Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The Changing Same tells the story of Lamar Wilson, a young man who learns his hometown of Marianna, Florida was the site of the brutal slaying in 1936 of Claude Neal, a young African-American man accused of murdering a 20-year-old white woman, at the hands of a mob of white men. Wilson takes it upon himself to confront his town’s dark history by running the 13-mile route that Neal took that fateful night. On the 70th anniversary of the lynching, directors Joe Brewster and

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. In 1917, nearly 2,000 immigrant miners in the small town of Brisbee, Arizona went on strike for better wages and safer working conditions. In response, they were violently rounded up in cattle cars and left the desert to die. Robert Greene’s Bisbee ‘17 follows several members of the town as they commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation. The film combines documentary and scripted elements to depict dramatized scenes based on subjective versions of the story

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. SIMA’s staff pick of the month for July is A River Changes Course, from director Kalyanee Mam. This film tells the story of three Cambodian families struggling to maintain their traditional ways of life as the modern world closes around them. A River Changes Course won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and also earned a Special Mention for the IDA Pare Lorentz Award. Premiering on HBO July 9 and 10, Erin Lee Carr's I Love You

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. DA Films is now featuring a collection of four films from legendary Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens. A Valparaíso (1962) profiles, through images both starkly real and lyrically poetic, the Chilean port city at the center of sea transportation via Latin America before the completion of the Panama Canal, with vast differences between poverty and wealth apparent at first glance. The short Le Petit Chapiteau (1963) was also made during the director’s stay in Chile, capturing the

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. On June 26, HBO premieres True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, from Emmy-winning filmmakers Peter Kunhardt, Teddy Kunhardt and Geroge Kunhardt. The documentary follows Bryan Stevenson, an Alabama attorney and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, as he shares his experience advocating for the poor and condemned within the criminal justice system and his struggle to create a more fair system in the face of deeply entrenched racial

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering June 14 on Showtime, Richard Rowley’s 16 Shots, an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund grantee, examines the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued. After the police initially declared the shooting as justified, journalists and activists fought for footage of the event to be released, sending the Chicago Police Department and local Chicago government officials into upheaval as the community

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. From Academy Award-winning filmmakers Ron Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, State of Pride takes an unflinching look at the significance of Pride 50 years after the Stonewall Riots. The film travels to three different cities in America – Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to get a sense from the LGBTQ+ communities there of the meaning of Pride, from the perspective of a younger generation for whom it still has personal urgency. State of Pride streams on

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. In the latest installment of his brilliant canon, Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman travels to rural, small-town America for a deep-dive into the day-to-day life--the institutions, the rituals, the mores--of this farming community. Monrovia, Indiana premieres May 31 on PBS. Premiering May 28 on ESPN’s 30 for 30--just in time for the Indy 500--is Jenna Ricker’s Qualified, which tells the story of Janet Guthrie, the first woman to qualify for the fabled Memorial Day weekend

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering May 20 on Independent Lens, Wrestle, from Suzannah Herbert and Lauren Belfer, follows four members of the wrestling team at Huntsville, Alabama’s J.O. Johnson High School—long listed as one of Alabama’s failing schools. The four teammates face everyday challenges that transcend the wrestling mat—and their journey to the state championship. As their tough-love coach grapples with his own past while wading into the complexities of race, class and privilege, the

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. What’s My Name: Muhammed Ali, from Antoine Fuqua and executive producers Lebron James and Maverick Carter explores the boxing icon’s challenges, confrontations, comebacks and triumphs through archival recordings of Ali himself. The film celebrates a man who transcended his sport to become a global beacon of hope and a symbol of humanity and understanding. The two-part series premieres May 14 on HBO Sports, then streams on HBO Go and HBO Now through May. Manuel Correa’s The