Season 19 (2017)

Chasing Trane
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November 6, 2017 • 1h

Set against the social, political and cultural landscape of the times, Chasing Trane brings saxophone great John Coltrane to life,...Read more

Shadow World
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November 20, 2017 • 1h

Explore the shocking realities of the billion-dollar global arms trade through those who perpetrate and investigate it.

Supergirl
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December 18, 2017 • 1h

A profile of a seemingly ordinary Orthodox Jewish preteen from New Jersey whose extraordinary talent—breaking world powerlifting r...Read more

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
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January 1, 2018 • 1h

A profile of "Tales of the City" creator Armistead Maupin, including his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South to a gay rights pioneer.

Unrest
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January 8, 2018 • 1h

Director Jennifer Brea, confined to her bed due to chronic fatigue syndrome, documents how people around the world live and functi...Read more

I Am Not Your Negro
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January 15, 2018 • 1h

Filmmaker Raoul Peck examines James Baldwin's unfinished book about the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

The Force
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January 22, 2018 • 1h

A cinema vérité look at the Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising f...Read more

I Am Another You
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January 29, 2018 • 1h

Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows a homeless man on a journey across America, exploring the meaning of freedom.

Winnie
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February 5, 2018 • 1h

One of the more misunderstood and intriguing contemporary female political figures, Winnie Mandela's rise and seeming fall from gr...Read more

Tell Them We Are Rising
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February 19, 2018 • 1h

Historically black colleges and universities play a pivotal role in shaping American history, culture and national identity.

Rat Film
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February 26, 2018 • 1h

The history and cultural fabric of Baltimore is explored through the lens of the city's rat infestation.

Dolores
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March 27, 2018 • 1h

The story of Dolores Huerta, among the most important, yet least-known, activists in American history. Co-founder of the first far...Read more

When God Sleeps
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April 2, 2018 • 1h

The story of Iranian musician Shahin Najafi's stand for freedom of expression, after he was forced into hiding when hardline cleri...Read more

The Art of the Shine
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April 9, 2018 • 1h

Shining shoes is a calling and a passion, a way to be one’s own boss and connect with other people from all walks of life. From Ne...Read more

What Lies Upstream
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April 16, 2018 • 1h

Investigative filmmaker Cullen Hoback travels to West Virginia to study the unprecedented loss of clean water for over 300,000 Ame...Read more

Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky
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April 23, 2018 • 1h

A portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America through the voice of writer, farmer, and activist Wende...Read more

True Conviction
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April 30, 2018 • 1h

After serving a combined 60 years in prison for crimes they did not commit, three recently exonerated Texans join forces to form t...Read more

No Man's Land
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May 7, 2018 • 1h

A detailed, on-the-ground account of the 2016 standoff between protesters occupying Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and federal authorities.

ACORN and the Firestorm
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May 14, 2018 • 1h

For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN sought to empower poor and marginalized communities. Its critics believed ACORN...Read more

Served Like a Girl
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May 28, 2018 • 1h

A candid look at a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of homeless women veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and ...Read more