Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming at Amazon Prime is Parvez Sharma's A Sinner in Mecca . For a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia during the hajj presents two serious challenges -- filming is forbidden and homosexuality in Saudi Arabia is punishable by death. With nothing more than his iPhone, Sharma joins four million fellow Muslims on the pilgrimage to Mecca. Premiering Wednesday, April 25, on KCET Link is the new season of Earth Focus, produced in partnership with Thomson Reuters

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. This week, we celebrate Kanopy's release of the Frederick Wiseman documentary collection: Central Park (1989) is a film about the famous New York City landmark and the variety of ways in which people make use of it: running, boating, walking, skating, music, theatre, sports, picnics, parades and concerts. The film also illustrates the complex problems the New York City Parks Department deals with in order to maintain and preserve the park and keep it open and accessible to

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering today, Monday, April 9 on Topic is Darius Clark Monroe's Black 14, a documentary short telling the story of what happened when a group of University of Wyoming football players decided to protest racial injustice in 1969. Premiering tonight on Smithsonian Channel is Waco: The Longest Siege. It began as a raid, turned into a 51-day standoff, and ended with the destruction of a five-story building and 75 people dead. The 1993 Waco siege of the compound belonging to

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, April 2 on HBO is King in the Wilderness, which chronicles the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. Premiering tonight on Independent Lens is Till Schauder's When God Sleeps, a rap-punk-rock documentary about Iranian musician Shahin Najafi, who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death, incensed

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, March 26, on Nat Geo is Darren Aronofsky's One Strange Rock, a mind-bending, thrilling 10-part docu-series that explores the fragility and wonder of planet Earth. Also premiering tonight, on HBO, is Judd Apatow's The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling. Epic in scope and intimate in detail, it features conversations with more than 40 of the late comedian's family and friends, and four decades' worth of TV appearances, along with personal journals

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Currently airing and streaming at PBS SoCal is Valerie Red-Horse's Mankiller, the story of Wilma Mankiller, an advocate for women and Native Americans, who defied all odds to become the Cherokee Nation's first female principal chief. Premiering March 24 on NBC and March 25 on MSNBC is Hope and Fury: MLK, The Movement and The Media. This new documentary film, produced and directed by Rachel Dretzin and Phil Bertelsen, examines how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and leaders of the

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight on National Geographic is Brett Morgen's Jane, which draws on over 100 hours of never-before-seen footage to tell the story of Jane Goodall's revolutionary research on chimpanzees. The film was awarded Best Documentary of 2017 by the National Board of Review. Tonight on HBO, catch Traffic Stop, Kate Davis and David Heilbronner's Academy Award-nominated short about an Austin-Texas-based African-American schoolteacher who is pulled over for speeding, then

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Newly streaming at Hulu is Adam Bhala Lough's The New Radical. Uncompromising millennial radicals from the United States and the United Kingdom attack the system through dangerous technological means, which evolves into a high-stakes game with world authorities in the midst of a dramatically changing political landscape. Premiering tonight on A&E is Divided States, an original documentary series about how racial tensions and hate crimes are impacting communities in the US and

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, February 26 on Independent Lens is Theo Anthony's Rat Film. A unique blend of history, science and sci-fi, poetry and portraiture, the film explores how racial segregation, discriminatory lending practices, and environmental racism built the Baltimore that exists today. Premiering tonight on Smithsonian Channel (and streaming on the website) is The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X. Presented entirely through his speeches, newscasts, and rarely seen archival footage

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Newly streaming at Independent Lens is Stanley Nelson's Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, which tells the powerful story of the rise, influence and evolution of HBCUs. Newly streaming at HBO is Kate Davis' Oscar-nominated short Traffic Stop, which tells the story of Breaion King, a 26-year-old African-American school teacher from Austin, Texas, who is stopped for a routine traffic violation that escalates into a dramatic arrest. Newly