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Kirsten Kleist Petersen is a young woman wearing a gray shirt. She is sitting on a chair by a window and petting her cat. From Sidse Torstholm Larsen and Sturla Pilskog’s ‘Winter’s Yearning.’ Courtesy of 'POV.'
Screen Time: Week of August 1, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Eefje Blankevoort and Els van
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Maryanne Amacher is a white American composer and installation artist. She is wearing a gray jumpsuit and working in a room with musical equipment. From Lisa Rovner’s ‘Sisters with Transistors.’ Courtesy of Metrograph.
Screen Time: Week of July 25, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Mark Moormann’s documentary
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Teenagers living with disabilities enjoying their afternoon out on a field at Camp Jened. From James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham's 'Crip Camp.' Courtesy of Netflix.
Screen Time: Week of July 18 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home.
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An Asian man, wearing a protective hood and mask, holds his newborn baby. From Yung Chang's 'Wuhan Wuhan." Courtesy of Stars Collective Films Entertainment Group, Inc.
Screen Time: Week of July 11, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Kicking off POV’s 35th Season
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Daniel is a Black male sitting on a brown couch in his apartment in Cicero, IL. He is wearing a gray sweatshirt and brown pants. From Margaret Byrne’s ‘Any Given Day.’ Photo by Margaret Byrne.
Screen Time: Week of July 4 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. July is BIPOC Mental Health
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A black-and-white image of the members of the underground network of abortion providers, the Janes, from August 1972. Image from Emma Pildes and Tia Lessin’s ‘The Janes.’ Courtesy of HBO.
Screen Time: Week of June 27 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. It’s been a hard week to fish
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Hollyn Patterson and Colie Moline are two white women wearing cowboy hats and shirts. We can see their backs as they ride horses against the lush greenery of rural Idaho. From Emelie Mahdavian’s ‘Bitterbrush.’ Courtesy of Alejandro Mejia/Magnolia Pictures.
Screen Time: Week of June 20 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Forty years ago, Vincent Chin
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Filmmaker Hao Wu is a Chinese American male. Seen here sitting eating at a table with his child, his family members, and partner. From Hao Wu’s ‘All in My Family.’ Courtesy of Netflix.
Screen Time: Week of June 13 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. It’s Pride Month here in the
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A line of uniformed policemen silhouetted against streetlights. From Mike Shum’s ‘Police on Trial.’ Courtesy of FRONTLINE (PBS).
Screen Time: Week of May 30, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Two years since George Floyd
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Detail from a black stone statue in Paris’ Père-Lachaise Cemetery, showing enclasped fingers of a figure. From Heddy Honigmann’s ‘Forever.’ Photo by Cobos Films, BV. Courtesy of Icarus Films.
Screen Time: Week of May 23, 2022
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. We at IDA are heartbroken at
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