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GenreDocumentaries & Indie Films
  • 1VOCES
  • 2POV
  • 3Indie Alaska
  • 4Independent Lens
  • 5VOCES: Omara - Cuba's Legendary Diva
  • 6Made Here
  • 7Film School Shorts
  • 8Mini Docs
  • 9REEL SOUTH
  • 10Maine Public Film Series
The Rise of RFK Jr.

FRONTLINE

The Rise of RFK Jr.

The dramatic and controversial rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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POV: Unique Stories from Indie Filmmakers
Independent Lens: Bold Stories, Real Impact
Caregiving

Caregiving

Caregiving

A documentary revealing America’s caregiving crisis through intimate stories and expert insight.
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  • Great Migrations: A People on The Move
  • Gospel
  • GOSPEL Live! Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Finding Your Roots
  • Making Black America
  • The Black Church
  • RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
  • Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
  • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
  • Baseball
  • The American Buffalo
  • Country Music
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • The Roosevelts
  • Jazz
  • Prohibition
  • The West
  • Muhammad Ali
  • The Vietnam War
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • The Statue of Liberty
  • The Congress
  • Mark Twain
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • The Civil War
  • The U.S. and the Holocaust
  • Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
  • The National Parks
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Horatio's Drive
  • Hemingway
  • The Tenth Inning
  • Huey Long
  • Central Park Five
  • Lewis & Clark
  • The Dust Bowl
  • Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • The Address
  • Thomas Hart Benton
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • The Mayo Clinic
  • Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • The Shakers
  • The War
  • Empire of the Air
Hard Hat Riot

American Experience

Hard Hat Riot

The violent 1970 clash between student protestors and construction workers in downtown NY.
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American Masters: Icons of Art & Culture
  • 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
  • Discovering Maggie Smith
  • 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
REEL SOUTH
The Last Ecstatic Days

The Last Ecstatic Days

The Last Ecstatic Days

Meet the man who shared his death with the world.
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VOCES: Latino Stories Through Documentary
REEL SOUTH: Stories of the American South
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