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- An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children's television host Fred Rogers.
- Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
- Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence, a tiny island in the Bering Sea. So, when Chris Apassingok becomes the youngest person to ever harpoon a whale for his Alaskan village, his mother proudly shares the news on Facebook. To her surprise, Paul Watson and thousands of his international followers brutally attack Chris online without fully understanding the scope of his accomplishment. ONE WITH THE WHALE is a heartwarming yet thrilling story of one family's struggle to fight against cultural genocide and environmental racism, while regaining a foothold in both the ancient and modern world.
- Seniors at one the best public high schools in the country face the pressure of applying to elite colleges.
- Amid Filipino elections, a grassroots movement emerges to protect truth and democracy from growing threats. People unite in joyful acts of resistance, kindling hope while autocracy expands.
- Rich Hill intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town and the fragile family bonds that sustain them.
- A groundbreaking inside look at the long shot election and tumultuous first term of Larry Krasner, Philadelphia's unapologetic District Attorney, and his experiment to upend the criminal justice system from the inside out.
- Captures the day-to-day lives of four small, Midwestern, multigenerational family farms over the course of five years.
- A campaign against the abuse of female workers by their male bosses, which starts in early 1970s Cleveland, leads to a popular fiction film with Fonda, Parton and Tomlin.
- Hoop Dreams goes to the mat in this intimate coming-of-age documentary about four members of a high-school wrestling team at Huntsville's J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama's list of failing schools.
- Every summer, the American West burns. As climate change has increased, average temperatures have risen, resulting in a sudden increase in both the frequency and intensity of wildfires. Inside each of these fires are small crews who work to contain them by hand, using shovels, pulaskis, and methods that haven't changed in sixty years. Filmed during two recent wildfire seasons, Young Men and Fire is a sweeping yet deeply personal account of a single wildland firefighting crew as they struggle with fear, loyalty, dreams, and demons. What emerges is a rich story of working-class men - their exterior world, their interior lives and the fire that lies between.
- Spanning his fifty-year dogsled racing career, ATTLA explores the life and persona of George Attla, from his childhood as a TB survivor in the Alaskan interior, to his rise as ten-time world champion and mythical state hero, to a village elder resolutely training his grandnephew to race his team one last time.
- On a fall day in 2014, Peter Liang, a Chinese American police officer, shot and killed an innocent, unarmed black man named Akai Gurley. Unfolding in the dark stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project, the shooting inflamed the residents of New York City and thrust two marginalized communities together into the uneven criminal justice system. Gurley's death sparked cries of police brutality and a raging, anguished debate about racial bias in criminal prosecution of law enforcement officers.
- An astounding and intimate narrative of Black achievement focusing on the self-determined Dean family, seven generations of their history, and the resilient community of rural Pahokee, Florida.
- In 2012, Kansas passed one of the largest income and business tax cuts in the state's history. Today, Governor Sam Brownback's "radical experiment" serves as a cautionary tale.
- Marcus Jackson fights for change after Kentucky's persistent felony offender statute landed him in prison for ten years on a marijuana charge. In the state of Kentucky, the persistent felony offender (PFO) statute gives prosecutors the option of enhancing an offender's sentence if they were previously convicted of a felony. In the past two decades, about 16% of all criminal cases in Kentucky have included a PFO charge. And while the statute was intended to reduce the state's violent and serious crimes, the law is often used to target minor drug and other non-violent offenses instead. Furthermore, Black Kentuckians are about five times more likely than white Kentuckians to face a PFO charge. For activist Marcus Jackson, possessing six pounds of marijuana was cause for a ten-year prison sentence because of a prior conviction. Conversations between Marcus and his family members reveal the intergenerational trauma caused by the archaic PFO statute, and Marcus decides to fight back by working with the ACLU and state lawmakers for reform. Persistent: A Challenge to Kentucky's PFO Law highlights Marcus' fight for change. Upon leaving prison, Marcus helped draft a proposed reform bill and began reaching out to Kentucky prosecutors to get their support. He hopes to get the bill introduced in 2022. If Marcus is successful, future non-violent drug offenders in Kentucky won't endure the pain that he and his family have experienced.
- About John Fante, the renegade author whose highly autobiographical novels illustrate his deep-rooted love of Los Angeles and his struggles working through poverty and prejudice.
- Following on from her film "Newtown" about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, director Kim A. Snyder tells three stories of citizens confronting the epidemic of mass shootings in the United States.
- Reproductive choice is often a taboo subject, and in this web series, strangers from disparate walks of life tackle and debate hot-button topics like sterilization, adoption, teen pregnancy and discuss the question "Should we have kids?"
- Survivors of subway personal space violations share their stories in hopes of changing the stigma.
- The producers of the documentary, "East of Salinas," continue to follow a promising student, Jose Anzaldo, and his teacher and mentor, Oscar Ramos, as Jose, who was born in Mexico but raised in California, enters high school, hoping to stay in the United States.
- "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" looks at the crisis in mental health care and rural jails, focusing on the problem in Cochise County, Arizona. The video short is part of the PBS Independent Lens "Stories for Justice" online series.
- ACCIDENT, MD is a survey of attitudes about America's health care crisis filmed in and around the small town of Accident, Maryland.
- In 1966 the University of Texas in Austin was the site of the first mass shooting on a college campus in the United States. Now fifty years later the Texas state legislature has legalized "campus carry," the right to carry a concealed gun to class. Do students and teachers feel safer?
- At an LGBTQ retirement home, the annual "senior" prom takes on a whole new meaning - a celebration of the lives and legacies of resistance of the eldest queer generation.
- One man dance party Howard Mordoh, a longtime fixture of the L.A. concert scene, copes with the canceled concerts and isolation of life during the COVID-19 pandemic.