Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Starting April 4, Eyes on the Prize, the seminal series on the American civil rights movement, will air on WORLD Channel every Sunday. The first six episodes will also be available on-demand for a limited time after broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including WORLDChannel.org, PBS.org and the PBS Video app. When it premiered in 1987, Eyes on the Prize, from the legendary production company Blackside, was acclaimed as the defining series on race in America. Today

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering March 16 on WORLD Channel as part of America ReFramed, Olga Lvoff’s Busy Inside explores the intricacies and complexities of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)—formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, a condition that fascinates and puzzles modern psychiatry. The film introduces viewers to those who live with DID, bringing viewers into their inner world. Premiering March 18 on discovery+, Groomed, from Gwen van de Pas, tells the powerful story of the

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Starz, RUTH—Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words, from 2019 IDA Career Achievement Award honoree Freida Lee Mock, takes an intimate look at the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her inspiring rise to the highest court in the land. Along the way, the film explores through archival footage of Ginsburg herself, how she broke down barriers in her personal and professional life, and she became an iconic advocate for gender equality and women’s rights

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Ondi Timoner’s Coming Clean, streaming through Laemmle Virtual Cinema, explores the depth and breadth of the deadliest drug epidemic in America’s history: the opioid crisis. Weaving together animation and deeply personal stories of loss and recovery, Coming Clean is a story of empathy and action. Launching March 6 on ShortsTV, FIVE is a documentary film series, commissioned by Mastercard, that follows the journeys of five women from five countries around the world—Croatia

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering February 22 on Independent Lens is Melissa Haizlip’s Mr. SOUL!, which won the 2018 IDA Documentary Award for Best Music Documentary. The film celebrates the public television variety show SOUL!, which ran from 1968 to 1973, as one of the premier showcases for the greatest figures in Black literature, poetry, music and politics. Under the visionary guidance of producer/host Ellis Haizlip (the filmmaker’s uncle), SOUL! was the first national show to provide expanded

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Streaming through February 16 on American Masters, How It Feels To Be Free, from Yoruba Richen, profiles six iconic African American female artists—Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier—digging in to how they channeled their creativity into front-and-center civil rights activism within an industry bent on stereotyping and marginalizing them. Premiering February 15 on American Experience, Voice of Freedom, from Rob Rapley, tells

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The documentary world lost Michael Apted last Friday, and the one work that most distinguished his career was The UP Series, which began in 1964 as an exploration into the British class system through the lens of a cross-section of seven-year-old children, then deepened over the subsequent decades into an affirmation—and perhaps refutation—of the Jesuit maxim that drove the entire series: “Show me the child at seven, and I’ll show you the person.” Most of the original 14

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering December 22 on PBS is City Hall, the 45th film from the remarkable Frederick Wiseman, immerses audiences in the municipality of his hometown of Boston to illustrate a government taking care of its diverse citizens. Through his filmmaking, audiences come to realize how city government touches upon almost every aspect of their lives, acknowledging how necessary services like sanitation, veterans affairs, elder support, parks, licensing bureaus, recordkeeping, as well

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering December 16 on HBO and HBO Max, The Art of Political Murder tells the story of the 1998 murder of Guatemalan human rights activist Bishop Juan Gerardi and how it stunned a country ravaged by decades of political violence. Just two days after presenting a damning report blaming the atrocities of the civil war on the Guatemalan military, Bishop Gerardi was found dead in his home. The documentary highlights the team of young investigators who take on the case and

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering December 8 on HBO, 40 Years a Prisoner, from Tommy Oliver, chronicles one of the most controversial shootouts in American history: the 1978 police raid on the radical, back-to-nature group MOVE by the Philadelphia Police Department. Using eyewitness accounts and archival footage of the confrontation, the film illuminates the story of a city grappling with racial tension and police brutality with alarming topicality and modern-day relevance. Mike Africa Jr., the son