Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Drawing on unprecedented access, Foster, from Academy Award-winning filmmakers Deborah Oppenheimer and Mark Jonathan Harris, traces a complex path through the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, challenging some of the most enduring myths about foster care and Interweaving first-hand stories of those navigating the child protection system with insights from social workers, lawyers and other advocates. The film, which is a project of IDA's Fiscal

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering May 3 on HBO, and streaming later on HBO GO and HBO Now, Erin Lee Carr’s At the Heart of Gold: Inside The USA Gymnastics Scandal goes beyond the headlines of the decades-long pattern of sexual abuse of female athletes by Dr. Larry Nassar, an osteopathic physician for the US women's Olympic gymnastics team, as well as a physician at Michigan State University. Carr’s film reveals a dangerous system that prioritized winning over everything else, including protecting

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Filmed over three tumultuous years covering the lead up to, and aftermath of, Freddie Gray’s death in police custody in Baltimore, Marilyn Ness’ critically-acclaimed Charm City, an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund grantee, is an intimate cinema verité portrait of those surviving in, and working to improve, the vibrant city they call home. The film airs April 22 on Independent Lens and streams through April. Stanley Nelson’s latest film, Boss: The Black Experience in Business

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. A co-presentation of Frontline, Independent Lens and Voces, David Sutherland’s Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore examines the US immigration system through the eyes of a married couple whose lives reveal the human cost of deportation. Elizabeth Perez, a decorated US Marine veteran, fights to reunite her family after her undocumented husband, Marcos, is deported to Mexico. With his signature raw, unfiltered intimacy, Sutherland weaves a parallel love story that takes us into a

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The Providers, from Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green, follows three healthcare professionals in northern New Mexico as they struggle to reach those who would otherwise be left out of the American healthcare system. Amid a physician shortage and an opioid epidemic in rural America, these physicians strive to make a difference in providing optimal care for marginalized patients. The Providers premieres April 8 on Independent Lens. Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, a

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Launching April 1 on National Geographic as a six-part series that airs Mondays through May 6, Hostile Planet draws attention to the most extraordinary accounts of animals that have adapted to the cruelest evolutionary curveballs. The series zooms in on the world’s most extreme environments to reveal the animal kingdom’s most glorious stories of survival on this fast and continuously shifting planet. From the team behind The Blue Planet and Planet Earth II. Premiering April 1

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering March 30 on Discovery Channel, Tigerland, from Born into Brothels director Ross Kauffman and The Cove producer Fisher Stevens, takes viewers to Far East Russia, where the guardians of the last Siberian tigers risk everything to save the species. Directors/producers Marc Levin and Daphne Pickerson follow renowned neurosurgeon and Emmy-winning CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on a journey across the US to understand why Americans rank near the bottom

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering March 18 on POV, 306 Hollywood, from Jonathan and Elan Bogarin, is a magical realist documentary of two siblings who undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house. They embark on a journey from her home in New Jersey to ancient Rome, from fashion to physics, in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind. Barbara Hammer, renowned as an indefatigable trailblazer in both LGBTQ and experimental cinema, passed away this past

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering March 15 on Paramount Network, I Am Richard Pryor, from Jesse James Miller, explores and celebrates the life and career of the iconic comedian who lifted himself out of poverty to achieve worldwide success as a shrewd and penetrating observer of the Black experience in America. The six-episode Finding Justice, airing Sundays on BET through April 14t, travels the country to join heroes, leaders and activists as they battle to bring change to their home cities. Each

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The Case Against Adnan Syed, a four-part series directed by Amy Berg, reinvestigates the case behind the hit 2014 podcast Serial, which examined the 1999 murder of 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student Hae Min Lee, and the subsequent conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed. The HBO series, which premieres March 10, evolves from the genesis of their high school relationship to the original police investigation and trial, and moves into the current day as Syed