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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.
Juana Pelos

Juana Pelos

Bullied for being hairy, Juana embarks on a hair removal crusade against her mom’s wishes.

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  • 1Independent Lens
  • 2Indie Alaska
  • 3POV
  • 4REEL SOUTH
  • 5PBS Short Film Festival
  • 6Mini Docs
  • 7Muslim Youth Voices
  • 8Maine Public Film Series
  • 9Film School Shorts
  • 10VOCES
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
Edward S. Curtis: Coming to Light

American Masters

Edward S. Curtis: Coming to Light

Edward S. Curtis took over 40,000 images and recorded rare ethnographic photos.
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  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Becoming Frida Kahlo
  • King of Them All: The Story of King Records
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • The Black Church
  • American Masters
  • Subcultured
  • Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
  • Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
  • Country Music
  • Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution
  • Gospel
  • Chautauqua at 150: Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise
  • Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
  • Southern Storytellers
  • Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
  • Jazz
  • Hemingway
  • The Bigger Picture
  • Emery Blagdon and His Healing Machine
  • Dante: Inferno to Paradise
  • Fanny: The Right to Rock
  • James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty
  • John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
  • Charlie Russell's Old West
  • Jack Has A Plan
  • We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told
  • The Last Mambo
  • Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
  • The American Revolution
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • The U.S. and the Holocaust
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Prohibition
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • The American Buffalo
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • The Shakers
  • The Civil War
  • Jazz
  • Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
  • The West
  • The War
  • The Roosevelts
  • The Vietnam War
  • Mark Twain
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Country Music
  • Hemingway
  • Jackie Robinson
  • 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 Decent Home

America ReFramed

A Decent Home

How are the lives of mobile home park residents impacted by class and economic injustice?
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Film School Shorts
Trip Ziggurat

Homegrown: Documentary Shorts Collection

Trip Ziggurat

An unlikely monument in the Colorado mountains connects an Iraqi filmmaker with his ancestral home.
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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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