Endurance
The gold medal for the men’s 10,000-meter race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works, and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. Toni Morrison leads an assembly…
The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story
The Orange Years journeys behind the scenes of the phenomenal “kids first” programming network Nickelodeon to chronicle its unprecedented success. Filled with interviews from the actors, writers, animators, and creators…
Monster Preacher
In 1986, self-proclaimed pastor Gary Heidnik kidnapped, tortured, and raped six women in Philadelphia, brutally murdering two: two of the victims recount the horrors of surviving the monster Preacher.
Louis Theroux: America’s Medicated Kids
Faced with the challenging behaviour of their kids, more and more parents in America are turning to psychoactive medication to help them cope, even though the drugs, and sometimes the…
The Peretzniks
Interviews with students of the post-war Jewish I.L. Perec school in Łódź, Poland, who were mostly scattered around the world after anti-Semitic purges in 1968.
The Mostly Serious History of Wine
Early humans may have discovered wine accidentally, but now it’s grown and sold just about everywhere. Jim Hodgson stops in Egypt, ancient Rome, Spain, France and other locations to trace…
Breakwater
A group of friends from São Paulo head for a secluded beach to celebrate New Year’s. Together they relax, sunbathe and make music. And they talk: about their sexuality, their…
Baby Sharks
Even the biggest, fastest and fiercest predators start as babies. Baby sharks are cute, but they need to grow up fast because out of more than 500 species of sharks,…
Whose Streets?
A nonfiction account of the Ferguson uprising told by the people who lived it, this is an unflinching look at how the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown inspired a community…
Cutie and the Boxer
This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband’s…
Plastic Earth
Worldwide plastic production from fossil-based sources continues to rise and contribute to climate change, pollution and environmental issues. Scientists, engineers, researchers and innovators tackle solutions to deal with the over-production…
Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein
Before MTV and the age of television, there were Soundies. First appearing in 1941, these three minute black-and-white films featured artists of the Big Band, Jazz and Swing era, like…