Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang’s Our Time Machine opens September 11 in over 35 virtual cinemas nationwide through Walking Iris Media and POV. The film, winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, is a personal and intimate look at Chinese artist Maleonn (Ma Liang) as he sets out to stage an ambitious performance piece about time and memory when his father, Ma Ke, the former artistic director of the Shanghai Chinese Opera Theater, is diagnosed with

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming via Alamo On Demand Virtual Cinema is Ai Weiwei’s latest film, Coronation, about the COVID-driven lockdown in Wuhan, China, which went into effect January 23, 2020—a month and a half after the first patient with COVID-19 symptoms was identified in Wuhan. Coronation, which Ai Weiwei directed and produced from his residence in Berlin and which was filmed by Wuhan citizens, examines the political specter of Chinese state control over the course of the lockdown. The

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Mr SOUL!, the 2018 IDA Documentary Award winner from Melissa Haizlip, premieres virtually on August 28. The film profiles Haizlip’s late uncle, Ellis Haizlip, who produced and hosted the groundbreaking PBS program SOUL! from 1968-1973, at the height of the Black Power and Civil Rights Movements. SOUL! was a landmark celebration of Black American culture, art, life, love and community, that beamed out to households across the nation in their living rooms every week. Pacific

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Making its virtual premiere August 19—the 67th anniversary of the Anglo-American coup in Iran— Coup 53, directed by Taghi Amirani and edited by Walter Murch, tells the story of the four days in which the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown by the UK government, in partnership with the CIA. The Anglo-American partnership installed the corrupt, unpopular Shah—a decision that led to mass unrest and eventually to the bloody Iranian

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Streaming this month on POV, starting August 10, is About Love, from Archana Atul Phadke, who trains her camera on her Mumbai-based family, three generations of which live together in the same home. The personal becomes political as power structures within the family become visible, and eventually unravel. Cruel and comic in equal measure, the film shows the vagaries of affection across generations. Premiering August 12 on HBO, Muta’Ali Muhammad's Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Opening August 7 in virtual cinemas via PBS Distribution, Frontline|PBS and Concordia Studio, Ramona S. Diaz's A Thousand Cuts takes viewers to the Philippines, where the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, is starkly evident in the authoritarian regime of President Rodrigo Duterte. Journalist Maria Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. A Thousand Cuts is an IDA

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on Netflix, Father Soldier Son, produced by The New York Times and produced and directed by reporters-turned-filmmakers Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis, follows a former platoon sergeant and his two young sons over almost a decade, chronicling his return home after a serious combat injury in Afghanistan. Originating as part of a 2010 project on a battalion's year-long deployment, Einhorn and Davis stuck with the story to trace the long-term effects of military

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. We lost Georgia Congressman and civil rights warrior John Lewis last week—a true titan in the ongoing battle for equality and justice and freedom, and a true embodiment of leadership: magnanimity, courage, principle and resolve. We are blessed that Dawn Porter delivered her documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble before his passing. That film streams via Magnolia Pictures. And be sure to watch Kathleen Dowdy's 2015 documentary John Lewis: Get in the Way, now streaming on PBS.org

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Linda Goldstein Knowlton's We Are the Radical Monarchs, premiering July 20 on POV to kick off the series’ 33rd season, documents an Oakland-based group of tween girls of color, who lead an alt-scout troop whose mission is to educate themselves on social justice including being an LGBTQ ally, the environment, and disability justice. The film follows the first troop of Radical Monarchs for over three years, until they graduate, and documents the co-founders' struggle to respond

Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Now streaming on American Experience, The Vote, a two-part series directed and written by Michelle Ferrari, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, telling the story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote. Streaming on American Masters, Unladylike 2020, an animated documentary series directed by Charlotte Mangin, profiles female trailblazers from the Progessive Era (1890s through 1920s) who broke barriers in