The Whiteness Project is an interactive investigation into how Americans who identify as "white" experience their ethnicity. Note this a web-based project, not a traditional documentary. The air date ...

An Oscar® nominee and the most honored documentary of 2013, this dreamlike, terrifying film asks Indonesian death-squad leaders to dramatize their roles in genocide. In a mind-bending twist, they ...

Meet Ed Koch, the quintessential New Yorker. Combative, funny and blunt, he was mayor from 1978 to 1989, an era of graffiti, near-bankruptcy and crime. Before his death in 2013, the intensely private ...

An Oscar-nominated reflection on love, sacrifice and the creative spirit, this candid New York tale explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and artist ...

When Pam White is diagnosed at age 61 with early-onset Alzheimer’s, her family grapples with the disease alongside her, and her eldest son attempts to recover her memories by recording conversations ...

Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in 2009, only four doctors in the country openly provide late abortions. With unprecedented access, After Tiller goes inside the lives of these physicians ...

More than five years in the making, Big Men goes to Ghana to provide an unprecedented look at the global deal making and dark underside of oil development—a contest for money and power that is ...

Filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel revisits his former home to share a passionate, bittersweet account of one family’s multi-generational experience living as permanent refugees in southern Lebanon.

Does sentencing a teenager to life without parole serve society? Following a Florida man who received four life sentences at age 15, this eye-opening film reveals a justice system that routinely ...

After an earthquake levels Beichuan, China, a modern replica rises with astounding speed, but while a city can be rebuilt, reconstructing a community’s heart and soul is a long, emotional journey.

At 15, Russian ballroom dancer Egor leaves everyone and everything he knows for a chance to team up with 14-year-old Mie, one of Denmark’s most promising young performers. Will his choice be worth ...

Election time in New Orleans: Corruption. Racism. Dancing in the streets. And one in-your-face politician trying to get re-elected. What happens when America’s most joyous, dysfunctional city ...

Who better to cover the Paralympics than a disabled filmmaker who hates sports and deems the games “stupid?” When Niko von Glasow meets the Rwandan sitting volleyball team and an American archer ...

Meet Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese American philosopher in Detroit who has been waging a revolution for 75 years. Her story unfurls to portray an evolving city—and to examine the power of ideas and ...

POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented over 365 films to public television audiences across ...

Jason DaSilva was 25 and a rising filmmaker when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and inspired to film this forthright—and surprisingly uplifting—look at his new life. He searches for a ...

In 'American Promise,' African-American parents Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson film their son and his friend, who attend one of the country’s most prestigious private schools.

Listening Is an Act of Love offers a couple of greatest hits, new treats, dramatic "reveals" and founder Dave Isay's telling of how StoryCorps began.

Director Michael Apted and subject Tony Walker share their brief thoughts on the 'Up' series.

Return to England for the eighth film in a series that’s followed the same group since age seven.

In 1964 a group of 7-year-old children were interviewed for the groundbreaking documentary 'Seven Up'. Michael Apted has been back to film them every seven years since. Now they are 56.