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Vivien's Wild Ride When her eyesight begins to fade, a film editor reimagines belonging and what it truly means to see.
  • Airdate Monday, January 26, 2026 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
  • Original1/26/2026
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Episodes

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Wilhemina’s War

Witness a Southern grandmother’s struggles to help her family through the scourge of HIV.

  • Original2/29/2016
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Winnie

Explore the complex life of Winnie Mandela and her decades-long struggle to bring down Apartheid.

  • Original2/5/2018
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Razing Liberty Square The Liberty City public housing community in Miami becomes ground zero for climate gentrification.
  • Original1/29/2024
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Sister Úna Lived a Good Death A wisecracking nun with stage IV cancer teaches others to live fully until death.
  • Original2/5/2024
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Breaking the News Women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch startup The 19th* to buck a broken news media system.
  • Original2/19/2024
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Greener Pastures Follow the people dealing with economic uncertainty and the healthcare crisis in rural America.
  • Original3/25/2024
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If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis Rural hospitals around America are closing at alarming rates, leaving communities without care.
  • Original3/25/2024
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A Thousand Pines A crew of 12 Mexican tree planters travel the United States regrowing America’s forests.
  • Original4/1/2024
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Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's A mother, an optician, and a cartoonist each navigate their lives with determination in the face of Parkinson’s disease.
  • Original4/8/2024
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One with the Whale An Alaska Native family maintains a subsistence life on a tiny Bering Sea island where, if you don’t hunt, you die.
  • Original4/23/2024
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Space: The Longest Goodbye NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation of a three-year-long mission to Mars.
  • Original5/6/2024
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The Tuba Thieves The central mystery of this unconventional documentary is not about theft; it is about the nature of sound itself.
  • Original5/20/2024
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One Person, One Vote? Why does the U.S. have the Electoral College? Learn more following four presidential electors during the 2020 election.
  • Original9/30/2024
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Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen A Marine Corps veteran's mission is to help Gold Star families of the fallen and find healing himself.
  • Original11/11/2024
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INDEPENDENT LENS: Dallas, 2019

Part 1 (Episodes 1 and 2) Dallas, 2019 captures the pulse of a city and the people who work and live there, all trying to build a better future.
  • Original1/3/2025
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INDEPENDENT LENS: Dallas, 2019

Part 2 (Episodes 3, 4, 5) Interwoven stories cover five weeks in a city's life the year before the pandemic hit.
  • Original1/4/2025
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Minted Explore the rise and fall of the NFT phenomenon that transformed the art world.
  • Original1/6/2025
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Without Arrows Thirteen years after leaving South Dakota, a Lakota dancer returns to the reservation to carry on the family legacy.
  • Original1/13/2025
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The Strike How California's Pelican Bay prison ignited a statewide hunger strike as a feat of unity by 30,000 incarcerated people.
  • Original2/3/2025
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The In Between Following her brother's death, a filmmaker returns home to Texas to reflect on fronterizo life.
  • Original2/10/2025
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Skin of Glass A filmmaker learns her architect father’s iconic building in São Paulo is occupied by the unhoused.
  • Original2/17/2025
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Bike Vessel Father and son bond on an ambitious, 350-mile bike ride in this portrait of familial love.
  • Original2/24/2025
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Home Court Cambodian American basketball prodigy Ashley Chea's life intensifies amid college recruitment, injury, and triumph.
  • Original3/24/2025
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WE WANT THE FUNK! The story of the rise and influence of funk music, including the explosion of '70s urban funk.
  • Original4/8/2025
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Free for All: The Public Library How public libraries shaped a nation and remain a beloved sanctuary for Americans today.
  • Original4/29/2025
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Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's An intimate portrayal of three families confronting and coping with the unique challenges of Alzheimer’s.
  • Original5/5/2025
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And So It Begins See how the Philippines' tense presidential race became the nation's fight for its soul.
  • Original5/12/2025
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Who Is Michael Jang Elusive photographer Michael Jang shares his wondrous work with the world.
  • Original5/19/2025
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Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution Phil Sharp's RNA discovery reshaped science, medicine, and the global biotech industry.
  • Original10/6/2025
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Ratified A bipartisan coalition continues a century-long fight to add gender equality into the Constitution.
  • Original10/20/2025
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Life After A filmmaker investigates assisted dying through the lens of disabled voices missing from the debate.
  • Original11/3/2025
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Vivien's Wild Ride When her eyesight begins to fade, a film editor reimagines belonging and what it truly means to see.
  • Airdate Monday, January 26, 2026 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
  • Original1/26/2026
  • INLE2704