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N.Y.C. teens tuned into political and social issues model hope as they debate hot-button topics inside the largest urban debate league in the U.S.

How do you know a community of immigrants has finally established itself in its new home? They build a place of worship, often one that looks like those they left behind.

Filmmaker Eric Weinrib explores a taboo subject in his family’s history in an attempt to get to know the uncle he never met.

Feminist trailblazer and literary icon Isabel Allende sets out on her last global book tour, reckoning with love, loss, and legacy as she turns her extraordinary life into her greatest story yet.

Let Me Get There is a compelling visual journey through one of the most significant periods of mass migration in history, told through beautiful 100-year-old photographs and personal stories that h

At sunset on the first day of WWII the British passenger ship Athenia was bound for Canada in the North Atlantic, and nearly everyone aboard believed they had sailed beyond the reach of the newly d

In their ancestral homeland Los Angeles, members of the Kizh-Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians are responding to the city’s ecological crisis by reviving the highly efficient land stewardship prac

Galloping Upstream speaks to a massive, underserved audience: people in mid‑to‑late life wrestling with whether their choices meant anything.

Set in Lviv, Ukraine, the film follows a group of men who organize daily funerals for fallen soldiers at the country’s only active military cemetery.

Unbroken Smile is a powerful five-year case study following a young woman's relentless fight for justice after police officers shattered her teeth and attempted to frame her.

The feature documentary BARBARA VAN CLEVE'S AMERICAN WEST recounts her family’s settling to Montana in the early 19th century, her youth on a working ranch and tourist destination as a young woman

SPOKE is a feature documentary that lives inside the fire service, exposing the hidden occupational health crisis firefighters carry home from the job: soaring cancer rates, unspoken trauma, and th

When Jihan was six years old, her father flew to Cairo and never returned. Mansur Rashid Kikhia was the Foreign Minister of Libya, ambassador to the United Nations, and a human rights lawyer.

When a paper mill in a small Appalachian town suddenly closes, leaving 1,200 people without jobs and undoing the economic fabric that held the community together for over a century, how will its pe

Autism Goes to College is an award-winning documentary podcast series now in its fifth season, focused on the lived experiences of autistic students navigating higher education and the transition i

The granddaughter of Ernie Robinson takes us through her journey, learning about her grandfather’s legacy.

Personal stories of the women fighting for Hong Kong’s freedom
and democracy against communsist China, who stormed the streets to demand justice.

As evangelical patriarchy rises in the United States, Baptizing Feminism brings to the forefront a bold evangelical and Christian feminist movement rising again from silenced, faithful women, and f

In November of 1944, Sgt Silvio J. Pedri of the 95th Infantry was sent on a mission to cross the Moselle river near Metz, France.

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In the chestnut forests of Castagniccia, in the mountainous interior of Corsica, a handful of elders still hold the knowledge that once fed an entire mountain civilisation: how to read a harvest, t

COMMITTED is a documentary-in-progress produced by Ken Rosenberg, MD, and Peter Miller, Emmy and Peabody-winning filmmakers.

Songs from the Hole is a hybrid documentary film, a visual and musical meditation on Black boyhood, harm and punishment, and the radical imagination.

After two decades of learning how to manage his bipolar disorder, Yong Yang had finally built a life worth living - until an LAPD officer fatally shot him during a mental health crisis.

God of Manga explores the fascinating life and times of Osamu Tezuka, the legendary pioneer of Japanese comics and animation, who is widely credited with giving birth to the globe-spanning $25 bill

In an era where global conflict is increasingly mediated through screens, young people are routinely exposed to distressing content - from graphic images of violence to the normalization of conflic

Research shows that doctors are more likely to dismiss or trivialize the pain complaints of black women.

A group of immigrant families forced into an English-speaking culture confront a fundamental need: the ability to communicate.

The Alliance of Documentary Editors (ADE) is a working group of documentary film and television editors and assistant editors nationwide that campaigns for best practices within the industry while

Years of mounting tensions between multicultural, anti-racist skinheads and white neo-Nazi groups led to two brutal murders in the desert outside Las Vegas on July 4, 1998, including that of a Blac

Left Behind, currently in production, examines the issue of undiagnosed dyslexia, one of the leading causes of illiteracy in the United States.

Prayer Horse tells the story of a twelve day, 300 mile horse ride through the Nevada desert by members of the Paiute Indigenous Nation, as they offer prayer to heal traumas and to their lands now t

Why has society been unable to stop the rise of mass murders, and what can be done to prevent them?

In 1950, two young African-American boys risked their lives to play on a segregated golf course in Austin, Texas, not knowing the impact they would have on civil rights in the south.

HALLOWEEN PARADE captures the spirit of a beloved, iconic institution – New York at its most subversive, outrageous, and creative.