Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. As the impeachment trial of President Trump gets underway, and as the US launches into another rough-and-tumble presidential election year, FRONTLINE presents America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump, a two-part, four-hour documentary series investigating America's increasingly bitter, divided and toxic politics. Michael Kirk directs. Following Martin Luther King Jr. Day, explore the history of the American Civil Rights Movement through the definitive series Eyes on the

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Ovid.tv, Chez Jolie Coiffure, from Rosine Mbakam, tells the story of Sabine, whose hair salon serves as a cultural hub for the largely immigrant Brussels district of Matonge. Here, Sabine and her employees fit extensions and glue on lashes while watching soaps, dishing romantic advice, sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants, and talking about people back home in West Africa. A new season of the documentary series Link Voices premieres

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Coming December 19 on Ovid.TV is Bill Morrison's IDA Documentary Award winner, Dawson City: Frozen Time. The film takes the 1978 discovery of a long-lost collection of nitrate film prints buried under a swimming pool in the Yukon Territory as a pretext for a deeper exploration of time, history and preservation. Also coming on December 19, The Criterion Channel presents Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, William Greaves' meta meditation on making movies. This 1968 gem features

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Right on the heels of the IDA Documentary Awards, here's where you can catch most of the winners: Best Feature: For Sama (Director/Producer: Waad al-Kateab; Director: Edward Watts) Now Streaming on Frontline: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/for-sama/ Best Short: Learning to Skate in a Warzone (if you’re a girl) (Director: Carol Dysinger; Producer: Elena Andreicheva) Now streaming on AETV.com: Pare Lorentz Award and Best Cinematography Award: Honeyland (Director

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering December 6 on Netflix, The Confession Killer, a new series from Robert Kenner and Taki Oldham, digs into the story of Virginia-born convict Henry Lee Lucas, who in the 1980s began claiming responsibility for hundreds of murders across the US. Even though there was no physical evidence linking him to the scenes and even documents and witnesses placed him in completely different locations, the Texas Rangers still took Lucas at his word in order to close the cases and

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering November 25 and 26 on PBS, College Behind Bars, a four-part series directed by Lynn Novick, tells the story of a small group of incarcerated men and women struggling to earn college degrees and turn their lives around in one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in the United States--the Bard Prison Initiative in New York State. Alter-NATIVE: Kitchen, a series of shorts now streaming on Independent Lens, profiles three talented young

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now available on YouTube Originals, The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash, directed by Thom Zimny, explores the artistic victories, the personal tragedies, the struggles with addiction, and the spiritual pursuits that colored Johnny Cash's life. The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash is nominated for an IDA Documentary Award for Best Music Documentary. The Interpreters, from Andres Caballero and Sofian Khan, is streaming on Independent Lens through December 11. The film tells

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. IDA Documentary Award nominee Sea of Shadows, from Richard Ladkani, makes its broadcast premiere this Saturday, November 9 on National Geographic. The film tracks the efforts of a team of scientists, conservationists, journalists, undercover agents and the Mexican Navy as they battle to save the rare totoaba fish from poachers, whose deadly methods threaten to destroy virtually all marine life in the Sea of Cortez region. Julia Reichert, the 2018 IDA Career Achievement Award

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. One of the first documentaries to stream on Apple TV, The Elephant Queen premieres November 1. The film, directed by Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone, follows an elephant herd, led by their matriarch, Athena, as they cross an unforgiving African landscape in an epic journey of family, courage and coming home. "There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying. So said Robert Evans, the legendary Hollywood mogul who passed away this

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Saudi Women’s Driving School, which premieres October 24 on HBO and will stream on HBO NOW, HBO GO and HBO On Demand, tracks the year since Saudi Arabian women were first legally permitted to drive. Directed by Erica Gornall, the film takes viewers inside The Saudi Women’s Driving School, the largest such complex in the world, as well inside the lives of Saudi women who are actively challenging their country’s gender dynamics, despite the ongoing risk of censure and jail time