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POV (a cinema term for "point of view" ) is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented over 400 films to public television audiences across the country. POV films are known for their intimacy, their unforgettable storytelling and their timeliness, putting a human face on contemporary social issues.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
12 episodes
E01
Acting Our Age
Wed, Jul 6 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E02
American Tongues
Wed, Jul 6 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E03
Fire from the Mountain
Wed, Jul 13 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E04
Knocking on Armageddon's Door
Wed, Jul 20 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E05
Living with AIDS
Wed, Jul 20 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E06
Rate It X
Wed, Jul 27 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E07
Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
Wed, Aug 3 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
The Good Fight
Wed, Aug 10 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E09
Metropolitan Avenue
Wed, Aug 17 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
Louie Bluie
Wed, Aug 24 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E11
Gates of Heaven
Wed, Aug 31 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E12
Best Boy
Wed, Sep 7 1988 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Season 2
15 episodes
E01
Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Mon, Jul 17 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E02
Coming Out
Mon, Jul 24 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E03
Wise Guys!
Mon, Jul 24 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E04
The Family Album
Mon, Jul 31 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E05
Dark Circle
Mon, Aug 7 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E06
Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason
Mon, Aug 14 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E07
No Applause, Just Throw Money
Mon, Aug 21 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
Whatever Happened to Zworl Quern?
Mon, Aug 21 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
"Zworl Quern" was a stage name for Janet Wolfe, whose brief but bizarre acting career including being sawed in half by Orson Welles. Friends and family tell stories about this irrepressible woman who has fearlessly traveled the world in search of love, art and adventure.
E09
Partisans of Vilna
Mon, Aug 28 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
The Fighting Ministers
Mon, Sep 4 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E11
Binge
Mon, Sep 18 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E12
Cowboy Poets
Mon, Sep 18 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E13
Doug and Mike, Mike and Doug
Mon, Sep 18 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E14
Lost Angeles
Mon, Sep 25 1989 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E15
Girltalk
Thu, Nov 16 1989 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Season 3
16 episodes
E01
Through the Wire
Wed, Jun 27 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
In 1986, three women convicted of politically motivated nonviolent offenses were transferred to a secret, subterranean prison where they were kept in constantly lit near isolation, watched 24 hours a day and strip-searched routinely for nearly two years. The women were not imprisoned in Turkey or Iran or Chile, but in Lexington, Ky.
E02
Police Chiefs
Sun, Jul 1 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
How can we curb crime? Three big city police chiefs reveal sharply differing philosophies of law enforcement. From Daryl Gates, who introduced SWAT to Los Angeles, to Anthony Bouza, who ruffled feathers in Minneapolis, to Lee P. Brown, who recently left Houston for New York, these top cop's ideas about the causes and cures of crime are as varied as their personalities.
E03
Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman
Wed, Jul 4 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Gary, a 39-year-old successful animation artist and devout Christian, is pursuing a lifelong dream — to become a woman. Metamorphosis is a candid, non-sensational and sometimes humorous journey of nearly three years as Gary prepares physically and emotionally for sex reassignment surgery. Along the way, the film raises provocative questions about what really makes us men and women.
E04
Larry Wright
Wed, Jul 11 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
With a subway platform as his stage and a plastic can as his instrument, 14-year-old Larry Wright is a self-taught drummer with astonishing talent. Larry Wright is a rousing tribute to the Harlem youth and the rich culture of the urban streets.
E05
On Ice
Wed, Jul 11 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Cryonics — the freezing of human beings after death for future revival — is the focus of this off-beat film by two science buffs-turned-film-majors. With commentary from Timothy Leary, a theologian and skeptical scientists, On Ice is alternately deadpan and dead serious.
E06
Letter To The Next Generation
Wed, Jul 18 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Are college students today apathetic and self-centered? Twenty years after National Guardsmen opened fire on student antiwar demonstrators, Jim Klein, a 60's radical-turned-filmmaker (Union Maids, Seeing Red) visits the campus of Kent State to probe behind the stereotypes. Together with young patrons of the local tanning salon, activists-turned-professors, and an ROTC captain, Klein ponders the social forces that are changing campuses and the country in the 90's.
E07
Salesman
Wed, Jul 25 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
In its national broadcast premiere, this bittersweet classic from pioneering filmmakers follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen as they walk the line between hype and despair.
E08
Kamala And Raji
Wed, Aug 8 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
The textures and complexities of everyday life in India unfold in Michael Camerini's richly observed story of two poor women and their efforts to improve their lives.
E09
Golub
Wed, Aug 15 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Golub is more than a portrait of the socially committed painter Leon Golub, whose massive canvases are intended to provoke viewers. It is about media and contemporary society, social responsibility and creativity, art and information.
E10
Days of Waiting
Thu, Aug 16 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Artist Estell Peck Ishigo went with her Japanese American husband into an internment camp during World War II, one of the few Caucasians to do so. Vividly recreated from Ishigo's own memoirs, photos and paintings, Days Of Waiting reveals the shattering relocation experience from an "outsider's" perspective.
E11
Going Up
Wed, Aug 22 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
In Going Up, the creation of a skyscraper is transformed by director Gary Pollard into a breathtaking visual experience as time-lapse photography, hard hat banter and construction worker choreography are set to a score by 15 new music composers in an urban ballet forty stories above New York harbor.
E12
Green Streets
Wed, Aug 22 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
If a tree can grow in Brooklyn, can an eggplant flourish in the Bronx? Maria De Luca's Green Streets charts the spontaneous emergence of community gardens in New York City and how they've helped to nourish neighborhood pride, racial tolerance and a budding sense of hope for hundreds of enthusiastic gardeners in the urban jungle.
E13
Motel
Wed, Aug 29 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Behind the faded signs of three motels in the American Southwest lay entire worlds of passion, loyalty, adventure and fate. Veteran filmmaker Christian Blackwood winds his way into the soul of remarkable people in uniquely American subculture.
E14
¡Teatro!
Wed, Sep 5 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Founded by a Jesuit priest from St. Louis, a grassroots theatre company takes its shows on the unpaved roads of Honduras to enlighten and inspire villagers in the impoverished countryside.
E15
Ossian: American Boy, Tibetan Monk
Wed, Sep 5 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Ossian Maclise is not an average American teenager. Born in Massachusetts, he has been living in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery since the age of four. At seven, his monastic order recognized Ossian as a tulku — a reincarnation of a high Tibetan lama.
E16
'People Power
Wed, Sep 12 1990 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
After years of witnessing first hand the horrors of guerrilla wars, Israeli-born producer Ilan Ziv traveled to Chile, the Philippines and the West Bank to explore the development of "People Power" and to reexamine his own long-held belief in the necessary evil of violence to overthrow repressive governments.
Season 4
17 episodes
E01
Absolutely Positive
Wed, Jun 19 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Filmmaker Peter Adair asks 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share their stories about living with the HIV virus.
E02
Marc and Ann
Wed, Jun 26 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Plena Is Work, Plena Is Song
Wed, Jun 26 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing
Wed, Jun 26 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Honorable Nations
Wed, Jul 3 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Sea of Oil
Wed, Jul 10 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Turn Here Sweet Corn
Wed, Jul 10 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Chemical Valley
Wed, Jul 10 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E09
Tongues Untied
Wed, Jul 17 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
Berkeley in the Sixties
Wed, Jul 24 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
A Little Vicious
Wed, Jul 31 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
E12
Where the Heart Roams
Wed, Jul 31 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E13
The Big Bang
Wed, Aug 7 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E14
Maria's Story
Wed, Aug 14 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E15
Homes Apart: The Two Koreas
Wed, Aug 21 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E16
Short Notice: A Series of Short Films
Wed, Sep 4 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E17
Casting The First Stone
Wed, Sep 4 1991 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 5
14 episodes
E01
Color Adjustment
Tue, Jun 16 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
Intimate Stranger
Tue, Jun 23 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Finding Christa
Tue, Jun 30 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Last Images of War
Tue, Jul 7 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
The Longest Shadow
Tue, Jul 7 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
A Season in Hell
Tue, Jul 21 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Promise Not to Tell
Tue, Jul 28 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance Vs. Judas Priest
Tue, Aug 4 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Fast Food Women
Tue, Aug 11 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
Takeover
Tue, Aug 11 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
Faith Even to the Fire
Sat, Aug 22 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
Louisiana Boys -- Raised on Politics
Tue, Sep 1 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E13
Pets or Meat
Tue, Sep 29 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E14
Roger and Me
Tue, Sep 29 1992 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 6
12 episodes
E01
Silverlake Life: The View From Here
Wed, Jun 16 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
Who's Going To Pay For These Donuts, Anyway?
Wed, Jun 23 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
When Your Head's Not A Head, It's A Nut
Wed, Jun 30 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Compassion in Exile: The Life of the 14th Dalai Lama
Wed, Jul 7 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
For Better or For Worse
Wed, Jul 14 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Motel
Wed, Jul 21 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Money Man
Wed, Aug 4 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Building Bombs: The Legacy
Wed, Aug 11 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Miami-Havana
Wed, Aug 18 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
The Women Next Door
Wed, Aug 25 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
Cousin Bobby
Wed, Aug 25 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
Sa-I-Gu
Sat, Sep 11 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 7
10 episodes
E01
Time Indefinite
Wed, Jun 8 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
One Nation Under God
Wed, Jun 15 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Passin' It On
Mon, Jun 20 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Memories of Tata
Wed, Jun 29 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
The End of the Nightstick
Wed, Jul 6 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
The Heart of the Matter
Wed, Jul 13 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Escape From China
Fri, Jul 22 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Wed, Jul 27 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Dialogues with Madwomen
Wed, Aug 3 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
The Times of a Sign: A Folk History of the Iran-Contra Scandal
Wed, Aug 10 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 8
11 episodes
E01
Leona's Sister Gerri
Fri, Jun 2 1995 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
Wed, Jun 7 1995 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
No Place Like Home
Wed, Jun 14 1995 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy
Thu, Jun 15 1995 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Out of Sight
Wed, Jun 21 1995 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
The Uprising of '34
Mon, Jun 26 1995 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Lighting the 7th Fire
Wed, Jul 5 1995 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Twitch and Shout
Wed, Jul 12 1995 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia
Wed, Jul 19 1995 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
Dealers Among Dealers
Wed, Jul 26 1995 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business
Fri, Oct 6 1995 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 9
13 episodes
E01
Taking on the Kennedys
Wed, May 29 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
¡Palante Siempre Palante!: The Young Lords
Sun, Jun 2 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Personal Belongings
Wed, Jun 12 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
A Litany For Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
Wed, Jun 19 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
a.k.a. Don Bonus
Wed, Jun 26 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E06
No Loans Today
Wed, Jul 3 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
The Transformation
Thu, Jul 11 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
The Women Outside
Wed, Jul 17 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Just For The Ride
Wed, Jul 24 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself
Wed, Jul 31 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
Xich-lo (Cyclo)
Wed, Jul 31 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
Taken for a Ride
Wed, Aug 7 1996 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E13
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
Thu, Nov 28 1996 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 10
10 episodes
E01
Nobody's Business
Wed, Jun 4 1997 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
Battle for the Minds
Wed, Jun 11 1997 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
A Healthy Baby Girl
Wed, Jun 18 1997 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Jesse's Gone
Wed, Jun 25 1997 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary
Wed, Jul 2 1997 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Who is Henry Jaglom?
Wed, Jul 9 1997 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
In Whose Honor?
Wed, Jul 16 1997 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Girls Like Us
Wed, Jul 23 1997 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Blacks and Jews
Wed, Jul 30 1997 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
A Perfect Candidate
Wed, Aug 6 1997 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Season 11
11 episodes
E01
Baby It's You
Wed, Jun 3 1998 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
The Band
Wed, Jun 17 1998 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Tobacco Blues
Sat, Jun 20 1998 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Licensed to Kill
Wed, Jun 24 1998 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Kelly Loves Tony
Wed, Jul 1 1998 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E06
If I Can't Do It
Wed, Jul 8 1998 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour
Wed, Jul 15 1998 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
The Vanishing Line
Wed, Jul 22 1998 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Sacrifice
Wed, Jul 29 1998 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
She Shorts
Wed, Aug 5 1998 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
Family Name
Wed, Sep 16 1998 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 12
10 episodes
E01
The Legacy: Murder & Media, Politics & Prisons
Wed, Jun 2 1999 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
Golden Threads
Wed, Jun 9 1999 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
In My Corner
Wed, Jun 23 1999 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
The Green Monster
Wed, Jun 30 1999 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Rabbit in the Moon
Wed, Jul 7 1999 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena
Wed, Jul 14 1999 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
School Prayer: A Community at War
Wed, Jul 21 1999 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez
Wed, Jul 28 1999 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Regret To Inform
Wed, Jan 5 2000 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
Well-Founded Fear
Tue, Jun 6 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 13
10 episodes
E01
La Boda
Wed, Jun 28 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
Butterfly
Sat, Jul 1 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Stranger with a Camera
Wed, Jul 12 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Blink
Wed, Jul 19 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Our House in Havana
Wed, Jul 26 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Dreamland
Wed, Aug 23 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land
Wed, Aug 30 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
KPFA On the Air
Wed, Sep 20 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Live Free or Die
Wed, Sep 27 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
First Person Plural
Tue, Dec 19 2000 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Season 14
11 episodes
E01
Scout's Honor
Wed, Jun 20 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E02
The Sweetest Sound
Wed, Jun 27 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
My American Girls: A Dominican Story
Wed, Jul 4 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story
Wed, Jul 11 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
True-Hearted Vixens
Wed, Jul 18 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Take It From Me
Wed, Jul 25 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
In the Light of Reverence
Wed, Aug 15 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
Life and Debt
Wed, Aug 22 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E09
High School
Wed, Aug 29 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
5 Girls
Wed, Oct 3 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
Promises
Fri, Dec 14 2001 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 15
12 episodes
E01
The Smith Family
Wed, Jun 26 2002 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
Boomtown
Wed, Jul 3 2002 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Hybrid
Wed, Jul 10 2002 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Refrigerator Mothers
Wed, Jul 17 2002 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Fenceline: A Company Town Divided
Wed, Jul 24 2002 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Sweet Old Song
Wed, Jul 31 2002 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Mai's America
Wed, Aug 7 2002 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Señorita Extraviada
Wed, Aug 21 2002 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Escuela
Wed, Aug 28 2002 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
Afghanistan Year 1380
Tue, Sep 10 2002 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Tue, Jan 21 2003 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
Two Towns of Jasper
Thu, Jan 23 2003 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 16
14 episodes
E01
Flag Wars
Wed, Jun 18 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E02
Georgie Girl
Sat, Jun 21 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E03
Larry v. Lockney
Wed, Jul 2 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Discovering Dominga
Wed, Jul 9 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
The Flute Player
Wed, Jul 23 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
90 Miles
Wed, Jul 30 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i
Wed, Aug 6 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
West 47th Street
Wed, Aug 20 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Family Fundamentals
Wed, Aug 27 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
The Sixth Section
Wed, Sep 3 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam
Wed, Sep 3 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
State of Denial
Wed, Sep 17 2003 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E13
What I Want My Words To Do To You
Wed, Dec 17 2003 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E14
Love & Diane
Thu, Apr 22 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 17
12 episodes
E01
Farmingville
Wed, Jun 23 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas
Wed, Jun 30 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
War Feels Like War
Wed, Jul 7 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Thirst
Wed, Jul 14 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Last Man Standing: Politics Texas Style
Wed, Jul 21 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
A Family Undertaking
Wed, Aug 4 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
Every Mother's Son
Wed, Aug 18 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story
Wed, Aug 25 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Wattstax
Wed, Sep 8 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
Freedom Machines
Wed, Sep 15 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
A Panther in Africa
Wed, Sep 22 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
Lost Boys of Sudan
Wed, Sep 29 2004 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 18
16 episodes
E01
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
Tue, Feb 8 2005 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
The Education of Shelby Knox
Wed, Jun 22 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Big Enough
Wed, Jun 29 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Street Fight
Wed, Jul 6 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
The Fire Next Time
Wed, Jul 13 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
The Brooklyn Connection
Wed, Jul 20 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
The Self-Made Man
Wed, Jul 27 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
In the Realms of the Unreal
Wed, Aug 3 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
A Thousand Words
Wed, Aug 17 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E10
Hardwood
Wed, Aug 17 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E11
I Used to Be a Filmmaker
Wed, Aug 17 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E12
A Song for Daniel
Wed, Aug 24 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E13
Bright Leaves
Wed, Aug 24 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E14
Hiding and Seeking
Wed, Aug 31 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E15
The Hobart Shakespeareans
Wed, Sep 7 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E16
Omar & Pete
Wed, Sep 14 2005 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 19
13 episodes
E01
No More Tears Sister
Wed, Jun 28 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E02
Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball
Wed, Jul 5 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E03
Tintin and I
Wed, Jul 12 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E04
The Fall of Fujimori
Wed, Jul 19 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E05
The Tailenders
Wed, Jul 26 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E06
Al Otro Lado
Wed, Aug 2 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E07
Lomax the Songhunter
Wed, Aug 23 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
Waging a Living
Wed, Aug 30 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E09
The Boys of Baraka
Wed, Sep 13 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
Wed, Sep 20 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E11
No Bigger Than a Minute
Wed, Oct 4 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E12
Maquilapolis: City of Factories
Wed, Oct 11 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E13
My Country, My Country
Thu, Oct 26 2006 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 20
21 episodes
E01
Rain in a Dry Land
Wed, Jun 20 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E02
Massacre at Murambi
Wed, Jun 27 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E03
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Thu, Jun 28 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E04
Standing Silent Nation
Wed, Jul 4 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E05
Revolution '67
Wed, Jul 11 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E06
Lawn
Thu, Jul 12 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E07
The Chances of the World Changing
Wed, Jul 18 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
Prison Town, USA
Wed, Jul 25 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E09
No Angels in the Outfield
Wed, Jul 25 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
Following Sean
Wed, Aug 1 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E11
Alice Sees the Light
Wed, Aug 22 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E12
Arctic Son
Wed, Aug 22 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E13
Libby, Montana
Wed, Aug 29 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E14
Made in L.A.
Wed, Sep 5 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E15
Keeping House
Wed, Sep 5 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E16
Bullet Proof Vest
Wed, Sep 5 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E17
The Camden 28
Wed, Sep 12 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E18
Lumo
Wed, Sep 19 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E19
49 Up
Wed, Oct 10 2007 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E20
Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Thu, Dec 13 2007 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E21
Scaredycat
Thu, Dec 13 2007 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 21
17 episodes
E01
Ars Magna
Sun, Mar 2 2008 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E02
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Wed, Jun 25 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E03
Election Day
Wed, Jul 2 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E04
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez
Wed, Jul 9 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E05
The Last Conquistador
Wed, Jul 16 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E06
9 Star Hotel
Wed, Jul 23 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E07
Campaign
Wed, Jul 30 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
Johnny Cash! The Man, His World, His Music
Wed, Aug 6 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E09
Belarusian Waltz
Wed, Aug 13 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
The Judge and the General
Wed, Aug 20 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E11
Calavera Highway
Wed, Sep 17 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E12
Critical Condition
Wed, Oct 1 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E13
In the Family
Thu, Oct 2 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E14
Up the Yangtze
Thu, Oct 9 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E15
Soldiers of Conscience
Fri, Oct 17 2008 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E16
City of Cranes
Thu, Dec 11 2008 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E17
Inheritance
Thu, Dec 11 2008 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 22
18 episodes
E01
New Muslim Cool
Wed, Jun 24 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E02
Beyond Hatred
Wed, Jul 1 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E03
Life.Support.Music
Wed, Jul 8 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E04
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court
Wed, Jul 15 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E05
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Wed, Jul 22 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E06
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Wed, Jul 29 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E07
Nutkin's Last Stand
Wed, Aug 19 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
34x25x36
Wed, Aug 19 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E09
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall
Wed, Aug 19 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
This Way Up
Wed, Aug 26 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E11
Ella Es el Matador (She Is the Matador)
Wed, Sep 2 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E12
The English Surgeon
Wed, Sep 9 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E13
The Principal Story
Wed, Sep 16 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E14
Jennifer
Wed, Sep 23 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E15
So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
Wed, Sep 23 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E16
Bronx Princess
Wed, Sep 23 2009 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E17
The Way We Get By
Thu, Nov 12 2009 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E18
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Thu, Dec 31 2009 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 23
26 episodes
E01
Food, Inc.
Thu, Apr 22 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E02
Notes on Milk
Thu, Apr 22 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E03
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
Wed, Jun 23 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E04
The Beaches of Agnès
Wed, Jun 30 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E05
A Different Color Blue
Wed, Jun 30 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E06
Promised Land
Wed, Jul 7 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E07
Good Fortune
Wed, Jul 14 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
Bye
Wed, Jul 14 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E09
El General
Wed, Jul 21 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
Presumed Guilty
Wed, Jul 28 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E11
A Healing Art
Wed, Aug 18 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E12
The Archive
Wed, Aug 18 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E13
Salt
Wed, Aug 18 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E14
Trash-Out
Wed, Aug 18 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E15
Danny and Annie: Parts I & II
Wed, Aug 18 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E16
Q&A
Wed, Aug 25 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E17
Seltzer Works
Wed, Aug 25 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E18
The Edge of Dreaming
Wed, Aug 25 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E19
Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy
Wed, Sep 1 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E20
Germans in the Woods
Wed, Sep 1 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E21
Off and Running
Wed, Sep 8 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E22
The Human Voice
Wed, Sep 8 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E23
The Icing on the Cake
Wed, Sep 8 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E24
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee
Wed, Sep 15 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E25
The Oath
Wed, Sep 22 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E26
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Wed, Oct 6 2010 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 24
22 episodes
E01
Kings of Pastry
Wed, Jun 22 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E02
My Perestroika
Wed, Jun 29 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E03
Sweetgrass
Wed, Jul 6 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E04
Enemies of the People
Wed, Jul 13 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E05
Biblioburro: The Donkey Library
Wed, Jul 20 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E06
Mugabe and the White African
Wed, Jul 27 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E07
Steam of Life
Wed, Aug 3 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
Flawed
Wed, Aug 24 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E09
Miss Devine
Wed, Aug 24 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
Big Birding Day
Wed, Aug 24 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E11
Tiffany
Wed, Aug 24 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E12
No More Questions!
Wed, Aug 24 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E13
Six Weeks
Wed, Aug 24 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E14
Armadillo
Wed, Aug 31 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E15
Better This World
Wed, Sep 7 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E16
StoryCorps Shorts: September 11 Stories
Wed, Sep 7 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E17
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Wed, Sep 14 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E18
The Learning
Wed, Sep 21 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E19
Last Train Home
Wed, Sep 28 2011 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E20
Where Soldiers Come From
Fri, Nov 11 2011 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E21
To R.P. Salazar, with Love
Fri, Jan 27 2012 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E22
Racing Dreams
Fri, Feb 24 2012 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 25
18 episodes
E01
My Reincarnation
Fri, Jun 22 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Witness the epic story of exiled Tibetan Buddhist master Chagyal Namkhai Norbu and his Western-born son, Yeshi.
E02
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
Fri, Jun 29 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Hear the extraordinary story of a film that provided key evidence for bringing an indictment against a dictator.
E03
The City Dark
Fri, Jul 6 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Get a fascinating introduction to the science of the dark and an exploration of our relationship to the stars.
E04
Guilty Pleasures
Fri, Jul 13 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Take an amusing and touching look at the global phenomenon of romance novels.
E05
The Light in Her Eyes
Fri, Jul 20 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
View a portrait of a Syrian leader who challenges women to live according to Islam without giving up their dreams.
E06
Up Heartbreak Hill
Fri, Jul 27 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Take a moving look at a new generation of Americans struggling to be both Native and modern.
E07
The Barber of Birmingham
Fri, Aug 10 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
Sin País
Fri, Aug 10 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E09
Eyes on the Stars
Fri, Aug 10 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
Facundo the Great
Fri, Aug 10 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E11
A Family Man
Fri, Aug 10 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E12
I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful
Fri, Sep 21 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E13
El Velador (The Night Watchman)
Fri, Sep 28 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E14
Give Up Tomorrow
Fri, Oct 5 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E15
Sun Kissed
Fri, Oct 19 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E16
Nostalgia for the Light
Fri, Oct 26 2012 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E17
Reportero
Tue, Jan 8 2013 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E18
Girl Model
Mon, Mar 25 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 26
16 episodes
E01
Homegoings
Tue, Jun 25 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Take an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community.
E02
Special Flight
Tue, Jul 2 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Witness the plight of undocumented foreigners and the wardens at a detention center in Switzerland.
E03
Herman's House
Tue, Jul 9 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Venture inside the relationship of a solitary confinement prisoner and an artist who befriended him.
E04
Only the Young
Tue, Jul 16 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Follow three unconventional Christian teenagers coming of age in a small Southern California town.
E05
xoxosms
Tue, Jul 16 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E06
High Tech, Low Life
Tue, Jul 23 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Trail two of China's first citizen-reporters as they document the underside of rapid development.
E07
Neurotypical
Tue, Jul 30 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
The Law in These Parts
Tue, Aug 20 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Examine the system of military administration used by Israel since the Six Day War of 1967.
E09
5 Broken Cameras
Tue, Aug 27 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Watch this Oscar-nominated account of a West Bank village where Israel is building a security fence.
E10
Ping Pong
Tue, Sep 10 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Follow competitors in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships in China's Inner Mongolia.
E11
The World Before Her
Tue, Sep 17 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Meet two Indian women: a pageant contestant and the leader of a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls.
E12
Best Kept Secret
Tue, Sep 24 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Study a public school for severely autistic minority boys and their options for independent living.
E13
Brooklyn Castle
Tue, Oct 8 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Follow five members of a champion chess team from a below-the-poverty-line junior high in Brooklyn.
E14
56 Up
Tue, Oct 15 2013 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Return to England for the eighth film in a series that's followed the same group since age seven.
E15
Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special
Fri, Nov 29 2013 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Celebrate the transformative power of listening with this animated special from StoryCorps.
E16
American Promise
Tue, Feb 4 2014 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Trace the experiences of an African-American boy and his friend at a prestigious private school.
Season 27
15 episodes
E01
When I Walk
Tue, Jun 24 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Get a surprisingly uplifting look at the new life of a filmmaker diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
E02
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Tue, Jul 1 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Meet Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese-American philosopher who has been waging a revolution for 75 years.
E03
My Way to Olympia
Tue, Jul 8 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Accompany a disabled filmmaker, who frankly hates sports, as he covers the London Paralympics.
E04
Getting Back to Abnormal
Tue, Jul 15 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Witness a provocative mix of race, corruption and politics in a New Orleans re-election campaign.
E05
Dance for Me
Tue, Jul 22 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Delight in a poetic coming-of-age story, with a global twist and thrilling dance moves.
E06
A Good Man
Tue, Jul 22 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E07
Fallen City
Tue, Jul 29 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E08
15 to Life: Kenneth's Story
Tue, Aug 5 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E09
A World Not Ours
Tue, Aug 19 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
Big Men
Tue, Aug 26 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E11
After Tiller
Tue, Sep 2 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E12
The Genius of Marian
Tue, Sep 9 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E13
Koch
Tue, Sep 23 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E14
The Act of Killing
Tue, Oct 7 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E15
Cutie and the Boxer
Wed, Nov 12 2014 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 28
14 episodes
E01
Out in the Night
Tue, Jun 23 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Examine a case that reveals the role of race and gender identity in the criminal justice system.
E02
The Overnighters
Tue, Jun 30 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
See what ensues when a pastor opens his church to desperate job-seekers in need of housing.
E03
Tough Love
Tue, Jul 7 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Follow the struggles of two parents to win back the trust of the courts and reunite their families.
E04
Web Junkie
Tue, Jul 14 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Follow the treatment of Chinese teenagers - obsessive gamers who prefer the virtual to the real world.
E05
Return to Homs
Tue, Jul 21 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
See how a star goalkeeper for the Syrian national soccer team became an armed insurgent.
E06
Tea Time
Tue, Jul 28 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
See how a routine of tea and pastries has sustained five Chilean women through 60 years of change.
E07
Beats of the Antonov
Tue, Aug 4 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Learn how music and dance bind a community in the war-ravaged Sudan region.
E08
Neuland
Tue, Aug 18 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Meet young migrants in a Swiss integration class as they struggle to make new lives for themselves.
E09
Point and Shoot
Tue, Aug 25 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Witness Matt Van Dyke's transformation from timid 26-year-old to motorcycle-driving rebel.
E10
The Storm Makers
Tue, Sep 1 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
See an exposé of Cambodia's human traffickers, who transport the poor and illiterate across borders.
E11
Cutie and the Boxer
Sat, Sep 19 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
View an Oscar-nominated reflection on love, sacrifice and the creative spirit. This candid New York tale explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed "boxing" painter Ushio Shinohara and artist Noriko Shinohara.
E12
Don't Tell Anyone
Tue, Sep 22 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Meet immigrant activist Angy Rivera, the country's only advice columnist for undocumented youth. In a community where silence is often seen as necessary for survival, she steps out of the shadows to share her own parallel experiences of being undocumented and sexually abused.
E13
Art and Craft
Sat, Sep 26 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
The jig is up for art forger Mark Landis, who has donated his expert copies to museums for 30 years. But stopping isn't simple. This cat-and-mouse caper uncovers the universal in one man's search for connection and respect.
E14
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
Sat, Oct 3 2015 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
This stunning dissection of the persecution of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei explores how the government's attempts to silence him have backfired and turned him into an irrepressible voice for free speech and human rights around the globe.
Season 29
14 episodes
E01
The Return
Tue, May 24 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
In 2012, California amended its "Three Strikes" law, suddenly freeing prisoners and turning lives upside down.
E02
Of Men and War
Tue, May 31 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
At a PTSD treatment center in California, follow veterans and their families on their paths to recovery.
E03
The Look of Silence
Tue, Jun 28 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Watch as an optometrist confronts the men who killed his brother in the 1965 Indonesian genocide.
E04
Pervert Park
Tue, Jul 12 2016 1:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Consider how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse - and the silence surrounding it - can be broken.
E05
Iris
Tue, Aug 2 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
30 min
Meet Iris Apfel, a 93-year-old style maven with an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene.
E06
The Birth of Saké
Tue, Sep 6 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Go behind the scenes of Yoshida Brewery to see how artisans create saké, Japan's revered rice wine.
E07
All the Difference
Tue, Sep 13 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Accompany two African-American teens on their journey to achieve a dream of graduating from college.
E08
Kingdom of Shadows
Tue, Sep 20 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Take an unflinching look at the hard choices and destructive consequences of the US-Mexico drug war.
E09
Marathon
Tue, Sep 20 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E10
From This Day Forward
Tue, Oct 11 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E11
Pink Boy
Tue, Oct 11 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
E12
Hooligan Sparrow
Tue, Oct 18 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E13
Thank You for Playing
Tue, Oct 25 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E14
What Tomorrow Brings
Tue, Nov 1 2016 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 30
20 episodes
E01
Dalya's Other Country
Tue, Jun 27 2017 1:00 AM GMT+0000
75 min
Dalya's Other Country tells the nuanced story of members of a family displaced by the Syrian conflict who are remaking themselves after the parents separate. Effervescent teen Dalya goes to Catholic high school and her mother, Rudayna, enrolls in college as they both walk the line between their Muslim values and the new world in which they find themselves.
E02
4.1 Miles
Tue, Jun 27 2017 2:15 AM GMT+0000
24 min
In the Oscar®-nominated short film 4.1 Miles, Daphne Matziaraki follows a day in the life of Kyriakos Papadopoulos, a captain in the Greek coast guard who is caught in the middle of the refugee crisis in which Europe is embroiled. Despite limited resources, the captain and his crew attempt to save thousands of migrants from drowning in the Aegean Sea.
E03
From Damascus to Chicago
Tue, Jun 27 2017 2:40 AM GMT+0000
24 min
In the documentary short From Damascus to Chicago, two young Syrian siblings recently resettled in Chicago enroll in a dance class, while the film follows their family's experiences in navigating a new city and country.
E04
The War Show
Tue, Jul 4 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Radio host Obaidah Zytoon captures the fate of Syria through the intimate lens of a small circle of friends and journalists. Beginning with peaceful Arab Spring protests in 2011, The War Show offers a four-year, ground-level look at how the country spiraled into bloody civil war.
E05
Last Men in Aleppo
Tue, Jul 11 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
After five years of war in Syria, the remaining citizens of Aleppo are getting ready for a siege. Through the eyes of volunteer rescue workers called the White Helmets, Last Men in Aleppo allows viewers to experience the daily life, death, and struggle in the streets, where they are fighting for sanity in a city where war has become the norm.
E06
Presenting Princess Shaw
Tue, Jul 18 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Samantha Montgomery placed her dreams on YouTube. Then they became a reality. Presenting Princess Shaw is the extraordinary story of an aspiring musician, down on her luck, who inspired internationally famous musician, composer and video artist Ophir "Kutiman" Kutiel to create a magical collaboration that would introduce her talent to a whole new audience.
E07
StoryCorps Shorts: Driven
Tue, Jul 18 2017 3:30 AM GMT+0000
3 min
Wendell Scott was the first African American inducted in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. His son, Frank, remembers what it took for his father to cross the finish line at racetracks throughout the South in the '60s and '70s.
E08
Joe's Violin
Tue, Jul 25 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
24 min
In the Oscar-nominated Joe's Violin, a donated musical instrument forges an improbable friendship. 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Joe Feingold and 12-year-old Bronx school girl Brianna Perez show how the power of music can bring light in the darkest of times, and how a small act can have a significant impact.
E09
Shalom Italia
Tue, Jul 25 2017 2:30 AM GMT+0000
60 min
In Shalom Italia, three Italian Jewish brothers set off on a journey through Tuscany, in search of a cave where they hid as children to escape the Nazis. Their quest, full of humor, food and Tuscan landscapes, straddles the boundary between history and myth — a profound, funny, and endearing exploration of individual and communal memory.
E10
Memories of a Penitent Heart
Tue, Aug 1 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo suspected that there was something ugly in her family's past. Memories of a Penitent Heart excavates a buried conflict around her uncle Miguel, who died at a time when AIDS was synonymous with sin. As she searches for Miguel's partner decades later, the film — both a love story and a tribute — offers a cautionary tale of how faith can be used and abused in times of crisis.
E11
Tribal Justice
Tue, Aug 22 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
In Tribal Justice, two Native American judges reach back to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarceration rates, foster greater safety for their communities and create a more positive future for youth. By addressing the root causes of crime, they are modeling restorative systems that are working. Mainstream courts across the country begin to take notice.
E12
Raising Bertie
Tue, Aug 29 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Raising Bertie is an intimate portrait of three African American boys as they face a precarious coming of age in rural Bertie County, North Carolina. Like many rural areas, Bertie County struggles with a dwindling economy, a declining population, and a high school graduation rate below the state average. This powerful vérité film weaves the young men's narratives together as they work to define their identities and grow into adulthood while navigating complex relationships, institutional racism, violence, poverty, and educational inequity.
E13
The Grown-Ups
Tue, Sep 5 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
In a school for individuals with Down Syndrome, four middle-aged friends yearn for a life of greater autonomy in a society that marginalizes them as disabled. The Grown-Ups is a humorous and at times sad and uncomfortable look at the tragic limbo of conscious adults.
E14
My Love, Don't Cross That River
Tue, Sep 12 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
89-year-old Kang Gye-Yeol and 98-year-old Jo Byeong-Man are married and have lived together for 76 years. While Kang and Jo spend every day like a newlywed couple, they now must face the reality of their aging romance. My Love, Don't Cross that River captures the fleeting moments of their twilight days.
E15
Swim Team
Tue, Oct 3 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Parents of a boy on the autism spectrum form a competitive swim team, recruiting other teens on the spectrum and training them with high expectations and zero pity. Swim Team chronicles the extraordinary rise of three diverse young athletes, capturing a moving quest for inclusion, independence and a life that feels like winning.
E16
The Islands and the Whales
Tue, Oct 10 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
On the isolated North Atlantic archipelago of the Faroe Islands, the longtime hunting practices of the Faroese are threatened by dangerously high mercury levels in the whales, decimated seabird populations, and anti-whaling activists. The Faroe islanders consider themselves a canary in the mine, their tale a warning to the rest of the world.
E17
Motherland
Tue, Oct 17 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Motherland is an absorbingly intimate, vérité look at the busiest maternity hospital on the planet, in one of the world's most populous countries: the Philippines. Women share their stories with other mothers, their families, doctors and social workers. In a hospital that is literally bursting with life, we witness the miracle and wonder of the human condition.
E18
Cameraperson
Tue, Oct 24 2017 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into a tapestry of footage captured over the twenty-five-year career of cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. A work that combines documentary, autobiography, and ethical inquiry, Cameraperson is a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world.
E19
Almost Sunrise
Tue, Nov 14 2017 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
In an attempt to put haunting combat experiences behind them, two friends embark on an epic 2,700-mile trek on foot across America, seeking redemption and healing as a way to close the moral chasm opened by war. Almost Sunrise is an intimate, vérité film that eschews stereotypes and instead captures an unprecedented portrait of veterans — one of hope, potential and untold possibilities.
E20
Do Not Resist
Tue, Feb 13 2018 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
A vital and influential exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States. Do Not Resist puts viewers in the center of the action — from inside a police training seminar that teaches the importance of "righteous violence" to the floor of a congressional hearing on the proliferation of military equipment in small-town police departments.
Season 31
20 episodes
E01
Bill Nye: Science Guy
Thu, Apr 19 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Bill Nye is a man on a mission: to stop the spread of anti-scientific thinking across the world. The former star of the popular kids' show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" is now advocating for the importance of science, research and discovery in public life. With intimate and exclusive access as well as plenty of wonder and whimsy this behind-the-scenes portrait of Nye follows him as he takes off his Science Guy lab coat and takes on those who deny climate change, evolution and a science-based worldview. The film features Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan and many others. The film is a PBS Distribution release.
E02
Quest
Tue, Jun 19 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Singing with Angry Bird
Tue, Jun 26 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
Brimstone & Glory
Tue, Jul 3 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
The Workers Cup
Tue, Jul 10 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2
Tue, Jul 17 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Lindy begins a journey to search for the 11 jurors with whom she sentenced a man to death.
E07
The War to Be Her
Tue, Jul 24 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Beatrice
Tue, Jul 24 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E09
Whose Streets?
Tue, Jul 31 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Take an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising, told by the activists leading the movement.
E10
Still Tomorrow
Tue, Aug 7 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
A rural poet whose writings ponder life, love and pain becomes a sudden star in China.
E11
Nowhere to Hide
Tue, Aug 28 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Follow nurse Nori Sharif through five years of dramatic change in one of the world's most dangerous areas: central Iraq.
E12
Voices of the Sea
Tue, Sep 4 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Follow a 30-something Cuban mother of four longing for escape and a better life.
E13
93Queen
Tue, Sep 18 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Meet the tenacious Hasidic women creating an all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City.
E14
Survivors
Tue, Sep 25 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Meet Sierra Leonean healthcare workers as they heroically face the Ebola epidemic in their country.
E15
Dark Money
Tue, Oct 2 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Dark Money, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana—a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide—to follow an intrepid local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. Through this gripping story, Dark Money uncovers the shocking and vital truth of how American elections are bought and sold. Official Selection, 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
E16
The Apology
Tue, Oct 23 2018 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Meet three former "comfort women" forced into military sexual slavery during World War II.
E17
Minding The Gap
Tue, Feb 19 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E18
306 Hollywood
Tue, Mar 19 2019 1:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E19
Wendy's Shabbat
Tue, Mar 19 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E20
116 Cameras
Tue, Mar 19 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Season 32
16 episodes
E01
Roll Red Roll
Tue, Jun 18 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Roll Red Roll exposes the culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America.
E02
The Gospel Of Eureka
Tue, Jun 25 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Arkansas Christians and drag queens step into the spotlight to dismantle stereotypes.
E03
Call Her Ganda
Tue, Jul 2 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Activists pursue justice for a Filipina transgender woman murdered by a U.S. Marine.
E04
Bisbee '17
Tue, Jul 16 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
A town commemorates the 100th anniversary of the deportation of 1,200 immigrant miners.
E05
On Her Shoulders
Tue, Jul 23 2019 1:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
A Yazidi survivor of genocide and sexual slavery tells her story to the United Nations.
E06
Inventing Tomorrow
Tue, Jul 30 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Teen innovators prepare for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world.
E07
The Distant Barking of Dogs
Tue, Aug 6 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Ten-year-old Oleg's life is turned upside down by the ongoing war in Eastern Ukraine.
E08
Happy Winter
Tue, Aug 13 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
A vanity fair of beachgoers hide behind the memory of their compromised social status.
E09
Farmsteaders
Tue, Sep 3 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
The Nolans return home to save their family's farm from industrial agriculture extinction.
E10
Grit
Tue, Sep 10 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
An East Java village seeks reparations from the corporation that buried the town in mud.
E11
The Silence of Others
Tue, Oct 1 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Victims of Spain's dictatorship fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity.
E12
América
Tue, Oct 8 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Three brothers confront adult reality when they care for their 93-year-old grandmother.
E13
The Feeling of Being Watched
Tue, Oct 15 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
In the Chicago suburb where journalist Assia Boundaoui grew up, most residents in her Muslim immigrant neighborhood believe they are under surveillance. Assia investigates and uncovers FBI documents about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal," one of the largest pre-9/11 counterterrorism probes conducted on domestic soil, right in Assia's hometown.
E14
Blowin' Up
Tue, Oct 22 2019 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Working within a broken criminal justice system, a team of rebel heroines work to change the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted. With intimate camerawork that lingers on details and brings the Queens criminal courtroom to life, Blowin' Up celebrates acts of steadfast defiance, even as it reveals the hurdles these women must face.
E15
Midnight Traveler
Tue, Dec 31 2019 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
E16
The Rescue List
Tue, Mar 24 2020 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
In a rehabilitation shelter in Ghana, two children are recovering from enslavement to fishermen. But their story takes an unexpected turn when their rescuer embarks on another mission and asks the children for help. Charting the unfolding drama, The Rescue List tells a moving story of friendship and courage—transcending tropes of victimhood and illustrating what it means to love and survive.
Season 33
14 episodes
E01
And She Could Be Next: Building the Movement
Tue, Jun 30 2020 1:00 AM GMT+0000
120 min
And She Could Be Next follows a defiant movement led by women of color as they fight for a truly reflective democracy and transform politics from the ground up. (Part 1 of 2)
E02
And She Could Be Next: Claiming Power
Wed, Jul 1 2020 1:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
And She Could Be Next follows a defiant movement led by women of color as they fight for a truly reflective democracy and transform politics from the ground up. (Part 2 of 2)
E03
We are the Radical Monarchs
Tue, Jul 21 2020 1:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Meet the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice. Set in Oakland, California, the film documents the journey of the group as they earn badges for completing units on such subjects as LGBTQ allyship, environmental preservation and disability justice.
E04
Advocate
Tue, Jul 28 2020 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
A political firebrand in her home country, Israeli defense attorney Lea Tsemel is known by her opponents as "the devil's advocate," for her decades-long defense of Palestinians who have been accused of resisting the occupation, both violently and non-violently.
E05
Chez Jolie Coiffure
Tue, Aug 4 2020 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Sabine is a charismatic, larger-than-life personality crammed into a tiny shop in the immigrant Brussels district of Matonge. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants and talking about life back home in Cameroon.
E06
About Love
Tue, Aug 11 2020 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Three generations of the Phadke family live together in their home in Mumbai. When the youngest daughter turns the camera towards her family, the personal becomes political as power structures within the family become visible, and eventually unravel. Cruel and comic in equal measure, the film shows the vagaries of affection across generations.
E07
Portraits and Dreams
Tue, Sep 8 2020 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Portraits and Dreams revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where the photos were made. The film is about the students, their work as visionary photographers and the lives they have led since then, as well as the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time.
E08
Love Child
Tue, Sep 15 2020 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
With adultery being punishable by death in Iran, a young couple make the fateful decision to flee the country with their son Mani. Love Child is an intimate love story about an illicit family on a journey to seek asylum in Turkey and start a new life.
E09
In My Blood It Runs
Tue, Sep 22 2020 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Peek into the life of Dujuan, a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy growing up in Alice Springs, Australia. He is a child-healer and a good hunter and speaks three languages. Yet he is failing in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare authorities and the police. As he veers perilously close to incarceration, his family fights to give him a strong Arrernte education alongside his western education.
E10
Our Time Machine
Tue, Sep 29 2020 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer's disease, he creates "Papa's Time Machine," a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets.Through the production of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.
E11
The Infiltrators
Tue, Oct 6 2020 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
A true story of two young immigrants who get purposefully arrested by Border Patrol, and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center. The film follows Marco and Viri, members of a group of radical Dreamers who are on a mission to stop deportations. And the best place to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention.
E12
Softie
Tue, Oct 13 2020 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
After years of fighting injustice in Kenya, daring and audacious political activist Boniface "Softie" Mwangi decides to run for political office. But running a clean campaign against corrupt opponents with idealism as his only weapon proves challenging.
E13
The Mole Agent
Tue, Jan 26 2021 2:30 AM GMT+0000
90 min
When a family grows concerned for their mother's well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio to become a new resident and a mole inside the home. Sergio struggles to balance his assignment with his increasing involvement in the lives of other residents.
E14
Through The Night
Tue, May 11 2021 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Through the Night is a vérité documentary that explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a child care provider, whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, New York.
Season 34
11 episodes
E01
The Neutral Ground
Tue, Jul 6 2021 1:30 AM GMT+0000
90 min
The Neutral Ground documents New Orleans' fight over monuments and America's troubled romance with the Lost Cause. In 2015, director CJ Hunt was filming the New Orleans City Council's vote to remove four confederate monuments. But when that removal is halted by death threats, CJ sets out to understand why a losing army from 1865 still holds so much power in America.
E02
Landfall
Tue, Jul 13 2021 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Through shard-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, Landfall is a cautionary tale for our times. Set against the backdrop of protests that toppled the governor in 2019, the film offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma and resistance as Puerto Ricans navigate dismantled social services and newcomers eager to profit.
E03
Stateless
Tue, Jul 20 2021 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Director Michèle Stephenson's new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent, uncovering the complex history and present-day politics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the grassroots electoral campaign of a young attorney named Rosa Iris.
E04
Mayor
Tue, Jul 27 2021 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Musa Hadid is the Christian mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority. As he tries to keep his city running while paving sidewalks, planning holidays and building a new fountain, his job is made increasingly difficult by the Israeli occupation of his home. Mayor asks with humor and outrage: how do you run a city if you don't have a country?
E05
Pier Kids
Tue, Aug 3 2021 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
On the Christopher Street Pier in New York City, homeless queer and trans youth of color forge friendships and chosen families, withstanding tremendous amounts of abuse while working to carve out autonomy in their lives. With intimate, immersive access to these fearless young people, Pier Kids highlights the precarity and resilience of a community many choose to ignore.
E06
The Song of the Butterflies
Tue, Aug 31 2021 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Rember Yahuarcani is an Indigenous painter from the White Heron clan of the Uitoto Nation in Peru. He left to pursue a successful career in Lima, but when he finds himself in a creative rut, he returns home to his Amazonian community of Pebas, visiting his father, a painter, and his mother, a sculptor, and discovers why the stories of his ancestors cannot be forgotten. A co-presentation of Latino Public Broadcasting and Vision Maker Media. Official Selection, Hot Docs Film Festival
E07
Fruits of Labor
Tue, Oct 5 2021 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Ashley, a Mexican-American teenager living in California, dreams of graduating high school and going to college. But when ICE raids threaten her family, Ashley is forced to become the breadwinner, working days in the strawberry fields and nights at a food processing company.
E08
La Casa de Mama Icha
Tue, Oct 19 2021 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Decades earlier, Mama Icha moved to the United States to help her daughter with the care of her grandchildren. However, she never lost sight of her hometown of Mompox, spending years sending money to build her dream house there. Now, at the end of her life, Mama Icha boards a plane and flies back to Colombia where she finds joy and heartbreak in her return to the place her heart never left.
E09
Things We Dare Not Do
Tue, Oct 26 2021 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Ñoño works up the courage to tell his family he wants to live his life as a woman, a fraught decision in a country shrouded in machismo and transphobia.
E10
North By Current
Tue, Nov 2 2021 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Filmmaker and artist Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown after a family tragedy. Weaving vignettes of VHS and Super 8 home movies with the present day, Madsen creates a poetic, nuanced portrait of a family navigating grief, addiction, and transgender identity.
E11
Unapologetic
Tue, Dec 28 2021 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Meet Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionists whose upbringing and experiences shape their activism and views on Black liberation. Through their lens, Unapologetic provides an inside look into the ongoing movement work that transformed Chicago, from the police murder of Rekia Boyd to the election of mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Season 35
16 episodes
E01
Not Going Quietly
Tue, Jan 25 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
A rising star in progressive politics and new father, Ady Barkan's career and family are upended when he is diagnosed with ALS at age 32. After a chance encounter with a powerful Senator on an airplane catapults him to national fame, Ady and a motley crew of activists storm across the country, igniting a once-in-a-generation movement for healthcare for all Americans.
E02
On the Divide
Tue, Apr 19 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
McAllen, TX is home to the last reproductive health clinic on the Texas/Mexico border. It is the center of the tension between religious protesters who try to stop patients coming inside and the security staff of the clinic who fight to protect it. On The Divide follows three different Latinx members of this community and the unforeseen choices they face for their daily survival.
E03
Wuhan Wuhan
Tue, Jul 12 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
With unprecedented access in a period of pandemic lockdown, Wuhan Wuhan documents February and March 2020 in Wuhan where the coronavirus was first discovered. Going beyond the statistics and salacious headlines, frontline medical workers, patients, and ordinary citizens put a human face on the early days of the mysterious virus as they grapple with an invisible, deadly killer.
E04
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
Tue, Jul 19 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Winter's Yearning
Tue, Jul 26 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the US aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. With the promise of economic renewal, Winter's Yearning follows the lives of the area's loyal aging population and its stymied youth. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first step towards sovereignty.
E06
He's My Brother
Tue, Aug 2 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Christine's brother Peter experiences his world through touch, smell, and taste. Now 30 years old, Peter's family is having trouble finding the proper care for his multiple disabilities. Told through Christine's eyes, He's My Brother explores how the family works to assure him a dignified life once the parents are gone -- and Christine's uncertainties about one day becoming his primary caregiver.
E07
President
Tue, Aug 9 2022 1:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The 2018 Zimbabwean general election serves as the ultimate test for both the ruling party and for the opposition. How will they interpret democracy in a post-Mugabe era – in discourse and in practice?
E08
Faya Dayi
Tue, Aug 30 2022 1:00 AM GMT+0000
120 min
E09
Love & Stuff
Tue, Sep 6 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
"How do you live without your mother?" Filmmaker Judith Helfand asks this unbearable question twice: as a daughter caring for her terminally ill mother, and as an "old new mom," single parenting her much-longed-for adopted baby girl. With footage from 25 years of first-person filmmaking, shiva babka and 63 boxes of dead parents' "stuff," the film asks: what do we really need to leave our children?
E10
Delikado
Tue, Sep 27 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Palawan is a tropical island paradise and one of Asia's tourist hotspots. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders struggling to protect its spectacular forests and seas, it is a battlefield. Delikado follows three land defenders as they brave violence, death threats and murder while trying to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines' last ecological frontier.
E11
The Last Out
Tue, Oct 4 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their dreams of playing in the United States. At the shadowy nexus of the migrant trail and pro sports, The Last Out chronicles their difficult journey, from multi-step immigration obstacles and learning English to the broken promises and dubious motives of agents.
E12
Accepted
Tue, Oct 11 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E13
An Act of Worship
Tue, Oct 18 2022 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
In An Act of Worship, Muslim-Americans recount the past 30 years of pivotal moments in U.S. history and policy from their own perspective. Weaving together observational footage of activists who came of age after 9/11, community-sourced home videos and evocative recollections from individuals impacted by incidents of Islamophobia, the film opens a window into their world through collective memory.
E14
Midwives
Tue, Nov 22 2022 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Midwives chronicles two women who run a makeshift medical clinic in a region torn apart by violent ethnic divisions. Hla, the owner, is a Buddhist in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, are persecuted and denied basic rights. Nyo Nyo is a Muslim and an apprentice. Encouraged and challenged by Hla, Nyo Nyo is determined to become a steady health care provider for her people.
E15
Let the Little Light Shine
Tue, Dec 13 2022 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
An academic beacon for Black children on Chicago's South Side battles gentrification.
E16
I Didn't See You There
Tue, Jan 10 2023 3:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
A disabled filmmaker ruminates on the corrosive legacy of the Freak Show.
Season 36
16 episodes
E01
After Sherman
Tue, Jun 27 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E02
A Story of Bones
Tue, Jul 4 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E03
Liquor Store Dreams
Tue, Jul 11 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E04
A House Made of Splinters
Tue, Jul 18 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E05
Eat Your Catfish
Tue, Jul 25 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E06
Children of the Mist
Tue, Aug 1 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E07
While We Watched
Tue, Sep 5 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
E08
Bulls and Saints
Tue, Sep 19 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
After 20 years in the United States, an undocumented family decides to return home.
E09
Uýra - The Rising Forest
Tue, Sep 26 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Uýra shares ancestral knowledge with Indigenous youth in the Amazon to promote the significance of identity and place, threatened by Brazil's oppressive political regime. Through dance, poetry, and stunning characterization, Uýra confronts historical racism, transphobia, and environmental destruction, while emphasizing the interdependence of humans and the environment.
E10
Murders That Matter
Tue, Oct 3 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
How would you handle the trauma of losing a loved one? Murders That Matter documents African American Muslim mother Movita Johnson-Harrell over five years as she transforms from a victim of violent trauma into a fierce advocate against gun violence in Black communities.
E11
Aurora's Sunrise
Tue, Oct 24 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
At 14, Aurora Madriganian survived the Armenian Genocide and escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Her newfound fame led to her starring in Auction of Souls, one of Hollywood's earliest blockbusters. Blending storybook animation, video testimony, and rediscovered footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives her forgotten story.
E12
Fire Through Dry Grass
Tue, Oct 31 2023 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets aren't typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, their rhymes underscoring the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased.
E13
Wisdom Gone Wild
Tue, Nov 21 2023 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
A vibrant tender cine-poem, a filmmaker collaborates with her Nisei mother as they confront the painful curious reality of wisdom ‘gone wild' in the shadows of dementia. Made over 16 years, the film blends humor and sadness in an encounter between mother and daughter that blooms into an affectionate portrait of love, care, and a relationship transformed.
E14
How to Have an American Baby
Tue, Dec 12 2023 3:00 AM GMT+0000
120 min
How to Have an American Baby is a kaleidoscopic voyage into the shadow economy catering to Chinese tourists who travel to the US to give birth for citizenship. Told through a series of intimately observed vignettes, the story of a hidden global economy emerges–depicting the fortunes and tragedies that befall the ordinary people caught in its web.
E15
Brief Tender Light
Tue, Jan 16 2024 2:30 AM GMT+0000
90 min
At the elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students striving to become agents of positive change back home. Even as their dreams are anchored in the societies they left, their daily realities are defined by America. Each must refine their ideas about the world and about themselves, and ultimately, how to transform youthful ideals into action as adults.
E16
Unseen
Tue, Mar 19 2024 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
As a blind, undocumented immigrant, Pedro faces uncertainty to obtain his college degree, become a social worker, and support his family. Through experimental cinematography and sound, unseen reimagines the accessibility of cinema, while exploring the intersections of immigration, disability, and mental health.
Season 37
14 episodes
E01
King Coal
Tue, Jun 25 2024 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, King Coal meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, and the myths it has created. The film reshapes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking and transcends time and place, untangling the pain from the beauty, and illuminating the innately human capacity for imagination and change.
E02
Hummingbirds
Tue, Jul 2 2024 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
In Hummingbirds, Silvia and Beba tell their own coming-of-age story, transforming their hometown on the Texas-Mexico border into a wonderland of creative expression and activist hijinks. Filmed collaboratively over the final summer of their fleeting youth, their cinematic self-portrait celebrates the power of friendship and joy as tools of survival and resistance Grand Prize, 2023 Berlinale Generation.
E03
Is There Anybody Out There?
Tue, Jul 9 2024 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Born with a rare disability, filmmaker Ella Glendining wonders if there is anyone who can share the experience of living in a body like hers. This simple question–one which non disabled people take for granted, leads to a journey to not only others who live like her–but to the realization that meeting them changes how she views herself in the world, as well as many surprises along the way.
E04
Against the Tide
Tue, Jul 30 2024 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Mumbai fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the great Koli knowledge system—a way to harvest the sea by following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in traditional fishing methods while Ganesh has embraced technology. Against the Tide is the tale of two men's bond fractured by the weight of a changing world and a sea threatened by climate change.
E05
Fauna
Tue, Aug 6 2024 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
An old shepherd and his flock live alongside a high-tech laboratory for animal experimentation. Two worlds that are two sides of the same coin. While the shepherd, afflicted with a bone disease, witnesses his profession disappearing, scientists are busier than ever researching the COVID vaccine. Fauna explores the relationship between humans, animals and science in post-pandemic times.
E06
Name Me Lawand
Tue, Sep 10 2024 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Lawand, deaf from birth, seeks a fresh start with his family in the UK after a traumatic year in a refugee camp. At Derby's Royal School for the Deaf, he learns sign language and discovers a way to communicate with the world. As he thrives, his family faces deportation, challenging their stability. Name Me Lawand is a love letter to the power of friendship and community.
E07
Who's Afraid of Nathan Law
Tue, Sep 24 2024 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
At 21, he was a leader of Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution. By 23, he became Hong Kong's youngest elected lawmaker. At 26, he was Most Wanted under the National Security Law. Who's Afraid of Nathan Law? offers a close look at the city's most famous dissident to uncover what happens to freedom when an authoritarian power goes unchecked.
E08
In the Rearview
Tue, Oct 8 2024 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
In a volunteer aid van occupied by multiple generations of civilians, an authentic, intimate observation of the war in Ukraine unfolds. Each passenger is unique in age, origin and circumstance, but alike in where they find themselves — fleeing their homes while huddled together in a cramped back seat. Bound for Poland, the vehicle operates as their shelter, waiting room, hospital and confessional.
E09
Twice Colonized
Tue, Oct 15 2024 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Aaju Peter is a renowned Inuit lawyer and activist who defends the human rights of Indigenous peoples. She's a fierce protector of her ancestral lands in the Arctic and works to bring her colonizers to justice. As Aaju launches an inspiring effort to establish an Indigenous forum, she also embarks upon a deeply personal journey to mend her own wounds, including the unexpected passing of her son.
E10
Tokyo Uber Blues
Tue, Oct 22 2024 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
Shot with a mix of smartphones and GoPros, filmmaker Taku Aoyagi takes us on his daily bike rides as an Uber Eats worker. But pedaling on Tokyo's deserted streets, delivering boba tea to cloistered condos, he starts to wonder… what was it that Ken Loach said about the Uberization of society? And what does gig-work offer an unemployed young person with student debt?
E11
The Body Politic
Tue, Nov 26 2024 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
The Body Politic is a harbinger of hope in a country plagued by gun violence. In Baltimore, Brandon Scott, an idealistic young leader with an ambitious plan to stop chronic violence, is elected mayor. Throughout his first year in office, we follow him as he fights powerful political forces to save lives in Baltimore and reveal a pathway toward healing for the nation.
E12
Who I am Not
Tue, Dec 31 2024 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Sharon-Rose Khumalo, a South African beauty queen, faces an identity crisis after discovering she's intersex. Her path crosses with Dimakatso Sebidi, a masculine-presenting intersex activist, as they both navigate a journey marked by society's stigma and inner struggles. Intertwining raw reality with poetic beauty, Who I am Not captures the heart-wrenching fight for acceptance in a binary world.
E13
The Taste of Mango
Tue, Apr 29 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
The Taste of Mango is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love. Spanning three generations of women, their narratives, by turns difficult and jubilant, bear witness to the complex, ever-evolving nature of inheritance and the hurt and protection entangled within familial bonds.
E15
Break the Game
Tue, Jul 1 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
After coming out as a trans woman, world-record-holding gamer, Narcissa Wright loses her massive fanbase. To win them back, she attempts to set a new record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, live-streaming every minute of her quest. Break the Game is a moving exploration of gamer culture, the realities of online harassment, and the mental health implications of living a digital life.
Season 38
15 episodes
E01
Union
Tue, Jun 24 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York. Documenting the struggle in intimate cinéma vérité, UNION presents a gripping human drama about the fight for power and dignity in today's globalized economic landscape.
E02
Break the Game
Tue, Jul 1 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
After coming out as a trans woman, world-record-holding gamer, Narcissa Wright loses her massive fanbase. To win them back, she attempts to set a new record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, live streaming every minute of her quest. "Break the Game" is a moving exploration of gamer culture, the realities of online harassment and the mental health implications of living a digital life.
E03
Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place
Tue, Jul 8 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Black activist Francia Márquez rises from rural Colombia to launch a historic presidential campaign that defies the political establishment. By espousing a different way of doing politics and championing equality, she inspires a nationwide movement that challenges centuries of exclusion.
E04
Made in Ethiopia
Tue, Jul 15 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Inside Ethiopia's largest Chinese-run industrial park, three women stand at the crossroads of rapid development. A Chinese director drives ambitious expansion, while a local farmer and factory worker grapple with promises of prosperity and the true cost of progress in their transforming community.
E05
The Ride Ahead
Tue, Jul 22 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Turning 21, Samuel wants his independence. Yet every rite of passage is fraught with challenges and social barriers. Seizures and uncontrollable movements. Inaccessible housing. Degrading ableist encounters. "No one tells you how to be an adult," he says, "let alone an adult with a disability." Can a community of disability activists help him follow his dreams?
E06
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
Wed, Jul 23 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Revisit the Oscar winning story of Maya Lin, the young architect behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial whose design was met with widespread controversy and public attacks. At the intersection of art, politics and creativity she remained steadfast in her personal vision.
E07
Emergent City
Tue, Aug 19 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
Residents of Sunset Park, Brooklyn face rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism and the loss of the industrial jobs that once sustained their community. When a global developer purchases a massive industrial complex on the waterfront and lays plans for an "innovation district," a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself.
E08
A New Kind of Wilderness
Tue, Aug 26 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
60 min
On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Paynes live a purposefully isolated life, striving to be wild and free. But when tragedy strikes, their idyllic world is shattered, forcing them to navigate the expectations of modern society. This intimate and soulful documentary explores love, growing up, and how we navigate life after loss.
E09
DRIVER
Tue, Sep 2 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
After losing everything, Desiree Wood takes a second lease on life as a long-haul trucker. Alongside an irreverent group of women drivers, she fights for a life on the road. In a rapidly changing labor landscape, Desiree and her sisterhood of truckers rally against the crushing forces of an industry that is indifferent to their survival.
E10
The Age of Water
Tue, Sep 9 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
When three children die of leukemia in a rural Mexican community, two mothers partner with a scientist to investigate their water supply. Their discovery of dangerous radioactivity leads to community backlash and government denial, revealing how deep aquifers harbor ancient nuclear traces from the last ice age.
E11
Black Snow
Tue, Sep 16 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
In a remote Siberian coal town, homemaker-turned-journalist Natalia Zubkova investigates an abandoned mine fire releasing toxic gas into residential homes. When her reporting goes viral, government officials launch an aggressive cover-up campaign, putting her directly in their crosshairs.
E12
The Bitter Pill
Tue, Sep 23 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
When attorney Paul Farrell Jr. takes on pharmaceutical giants to help his opioid-ravaged West Virginia hometown, his innovative legal strategy catches fire. As his local battle transforms into the largest civil litigation in U.S. history, he must navigate increasingly high stakes to secure justice—not just for his community, but for an entire nation in crisis.
E13
Porcelain War
Tue, Sep 30 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
As war ravages their homeland, three artists choose to stay in their native Ukraine, armed with their art, their cameras, and for the first time in their lives, their guns. A stunning tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, embodying the enduring hope and passion of ordinary people living through extraordinary circumstances.
E14
A Mother Apart
Tue, Oct 14 2025 2:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
In a powerful story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin re-imagines mothering after being abandoned by her own. In a journey to seek out her elusive mother, Staceyanne travels across Brooklyn, Montreal, Cologne, and Jamaica while building a new sense of home with her own daughter.
E15
Between Goodbyes
Tue, Dec 9 2025 3:00 AM GMT+0000
90 min
When a queer Korean adoptee reunites with her birth mother in Seoul, long-buried cultural misunderstandings and unspoken regrets surface. With tenderness, humor, and determination, both mother and daughter navigate the heart-wrenching legacy of international adoption.