Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering February 25 on PBS World, ‘63 Boycott documents a boycott of the Chicago Public schools, spearheaded by 250,000 students. Combining 16mm footage of the march, shot by Kartemquin Films founder Gordon Quinn, with participants’ contemporary reflections, ‘63 Boycott, directed by Quinn, Rachel Dickson and Tracye E. Matthews, connects the forgotten story of one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in the north to today’s issues around race, education, school

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. From executive producer John Legend and first-time directors Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown, United Skates travels to cities around the country to capture the dynamic world of roller skating and underscore how it’s such an intrinsic and indelible part of African-American culture. United Skates premieres February 18 on HBO and will stream on HBO Go and HBO Now through February Minding the Gap, the Oscar-nominated and IDA Award-winning film from Bing Liu , premieres February 18

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer captures the roiling debauchery of the Disco Era of the 1970s--the nucleus of which was Studio 54, the club whose clientele was a massive swirl of uptown and downtown culture, the gay community and A-list celebrities. Studio 54 premieres February 11 on A&E. The Oscar-nominated Hale County, This Morning This Evening premieres February 11 on Independent Lens. Director RaMell Ross creates an immersive cinematic reverie of African American life in rural

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. On the heels of a year of popular and critical acclaim, Morgan Neville’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor? makes its television premiere on HBO this Saturday, February 9. Meet the television icon who made kindness and empathy the twin drivers of his irresistible persona. Sealab, premiering February 12 on American Experience, tells the little-known story of the Sealab project, launched 50 years ago this month as a pressurized underwater habitat, complete with science labs and living

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering January 27 on CNN is Tim Wardle’s Three Identical Strangers, the multiple award-winning box-office hit about identical triplets separated at birth, but united by chance 20 years later. Upon discovering the truth behind their separation, the story takes a deeper dive into medical ethics and questions of nature vs. nurture. And following the announcement of the Oscar nominees, the following docs are now streaming online: Documentary Feature: Minding the Gap (Dir

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering January 14 on Independent Lens is Rodents of Unusual Size, from Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer. An IDA Pare Lorentz Award grantee, the film takes you deep into the bayous of Louisiana, where a colorful cast of locals faces off against a growing menace: the monstrous, 20-pound swamp rats known as nutria. Also coming to Independent Lens, on January 21, is Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, from Catherine Bainbridge. The film tells the electric

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering January 7 on Independent Lens and streaming here , Rita Baghdadi and Jeremiah Hammerling’s My Country No More takes viewers to Trenton, North Dakota, a quiet, tight-knit farm town that underwent a radical transformation during the oil boom years between 2011 and 2016. With billions of dollars to be gained, small towns like Trenton became overwhelmed by an influx of workers from across the country and by the repurposing of countless acres of farmland for industrial

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering December 17 on Independent Lens is Joel Fendelman’s Man on Fire, winner of the 2017 David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award. Fendelman travels to Grand Saline, Texas, the site of a horrific event in 2014, in which a 79-year-old white Methodist minister, Charles Moore, set himself on fire in a local parking lot. His suicide note, found on his car windshield, explained that this act was his final protest against the virulent racism in the community and his country

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. In response to President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Agreement in 2017, Americans--from mayors and governors to teen activists--are empowering themselves to demand and develop real solutions at the local, municipal and state levels. Paris to Pittsburgh, from Emmy winners Sidney Beaumont and Michael Bonfiglio, takes viewers around the country, from coastal cities to the heartland, to document the endeavors of US citizens to make a difference as the weather

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering December 3 on HBO, Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland, from Kate Davis and David Heilbronner, explores the death of Sandra Bland, a politically active 28-year-old African American who, after being arrested for a traffic violation in a small Texas town, was found hanging in her jail cell three days later. Dashcam footage revealing her arrest went viral, leading to national protests. The film team followed the two-year case beginning shortly after Bland