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Highlights from Season 31

The creative, fighting spirit is alive and well in 2018. The current slate of documentary films comes with a lineup of empowering and moving stories about the strength of art and activism.

Bill Nye

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Bill Nye is a man on a mission: to stop the spread of anti-scientific thinking across the world. The former star of the popular kids' show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" is now advocating for the importance of science, research ...

Quest

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Filmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, QUEST is the moving portrait of a family from North Philadelphia. Beginning during the Obama presidency, Christopher "Quest" Rainey and his wife, Christine'a "Ma Quest," raise a family while nurturing a ...

Singing With Angry Bird

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Jae-Chang Kim runs a children's choir in Pune, India. Although his quick temper earned him the nickname "Angry Bird," he has made significant changes in the lives of the choir children. But skeptical of the practical value of music ...

Brimstone & Glory

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico, is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. Conflagrant revelry engulfs the town, while artisans show off their technical virtuosity. For the three-quarters of Tultepec residents who work in pyrotechnics ...

The Workers Cup

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Clip

In 2022, Qatar will host the biggest sporting event in the world, the FIFA World Cup. But right now, far from the bright lights, star athletes and adoring fans, the tournament is being built on the backs of 1.6 ...

Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

For 20 years, Lindy has lived with an unbearable feeling of guilt. Committed to fulfilling her civic duty, Lindy sat with 11 other people on a jury that handed down the death penalty to a Mississippi man convicted of a ...

The War to Be Her

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

In Waziristan, "one of the most dangerous places on earth", Maria Toorpakai defies the Taliban, disguising herself as a boy so she can play sports freely. But when she becomes a rising star, her true identity is revealed and death ...

Whose Streets?

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of the St. Louis area and beyond. Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the ...

Still Tomorrow

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

A village woman with no high school diploma becomes China's most famous poet, and her book of poetry the best-selling such volume in China in the past 20 years. Still Tomorrow follows Yu Xiuhua, a 39-year-old woman living with cerebral ...

Nowhere to Hide

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Clip

Airing August 27
Nowhere to Hide follows nurse Nori Sharif through five years of dramatic change in one of the world’s most dangerous and inaccessible areas: the "triangle of death" in central Iraq. Initially filming stories of survivors and the hope of ...

Voices of the Sea

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Airing September 3
Revealing stark realities for the poorest of rural Cubans with unique access and empathy, this is the story of a 30-something mother of four longing for a better life. The tension between wife and aging husband—one desperate to leave ...

The Apology

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Airing October 22
The Apology follows three former "comfort women" who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Seventy years after their imprisonment and after ...

93Queen

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Airing September 17
Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, 93Queen follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their community by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City. With unprecedented and ...

Survivors

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Airing September 24
Through the eyes of Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, Survivors presents an intimate portrait of his country during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the sociopolitical turmoil that lies in its wake. During one of the ...

Dark Money

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Airing October 1
Dark Money, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana—a frontline in the fight to preserve ...

Airing soon on PBS

Nowhere to Hide

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Clip

Airing August 27
Nowhere to Hide follows nurse Nori Sharif through five years of dramatic change in one of the world’s most dangerous and inaccessible areas: the "triangle of death" in central Iraq. Initially filming stories of survivors and the hope of ...

Voices of the Sea

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Airing September 3
Revealing stark realities for the poorest of rural Cubans with unique access and empathy, this is the story of a 30-something mother of four longing for a better life. The tension between wife and aging husband—one desperate to leave ...

The Apology

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Airing October 22
The Apology follows three former "comfort women" who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Seventy years after their imprisonment and after ...

93Queen

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Airing September 17
Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, 93Queen follows a group of tenacious Hasidic women who are smashing the patriarchy in their community by creating the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York City. With unprecedented and ...

Survivors

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Airing September 24
Through the eyes of Sierra Leonean filmmaker Arthur Pratt, Survivors presents an intimate portrait of his country during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the sociopolitical turmoil that lies in its wake. During one of the ...

Dark Money

  • Feature Film
  • 2018

Feature Film

Airing October 1
Dark Money, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana—a frontline in the fight to preserve ...

306 Hollywood

  • Feature Film
  • 2019

Feature Film

Airing January 1, 2019
306 Hollywood is a magical realist documentary of two siblings who undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house. They embark on a journey from her home in New Jersey to ancient Rome, from fashion to physics, in ...

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