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Aberdeen, Scotland. 1959. On the city’s poor west side, Elsie and Dennis Edwards bring their newborn middle son Graham home to a tiny, rundown apartment in the Kinkorth housing project.

For more than fifty years Paul R. Williams was one of the most successful architects in Los Angeles.

Groundbreaking, intimate and durational - HOMEMADE is the six-year journey following combat wounded and highly decorated Force Reconnaissance Marine Adam Sorensen and his wife Victoria as he naviga

Personal stories of the women fighting for Hong Kong’s freedom
and democracy against communsist China, who stormed the streets to demand justice.

Hope Fiends conveys the story of an underground sober house in one of the top college party towns in America.

Matthew Markus is a former hacker with a special skill set: deconstructing the social systems in our world to see behind the matrix.

Can the man once called "the nation's number one domestic terror threat" reform his life to become a good father?

They are the happiest people on the planet. It is not about running the race; it’s about finishing the LA Marathon without injury.

My wife and I have been broadcast documentary filmmakers/producers for more than thirty years. Our daughter is an adult schizophrenic with two teenage children.

In America aggressive driving has reached epidemic proportions. But when aggressive driving turns to road rage, it’s deadly. Traffic confrontations are ending in murder.

Hunter S. Thompson was an icon of American journalism and stomped upon global culture.

Laura Archera was a teenage violin virtuoso who turned renowned psychotherapist.

Investigated through expert interviews and the web lens of Generation Z, the documentary explores how the explosion of the digital revolution is impacting our society, our brains and mental health,

Max Linder, the first international movie star, was once revered in France, throughout Europe, and Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin was his most revered acolyte.

Stories of women, motherhood and modern medicine in the 21st century.

10,000 war-separated Korean families were reunited during a live broadcast in 1983. But for those who still haven’t found their families, time is running out.

What does it take to make your living working with dead bodies? The funeral homes workers, the morticians, the medical examiners and forensic detectives.

Felipe has come to a crossroads.

Minnie endured years of abuse working in the American porn industry.

Amidst rising oppression in Turkey, two women, a doctor and a sex worker join forces to confront death and seek healing after the tragic deaths of their loved ones.

When legendary rock keyboardist Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer died, the music world was shocked.

This one-hour documentary will tell the story of how the son of a mill worker from the industrial north of England come to design the modern Los Angeles cityscape.

Unprecedented access into the riveting world of a courageous artist provocateur, who creates a mannequin family results in a raw, funny and intimate portrait of life through her lens.

Telling the stories of LGBT people who helped change our history. Using powerful voice, video and interactive displays that uncover the impact of LGBT activism in California from 1966 to 1981.

Improv(e), follows the work of the Unusual Suspects Theatre Company, teaching improv to a group of 14 to 17 year old kids in an after school program at John C.

In a Moment explores a California family’s tragic entanglement with a corrupted system: the severity of medical errors in the United States Healthcare System, the faulty i

In a Strange Land follows the story of Mu Hpare, a refugee from Burma and member of the Kayan tribe (a.k.a Long Neck Women), who has resettled in the U.S.

My father was a priest and my mother was a nun.  This is their story.

Every exoneration story has a lesson.

“In the Blood” is a feature-length documentary film about boxing from the inside out- a prequel to the sequel.

A headstrong community activist confronts aging, reactionary forces and community disillusionment to restart a defunct branch of the NAACP in the hopes that it will help counter the erosion of soci

Exploring American radio’s obligation to serve the public interest, this four-part limited docuseries traces the battle for control of the public airwaves by private companies, weighing the impact

After decades of upholding a deeply-rooted family tradition, a Bengali-American woman mines the generational trauma hidden behind her religious practices.

Almost a decade after the King/Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles was forced to shut down in the wake of gross mismanagement and escalating fatalities, a new state of the art hospital rises o

"Inquiry of Shadows" is a documentary that delves into the hidden depths of the Uyghur genocide in China.

Interaction Cowboy looks at the failing education system in the US and the potential for better models of learning than the current, test-taking one.