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Stream award-winning documentaries, independent films, and documentary shorts exploring history, science, nature, culture, journalism, and powerful real-life stories.
Stream award-winning documentaries, independent films, and documentary shorts exploring history, science, nature, culture, journalism, and powerful real-life stories.
For Venida, For Kalief

For Venida, For Kalief

Kalief Browder’s everlasting legacy expands via the poetry of his mother, Venida.

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The Crown Prince & the President

FRONTLINE

The Crown Prince & the President

Examining the alliance between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President Donald Trump.
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POV Documentaries: Independent Films with a Point of View
Documentaries from Independent Lens: Bold Stories, Real Impact
Sangre Violenta, Sangre Violeta

VOCES

Sangre Violenta, Sangre Violeta

A grieving father, a survivor, and a feminist collective confront gender violence in Mexico.
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  • Finding Your Roots
  • Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
  • Great Migrations: A People on The Move
  • Gospel
  • GOSPEL Live! Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Making Black America
  • The Black Church
  • RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
  • Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
  • Africa's Great Civilizations
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World [ASL]

American Masters

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World [ASL]

This version contains ASL. Celebrate the life and career of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver.
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  • The American Revolution
  • Country Music
  • The American Buffalo
  • The U.S. and the Holocaust
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • The Civil War
  • Jazz
  • The West
  • Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
  • Hemingway
  • The Roosevelts
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Prohibition
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • The Shakers
  • The War
  • The Vietnam War
  • Mark Twain
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • Central Park Five
  • The Statue of Liberty
  • The Congress
  • The National Parks
  • Horatio's Drive
  • The Tenth Inning
  • Huey Long
  • Lewis & Clark
  • The Dust Bowl
  • The Address
  • Thomas Hart Benton
  • Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
A Woman on the Outside

America ReFramed

A Woman on the Outside

A story of Kristal Bush's fight against the impact of mass incarceration in Philadelphia.
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Mini Docs
Japantown

Homegrown: Documentary Shorts Collection

Japantown

A resident of Salt Lake City’s former Japantown neighborhood fights to restore its cultural legacy.
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Fueling the South

REEL SOUTH

Fueling the South

Gas stations across the South reveal the people and stories sustaining rural America.
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