Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Streaming in virtual theaters through Film Movement starting December 2, David Osit’s Mayor, an IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund grantee, follows Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. His immediate goals: repave the sidewalks, attract more tourism, and plan the city's Christmas celebrations. His ultimate mission: to end the occupation of Palestine. Rich with detailed observation and a surprising amount of humor, Mayor offers a portrait

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Latino Public Broadcasting's website, Latinos Are Essential is a collection of shorts that spotlight Latinosthat have served on the frontlines in the COVID-19 pandemic, providing essential services to all Americans--from healthcare to education to food service and beyond.. Streaming November 30 on The Criterion Channel are two films from Cambodian master Rithy Panh— The Missing Picture (2013) and Exile (2016). Panh, who survived the Cambodian genocide in the

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering November 23 on Independent Lens, Erika Cohn’s Belly of the Beast tracks down a previously little-known story about enforced—and illegal—sterilization of female inmates in California's correctional facilities. For nearly 40 years after a 1979 law was passed in California banning enforced sterilization, this practice continued with impunity in prisons. Premiering November 17 on WORLD CHANNEL, Drew Nicholas’ Blood Memory follows Sandy White Hawk, who at age 18 months

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. November is Native American Heritage Month, and WORLD Channel and Vision Maker Media are commemorating with a rich showcase of work from the Indigenous community, entitled We Are Still Here. Among the films in the showcase include Warrior Women, by Getting Real 2020 Programmer Christina D. King and Elizabeth Castle, which, through the stories of Indigenous rights activists Madonna Thunder Hawk and Marcy Gilbert, explores what it means to balance a movement with motherhood as

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The Washington Post presents America’s Pandemic, a three-part documentary series by Whitney Shefte and Jorge Ribas that explores a failed response to the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed the lives of over 225,000 Americans, despite decades of preparation in Washington, DC. Making its broadcast premiere November 8 on National Geographic, Ron Howard’s Rebuilding Paradise takes viewers back to the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, when a devastating firestorm engulfed the

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. City So Real, a five-part series from Steve James, Kartemquin Films and Participant, premieres in its entirety on October 29 on National Geographic; all five episodes will be available October 30 on HULU. This complex portrait of contemporary Chicago delivers a deep, multifaceted look into the soul of a quintessentially American city, set against the backdrop of its history-making 2019 mayoral election. The series opens in 2018 as Mayor Rahm Emanuel, embroiled in accusations

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Firelight Media.tv, In The Making is a new documentary short film series, presented in collaboration with American Masters, that follows the lives and journeys of emerging BIPOC cultural artists—most of whom graduated from Firelight Media’s Documentary Lab—who bring insight and originality to their artistic craft. OVID.tv presents Democracy and its Discontents, a collection of films that address the notion and nature of democracy (and democracies) from

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on World Channel is Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana’s Border South, which profiles Gustavo Lopez Quiroz, a Nicaraguan migrant trying to cross into America through Mexico, and Jason De León, a US anthropologist seeking traces of others who never made it. Paz-Pastrana assembles a vivid portrait of the thousands of immigrants who disappear along the trail. Border South reveals the immigrants’ resilience, ingenuity and humor as it exposes a global migration system that renders

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Premiering October 6 on PBS’ Voces, Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground, from Bernardo Ruiz, follows activists, organizers and political operatives who are working to maximize Latino turnout in their local communities while devoting their efforts to COVID-19 relief as the pandemic surges. Taking an immersive approach, Latino Vote delves into the campaigns in the battleground states of Nevada, Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania to explore how Latino voters are poised to

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming through October 5, the Vision Maker Film Festival, presented by Vision Maker Media, is a free showcase for the best in American Indian, Alaska Native and worldwide Indigenous films. Accompanying the films, the festival is hosting a series of conversations and panels with the filmmakers in the festival. The 1991 shooting death of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins at a South Central Los Angeles convenience store became a flashpoint for the 1992 civil uprising in LA