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Survivors of the attack on the World Trade Center, covered in dust and debris. Image from Brian Knappenberger’s ‘Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror’ Courtesy of Netflix
Screen Time: Week of September 6, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The New York Times critic
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Soccer player Jessica McDonald is a Black woman in her 30s. Here, she is wearing a white shirt that says “FTBLR” and her hair is tied back. Image from Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine’s ‘LFG.’ Courtesy of HBO Max
Screen Time: Week of August 30, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. If you feel like starting the
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Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah is a middle-aged man with a moustache. He is waving to someone and is wearing sunglasses, and is wearing a grey jacket with a shirt and trousers. There are passersby and an ATM machine behind him. Image from David Osit’s 'Mayor.' Courtesy of David Osit and POV.
Screen Time: Week of August 23, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. In this 2019 documentary from
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A young Afghani girl in a checkered headscarf helps her friend on a skateboarding ramp. Her friend is wearing skateboarding gear. They’re inside a training room with other young skateboarders. Image from Carol Dysinger’s ‘Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl).’ Courtesy of the filmmaking team.
Screen Time: Week of August 16, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. The onslaught of images our
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Silhouettes of six men against a setting sun. Image from Vittorio de Seta's 'Solfatara.' Courtesy of The Criterion Collection
Screen Time: Week of August 9, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. When filmmaker Ayo Akingbade
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Abebe Bikila is a Black Ethiopian marathoner seen here at the 1964 Summer Olympics at Tokyo. He has black hair, a moustache, and is wearing a black vest. Image from Kon Ichikawa’s ‘Tokyo Olympiad.’ Courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Screen Time: Week of August 2, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Even if you aren’t a sports
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An image of Betty Carter, a Black female jazz singer. She is smiling, wearing a golden yellow blouse and a headband. From Michelle Parkerson’s “. . . But Then, She’s Betty Carter”. Courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Screen Time: Week of July 26, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. We start off with a slightly
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Black-and-white image of French feminist filmmaker Carole Roussoupolos, whose films are now streaming on “Another Screen.” In the photo, she is pregnant and is filming using a handheld camera, with people looking on. Courtesy of Another Screen; Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, Paris.
Screen Time: Week of July 19, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Chris Smith’s cult-favorite
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Tennis player Naomi Osaka, an Afro-Japanese female tennis player on a tennis court wearing a multi-colored jacket, and a mask that says “Tamir Rice.” Still from Garrett Bradley’s Netflix series, ‘Naomi Osaka’. Courtesy of Netflix
Screen Time: Week of July 12, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Carole Roussopoulos was the
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Black and white costumed New Orleanians celebrate Mardi Gras on the pedestal of a now absent confederate monument. From CJ Hunt and Darcy McKinnon’s The Neutral Ground. Photo by Paavo Hanninen. Courtesy of POV.
Screen Time: Week of July 5, 2021
Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. For your perfect post-July 4th
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