Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Forty-five years after it revolutionized abortion law in America, the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade is once again at a crossroads. In their timely new documentary Reversing Roe, which premieres September 13 on Netflix, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg present a deeply illuminating look of the state of abortion and women's rights in America. Drawing from a wealth of historical footage, it charts the period leading up to the Roe decision—and documents

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s My Winnepeg, which streams this month on Mubi. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this work, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome. RBG, which continues to rack up impressive numbers at the box office, airs on CNN this Sunday, September 9, in a special encore broadcast. The film, directed by Betsy

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering August 27 on POV is Zaradasht Ahmed's Nowhere to Hide, which follows nurse Nori Sharif through five years of dramatic change in one of the world’s most dangerous and inaccessible areas—the "triangle of death" in central Iraq. Initially filming stories of survivors and the hope of a better future as US and Coalition troops retreat from Iraq in 2011, conflicts continue with Iraqi militias and the simultaneous rise of ISIS. Among the American Masters episodes

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering August 20 on Mubi, Thom Anderson's Los Angeles Plays Itself examines the way Los Angeles is represented and misrepresented in film and television throughout history. Detailing the numerous depictions of the city throughout history, Andersen critiques the popularized vision of Los Angeles and the adverse effects it has had on communities—unraveling dark truths and conspiracy’s just beneath the glitzy surface of the city. Premiering August 23 on Logo, Vavani Vérité's

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering August 17 on Hulu after a wildly successful festival run, Bing Liu's Minding the Gap began as a skateboarding video that he shot among his friends in his hometown of Rockford, Illinois. But over 12 years, the story deepens and darkens from a coming-of-age tale to a full-on reckoning with the daunting transition to adulthood. All three characters in the film, including Bing himself, reveal their troubled upbringings and their shaky struggles to find their grownup

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The early days of documentary yielded a handful of now-classic "city symphony" films, including Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a City. Influenced by the early work of Dziga Vertov, the film is structured to follow the life of Berlin and its inhabitants across the course of a single day, from dawn to dusk, to create “a symphonic film with the thousandfold energies that make up the life of a great city.” Now streaming on Mubi. Premiering August 6 on POV, Joan Fan's Still

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, directed by Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason and written and produced by Jay-Z, re-examines the life and legacy of Trayvon Martin, whose death in 2012 became a catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement. The six-episode series airs July 30-August 12 on Paramount Network and BET. Whose Streets?, directed by Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis, makes its PBS premiere July 30 on POV. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown was killed by

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Editor's Note: I didn't know Jonathan Gold personally. And I'm not a hardcore foodie. But Jonathan Gold, whose shocking death on Saturday night of pancreatic cancer, was not simply a Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic. Food, to Gold, was the port of entry to a richer appreciation of culture, of which cuisine was as essential an ingredient as language, music, history and folklore. Gold was an amiable populist, more at home sampling taco-truck fare on the sidewalks on East LA

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight on ESPN is Enhanced, a six-episode series that takes viewers inside the secret world of modern sports training, technology, recovery and more, and raises questions about the characters, power struggles, and breakthrough innovations that are driving the greatest performances on the planet. The series, produced by Alex Gibney, features episodes from directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jesse Sweet, Paul Taublieb and Alison Klayman. Opening today and running

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Streaming on POV through July 15 are two films that take a ground-level view of border culture and politics between the US and Mexico. IDA Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award honoree Natalia Almada's Al Otro Lado (2006) follows Magdiel, an aspiring corrido composer from the drug capital of Mexico, as he faces two difficult choices to better his life: to traffic drugs or to cross the border illegally into the United States. Almada artfully deploys the tradition of corrida