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Overview:
This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history.
Episode 1:
Sansón and Me
Episode 2:
El Equipo
Episode 3:
Three Chaplains
Episode 4:
A Town Called Victoria | Episode 1
Episode 5:
A Town Called Victoria | Episode 2
Episode 6:
A Town Called Victoria | Episode 3
Episode 7:
Beyond Utopia
Episode 8:
Racist Trees
Episode 9:
Razing Liberty Square
Episode 10:
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
Episode 11:
Breaking the News
Episode 12:
Greener Pastures
Episode 13:
A Thousand Pines
Episode 14:
Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s
Episode 15:
One With the Whale
Episode 16:
Space: The Longest Goodbye
Episode 17:
The Tuba Thieves
Episode 1:
Hazing
Episode 2:
TikTok, Boom.
Episode 3:
Move Me
Episode 4:
Children of Las Brisas
Episode 5:
The Big Payback
Episode 6:
No Straight Lines
Episode 7:
The Picture Taker
Episode 8:
Outta the Muck
Episode 9:
Love in the Time of Fentanyl
Episode 10:
Storming Caesars Palace
Episode 11:
Hidden Letters
Episode 12:
Free Chol Soo Lee
Episode 13:
Matter of Mind: My ALS
Episode 14:
Sam Now
Episode 15:
Silent Beauty
Episode 16:
Mama Bears
Episode 1:
Cured
Episode 2:
Ferguson Rises
Episode 3:
Storm Lake
Episode 4:
Duty Free
Episode 5:
Home From School: The Children of Carlisle
Episode 6:
A Reckoning in Boston
Episode 7:
Missing in Brooks County
Episode 8:
Owned: A Tale of Two Americas
Episode 9:
Bulletproof
Episode 10:
Apart
Episode 11:
Writing With Fire
Episode 12:
AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
Episode 13:
Try Harder!
Episode 14:
When Claude Got Shot
Episode 15:
Scenes From The Glittering World
Episode 1:
Feels Good Man
Episode 2:
Represent
Episode 3:
Jonathan Scott's Power Trip
Episode 4:
Belly of the Beast
Episode 7:
9to5: The Story of a Movement
Episode 8:
Women in Blue
Episode 9:
Mr. SOUL!
Episode 10:
Coded Bias
Episode 11:
Down a Dark Stairwell
Episode 12:
The Donut King
Episode 13:
Two Gods
Episode 14:
The People vs. Agent Orange
Episode 1:
Made in Boise
Episode 2:
Decade of Fire
Episode 3:
The Interpreters
Episode 4:
Conscience Point; Jewel's Hunt
Episode 5:
ATTLA
Episode 6:
Accept the Call
Episode 7:
The First Rainbow Coalition
Episode 8:
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Episode 9:
Leftover Women
Episode 10:
We Believe In Dinosaurs
Episode 11:
Always in Season
Episode 12:
One Child Nation
Episode 13:
Bedlam
Episode 14:
The Hottest August
Episode 15:
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Episode 16:
Rewind
Episode 17:
Eating Up Easter
Episode 18:
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Episode 19:
Pipe Dreams
Episode 1:
Wildland
Episode 2:
Dawnland
Episode 3:
The Cleaners
Episode 4:
The Judge
Episode 5:
Man on Fire
Episode 6:
My Country No More
Episode 7:
Rodents of Unusual Size
Episode 8:
RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked The World
Episode 9:
The King
Episode 10:
Black Memorabilia
Episode 11:
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Episode 12:
People's Republic of Desire
Episode 13:
Tre Maison Dasan
Episode 14:
The Providers
Episode 15:
Marcos Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Episode 16:
Charm City
Episode 17:
Out of State
Episode 18:
Harvest Season; The Seed Saver
Episode 19:
Wrestle
Episode 1:
Chasing Trane
Episode 2:
Shadow World
Episode 3:
Supergirl
Episode 4:
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Episode 5:
Unrest
Episode 6:
I Am Not Your Negro
Episode 7:
The Force
Episode 8:
I Am Another You
Episode 9:
Winnie
Episode 10:
Tell Them We Are Rising
Episode 11:
Rat Film
Episode 12:
Dolores
Episode 13:
When God Sleeps
Episode 14:
The Art of the Shine
Episode 15:
What Lies Upstream
Episode 16:
Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky
Episode 17:
True Conviction
Episode 18:
No Man's Land
Episode 19:
ACORN and the Firestorm
