The following is a list of episodes from PBS series POV , a production of American Documentary, Inc. Since 1988, POV has presented over 400 independently produced documentary films to public television audiences across the country. [1] The series began its 35th season on PBS in 2022.
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Seasons: 1 (1988) • 2 • |
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| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| American Tongues | July 5, 1988 | Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker |
| Acting Our Age | July 5, 1988 | Michal Aviad |
| Fire From the Mountain | July 12, 1988 | Deborah Shaffer |
| Living With AIDS | July 19, 1988 | Tina DiFeliciantonio |
| Knocking on Armageddon's Door | July 19, 1988 | Torv Carlsen, John Magnus |
| Rate It X | July 26, 1988 | Paula de Koenigsberg |
| The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo | August 2, 1988 | Susana Munoz, Lourdes Portillo |
| The Good Fight | August 9, 1988 | Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills |
| Metropolitan Avenue | August 16, 1988 | Christine Noschese |
| Louie Bluie | August 23, 1988 | Terry Zwigoff |
| Gates of Heaven | August 30, 1988 | Errol Morris |
| Best Boy | September 6, 1988 | Ira Wohl |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Who Killed Vincent Chin? | July 16, 1989 | Christine Choy, Renee Tajima |
| Coming Out | July 23, 1989 | Ted Reed |
| Wise Guys! | July 23, 1989 | David Hartwell |
| The Family Album | July 30, 1989 | Alan Berliner |
| Dark Circle | August 6, 1989 | Christopher Beaver, Judy Irving, Ruth Landy |
| Jack Levine: Feast Of Pure Reason | August 13, 1989 | David Sutherland |
| No Applause, Just Throw Money | August 20, 1989 | Karen Goodman |
| Whatever Happened to Zworl Quern? | August 20, 1989 | Deborah Matlovsky |
| Partisans Of Vilna | August 27, 1989 | Aviva Kempner |
| The Fighting Ministers | September 3, 1989 | Bill Jersey, Richard Wormser |
| Binge | September 17, 1989 | Lynn Hershman |
| Cowboy Poets | September 17, 1989 | Kim Shelton |
| Doug And Mike, Mike And Doug | September 17, 1989 | Cindy Kleine |
| Lost Angeles | September 24, 1989 | Tom Seidman |
| Girltalk | November 15, 1989 | Kate Davis |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Through the Wire | June 26, 1990 | Nina Rosenblum |
| Police Chiefs | June 30, 1990 | Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond |
| Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman | July 3, 1990 | Lisa Leeman |
| Larry Wright | July 10, 1990 | Ari Marcopoulos, Maja Zrnic |
| On Ice | July 10, 1990 | Grover Babcock and Andrew Takeuchi |
| Letter To The Next Generation | July 17, 1990 | Jim Klein |
| Salesman | July 24, 1990 | Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin |
| Kamala And Raji | August 7, 1990 | Michael Camerini |
| Golub | August 14, 1990 | Jerry Blumenthal and Gordon Quinn |
| Days of Waiting | August 15, 1990 | Steven Okazaki |
| Going Up (TV episode) | August 21, 1990 | Gary Pollard |
| Green Streets | August 21, 1990 | Maria De Luca |
| Motel | August 28, 1990 | Christian Blackwood |
| ¡Teatro! | September 4, 1990 | Ed Burke and Ruth Shapiro |
| Ossian: American Boy, Tibetan Monk | September 4, 1990 | Thomas R. Anderson |
| People Power | September 11, 1990 | Ilan Ziv |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Absolutely Positive | June 18, 1991 | Peter Adair |
| Marc and Ann | June 25, 1991 | Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon |
| Plena Is Work, Plena Is Song | June 25, 1991 | Pedro Rivera, Susan Zeig |
| Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing | June 25, 1991 | Sue Marcoux |
| Honorable Nations | July 2, 1991 | Chana Gazit, David Steward |
| Sea of Oil | July 9, 1991 | M.R. Katzke |
| Turn Here Sweet Corn | July 9, 1991 | Helen De Michiel |
| Chemical Valley | July 9, 1991 | Mimi Pickering, Anne Lewis Johnson |
| Tongues Untied | July 16, 1991 | Marlon Riggs |
| Berkeley in the Sixties | July 23, 1991 | Mark Kitchell |
| A Little Vicious | July 30, 1991 | Immy Humes |
| Where The Heart Roams | July 30, 1991 | George Csicsery |
| The Big Bang | August 6, 1991 | James Toback |
| Maria's Story | August 13, 1991 | Pamela Cohen, Monona Wali, and Catherine M. Ryan |
| Homes Apart: The Two Koreas | August 20, 1991 | Christine Choy, JT Takagi |
| Short Notice: A Series of Short Films | September 3, 1991 | Various |
| Casting The First Stone | September 3, 1991 | Julie Gustafson |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Color Adjustment | June 15, 1992 | Marlon Riggs |
| Intimate Stranger | June 22, 1992 | Alan Berliner |
| Finding Christa | June 29, 1992 | Camille Billops, James Hatch |
| Last Images of War | July 6, 1992 | Stephen Olsson, Scott Andrews |
| The Longest Shadow | July 6, 1992 | Kalina Ivanov |
| A Season in Hell | July 20, 1992 | Walter Brock, Stephen Roszell |
| Promise Not to Tell | July 27, 1992 | Rhea Gavry |
| Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance Vs. Judas Priest | August 3, 1992 | David Van Taylor |
| Fast Food Women | August 10, 1992 | Anne Lewis Johnson |
| Takeover | August 10, 1992 | Pamela Yates and Peter Kinoy |
| Faith Even to the Fire | August 21, 1992 | Sylvia Morales, Jean Victor |
