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Full Body Burden is Kristen Iversen’s story of growing up in a small Colorado town in the shadow of Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant.

Every year, the top under-18 Braille readers and writers from across the English-speaking world gather in Los Angeles to compete in the Braille Challenge.

For decades, refugees have begun their journey to the American Dream at a meatpacking plant in Storm Lake, Iowa. But after their shift is over, they dream of something better than the kill floor. Intimately following the lives of the refugees at a meatpacking town in Iowa for over four years, The Americans explores the human reality of the American dream and the personal sacrifices behind it.

Eight decades after being smuggled out of Poland, a box of photographs sparks a filmmaker’s journey to confront his family’s past and the haunted silence that lingers in their present.

In "Puzzle Party," we meet legendary figures and rising stars in the puzzle community, exploring how these playful and often frustrating objects help people navigate grief, open new life opportunit

He was young, handsome, mysterious, and wanted. He was looking for a mate.

For much of the 20th century, babies routinely underwent major surgery without adequate pain relief.

This documentary chronicles the deeply personal journey of LtCmdr Peter Steinhauer, an American Vietnam War veteran who found a unique path to healing the wounds caused by war.

Worship is at the heart of the Christian life: we pray, sing, and write music.
But worship is more than that: it is about justice and how to care for people's needs.

Camp 6ixx is an hour-long documentary, filmed over the course of two years, showing the growing tide of homelessness in America, and the obstacles faced by cities trying to solve it.

In 1907, Sam’s great grandfather, a Jewish immigrant named Nathan Radutzky, started Joyva, a Jewish candy company that became ubiquitous in Jewish Americana and touched the lives of millions.

THREADS is an intimate portrait of a Bangladeshi artist who refines a unique quiltwork tradition to create possibilities for a better life for her family and for hundreds of mothers.

Tensions are rising, we are becoming more polarised, and the world feels less and less stable. Social media has become a dangerously powerful propaganda tool.

Driven from Ireland when the revolution she'd given thirty years to turned grey and administrative, Ella Young arrived in California speaking the language of mountain spirits, sea-voices, and the o

THE SOUND OF TOYS is a film about how Casio keyboards sparked a digital music revolution in the 1980s weaving together personal stories of amateur and professional musicians to show how these affor

An uplifting and heartfelt, one-hour, Verite docu-series, following America’s premiere operatic countertenor, the astonishingly talented John Holiday; as he performs in the world’s most prestigious

Matriarch is a documentary that transports viewers to four long-established but largely unknown matriarchal societies through the eyes of four females—a Khasi Indian girl

Frames is a full-length documentary that will examine the resurgence of analog film among today's Gen-Z photographers and what their work means for the future of photography.

While locked-up for six years in federal prison, artist Jesse Krimes secretly creates monumental works of art—including an astonishing 40-foot mural made with prison bed sheets, hair gel, and newsp

Sustaining Documentary Film in Ecuador

In a race against time, two people battling Parkinson's disease embark on a journey of hope as they undergo brain surgery to reclaim their lives.

CARRYING is an intimate exploration of the experience of placing a child for adoption.

#MenToo is a documentary that examines the hidden crisis of male sexual trauma—an urgent public health issue affecting at least one in six men.

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Fifty-five years after becoming the first woman to solo-hand sail the Pacific Ocean, Sharon Sites Adams looks back at 15,000 nautical miles at sea.

THE LIVING ICE OF GREENLAND is a feature-length documentary film about the startling discovery of a dark microbial forest melting the Greenland Ice Sheet far faster than any models predict, and the Arctic scientists traversing Greenland to understand it.

Seven Years Disappear chronicles the music, the mural and the turbulent personal life of acclaimed singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston, named Rolling Stone's "Songwriter of the Year" in 1994.

Russia's continued systematic bombing and destruction of schools in Ukraine, sometimes while civilians shelter inside, is an intentional tactic aimed at harming Ukraine's future by depriving childr

In Inventing Reality, astrophysicist Matt O'Dowd leads us on a quest for fundamental reality.

Against all odds, Laura King Edwards — mother, writer, speaker, runner, and passionate rare disease advocate — sets out to break the world record for running a half marathon blindfolded.

The story of half million Jews who fought for Central Powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary, in the Great War, has yet to be told.

With the increased visibility of transgender people in the United States, we are seeing a backlash that results in efforts to block trans people from participation in some of the most basic parts o

SAFE ZONE is a documentary film series about the resilience of girls caught in the chaos of the Syrian refugee crisis.

We are thrilled to announce that the film will air nationally beginning on PBS December 1, 2026.

The 2020 feature WEED & WINE followed a year in the life of two farming families: one growing biodynamic grapes in France; the other growing organic cannabis in California.