Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering November 26 on Independent Lens, An Honest Liar, from Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein, follows magician-turned-detective James “The Amazing” Randi as he deploys his singular wit and legerdemain to track down and expose fraudulent faith healers, fortune-tellers and psychics. An eerie, eye-opening work of science nonfiction, Maxim Pozdorovkin’s The Truth About Killer Robots, which airs November 26 on HBO, considers several automation cases, from a factory in

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Erika Cohn’s The Judge, premiering November 19 on Independent Lens and streaming through November, tells the story of the first woman judge in Palestine's religious courts. With the support of a progressive Sheik, Kholoud Al-Faqih assumes her appointment and adjudicates domestic and family matters with a subtle perspective informed by her early professional life as an attorney representing battered woman in both criminal and Shari’a courts. Every four years, the Navajo Nation

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering November 12 on HBO and streaming through the month on HBO Now and HBO Go, The Price of Everything, from two-time Academy Award nominee Nathaniel Kahn, examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society. Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, the film exposes deep contradictions as it holds a mirror up to contemporary values and times, coaxing out the dynamics at play in pricing the

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering November 8 on HBO, We Are Not Done Yet, from Sareen Hairabedian, profiles a group of veterans and active-duty service members as they come together to combat past and current traumas through the written word, sharing their experiences in a United Service Organizations (USO) writing workshop at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Airing this week on Al Jazeera English: WITNESS and streaming on YouTube, Halima, from Mike Shum, Arthur Nazaryan and Eugene Yi

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The announcement last week that WarnerMedia would shut down FilmStruck at the end of November has sent shock waves of dismay throughout the community of cinephiles. In its all-too-brief existence--it was launched in November 2016-- FilmStruck has hosted both The Criterion Channel and TCM, the former of which is a treasure trove of some of the greatest docs of all time-- Chronicle of a Summer, Dont Look Back, Harlan County USA, and so many more! So, while we’re confident that

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. In 2014, 276 Nigerian school girls were kidnapped from a school in Chibok, Northern Nigeria and hidden in the vast Sambisa Forest for three years by Boko Haram, a violent Islamic insurgent movement. A year ago, 82 were released. Gemma Atwal's Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram, which premieres October 22 on HBO and streams on HBO Go and HBO Now through October, tells the story of the girls’ time in captivity and follows their lives over the past year. Native America, a

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. In the IDA Award-winning series Making A Murderer, filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi followed, for over a decade, the twists and turns of the cases of Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey, two Wisconsin men convicted of the brutal murder of photographer Teresa Halbach, uncovering along the way the possibility of a massive miscarriage of justice. The filmmakers are back for Making A Murderer Part 2, premiering October 19 on Netflix. Demos and Ricciardi have

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The Circus, a four-hour series from Sharon Grimberg, tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history. The Circus , not to be confused with the Showtime series on contemporary American politics. airs and streams on American Experience. Capturing the most intimate moments of her story, Rx: Early Detection, A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee highlights the importance of early detection and informed decision-making in regards to

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. With the midterm elections a month away, tune in to POV October 1 for the TV premiere of Kimberly Reed's Dark Money, which takes viewers to Montana to tell the story, through the perspective of one intrepid investigative journalist, of campaign finance and its impact on politics, democracy and governance. Student Athlete, which premieres October 2 on HBO, examines the complex rules of amateur athletics in America and how they affect uncompensated athletes and their families

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Making its VOD premiere, A Greater Society, from Stacy Goldate and Craig A. Colton, follows the 2014 midterm elections through the perspective of the residents of a South Florida retirement community, who, aware of the power of America's largest swing state, mobilize to get out the vote. Although the 20-hour, 10-part documentary series Basketball: A Love Story doesn't premiere on ESPN until October 9, you can get the ESPN App on September 18, which will grant you access to