Episode 20:
Served Like a Girl
Episode 1:
Best of Enemies
Episode 2:
Meet the Patels
Episode 3:
Best and Most Beautiful Things
Episode 4:
Containment
Episode 5:
What Was Ours
Episode 6:
The Witness
Episode 7:
Birth of a Movement
Episode 8:
Accidental Courtesy
Episode 9:
TOWER
Episode 10:
The Bad Kids
Episode 11:
Ovarian Psycos
Episode 12:
Newtown
Episode 13:
SEED: The Untold Story
Episode 14:
The Last Laugh
Episode 15:
National Bird
Episode 16:
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Episode 17:
Forever Pure
Episode 18:
They Call Us Monsters
Episode 19:
Farmer/Veteran
Episode 20:
Real Boy
Episode 1:
Stray Dog
Episode 2:
India's Daughter
Episode 3:
Mimi and Dona
Episode 4:
East of Salinas
Episode 5:
Chuck Norris vs. Communism
Episode 6:
Autism in Love
Episode 7:
No Más Bebés (No More Babies)
Episode 8:
In Football We Trust
Episode 9:
A Ballerina's Tale
Episode 10:
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Episode 11:
(T)ERROR
Episode 12:
Wilhemina’s War
Episode 13:
An Honest Liar
Episode 14:
Welcome to Leith
Episode 15:
Democrats
Episode 16:
My Nazi Legacy
Episode 17:
Peace Officer
Episode 18:
The Armor of Light
Episode 19:
Dogtown Redemption
Episode 20:
TRAPPED
Episode 21:
T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold
Episode 1:
Bully
Episode 2:
Twin Sisters
Episode 3:
Brakeless
Episode 4:
Powerless
Episode 5:
Happiness
Episode 6:
Rich Hill
Episode 7:
Evolution of a Criminal
Episode 8:
The Kill Team / Confusion Through Sand
Episode 10:
American Denial
Episode 11:
Little White Lie
Episode 12:
Little Hope Was Arson / A City in Flames
Episode 13:
The Homestretch
Episode 14:
The Great Invisible
Episode 15:
Kumu Hina
Episode 16:
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
Episode 17:
1971
Episode 18:
Limited Partnership
Episode 19:
In the Shadow of Ebola
Episode 1:
The Graduates - The Girls
Episode 2:
The Graduates - The Boys
Episode 3:
Indian Relay
Episode 4:
Young Lakota
Episode 5:
Playwright: From Page to Stage
Episode 6:
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Episode 7:
How to Survive a Plague
Episode 8:
At Berkeley
Episode 9:
Blood Brother
Episode 10:
The State of Arizona
Episode 11:
Spies of Mississippi
Episode 12:
Las Marthas
Episode 14:
Medora
Episode 15:
Brother's Hypnotic
Episode 16:
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Episode 17:
Muscle Shoals
Episode 19:
Let the Fire Burn
Episode 20:
God Loves Uganda
Episode 21:
The New Black
Episode 1:
As Goes Janesville
Episode 4:
Love Free or Die
Episode 5:
Solar Mamas
Episode 7:
Soul Food Junkies
Episode 8:
Beauty Is Embarrassing
Episode 9:
The Revisionaries
Episode 11:
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Episode 12:
The House I Live In; As I Am
Episode 14:
The Island President
Episode 15:
The Undocumented
Episode 16:
Seeking Asian Female
Episode 17:
The Invisible War
Episode 18:
Detropia
Episode 19:
The Revolutionary Optimists
Episode 20:
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman's Journey
Episode 21:
The Waiting Room
Episode 1:
Wham! Bam! Islam!
Episode 2:
Donor Unknown
Episode 3:
Lives Worth Living
Episode 4:
Deaf Jam
Episode 5:
We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean
Episode 6:
The Woodmans
Episode 7:
These Amazing Shadows
Episode 12:
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last
Episode 13:
Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
Episode 14:
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Episode 15:
More Than A Month
Episode 17:
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Episode 18:
When the Drum Is Beating
Episode 19:
Revenge of the Electric Car
Episode 20:
Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison
Episode 21:
Circo
Episode 22:
Summer Pasture
Episode 23:
Precious Knowledge
Episode 24:
Left by the Ship
Episode 25:
Hell and Back Again
Episode 26:
We Were Here
Episode 27:
Strong!
Episode 1:
The Parking Lot Movie
Episode 2:
Art & Copy
Episode 4:
The Longoria Affair
Episode 5:
Lost Sparrow
Episode 6:
Deep Down
Episode 7:
45365
Episode 8:
The Calling, Part 1
Episode 9:
The Calling, Part 2
Episode 10:
Men Who Swim
Episode 11:
Children of Haiti
Episode 12:
For Once in My Life
Episode 13:
When I Rise
Episode 14:
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Episode 15:
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
Episode 16:
Pushing the Elephant
Episode 17:
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Episode 18:
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Episode 19:
Waste Land
Episode 20:
Marwencol
Episode 21:
A Film Unfinished
Episode 22:
Bhutto
Episode 23:
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Episode 24:
Welcome to Shelbyville
Episode 25:
Two Spirits
Episode 1:
Our Disappeared
Episode 2:
Butte, America
Episode 3:
Journals of a Wily School
Episode 4:
Power Paths
Episode 5:
D Tour
Episode 6:
No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos
Episode 7:
Objectified
Episode 8:
Between the Folds
Episode 9:
Scenes From a Parish
Episode 10:
Young@Heart
Episode 11:
Copyright Criminals
Episode 12:
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
Episode 13:
P-Star Rising
Episode 14:
Mine / Home
Episode 15:
Behind the Rainbow
Episode 16:
The Eyes of Me
Episode 17:
Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)
Episode 18:
Whatever It Takes
Episode 19:
Unmistaken Child
Episode 20:
Blessed Is the Match
Episode 21:
Dirt! The Movie
Episode 22:
Garbage Dreams
Episode 24:
The Horse Boy
Episode 25:
Project Kashmir
Episode 26:
A Village Called Versailles
Episode 27:
Our Disappeared
Episode 1:
Chicago 10
Episode 3:
Knee Deep
Episode 4:
Lioness
Episode 5:
March Point
Episode 6:
The Atom Smashers
Episode 9:
Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway
Episode 10:
Helvetica
Episode 11:
Adjust You Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Episode 12:
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
Episode 13:
The Order of Myths/Bi-Racial Hair
Episode 14:
The Order of Myths
Episode 15:
Lakshmi and Me
Episode 16:
Recycle
Episode 17:
Milking the Rhino
Episode 18:
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Episode 19:
Steal a Pencil for Me
Episode 20:
At Home in Utopia
Episode 21:
Wings of Defeat
Episode 22:
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Episode 23:
Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
Episode 24:
Steal a Pencil for Me
Episode 25:
Ask Not
Episode 1:
Wordplay
Episode 2:
Please Vote for Me
Episode 3:
Storm of Emotions
Episode 4:
Red White Black & Blue
Episode 5:
Miss Navajo
Episode 6:
The Creek Runs Red
Episode 8:
The Paper
Episode 9:
An Unreasonable Man
Episode 10:
Today's Man
Episode 11:
A Son's Sacrifice
Episode 12:
American Made
Episode 13:
How Is Your Fish Today?
Episode 14:
Banished
Episode 15:
Hard Road Home
Episode 16:
Iron Ladies of Liberia
Episode 17:
Compañeras
Episode 18:
Water Flowing Together
Episode 19:
Water Flowing Together
Episode 20:
Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula
Episode 21:
A Dream in Doubt
Episode 22:
New Year Baby
Episode 23:
The Cool School
Episode 24:
Writ Writer
Episode 25:
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Episode 26:
Deep Water
Episode 27:
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
Episode 1:
Still Life With Animated Dogs
Episode 2:
The World According to Sesame Street
Episode 3:
Muskrat Lovely
Episode 4:
Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire
Episode 5:
Democracy on Deadline
Episode 6:
Two Square Miles
Episode 7:
A Sad Flower in the Sand
Episode 8:
Revolucion: Five Visions
Episode 9:
Short Stack 2006
Episode 10:
A Fish Story
Episode 11:
Shadya
Episode 12:
Beyond the Call
Episode 13:
Twisted
Episode 14:
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Episode 15:
Motherland Afghanistan
Episode 16:
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Episode 17:
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
Episode 18:
Stolen
Episode 19:
Race to Execution
Episode 20:
China Blue
Episode 21:
Black Gold
Episode 22:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Episode 23:
The Cats of Mirikitani
Episode 24:
Sentenced Home
Episode 25:
Knocking
Episode 26:
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Episode 27:
La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul
Episode 2:
En Route to Baghdad
Episode 3:
The Last Cowboy
Episode 4:
A Family at War
Episode 5:
Mirror Dance
Episode 6:
Race Is the Place
Episode 7:
Maid in America
Episode 8:
Seoul Train
Episode 9:
Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community
Episode 10:
Short Stack: Lost & Found
Episode 11:
Sheriff
Episode 12:
Girl Trouble
Episode 13:
Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
Episode 14:
July '64
Episode 15:
Almost Home
Episode 16:
The Loss of Nameless Things
Episode 17:
Troop 1500
Episode 19:
Trudell
Episode 20:
La Sierra
Episode 21:
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
Episode 22:
Music from the Inside Out
Episode 23:
Fishbowl; American Made
Episode 24:
Frozen Angels
Episode 25:
The Devil's Miner
Episode 26:
The Great Pink Scare
Episode 27:
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Episode 28:
A Lion in the House
Episode 29:
A Lion in the House
Episode 1:
The Political Dr. Seuss
Episode 2:
Polka Time
Episode 3:
Afghanistan Unveiled
Episode 4:
Los Angeles Now
Episode 5:
The Day My God Died
Episode 6:
Girl Wrestler
Episode 7:
Fine; Doki-Doki
Episode 8:
Short, Not Sweet
Episode 9:
A Hard Straight
Episode 10:
A Touch of Greatness
Episode 11:
Power Trip
Episode 12:
February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
Episode 14:
Thunder in Guyana/Unites States of Poetry
Episode 15:
Sisters of '77
Episode 16:
Sunset Story
Episode 17:
Let the Church Say Amen
Episode 18:
A Lion's Trail
Episode 22:
Imelda
Episode 23:
Imelda: Power, Myth, Illusion
Episode 24:
Red Hook Justice
Episode 25:
Double Dare; Piki and Poko: Taking the Dare!
Episode 26:
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Episode 27:
Brother to Brother
Episode 3:
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
Episode 4:
A Wedding in Ramallah
Episode 5:
Be Good, Smile Pretty
Episode 6:
Livermore
Episode 7:
Eroica!
Episode 8:
Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
Episode 10:
Man Bites Shorts
Episode 11:
Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
Episode 12:
Life Matters
Episode 14:
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Episode 16:
Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
Episode 17:
Sentencing the Victim
Episode 18:
T-Shirt Travels
Episode 20:
Love Inventory
Episode 21:
Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
Episode 22:
The Weather Underground
Episode 23:
One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure
Episode 24:
Refugee
Episode 25:
Death of a Shaman
Episode 26:
Cosmopolitan
Episode 27:
Sumo East and West
Episode 28:
The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
Episode 1:
Maggie Growls
Episode 2:
Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story
Episode 3:
On This Island
Episode 4:
Downside Up
Episode 5:
Los Trabajadores/The Workers
Episode 6:
Chiefs
Episode 7:
Strange Fruit
Episode 9:
Sisters in Resistance
Episode 10:
Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka'ehukai
Episode 11:
Guns and Mothers
Episode 12:
Razing Appalachia
Episode 13:
Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer
Episode 14:
Daddy & Papa
Episode 1:
Confederacy Theory
Episode 2:
Who Owns the Past?
Episode 3:
Secrets of Silicon Valley
Episode 4:
Gibtown
Episode 6:
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds
Episode 7:
Open Outcry
Episode 8:
The Split Horn
Episode 9:
Undetectable
Episode 10:
Romancing the Throne
Episode 1:
Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors
Episode 2:
No Hair Day
Episode 3:
Short Stories
Episode 4:
Born in the USA
Episode 5:
Girl Gone Bad
Episode 6:
Passing Through; Graham's Diner
Episode 7:
The Return of Navajo Boy
Episode 8:
Music in Their Bones
Episode 9:
In Harm's Way; Carved from the Heart
Episode 10:
A Wok in Progress
Episode 1:
Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small Town Gang
Episode 2:
Nothing but the Truth
Episode 3:
Visas and Virtues; I Am Viet Hung
Episode 4:
The Man Who Drove with Mandela
Episode 5:
The Jew in the Lotus
Episode 6:
Holy Tortilla/Lock and Key
Episode 7:
Secret People
Episode 8:
