Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering tonight, Monday, July 10 on P.O.V. is Feras Fayyad's Last Men in Aleppo, a vivid and heartbreaking account of wartime Syria told through the eyes of the White Helmets volunteer rescue workers. The film won the 2017 Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. Currently streaming on MUBI is Sophie Huber's Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, an intimate and impressionistic portrait of the enigmatic American actor. The Boston Globe calls it "an unexpectedly

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Showing July 5 and 6 as part of KCET and Link TV's " EARTH FOCUS Presents" series is 2007's The 11th Hour, created, produced, co-written and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. The Christian Science Monitor called it "considerably less slick than An Inconvenient Truth, and no less urgent." Currently streaming on Netflix is Alma Har'el's genre-bending documentary LoveTrue, which tackles three complementary stories that demystify the fantasy of true love. IndieWire writes that "Har

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Opening the new season of POV tonight is Julia Meltzer's Dalya's Other Country, the nuanced story of members of a family displaced by the Syrian conflict who are remaking themselves after the parents separate. It follows its title character, a Syrian teenager, over the course of four years. Premiering Tuesday, June 27 on America Reframed is Vegas Baby, Amanda Micheli's film about aspiring parents who enter a contest to win a free round of in-vitro fertilization. The Hollywood

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Coming to Netflix this Friday, Brian Knappenberger's Nobody Speak, which examines the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker Media case as a deeper exploration into the precarious state of free press, free speech and freedom of expression in the Trump era. Sara’s Taksler's Tickling Giants tells the story of how Dr. Bassem Youssef, the "Egyptian Jon Stewart," makes the transformation from heart surgeon to late-night comedian to exlore and support creative ways to protect free speech and fight

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Currently streaming at Filmstruck is Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, the groundbreaking 1977 documentary in which a group of gay and lesbian individuals share their personal stories about identity, prejudice, and acceptance. The Village Voice called it "extraordinary...still enormously powerful today." Starting its four-night run on Showtime Monday, June 12 at 9pm is Oliver Stone's The Putin Interviews, in which the controversial filmmaker sits down with the

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (Dir.: Danny Gold; Prod.: George Shapiro), currently available on HBO Now and HBO Go, celebrates the joy of ageing, as related by some of the most vital nonagenarians in the business—Carl Reiner, Norman Lear, Mel Brooks and Dick Van Dyke for starters, along with a host of runners, skydivers and woodworkers who live to stay off the obituary page. Marie-Hélène Rebois' In the Steps of Tricia Brown, available on DVD through Icarus Films

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Receiving a digital/DVD release on Tuesday, May 23 is Derik Murray and Adrian Buitenhuis's I Am Heath Ledger, which recounts the remarkable (and all too brief) acting career of Heath Ledger, and showcases footage captured by Ledger's own camera. Premiering Monday, May 22 at 10pm on Independent Lens, Ben Lear's They Call Us Monsters goes behind the walls of the Compound, a high-security facility where Los Angeles houses its most violent juvenile criminals. The Hollywood

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering Monday, May 15 on HBO, as well as HBO Now and HBO Go, is Erin Lee Carr's Mommy Dead and Dearest, a true-crime mystery about a mother and daughter who were thought to be living a fairy tale life. The New York Times writes: "if you were still luxuriating in the feel-good aura of Mother's Day, this disturbing film will put an end to that." Also premiering Monday, May 15 at 10pm on Independent Lens, Maya Zinshtein's Forever Pure looks at a national scandal involving

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Streaming on HBO Now and HBO Go is Tracy Droz Tragos's Abortion: Stories Women Tell. The film looks at its subject through the stories of women struggling with unplanned pregnancies, abortion providers and clinic staff and activists on both sides of this contentious debate. Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com wrote: "Some stories are among the most resonant I've heard in a documentary this year." Premiering Monday, May 8 on World Channel's Local, USA - and streaming through

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. On May 1 at 10:00 p.m., Independent Lens premieres Sonia Kennebeck's National Bird, which The New York Times called "an elegantly unsettling documentary." The film tells the story of the whistleblowers determined to break the silence around the controversial, secret US drone war. Streaming on Netflix starting May 1, it's Sacha Gervasi's Anvil! The Story of Anvil. The hilarious, poignant, unforgettable story of an influential but commercially unsuccessful Canadian heavy metal