| Louisiana Boys -- Raised on Politics | August 31, 1992 | Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker, Paul Stekler |
| Pets or Meat | September 28, 1992 | Michael Moore |
| Roger and Me | September 28, 1992 | Michael Moore |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Silverlake Life: The View From Here | June 15, 1993 | Tom Joslin, Peter Friedman |
| Who's Going To Pay For These Donuts, Anyway? | June 22, 1993 | Janice Tanaka |
| When Your Head's Not A Head, It's A Nut | June 29, 1993 | Garth Stein |
| Compassion in Exile: The Life of the 14th Dalai Lama | July 6, 1993 | Mickey Lemle |
| For Better or For Worse | July 13, 1993 | David Collier |
| Motel | July 20, 1993 | Christian Blackwood |
| Money Man | August 3, 1993 | Philip Haas |
| Building Bombs: The Legacy | August 10, 1993 | Mark Mori, Susan Robinson |
| Miami-Havana | August 17, 1993 | Estela Bravo |
| The Women Next Door | August 24, 1993 | Michal Aviad |
| Cousin Bobby | August 24, 1993 | Jonathan Demme |
| Sa-I-Gu | September 10, 1993 | Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Christine Choy and Elaine Kim |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Time Indefinite | June 7, 1994 | Ross McElwee |
| One Nation Under God | June 14, 1994 | Teodoro Maniaci and Francine Rzeznik |
| Passin' It On | June 19, 1994 | Peter Miller and John Valadez |
| Memories of Tata | June 28, 1994 | Sheldon Schiffer |
| The End of the Nightstick | July 5, 1994 | Peter Kuttner, Cyndi Moran and Eric Scholl |
| The Heart of the Matter | July 12, 1994 | Gini Reticker and Amber L. Hollibaugh |
| Escape From China | July 21, 1994 | Iris F. Kung |
| Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | July 26, 1994 | Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper |
| Dialogues with Madwomen | August 2, 1994 | Allie Light |
| The Times of a Sign: A Folk History of the Iran-Contra Scandal | August 9, 1994 | David Goldsmith and Steven Day |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Leona's Sister Gerri | June 1, 1995 | Jane Gillooly |
| Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter | June 6, 1995 | Deborah Hoffmann |
| No Place Like Home | June 13, 1995 | Kathryn Hunt |
| Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy | June 14, 1995 | Ellen Bruno |
| Out of Sight | June 20, 1995 | David Sutherland |
| The Uprising of '34 | June 25, 1995 | George Stoney, Judith Helfand and Susanne Rostock |
| Lighting the 7th Fire | July 4, 1995 | Sandra Sunrising Osawa |
| Twitch and Shout | July 11, 1995 | Laurel Chiten |
| Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia | July 18, 1995 | Jenny Cool |
| Dealers Among Dealers | July 25, 1995 | Gaylen Ross |
| Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business | October 5, 1995 | Helena Solberg |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Taking on the Kennedys | May 28, 1996 | Joshua Seftel |
| ¡Palante Siempre Palante!: The Young Lords | June 1, 1996 | Iris Morales |
| Personal Belongings | June 11, 1996 | Steven Bognar |
| A Litany For Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde | June 18, 1996 | Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson |
| a.k.a. Don Bonus | June 25, 1996 | Spencer Nakasako and Sokly Don Bonus Ny |
| No Loans Today | July 2, 1996 | Lisanne Skyler |
| The Transformation | July 9, 1996 | Carlos Aparicio and Susana Aiken |
| The Women Outside | July 16, 1996 | J.T.Orinne Takagi and Hye Jung Park |
| Just For The Ride | July 23, 1996 | Amanda Micheli |
| Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself | July 30, 1996 | Yvonne Welbon |
| Xich-lo (Cyclo) | July 30, 1996 | M. Trinh Nguyen |
| Taken for a Ride | August 6, 1996 | Martha Olson and Jim Klein |
| Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision | November 27, 1996 | Freida Lee Mock |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Nobody's Business | June 3, 1997 | Alan Berliner |
| Battle for the Minds | June 10, 1997 | Steven Lipscomb |
| A Healthy Baby Girl | June 17, 1997 | Judith Helfand |
| Jesse's Gone | June 24, 1997 | Michael Smith |
| Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary | July 1, 1997 | Laura Simon |
| Who is Henry Jaglom? | July 8, 1997 | Alex Rubin and Jeremy Workman |
| In Whose Honor? | July 15, 1997 | Jay Rosenstein |
| Girls Like Us | July 22, 1997 | Jane Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio |
| Blacks and Jews | July 29, 1997 | Deborah Kaufman, Bari Scott and Alan Snitow |
| A Perfect Candidate | August 5, 1997 | R.J. Cutler and David Van Taylor |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Baby It's You | June 2, 1998 | Anne Makepeace |
| The Band | June 16, 1998 | David Zeiger |
| Tobacco Blues | June 19, 1998 | Eren McGinnis and Christine Fugate |
| Licensed to Kill | June 23, 1998 | Arthur Dong |
| Kelly Loves Tony | June 30, 1998 | Spencer Nakasako |
| If I Can't Do It | July 7, 1998 | Walter Brock |
| Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour | July 14, 1998 | Susan Stern |
| The Vanishing Line | July 21, 1998 | Maren Monsen |
| Sacrifice | July 28, 1998 | Ellen Bruno |
| She Shorts | August 4, 1998 | Various |
| Family Name | September 15, 1998 | Macky Alston |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| The Legacy: Murder & Media, Politics & