Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering October 14 on POV and streaming through the month on POV.org Assia Boundaoui's The Feeling of Being Watched, an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund grantee, takes viewers to the Chicago neighborhood where Boundaoui grew up, where most residents in her Muslim immigrant neighborhood believe they are under surveillance. Boundaoui investigates and uncovers FBI documents about "Operation Vulgar Betrayal," one of the largest pre-9/11 counterterrorism probes conducted on

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering October 7 on POV is América, a portrait of a family--three brothers, their declining grandmother and their father, who is imprisoned for elderly neglect of his mother. Round-the-clock elderly care is the catalyst that reunites Diego, Rodriquez and Bruno in their boyhood home in Colima, Mexico, but it also instigates fraternal tension amoid the challenge of putting their lives and livelihoods on hold. Directed by Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside. Premiering October

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering September 30 on POV, The Silence of Others, the IDA Documentary Award-winning film from Robert Bahar and Almudena Carracedo, reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a "pact of forgetting" around the crimes they suffered. A cautionary tale about fascism and the dangers of forgetting the past. The Unafraid, from Anayansi Prado and Heather Courtney

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Buzz, premiering September 25 on HBO, follows Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Buzz Bissinger as he experiences a sexual awakening while collaborating with Caitlyn Jenner on her tell-all memoir. A verité portrait of his transformative journey, directed by his childhood friend Andrew Shea, Buzz follows the author as he simultaneously examines his own heteronormative constraints, exploring previously uncharted sexual desires in ways that test his marriage, family and

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Filmed over more than 25 years, The Pushouts follows Victor Rios’ inspiring trajectory from high school dropout, three-time felon and Oakland gang member to award-winning professor, author and expert on the school-to-prison pipeline. Filmmakers Katie Galloway and Dawn Valadez weave in the stories from YO!Watts, a youth center serving 16-24 year-olds who are out of school and out of work. The Psuhouts premieres September 20 on PBS/ Voces. Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering September 9 on POV, Grit, directed by Cynthia Wade and Sasha Friedlander, tells the story of a natural and manmade catastrophe in East Java, Indonesia: a massive mudflow triggered by a mismanaged series of fracking incidents at the suspected hands of Lapindo, a natural gas multinational company. In the aftermath, nearly 60,000 residents have lost their homes and dozens of structures—mosques, schools and factories—are now submerged in a massive wasteland of cracked

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering September 3 on WORLD Channel, America Reframed presents Margo Guernsey’s Councilwoman, which follows Dominican immigrant Carmen Castillo as she transitions from hotel housekeeper to city councilwoman in Providence, Rhode Island and advocates for working families in her community. Nightshift, premiering September 3 on KCET and kcet.org, and September 8 on LinkTV, follows five Los Angeles residents in their routines as night shift workers. The filmmakers take viewers

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Jawline, the debut film from Liza Mandelup, follows 16-year-old Austyn Tester, as he transforms his life in dead-end rural Tennessee into teenage stardom in the live-broadcast ecosystem, connecting with a global audience of young girls through an ongoing stream of positivity. Jawline, for which Mandelup won a Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the Sundance Film Festival, streams on Hulu. Ghana Controversial: Music from the Ground Up, streaming on Al Jazeera English

In celebration of the work and life of the late documentary master DA Pennebaker, IDA will be both digging into our archives and reaching out to his and Chris Hegedus’ many collaborators, friends and mentees for their reflections. In the meantime, here’s where you can catch some of his greatest films—in a trailblazing career that spanned over six decades. Daybreak Express is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City, set to the classic Duke Ellington recording of the same name. Pennebaker’s 1953 debut film is a tribute to his love of

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Inventing Tomorrow, from director Laura Nix, follows a group of passionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world’s environmental threats - found right in their own backyards - while navigating the doubts and insecurities that mark adolescence. These inspiring teens prepare their projects from the largest convening of high school scientists in the world: the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair