Point of View
Point of View

Point of View

1988 39 Seasons 518 Episodes ⭐ 6.9 Documentary

Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social issues by relating a compelling story in an intimate fashion. "POV" has won virtually every major film and broadcasting award available, including 38 Emmys, 22 Peabody Awards and three Oscars.

Since its 1988 premiere, this critically acclaimed documentary series has presented hundreds of films that put a human face on contemporary social issues by relating a compelling story in an intimate fashion. "POV" has won virtually every major film and broadcasting award available, including 38 Emmys, 22 Peabody Awards and three Oscars.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Acting Our Age

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

EP 2

American Tongues

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

EP 3

Fire From the Mountain

Based on the autobiography of Nicaraguan author Omar Cabezas, Fire From the Mountain is the lyrical, earthy, sometimes h

EP 4

Knocking on Armageddon's Door

Half comedy, half horror story, this disturbing film focuses on several spokesmen for America's survivalist movement as

EP 5

Living with AIDS

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

EP 6

Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

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

EP 7

The Good Fight

Five years before the United States entered World War II, 3,200 Americans went off to Europe to fight the spread of fasc

EP 8

Louie Bluie

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

EP 9

Gates of Heaven

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

EP 10

Best Boy

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

EP 11

Rate It X

Rate It X is a bitingly funny and disarming journey through the landscape of American sexism. Men only are interviewed b

EP 12

Metropolitan Avenue

Metropolitan Avenue is an inspiring contemporary story about women who strive to combine new roles and old values in our

EP 1

Girltalk

A heartbreaking yet hopeful portrait of three runaway girls with histories of abuse and neglect. Pinky, a Puerto Rican g

EP 2

Who Killed Vincent Chin?

On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball

EP 3

Coming Out

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

EP 4

Wise Guys!

A stamp dealer from Los Angeles, a former school teacher form Miami, a born again Christian from Las Vegas, and a whiz-k

EP 5

The Family Album

Home movies and tape recordings collected from 60 different American families comprise a composite lifetime which moves

EP 6

Dark Circle

Denounced by officials and shunned by broadcasters when it was first released, this exploration of the personal and imme

EP 7

Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason

A bold and unconventional film portrait of one of America's leading Social Realist painters doing what he does best: ske

EP 8

No Applause, Just Throw Money

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

EP 9

Partisans of Vilna

The untold story of a handful of Jewish youth who organized an underground resistance against the Nazis in the Lithuania

EP 10

The Fighting Ministers

Moved by the growing desperation of thousands of laid-off steel workers, a group of ministers in Pittsburgh begins to co

EP 11

Binge

Videomaker Lynn Hershman places herself center-screen for an intimate, humorous, and piercing narrative about her effort

EP 12

Cowboy Poets

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

EP 13

Doug and Mike, Mike and Doug

The inner and outer lives of identical twins Doug and Mike Starn, whose collaborative painting and photographic work is

EP 14

Lost Angeles

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

EP 1

Through the Wire

An underground, high-security isolation unit at the Federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky, was built to house three fema

EP 2

Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman

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

EP 3

Larry Wright

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

EP 4

On Ice

Cryonics — the freezing of human beings after death for future revival — is the focus of this off-beat film by two s

EP 5

Salesman

In its national broadcast premiere, this bittersweet classic from pioneering filmmakers follows four door-to-door Bible

EP 6

Police Chiefs

Three big-city police chiefs reveal sharply differing philosophies of law enforcement. Daryl Gates introduced SWAT to Lo

EP 7

Kamala and Raji

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

EP 8

Days of Waiting

Artist Estelle Peck Ishigo went with her Japanese American husband into an internment camp during World War II, one of t

EP 9

Golub

The role of art in America has been debated everywhere from the Halls of Congress to the local shopping mall. More than

EP 10

Green Streets

If a tree can grow in Brooklyn, can an eggplant flourish in the Bronx? Community gardens in New York City have helped to

EP 11

Going Up

The creation of a skyscraper is transformed into a breathtaking visual experience as time-lapse photography, hard hat ba

EP 12

Motel

Behind the faded signs of three motels in the American Southwest lay entire worlds of passion, loyalty, adventure and fa

EP 13

Ossian: American Boy, Tibetan Monk

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

EP 14

¡Teatro!

Founded by a Jesuit priest from St. Louis, a grassroots theatre company takes its shows on the unpaved roads of Honduras

EP 15

People Power

After years of witnessing firsthand the horrors of guerrilla wars, Israeli-born producer Ilan Ziv traveled to Chile, the

EP 16

Letter to the Next Generation

Are college students today apathetic and self-centered? Twenty years after National Guardsmen opened fire on student ant

EP 1

Absolutely Positive

Peter Adair asks 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share their stories about

EP 2

Marc and Ann

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

EP 3

Plena Is Work, Plena Is Song

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

EP 4

Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing

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

EP 5

Honorable Nations

For 99 years, the residents of Salamanca, N.Y. have rented the land under their homes for an average of $1/year from the

EP 6

Chemical Valley

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

EP 7

Sea of Oil

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

EP 8

Turn Here Sweet Corn

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

EP 9

Tongues Untied

Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns (and sometimes all at once), this exploration of what it means to be black and

EP 10

Berkeley in the Sixties

From the Free Speech Movement to the anti-war protests to the last stand over People's Park, Berkeley, California became

EP 11

A Little Vicious

A pit bull, his elderly master, and a dog trainer/philosopher form a curious love triangle. Elegantly crafted, wryly nar

EP 12

The Big Bang

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

EP 13

Maria's Story

Maria Serrano, El Salvadoran wife, mother, and guerrilla leader, helps plan a major nationwide offensive that led to the

EP 14

Homes Apart

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

EP 15

Where the Heart Roams

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

EP 16

Casting the First Stone

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

EP 17

Short Notice: A Series of Short Films

EP 1

Episode 1

EP 2

Intimate Stranger

EP 3

Finding Christa

EP 4

Last Images of War

EP 5

The Longest Shadow

EP 6

A Season in Hell

EP 7

Promise Not to Tell

EP 8

Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance Vs. Judas Priest

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

EP 9

Fast Food Women

EP 10

Takeover

EP 11

Faith Even to the Fire

EP 12

Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics

EP 13

Pets or Meat

EP 14

Roger and Me

EP 1

Silverlake Life: The View From Here

EP 2

Who's Going To Pay For These Donuts, Anyway?

EP 3

When Your Head's Not A Head, It's A Nut

EP 4

Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama

EP 5

For Better Or For Worse

EP 6

Motel

EP 7

Money Man

EP 8

Building Bombs: The Legacy

EP 9

Miami-Havana

EP 10

Cousin Bobby

Cousin Bobby is a 1992 American documentary film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film focuses on Demme's cousin, Robert

EP 11

The Women Next Door

EP 12

Sa-I-Gu

EP 1

Time Indefinite

EP 2

One Nation Under God

EP 3

Memories of Tata

EP 4

The End of the Nightstick

EP 5

The Heart of the Matter

EP 6

Passin' It On

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

EP 7

Hearts of Darkness

EP 8

Dialogues with Madwomen

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

EP 9

The Times of a Sign: A Folk History of the Iran-Contra Scandal

EP 10

Escape From China

EP 1

Leona's Sister Gerri

EP 2

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter is a 1994 documentary film directed by Deborah Hoffmann, with her wife, Frances Reid, a

EP 3

No Place Like Home

EP 4

Out of Sight

EP 5

Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy

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

EP 6

Lighting the 7th Fire

EP 7

Twitch and Shout

EP 8

Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia

EP 9

Dealers Among Dealers

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

EP 10

Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business

EP 1

Taking On The Kennedys

EP 2

¡Palante Siempre Palante! The Young Lords

EP 3

Personal Belongings

EP 4

A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde

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

EP 5

a.k.a. Don Bonus

"Although Ny admits that it is very uncomfortable for a traditional Cambodian family to talk about its secrets publicly,

EP 6

No Loans Today

EP 7

The Transformation

EP 8

The Women Outside

EP 9

Just For The Ride

EP 10

Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself

EP 11

Xich-lo (Cyclo)

EP 12

Taken for a Ride

This documentary exposes the role of General Motors' in the "Great American Street Car Scandal" of the 1930s. The scanda

EP 13

Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision

EP 1

Nobody's Business

EP 2

Battle for the Minds

EP 3

A Healthy Baby Girl

EP 4

Jesse's Gone

EP 5

Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary

EP 6

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

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

EP 7

In Whose Honor?

Takes a critical look at the long-standing practice of 'honoring' American Indians by using their names for mascots and

EP 8

Girls Like Us

EP 9

Blacks and Jews

EP 10

A Perfect Candidate

Disproving the adage that there are no second acts in American life, Iran/Contra legend Oliver North re-emerged to chall

EP 1

Baby, It's You

EP 2

Tobacco Blues

EP 3

The Band

EP 4

Licensed to Kill

EP 5

Kelly Loves Tony

EP 6

If I Can't Do It

EP 7

Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour

EP 8

The Vanishing Line

EP 9

Sacrifice

EP 10

She Shorts: Cuba 15

EP 11

She Shorts: Repetition Compulsion

EP 12

She Shorts: Two or Three Things But Nothing For Sure

EP 13

Family Name

EP 1

The Legacy

EP 2

Well-Founded Fear

Well-Founded Fear is a 2000 documentary film from directors Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini. The film takes its tit

EP 3

Golden Threads

EP 4

In My Corner

EP 5

The Green Monster

EP 6

Rabbit In The Moon

EP 7

Corpus: A Home Movie For Selena

Corpus: A Home Movie about Selena is a film by filmmaker, Lourdes Portillo about Mexican American singer-songwriter Sele

EP 8

School Prayer: A Community At War

EP 9

The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez

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

EP 10

Regret to Inform

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

EP 1

Butterfly

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

EP 2

La Boda

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

EP 3

Stranger With A Camera

Stranger With A Camera is a 2000 documentary film by director Elizabeth Barret investigating the circumstances surroundi

EP 4

Blink

Ex-white supremacist Ron Withrow, who founded the White Students Union at a California college, discusses why he became

EP 5

Our House in Havana

Following Cuban expatriate Silvia Moroni Heath, the daughter of a sugar planter, as she returns to her homeland after an

EP 6

Dreamland

Gambling hits home in filmmaker Lisanne Skyler's perceptive profile of Las Vegas residents living with constant temptati

EP 7

American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land

Exploring the secretive and largely unassimilated Romani culture as it follows one Spokane, Wash., Gypsy family. That fa

EP 8

KPFA on the Air

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

EP 9

Live Free or Die

Following abortion politics as they played out during the 1990s in one U.S. town, Bedford, N.H. It focuses on OB/GYN Way

EP 10

First Person Plural

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

EP 1

Scout's Honor

EP 2

The Sweetest Sound

EP 3

My American Girls: A Dominican Story

EP 4

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story

EP 5

True-Hearted Vixens

EP 6

Take It from Me

EP 7

In the Light of Reverence

A beautifully rendered account of the struggles of the Lakota in the Black Hills, the Hopi in Arizona and the Wintu in C

EP 8

Life and Debt

Life and Debt is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, gov

EP 9

High School

EP 10

5 Girls

EP 11

Promises

EP 1

Hybrid

Milford Beeghly discusses his company Beeghly's Best Hybrids.

EP 2

Refrigerator Mothers

It is America of the 1950s and 1960s, when a woman's most important contribution to society is generally considered to b

EP 3

Fenceline: A Company Town Divided

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

EP 4

Sweet Old Song

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

EP 5

Mai's America

A high school girl leaves Hanoi and comes to Mississippi.

EP 6

Senorita Extraviada

Circumstances surrounding the discovery of the remains of more than 200 murdered girls in the desert around Juarez, Mexi

EP 7

Escuela

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

EP 8

Afghanistan 1380

Surgeon Gino Strada and coordinator Kate Rowlands try to provide medical and humanitarian support to civilian victims of

EP 9

Boomtown

EP 11

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin is a 2003 documentary film written by Marc Weiss and directed by Nancy D. Ka

EP 12

Two Towns of Jasper

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

EP 13

Flag Wars

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

EP 14

Larry v. Lockney

A farmer in Lockney, Texas, makes headlines after he refuses the school permission to test his son for drugs during rand

EP 1

Discovering Dominga

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

EP 2

Georgie Girl

What are the chances that a former prostitute could be elected a Member of the Parliament of New Zealand by a conservati

EP 3

The Flute Player

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

EP 4

90 Miles

90 Miles is a 2001 documentary film written and directed by Juan Carlos Zaldívar. The film is a recounting of the event

EP 5

American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i

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

EP 6

West 47th Street

West 47th Street is a documentary film produced by Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples of the Peabody Award-winning Licht

EP 7

Family Fundamentals

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

EP 8

Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam; The Sixth Section

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

EP 9

State of Denial

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

EP 10

What I Want My Words to Do to You

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

EP 11

Larry v. Lockney

EP 12

Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas

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

EP 13

Love & Diane

Flag Wars is a poignant account of the politics and pain of gentrification. Working-class black residents in Columbus, O

EP 1

Farmingville

"In the current frigid national climate facing economic migrants, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini enter the trauma

EP 2

War Feels Like War

War Feels Like War is a 2004 British documentary film. It was broadcast in the United States as part of the P.O.V. serie

EP 3

Thirst

Global corporations who buy up local water supplies and sell for profit, including a look at tensions in Bolivia, India

EP 4

Last Man Standing: Politics---Texas Style

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

EP 5

A Family Undertaking

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

EP 6

Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story

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

EP 7

Every Mother's Son

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

EP 8

Freedom Machines

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

EP 9

A Panther in Africa

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

EP 10

Chisholm '72

Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.

EP 11

The Education of Shelby Knox

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

EP 12

Big Enough

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

EP 13

Lost Boys of Sudan

Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from A

EP 14

Wattstax

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

EP 15

Episode 15

EP 16

Episode 16

EP 1

Chisholm `72: Unbought & Unbossed

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

EP 2

The Education of Shelby Knox

The Education of Shelby Knox is 2005 documentary film that tells the coming-of-age story of public speaker and feminist

EP 3

Big Enough

A follow-up to the 1982 Emmy-nominated film Little People, Big Enough is a 2004 documentary film about Anu Trombino, Kar

EP 4

Street Fight

EP 5

The Fire Next Time

EP 6

The Brooklyn Connection

EP 7

The Self-Made Man

EP 8

In the Realms of the Unreal

In the Realms of the Unreal is a 2004 documentary about outsider artist Henry Darger. An obscure janitor during his lif

EP 9

Hardwood

Hardwood is a 2005 short documentary film about Canadian director Hubert Davis' relationship to his father, former Harle

EP 10

Bright Leaves

Bright Leaves is a 2003 documentary film by independent filmmaker Ross McElwee about the association his family had with

EP 11

Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust

Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust is 2004 documentary film about Menachem Daum, an Orthodox Je

EP 12

The Hobart Shakespeareans

The Hobart Shakespeareans of Hobart Boulevard Elementary School is a 2005 documentary film that tells the story of the i

EP 13

Omar & Pete

EP 14

A Thousand Words

EP 15

A Song for Daniel

EP 16

I Used to Be a Filmmaker

EP 1

No More Tears Sister

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

EP 2

Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball

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

EP 3

Tintin and I

Why do the comic-strip Adventures of Tintin, about an intrepid boy reporter, continue to fascinate us decades after thei

EP 4

The Fall of Fujimori

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

EP 5

The Tailenders

Global Recordings Network (GRN), founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,

EP 6

Al Otro Lado

The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music—captured in the performances of Mexican band Los Tigres del Norte and the

EP 7

Lomax the Songhunter

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

EP 8

Waging a Living

The term "working poor" should be an oxymoron. If you work full time, you should not be poor, but more than 30 million A

EP 9

The Boys of Baraka

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

EP 10

Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

In the wake of his stepfather’s death, Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey of reconciliation with the man who rai

EP 11

No Bigger Than a Minute

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

EP 12

Maquilapolis: City of Factories

Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive factories often owned by the world's large

EP 13

My Country, My Country

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

EP 14

Lawn

EP 1

Rain in a Dry Land

How do you measure the distance from an African village to an American city? What does it mean to be a refugee in today'

EP 2

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars

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

EP 3

Standing Silent Nation

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

EP 4

Revolution '67

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

EP 5

The Chances of the World Changing

A decade ago, after an epiphany at a New York restaurant, Richard Ogust began dedicating his time and resources to rescu

EP 6

Prison Town, USA

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

EP 7

Following Sean

Thirty years after making a celebrated student short about a four-year-old child of free spirits living in San Francisco

EP 8

Arctic Son

In Arctic Son, the clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and son at odds in the village of Old Crow, 80

EP 9

Libby, Montana

Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies in Montana—as iconic a representation of America’s “purple

EP 10

Made in L.A.

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

EP 11

The Camden 28

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

EP 12

Lumo

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

EP 13

49 Up

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

EP 14

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, has emerged as one of the country’

EP 1

Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North

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

EP 2

Election Day

Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in to

EP 3

The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández

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

EP 4

The Last Conquistador

Renowned sculptor John Houser has a dream: to build the world's tallest bronze equestrian statue for the city of El Paso

EP 5

9 Star Hotel

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

EP 6

Campaign

This is democracy — Japanese style. Campaign provides a startling insider's view of Japanese electoral politics in thi

EP 7

Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music

In this classic 1969 documentary, the Man in Black is captured at his peak, the first of many in a looming roller-coaste

EP 8

Belarusian Waltz

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

EP 9

The Judge and the General

When in 1998 Chilean judge Juan Guzmán was assigned the first criminal cases against the country's ex-dictator, General

EP 10

Calavera Highway

When brothers Armando and Carlos Peña set off to carry their mother's ashes to south Texas, their road trip turns into

EP 11

Critical Condition

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

EP 12

In the Family

How much would you sacrifice to survive? When Chicago filmmaker Joanna Rudnick tested positive for the "breast cancer ge

EP 13

Up the Yangtze

Nearing completion, China's massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people living along the

EP 14

Soldiers of Conscience

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

EP 15

Inheritance

Imagine watching Schindler's List and knowing the sadistic Nazi camp commandant played by Ralph Fiennes was your father.

EP 1

New Muslim Cool

Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez pulled himself out of drug dealing and street life 12 years ago and became a M

EP 2

Beyond Hatred

In September 2002, three skinheads were roaming a park in Rheims, France, looking to "do an Arab," when they settled for

EP 3

Life.Support.Music

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

EP 4

The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court is the first permanent court to prosecute perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war

EP 5

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

Filmed over 23 years, The Betrayal is the Academy Award-nominated directorial debut of renowned cinematographer Ellen Ku

EP 6

Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go

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

EP 7

Shorts Program

A collection of short documentaries, including "Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall," about the 7-million-

EP 8

This Way Up

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

EP 9

Ella es el Matador (She Is the Matador)

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

EP 10

English Surgeon

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

EP 11

The Principal Story

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

EP 12

Bronx Princess

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

EP 13

The Way We Get By

On call 24 hours a day for the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting over 900,000 Ame

EP 14

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

Take a remarkable plunge into the life, art, memories and philosophical reflections of the legendary rocker, poet and ar

EP 1

Food, Inc.

How much do we know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? Though our food appears t

EP 2

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

EP 3

The Beaches of Agnès

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

EP 4

Promised Land

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

EP 5

Good Fortune

Good Fortune is a provocative exploration of how massive international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be und

EP 6

El General

Past and present collide as award-winning filmmaker Natalia Almada (Al Otro Lado, POV 2006) brings to life audio recordi

EP 7

Presumed Guilty

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

EP 8

Salt

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

EP 9

The Edge of Dreaming

Scottish filmmaker Amy Hardie has built a career making science documentaries that reflect her rational temperament. Whe

EP 10

Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy

What is it like to be torn from your Chinese foster family, put on a plane with strangers and wake up in a new country,

EP 11

Off and Running

Off and Running is the story of Brooklyn teenager Avery, a track star with a bright future. She is the adopted African-A

EP 12

In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee

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

EP 13

The Oath

Filmed in Yemen and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, The Oath interweaves the stories of Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden’s former bod

EP 14

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers is a 2009 documentary film directed by Judith

EP 1

Kings of Pastry

When Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker, award-winning filmmakers of The War Room, Startup.com and Don’t Look Back, turn

EP 2

My Perestroika

My Perestroika is an intimate look at the last generation of Soviet children. Five classmates go from living sheltered c

EP 3

Sweetgrass

Sweetgrass presents a riveting and poetic portrait of the American West just as one of its traditional ways of life dies

EP 4

Enemies of the People

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

EP 5

Biblioburro: The Donkey Library

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

EP 6

Mugabe and the White African

Mugabe and the White African, much of which was filmed clandestinely, tells an alarming story from one of the world’s

EP 7

Steam of Life

From a land of long, dark winters comes Steam of Life, a moody, comic and moving study of Finnish men as framed by the n

EP 8

POV Short Cuts

A one-hour collection of documentary shorts by established and emerging filmmakers, including: Big Birding Day – Dav

EP 9

Armadillo

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

EP 10

Better This World

The story of Bradley Crowder and David McKay, who were accused of intending to firebomb the 2008 Republican National Con

EP 11

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front explores two of America’s most pressing issues — environmenta

EP 12

The Learning

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

EP 13

Last Train Home

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

EP 14

Where Soldiers Come From

From a small town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan, "Where Soldiers Come From" follows the journey o

EP 15

Racing Dreams

'Racing Dreams' chronicles a year in the life of three "tweens" who dream of becoming NASCAR drivers. Though they aren't

EP 16

American Tongues

EP 17

American Gypsy

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

EP 1

My Reincarnation

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

EP 2

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

In a stunning milestone for justice in Central America, a Guatemalan court recently charged former dictator Efraín Rios

EP 3

The City Dark

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

EP 4

Guilty Pleasures

Every four seconds a romance novel published by Harlequin or its British counterpart, Mills & Boon, is sold somewhere in

EP 5

The Light in Her Eyes

Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur’an school for girls in Damascus, Syria, 30 years ago. E

EP 6

Up Heartbreak Hill

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

EP 7

POV Short Cuts

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

EP 8

I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful

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

EP 9

El Velador (The Night Watchman)

From dusk to dawn, 'El Velador' accompanies Martin, a guard who watches over the extravagant mausoleums of some of Mexic

EP 10

Give Up Tomorrow

Exposing shocking corruption within the judicial system of the Philippines in one of the most sensational trials in the

EP 11

Sun Kissed

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

EP 12

Nostalgia for the Light

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

EP 13

Reportero

A veteran reporter and his colleagues at an independent newsweekly defy powerful drug cartels and corrupt officials to c

EP 14

Girl Model

A lyrical exploration of youth, beauty and ambition, seen through the eyes of a conflicted American scout and a 13-year-

EP 1

Homegoings

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

EP 2

Special Flight

Special Flight is a dramatic account of the plight of undocumented foreigners at the Frambois detention center in Geneva

EP 3

Herman's House

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

EP 4

Only the Young

Three teens in a Southern California town wrestle with questions of love and friendship along with adult realities of fi

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xoxosms

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

EP 6

High Tech, Low Life

High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first citizen-reporters, bloggers who are fighting censorship to document t

EP 7

Neurotypical

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

EP 8

The Law in These Parts

For the first time, Israeli military and legal professionals who devised the legal framework behind the occupation are i

EP 9

5 Broken Cameras

Oscar®nominee 5 Broken Cameras depicts life in a West Bank village where a security fence is being built. The film was

EP 10

Ping Pong

Seven players with 620 years between them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships. Ping Pong is a medita

EP 11

The World Before Her

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

EP 12

Best Kept Secret

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

EP 13

Brooklyn Castle

Brooklyn public school I.S. 318, serving mostly minority students from working-class families, has won more than 30 nati

EP 14

56 Up

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

EP 15

Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special

Celebrate the transformative power of listening with this animated special from the oral history project StoryCorps, whi

EP 16

American Promise

American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brookl

EP 1

When I Walk

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

EP 2

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

A profile of 98-year-old Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese-American social activist in Detroit who has spent much of her adult

EP 3

My Way to Olympia

Filmmaker Niko von Glasow profiles participants at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, including a one-handed Norwegian

EP 4

Getting Back to Abnormal

The changed realities of post-Katrina New Orleans, including a population that is less African-American and less poor th

EP 5

Dance for Me

The world of professional ballroom dancing in Denmark, where participants often look beyond the country's borders for th

EP 6

Fallen City

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

EP 7

15 to Life: Kenneth's Story

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

EP 8

A World Not Ours

A family's experience living in a Lebanese refugee camp for multiple generations. Love and family are tinged with desper

EP 9

Big Men

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

EP 10

After Tiller

The story of the four abortion doctors that remained in Wichita, Kansas after the assassination of George Tiller in 2009

EP 11

The Genius of Marian

Pam White and her family struggle to retain her memories and life by recording their interactions in the face of an Alzh

EP 12

Koch

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

EP 13

The Act of Killing

Joshua Oppenheimer visits men accused of playing a key role in the killing of over one-million Indonesians in 1965. Init

EP 1

Out in the Night

Season 28 opens with "Out in the Night," about four African-American lesbian friends who became embroiled in a melee wit

EP 2

The Overnighters

"The Overnighters," about the North Dakota oil boom, details the goings-on at a Williston church whose pastor turned it

EP 3

Tough Love

A single dad in Seattle and a mother of two in NYC navigate the child welfare system in hopes of regaining custody of th

EP 4

Web Junkie

A look at Internet addiction in China via the experiences of teens at Daxing Boot Camp in Beijing, one of some 400 rehab

EP 5

Return to Homs

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

EP 6

Tea Time

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

EP 7

Beats of the Antonov

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

EP 8

Neuland

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

EP 9

Point and Shoot

Ride shotgun with Matt VanDyke, who films his self-transformation from a timid 26-year-old to a motorcycle-driving rebel

EP 10

The Storm Makers

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

EP 11

Cutie and the Boxer

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

EP 12

Don't Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie)

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

EP 13

Art and Craft

A cat-and-mouse caper told with humor and compassion, Art and Craft uncovers the universal in one man's search for conne

EP 14

Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

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

EP 1

The Return

An unprecedented reform to California's "Three Strikes" law seen through the eyes of those on the front lines – prison

EP 2

Of Men and War

At a first-of-its-kind PTSD treatment center in California, follow Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families on t

EP 3

The Look of Silence

An optometrist identifies the men who killed his brother in the horrific 1965 Indonesian genocide. He confronts them whi

EP 4

Pervert Park

Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all battling their own demons as they work toward

EP 5

Iris

Iris pairs the late documentarian Albert Maysles, then 87, with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-ye

EP 6

EXIT: A Mobile Guide to the Post Apocalypse

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

EP 7

The Birth of Saké

Go behind the scenes at Japan's Yoshida Brewery, where a brotherhood of artisans, ranging from 20 to 70, spend six month

EP 8

All the Difference

The largely invisible and often crushing struggles of young African-American men come vividly--and heroically--to life i

EP 9

Kingdom of Shadows

Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz takes an unflinching look at the hard choices and destructive consequences of t

EP 10

From This Day Forward

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

EP 11

Hooligan Sparrow

The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows maverick activist Ye Haiyan (aka Hooligan Sparrow)

EP 12

Thank You For Playing

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

EP 13

What Tomorrow Brings

Inside the very first girls' school in a small Afghan village, education goes far beyond the classroom as the students d

EP 1

Dalya's Other Country

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

EP 2

4.1 Miles

Daphne Matziaraki follows a day in the life of Kyriakos Papadopoulos, a captain in the Greek Coast Guard who is caught i

EP 3

The War Show

Radio host Obaidah Zytoon captures the fate of Syria through the intimate lens of a small circle of friends and journali

EP 4

Last Men in Aleppo

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

EP 5

Presenting Princess Shaw

Samantha Montgomery placed her dreams on YouTube. Then they became a reality. Presenting Princess Shaw is the extraordin

EP 6

Shalom Italia

In Shalom Italia, three Italian Jewish brothers set off on a journey through Tuscany, in search of a cave where they hid

EP 7

Joe's Violin

A donated musical instrument forges an improbable friendship. 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Joe Feingold and 12-year-ol

EP 8

Memories of a Penitent Heart

Filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo suspected that there was something ugly in her family's past. Memories of a Penitent Heart e

EP 9

Tribal Justice

Two Native American judges reach back to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarceration rates, foster

EP 10

Raising Bertie

An intimate portrait of three African American boys as they face a precarious coming of age in rural Bertie County, Nort

EP 11

The Grown-Ups

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

EP 1

Bill Nye: Science Guy

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

EP 2

Quest

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

EP 3

Singing With Angry Bird

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

EP 4

Brimstone & Glory

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

EP 5

The Workers Cup

African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar participate in a football tour

EP 6

Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2

A juror deals with guilt and regret after she and 11 others hand down the death penalty to a Mississippi man convicted o

EP 7

Girl Unbound

Maria Toorpakai represents Pakistan as an internationally competitive squash player.

EP 8

Whose Streets?

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

EP 9

Still Tomorrow

Yu Xiuhua, a 39-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy, deals with fame when her book of poetry becomes a best-seller in

EP 10

Nowhere To Hide

Male nurse Nori Sharif and his family experience many changes as conflicts continue with Iraqi militias and the Islamic

EP 11

Voices of the Sea

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

EP 12

93Queen

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

EP 13

Survivors

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

EP 14

Dark Money

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

EP 15

The Apology

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

EP 16

Minding the Gap

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

EP 17

306 Hollywood

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

EP 1

Roll Red Roll

At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was raped by members of the beloved

EP 2

The Gospel of Eureka

Faith, love and civil rights collide on voting day in a small Southern town that hosts a famous performance of the last

EP 3

Call Her Ganda

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in t

EP 4

Bisbee 17

Residents of Bisbee, Ariz., commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation when 1,200 immigrant miners were

EP 5

On Her Shoulders

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

EP 6

Inventing Tomorrow

Take a journey with young minds from around the globe as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high s

EP 7

The Distant Barking of Dogs

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

EP 8

Happy Winter

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

EP 9

Farmsteaders

Clear-eyed and intimate, Farmsteaders follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a journey to resurrect his late grandfa

EP 10

Grit

A teenager recruits her neighbours to fight against a multinational natural gas drilling company allegedly responsible f

EP 11

The Silence of Others

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

EP 12

America

When a man and his brothers return to their hometown of Colima, Mexico, to care for their grandmother, they clash over m

EP 13

The Feeling of Being Watched

Journalist Assia Boundaoui uncovers FBI documents about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal," a pre-9/11 counterterrorist probe c

EP 14

Blowin’ Up

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

EP 15

Midnight Traveler

The dangers facing refugees seeking asylum come to light as Afghan director Hassan Fazili documents his family's journey

EP 16

The Rescue List

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

EP 17

Episode 17

EP 1

And She Could Be Next, Part 1

The story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up by fighting for a truly refl

EP 2

And She Could Be Next, Part 2

The story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up by fighting for a truly refl

EP 3

We Are the Radical Monarchs

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

EP 4

Advocate

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

EP 5

Chez Jolie Coiffure

In this captivating documentary filmed in a single tiny room, viewers step inside an underground hair salon with its cha

EP 6

About Love

Three generations of the Phadke family live together in their home in Mumbai. When the youngest daughter turns the camer

EP 7

Portraits and Dreams

Photographs taken by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s, their lives since then, and the linkage of personal memory to

EP 8

Love Child

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

EP 9

In My Blood It Runs

Ten-year-old Aboriginal Dujuan is a child-healer, a good hunter and speaks three languages.Yet Dujuan is ‘failing’ i

EP 10

Our Time Machine

When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, he creates “Papa’s Time Machine,”

EP 11

The Infiltrators

Two young immigrants, members of a group of radical Dreamers, are arrested by Border Patrol and put in a for-profit dete

EP 12

Softie

Political activist Boniface "Softie" Mwangi runs for office in a regional Kenyan election, but learns that conducting a

EP 13

The Mole Agent

An investigator poses as a new resident in a retirement home after a family grows concerned for their mother's well-bein

EP 14

Through the Night

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

EP 1

The Neutral Ground

EP 2

Landfall

EP 3

Stateless

EP 4

Mayor

EP 5

Pier Kids

EP 6

The Song of the Butterflies

EP 7

Fruits of Labor

In California, a Mexican-American teen goes to work when ICE raids threaten her family.

EP 8

La Casa de Mama Icha

EP 9

Things We Dare Not Do

EP 10

North By Current

EP 11

Unapologetic

EP 12

Not Going Quietly

EP 13

On the Divide

EP 1

Wuhan Wuhan

Exploring the early days of COVID-19 when Chinese citizens and frontline health care workers in Wuhan grappled with a my

EP 2

Manzanar, Diverted: When water becomes dust

Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Manzanar World War II concentration camp; Native Americans forced from their land

EP 3

Winter's Yearning

Greenland reckons with its Danish colonial past and the promised future by a U.S. company building a smelting plant.

EP 4

He's My Brother

Christine works to ensure dignified lives for herself and her brother, Peter.

EP 5

President

A new leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe's 2018 presidential election.

EP 6

Faya Dayi

A look at khat, a euphoria-inducing plant, and the lives of harvesters of the crop in Harar, Ethiopia.

EP 7

Love & Stuff

A multigenerational love story focuses on a daughter who cares for her terminally ill mother and adopts a baby in her 50

EP 8

Delikado

Locals on an island paradise risk death to save the Philippines' last ecological frontier.

EP 9

The Last Out

Three Cuban baseball players risk exile to chase their dream of playing in the US major leagues.

EP 10

Accepted

A prep school in Louisiana that sends 100% of its grads to college is rocked by scandal.

EP 11

An Act of Worship

The past 30 years of American history through the perspective of Muslims across the U.S. who have lived it.

EP 12

Midwives

Two women in a region beset by violent ethnic divisions run a makeshift medical clinic.

EP 13

Let the Little Light Shine

An academic beacon for Black children on Chicago's South Side battles gentrification.

EP 14

I Didn't See You There

A disabled filmmaker ruminates on the corrosive legacy of the Freak Show.

EP 1

After Sherman

A poetic quest in coastal South Carolina unearths Black inheritance amidst a violent past.

EP 2

A Story of Bones

A burial site containing thousands of once enslaved Africans is discovered on St. Helena.

EP 3

Liquor Store Dreams

Immigrant dreams and generational divides collide against LA's complex racial landscape.

EP 4

A House Made of Splinters

By the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine, social workers create a sanctuary for kids in limbo.

EP 5

Eat Your Catfish

A woman's battle with late-stage Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) leaves her paralyzed and pushes her family to the breaking p

EP 6

Children of the Mist

A 13-year-old Hmong girl is caught between tradition and modernity in rural northwest Vietnam.

EP 7

While We Watched

In a world of fake news, journalist Ravish Kumar stands his ground. Will his show survive?

EP 8

Bulls and Saints

An undocumented family decides to return home after 20 years of living in the U.S.

EP 9

Uýra: The Rising Forest

Uýra shares ancestral knowledge with Indigenous youth in the Amazon.

EP 10

Murders That Matter

Black Muslim mother Movita Johnson-Harrell transforms from a victim of violent trauma to a fierce advocate against gun v

EP 11

Aurora's Sunrise

At 14, Aurora Mardiganian survives the Armenian Genocide and escapes to New York, finding fame in "Auction of Souls."

EP 12

Fire Through Dry Grass

Nursing home residents use poetry and art to describe the danger and imprisonment they feel during COVID-19's lockdown.

EP 13

Wisdom Gone Wild

A film blending humour and sadness focuses on a mother and daughter confronting the reality of wisdom "gone wild" in the

EP 14

How to Have an American Baby

A series of vignettes provide insight into Chinese tourists who travel to the U.S. to give birth in order to obtain citi

EP 15

Brief Tender Light

At MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students striving to become agents of positive change for their home countr

EP 16

unseen

A blind, undocumented immigrant faces uncertainty to obtain his college degree.

EP 1

King Coal

The complex history and future of the coal industry.

EP 2

Hummingbirds

Bordertown besties make magic of one last summer together as they face uncertain futures.

EP 3

Is There Anybody Out There?

Born with a rare disability, filmmaker Ella Glendining finds others who have had the same experience.

EP 4

Against the Tide

The friendship between two Koli fishermen in Bombay is fractured by the weight of a changing world and a sea threatened

EP 5

Fauna

An old shepherd and his flock live alongside a high-tech laboratory for animal experimentation on the outskirts of Barce

EP 6

Name Me Lawand

A deaf Kurdish boy's transformative journey to communicate through learning sign language.

EP 7

Who's Afraid of Nathan Law?

Revolutionary at 21. Lawmaker at 23. Most Wanted at 26. Nathan Law's fight for freedom.

EP 8

In the Rearview

A volunteer aid van operates as a shelter, waiting room, hospital and confessional for passengers fleeing Ukraine for Po

EP 9

Twice Colonized

Inuit lawyer and activist Aaju Peter defends the rights of Indigenous peoples.

EP 10

Tokyo Uber Blues

Filmmaker Taku Aoyagi's daily bike rides as an Uber Eats worker in Tokyo.

EP 11

The Body Politic

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott employs his plan to stop chronic violence in his first year in office.

EP 12

Who I Am Not

Two South African friends born intersex change what we think about being male or female.

EP 13

The Taste of Mango

A hypnotically cinematic love letter that untangles a family's painful unspoken past.

EP 14

Break the Game

Legend of Zelda streamer Narcissa Wright breaks records and finds love in the digital age.

EP 1

Union

Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campai

EP 2

Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place

Black activist Francia Márquez rises from rural Colombia to launch a historic presidential campaign that defies the pol

EP 3

Made in Ethiopia

Inside Ethiopia's largest Chinese-run industrial park, three women stand at the crossroads of rapid development. A Chine

EP 4

The Ride Ahead

Turning 21, Samuel wants his independence. Yet every rite of passage is fraught with challenges and social barriers. Sei

EP 5

Emergent City

Residents of Sunset Park, Brooklyn face rising rents, a legacy of environmental racism and the loss of the industrial jo

EP 6

A New Kind of Wilderness

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