P.O.V. documentary that looks at disability in the age of technology,...

Pete O'Neal, a former leader of the Black Panthers, lives in exile in Tanzania.

Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.

Teenager Shelby Knox advocates sex education in the high schools of her hometown, Lubbock, Texas.

Physical and emotional challenges faced by the dwarfs profiled in the 1982 film "Little People."

Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraord...

Wattstax is a 1973 documentary film by Mel Stuart that focused on the 1972 Wattstax music festival a...

Chisholm `72: Unbought Unbossed is a PBS P.O.V. documentary about Shirley Chisholm.

The Education of Shelby Knox is 2005 documentary film that tells the coming-of-age story of public s...

A follow-up to the 1982 Emmy-nominated film Little People, Big Enough is a 2004 documentary film abo...

In the Realms of the Unreal is a 2004 documentary about outsider artist Henry Darger. An obscure ja...

Hardwood is a 2005 short documentary film about Canadian director Hubert Davis' relationship to his...

Bright Leaves is a 2003 documentary film by independent filmmaker Ross McElwee about the association...

Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust is 2004 documentary film about Menachem...

The Hobart Shakespeareans of Hobart Boulevard Elementary School is a 2005 documentary film that tell...

A story of love, revolution and betrayal, No More Tears Sister explores the price of truth in times...

In Japan, baseball is not a pastime — it's a national obsession. And for many of the country's youth...

Why do the comic-strip Adventures of Tintin, about an intrepid boy reporter, continue to fascinate u...

In 1990, an unknown candidate named Alberto Fujimori rode a wave of popular support to become the pr...

Global Recordings Network (GRN), founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bibl...

The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music—captured in the performances of Mexican band Los Tigres...

Alan Lomax was "the song hunter." He devoted his life to recording the world's folk tunes before the...

The term "working poor" should be an oxymoron. If you work full time, you should not be poor, but mo...

Devon, Montrey, Richard, and Romesh are just at that age — 12 and 13 years old — when boys start to...

In the wake of his stepfather’s death, Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey of reconciliation wi...

"My name is Steven, and I am a dwarf..." So begins No Bigger than a Minute, a stylishly eclectic doc...

Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive factories often owned...

My Country, My Country is a 2006 documentary film about Iraq under U.S. occupation by the filmmaker...

How do you measure the distance from an African village to an American city? What does it mean to be...

If the refugee is today’s tragic icon of a war-torn world, then Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, a...

What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? In April 2000, Alex White Plume and...

Revolution ’67 is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history...

A decade ago, after an epiphany at a New York restaurant, Richard Ogust began dedicating his time an...

In the 1990s, at the height of the prison-building boom, a prison opened in rural America every 15 d...

Thirty years after making a celebrated student short about a four-year-old child of free spirits liv...

In Arctic Son, the clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in the vil...

Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies in Montana—as iconic a representation of Amer...

Los Angeles is now the country’s center for apparel manufacturing, but many of its factories bear an...

How far would you go to stop a war? The Camden 28 recalls a 1971 raid on a Camden, N.J., draft board...

The agonies of present-day Africa are deeply etched in the bodies of women. In eastern Congo on the...

In one of documentary cinema’s more remarkable enterprises, 49 Up makes its U.S. broadcast premiere...

Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, has emerged as o...

The 21st-season opener features "Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North," an exploration o...

Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experi...

In 1997, U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexico border as part of the War on Drugs shot and killed...

Renowned sculptor John Houser has a dream: to build the world's tallest bronze equestrian statue for...

A group of young Palestinian men work illegally as construction laborers in the Israeli city of Modi...

This is democracy — Japanese style. Campaign provides a startling insider's view of Japanese elector...

In this classic 1969 documentary, the Man in Black is captured at his peak, the first of many in a l...

Belarus has been called "Europe's last dictatorship." Since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko has ruled the...

When in 1998 Chilean judge Juan Guzmán was assigned the first criminal cases against the country's e...

When brothers Armando and Carlos Peña set off to carry their mother's ashes to south Texas, their ro...

What happens if you fall sick and are one of 47 million people in America without health insurance?...

How much would you sacrifice to survive? When Chicago filmmaker Joanna Rudnick tested positive for t...

Nearing completion, China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of peop...

When is it right to kill? In the midst of war, is it right to refuse? Eight U.S. soldiers today, som...

Imagine watching Schindler's List and knowing the sadistic Nazi camp commandant played by Ralph Fien...

Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez pulled himself out of drug dealing and street life 12 years...

In September 2002, three skinheads were roaming a park in Rheims, France, looking to "do an Arab," w...

In 2004, Jason Crigler's life was taking off. He was one of New York's hottest young guitarists, his...

The International Criminal Court is the first permanent court to prosecute perpetrators of crimes ag...

Filmed over 23 years, The Betrayal is the Academy Award-nominated directorial debut of renowned cine...

One of Britain's leading documentary filmmakers takes a vérité look at Oxford's Mulberry Bush School...

A collection of short documentaries, including "Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall,"...

This is a story about a wall - the separations it's meant to enforce, and the unintended ones it cre...

For Spaniards — and for the world — nothing has expressed their country's traditionally rigid gender...

What is it like to have power over life and death, and yet to struggle with your own humanity? This...

Two stories that paint a dramatic portrait of the challenges facing America's public schools — and o...

Rocky Otoo is the Bronx-bred teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents, and she's no pushover. She is a s...

On call 24 hours a day for the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greet...

Take a remarkable plunge into the life, art, memories and philosophical reflections of the legendary...

How much do we know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? Thoug...

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe examines the life of this radical attorney from a surprisi...

The Beaches of Agnès is a 2008 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda. The film is an autob...

Though apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, economic injustices between blacks and whites remain...

Good Fortune is a provocative exploration of how massive international efforts to alleviate poverty...

Past and present collide as award-winning filmmaker Natalia Almada (Al Otro Lado, POV 2006) brings t...

Imagine being picked up off the street, told you have committed a murder you know nothing about and...

In his search for “somewhere I could point my camera into pure space,” award-winning photographer Mu...

Scottish filmmaker Amy Hardie has built a career making science documentaries that reflect her ratio...

What is it like to be torn from your Chinese foster family, put on a plane with strangers and wake u...

Off and Running is the story of Brooklyn teenager Avery, a track star with a bright future. She is t...

Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Kor...

Filmed in Yemen and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, The Oath interweaves the stories of Abu Jandal, Osama bin...

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers is a 2009 documentary fil...

When Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker, award-winning filmmakers of The War Room, Startup.com and Don...

My Perestroika is an intimate look at the last generation of Soviet children. Five classmates go fro...

Sweetgrass presents a riveting and poetic portrait of the American West just as one of its tradition...

The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the “killing fields” of...

The Donkey Library is the story of a librarian — and a library — like no other. A decade ago, Colomb...

Mugabe and the White African, much of which was filmed clandestinely, tells an alarming story from o...

From a land of long, dark winters comes Steam of Life, a moody, comic and moving study of Finnish me...

A one-hour collection of documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers, including: Big...

In 2009, Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree accompanied a platoon of Danish soldiers to Armadillo,...

The story of Bradley Crowder and David McKay, who were accused of intending to firebomb the 2008 Rep...

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front explores two of America’s most pressing issue...

One hundred years ago, American teachers established the English-speaking public school system of th...

Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their...

From a small town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan, "Where Soldiers Come From" f...

'Racing Dreams' chronicles a year in the life of three "tweens" who dream of becoming NASCAR drivers...

There are over one million Gypsies living in America today, and most people don’t know anything abou...

High Tibetan Buddhist Master Chögyal Namkhal Norbu teaches in the West, while his son, Yeshi, breaks...

In a stunning milestone for justice in Central America, a Guatemalan court recently charged former d...

Is darkness becoming extinct? A meditation on the human relationship to the stars.

Every four seconds a romance novel published by Harlequin or its British counterpart, Mills & Boon,...

Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur’an school for girls in Damascus, Syri...

Up Heartbreak Hill chronicles the lives of three high school seniors living on the Navajo Nation and...

Five shorts, including "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement," about...

Jonathan Demme’s portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans tells the story of Carolyn Parker, a lifelong...

From dusk to dawn, 'El Velador' accompanies Martin, a guard who watches over the extravagant mausole...

Exposing shocking corruption within the judicial system of the Philippines in one of the most sensat...

When a Navajo couple uncovers a hidden link between their children’s rare genetic disorder and the A...

Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light is a remarkable meditation on memory, history and eternity...

A veteran reporter and his colleagues at an independent newsweekly defy powerful drug cartels and co...

A lyrical exploration of youth, beauty and ambition, seen through the eyes of a conflicted American...

Season 26 opens with "Homegoings," which profiles Harlem funeral director Isaiah Owens, the son of a...

Special Flight is a dramatic account of the plight of undocumented foreigners at the Frambois detent...

Herman Wallace has spent more than 40 years in a 6’ x 9’ prison cell. He works with artist Jackie Su...

Three teens in a Southern California town wrestle with questions of love and friendship along with a...

The modern-day love story of a guy from small-town Illinois who reaches out to a beautiful New York...

High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first citizen-reporters, bloggers who are fighting censor...

A 4-year-old, a teenager and an adult, all on the autism spectrum and at pivotal moments in their li...

For the first time, Israeli military and legal professionals who devised the legal framework behind...

Oscar®nominee 5 Broken Cameras depicts life in a West Bank village where a security fence is being b...

Seven players with 620 years between them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships. P...

The World Before Her is a tale of two Indias: In one, a small-town girl competes in the Miss India p...

A Newark, N.J. public high school teacher races against the clock to find a place in the world for h...

Brooklyn public school I.S. 318, serving mostly minority students from working-class families, has w...

In 1964 a group of 7-year-old children were interviewed for the groundbreaking documentary Seven Up....

Celebrate the transformative power of listening with this animated special from the oral history pro...

American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-America...

The Season 27 premiere features Jason DaSilva's "When I Walk," in which the filmmaker chronicles his...

A profile of 98-year-old Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese-American social activist in Detroit who has spen...

Filmmaker Niko von Glasow profiles participants at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, including a...

The changed realities of post-Katrina New Orleans, including a population that is less African-Ameri...

The world of professional ballroom dancing in Denmark, where participants often look beyond the coun...

After Beichuan, China was destroyed in an earthquake, buildings are rebuilt more quickly than the co...

The story of a 15-year old sentenced to four life sentences. Does society benefit from incarcerating...

A family's experience living in a Lebanese refugee camp for multiple generations. Love and family ar...

Explorers the world of backroom negotiations and deal making in Ghana's oil business.

The story of the four abortion doctors that remained in Wichita, Kansas after the assassination of G...

Pam White and her family struggle to retain her memories and life by recording their interactions in...

The mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989, Ed Koch fought crime and financial difficulties during...

Joshua Oppenheimer visits men accused of playing a key role in the killing of over one-million Indon...

Season 28 opens with "Out in the Night," about four African-American lesbian friends who became embr...

"The Overnighters," about the North Dakota oil boom, details the goings-on at a Williston church who...

A single dad in Seattle and a mother of two in NYC navigate the child welfare system in hopes of reg...

A look at Internet addiction in China via the experiences of teens at Daxing Boot Camp in Beijing, o...

The transformation of a one-time goalie for the Syrian national soccer team from peaceful protester...

Five Chilean women meet each month for tea and pastries, a tradition they've maintained for 60 years...

A look at life along the Sudan-South Sudan border, where many who fought to create South Sudan found...

Meet the young migrants in a Swiss integration class, who have made long and arduous journeys for a...

Ride shotgun with Matt VanDyke, who films his self-transformation from a timid 26-year-old to a moto...

More than half a million Cambodians work abroad, and a staggering third of those become slaves. Many...

An Oscar-nominated reflection on love, sacrifice and the creative spirit, this candid New York tale...

In a community where silence is seen as necessary for survival, immigrant activist Angy Rivera joins...

A cat-and-mouse caper told with humor and compassion, Art and Craft uncovers the universal in one ma...

How the government's attempts to silence Ai Weiwei have turned him into China's most powerful artist...

An unprecedented reform to California's "Three Strikes" law seen through the eyes of those on the fr...

At a first-of-its-kind PTSD treatment center in California, follow Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and...

An optometrist identifies the men who killed his brother in the horrific 1965 Indonesian genocide. H...

Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all battling their own demons...

Iris pairs the late documentarian Albert Maysles, then 87, with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flambo...

An escape from the doomsday thinking that is ruining our collective imaginations. An experience for...

Go behind the scenes at Japan's Yoshida Brewery, where a brotherhood of artisans, ranging from 20 to...

The largely invisible and often crushing struggles of young African-American men come vividly--and h...

Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz takes an unflinching look at the hard choices and destructiv...

When director Sharon Shattuck's father came out as transgender, Sharon was in the awkward throes of...

The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a...

When Ryan Green, a video game programmer, learns that his young son Joel has cancer, he and his wife...

Inside the very first girls' school in a small Afghan village, education goes far beyond the classro...

The nuanced story of a family displaced by the Syrian conflict and remaking themselves after the par...

Daphne Matziaraki follows a day in the life of Kyriakos Papadopoulos, a captain in the Greek Coast G...

Radio host Obaidah Zytoon captures the fate of Syria through the intimate lens of a small circle of...

After five years of war in Syria, the remaining citizens of Aleppo are getting ready for a siege. Th...

Samantha Montgomery placed her dreams on YouTube. Then they became a reality. Presenting Princess Sh...

In Shalom Italia, three Italian Jewish brothers set off on a journey through Tuscany, in search of a...

A donated musical instrument forges an improbable friendship. 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Joe Fei...

Filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo suspected that there was something ugly in her family's past. Memories o...

Two Native American judges reach back to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarcer...

An intimate portrait of three African American boys as they face a precarious coming of age in rural...

In a school for individuals with Down Syndrome, four middle-aged friends yearn for a life of greater...

The Rainey family are an African-American family living in Philadelphia.

Bill Nye advocates the importance of science, research and discovery.

Jae-Chang Kim, a Korean opera singer who runs a children's choir in India, trains parents and their...

The town of Tultepec in south-central Mexico becomes famous for its manufacturing of fireworks.

African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar participat...

A juror deals with guilt and regret after she and 11 others hand down the death penalty to a Mississ...

Maria Toorpakai represents Pakistan as an internationally competitive squash player.

An account of the Ferguson uprising as told by the people who lived it.

Yu Xiuhua, a 39-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy, deals with fame when her book of poetry becom...

Male nurse Nori Sharif and his family experience many changes as conflicts continue with Iraqi milit...

A Cuban mother of four longs for escape and a chance to build a better life.

Hasidic women in Borough Park, Brooklyn, create the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in Ne...

Two health care workers in Sierra Leone face the Ebola epidemic in their country.

A journalist in Montana investigates the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decisio...

Former comfort women who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II fight for justice and r...

Three young men bond through skateboarding to escape their volatile family life in their Rust Belt h...

Two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house.

At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was raped by me...

Faith, love and civil rights collide on voting day in a small Southern town that hosts a famous perf...

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women inti...

Residents of Bisbee, Ariz., commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation when 1,200 i...

Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating...

Take a journey with young minds from around the globe as they prepare their projects for the largest...

Hnutove, Donbass, eastern Ukraine, 2015. Young Oleg lives in a war zone where anti-aircraft gunshots...

Every summer on Mondello Beach in Palermo, more than a thousand cabins are erected to house the same...

Clear-eyed and intimate, Farmsteaders follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a journey to resurr...

A teenager recruits her neighbours to fight against a multinational natural gas drilling company all...

Victims and survivors of Gen. Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Spain continue to seek justice 40 y...

When a man and his brothers return to their hometown of Colima, Mexico, to care for their grandmothe...

Journalist Assia Boundaoui uncovers FBI documents about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal," a pre-9/11 coun...

The challenges facing a group of women determined to change the way women arrested for prostitution...

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Two children recover from enslavement to fishermen in a rehabilitation shelter in Ghana.

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The story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up by fight...

Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice. Foll...

Meet Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel, a political firebrand who is known by her opponents as "the devil's...

In this captivating documentary filmed in a single tiny room, viewers step inside an underground hai...

Three generations of the Phadke family live together in their home in Mumbai. When the youngest daug...

Photographs taken by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s, their lives since then, and the linkage o...

A young couple flees Iran with their son, Mani, seeking asylum in Turkey so they can start a new lif...

Ten-year-old Aboriginal Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter and speaks three languages.Yet Dujua...

When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, he creates “Papa’s Ti...

Two young immigrants, members of a group of radical Dreamers, are arrested by Border Patrol and put...

Political activist Boniface "Softie" Mwangi runs for office in a regional Kenyan election, but learn...

An investigator poses as a new resident in a retirement home after a family grows concerned for thei...

The stories of two working mothers and a child care provider whose lives intersect at a 24-hour day...