October 13, 2011 • 1h
Episode Synopsis: Season 13 premieres with new host Mary-Louise Parker introducing "Wham! Bam! Islam," about the challenges involv...Read more
October 20, 2011 • 1h
Episode Synopsis: "Donor Unknown" charts the story of 20-year-old JoEllen Marsh, who was raised by two mothers in Pennsylvania, as...Read more
October 27, 2011 • 1h
"Lives Worth Living" tells the story of the disability rights movement in America, which began after WWII when disabled veterans r...Read more
November 3, 2011 • 1h
"Deaf Jam" chronicles the experiences of Aneta Brodski, a deaf Israeli teen living in New York, as she moves from American Sign La...Read more
November 17, 2011 • 1h
Anne Makepeace's "We Still Live Here—As Nutayunean" tells the story of linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird's work to resurrect the lo...Read more
December 22, 2011 • 1h
"The Woodmans" charts the short life of influential photographer Francesca Woodman, who took her own life in 1981 at the age of 22...Read more
December 29, 2011 • 1h
"These Amazing Shadows" focuses on the National Film Registry, an eclectic collection of movies considered to be "culturally, hist...Read more
January 12, 2012 • 1h
The five-part "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?," a history of the global anti-apartheid movement, opens with "Road to Resistance...Read more
January 12, 2012 • 1h
Part 2 of 5 of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?" examines "The New Generation," and its effort to overturn South Africa's aparth...Read more
January 19, 2012 • 1h
Part 3 of 5 of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?," "From Selma to Soweto," details the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S., where...Read more
January 19, 2012 • 1h
Part 4 of 5 of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, The Bottom Line," details how international grassroots campaigns to boycott and...Read more
January 26, 2012 • 1h
The conclusion of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, Free at Last," recalls the end stage of South Africa's apartheid system, whe...Read more
February 2, 2012 • 1h
Daisy Bates was a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegr...Read more
February 9, 2012 • 1h
The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. ...Read more
February 16, 2012 • 1h
Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, is on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. Thro...Read more
March 30, 2012 • 1h
In Danville, California, Lee Gorewitz wanders on a soul-searching odyssey through her Alzheimer’s & Dementia care unit. Confined b...Read more
April 5, 2012 • 1h
Every day, millions tune in to Sesame Street to see one of the world’s most adored and recognizable characters — a furry red three...Read more
April 12, 2012 • 1h
Interweaves the extraordinary story of Septentrional’s six decades of creativity with the history of Haiti. How did the country ...Read more
April 19, 2012 • 1h
Revenge follows four entrepreneurs from 2007 through the end of 2010 as they fight to bring the electric car back to the world mar...Read more
April 26, 2012 • 1h
Millions of bison once roamed the Great Plains. Can this nearly extinct icon of the American West make a 21st century comeback?
May 3, 2012 • 1h
The Ponce family circus has been living and performing in rural Mexico for seven generations. Its history dates back to the late 1...Read more
May 10, 2012 • 1h
Locho and Yama are nomadic herders in Tibet's high grasslands, who carve their existence from the land as their ancestors have for...Read more
May 17, 2012 • 1h
When a highly successful Mexican American Studies program at a high school in Tucson comes under fire for teaching ethnic chauvini...Read more
May 24, 2012 • 1h
JR, Charlene, Margarita, and Robert are half American; they are among the many children born to local women and U.S. servicemen wh...Read more
May 28, 2012 • 1h
U.S. Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris, 25, leads his unit to fight a ghostlike enemy in Afghanistan. Wounded in battle, Harris return...Read more
June 7, 2012 • 1h
When AIDS arrived in San Francisco in 1981, it decimated a community, but also brought people together in inspiring and moving way...Read more
June 26, 2012 • 1h
A formidable figure standing at 5'8" and weighing more than 300 pounds, Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion status as ...Read more