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Vivien's Wild Ride

Vivien's Wild Ride

When her eyesight begins to fade, a film editor reimagines belonging and what it truly means to see.

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  • 1Independent Lens
  • 2Indie Alaska
  • 3POV
  • 4PBS Short Film Festival
  • 5REEL SOUTH
  • 6Film School Shorts
  • 7Mini Docs
  • 8Maine Public Film Series
  • 9Healing in Our Own Way: Native Stories of Life and Dialysis
  • 10The Story In Us
Crisis in Venezuela

FRONTLINE

Crisis in Venezuela

What’s next for Venezuela after the dramatic fall of Nicolás Maduro?
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POV: Unique Stories from Indie Filmmakers
Independent Lens: Bold Stories, Real Impact
Bombshell

American Experience

Bombshell

Bombshell explores how the US manipulated the narrative about the toll of the WWII atomic bombings.
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  • Finding Your Roots
  • Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
  • Great Migrations: A People on The Move
  • Gospel
  • GOSPEL Live! Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Making Black America
  • The Black Church
  • RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
  • Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
  • Africa's Great Civilizations
  • The American Revolution
  • The Civil War
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Jazz
  • Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • Central Park Five
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • The U.S. and the Holocaust
  • The West
  • Hemingway
  • Country Music
  • The Vietnam War
  • The Roosevelts
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • The American Buffalo
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
  • Prohibition
  • The Statue of Liberty
  • The Congress
  • Mark Twain
  • The National Parks
  • Horatio's Drive
  • The Tenth Inning
  • Huey Long
  • Lewis & Clark
  • The Dust Bowl
  • The Address
  • Thomas Hart Benton
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • The Shakers
  • The War
Sun Ra: Do The Impossible [ASL]

American Masters

Sun Ra: Do The Impossible [ASL]

Discover the extraordinary life of poet, philosopher and music visionary Sun Ra. ASL version.
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  • King of Them All: The Story of King Records
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • The Black Church
  • American Masters
  • Subcultured
  • Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
  • Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
  • Country Music
  • Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution
  • Gospel
  • Becoming Frida Kahlo
  • Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
  • Southern Storytellers
  • Chautauqua at 150: Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise
  • Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
  • Civilizations
  • Jazz
  • Hemingway
  • Emery Blagdon and His Healing Machine
  • The Bigger Picture
  • Dante: Inferno to Paradise
  • Fanny: The Right to Rock
  • James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty
  • John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
  • Charlie Russell's Old West
  • Jack Has A Plan
  • We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told
  • The Last Mambo
  • Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
A Decent Home

America ReFramed

A Decent Home

How are the lives of mobile home park residents impacted by class and economic injustice?
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Healing in Our Own Way: Native Stories of Life and Dialysis
Deaf Theatre

The Story In Us

Deaf Theatre

A Deaf director debuts his first showcase, celebrating Deaf culture and ASL.
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Saving Gullah Land

REEL SOUTH

Saving Gullah Land

A Gullah Geechee family gathers in South Carolina’s Lowcountry to reflect on their heirs' property.
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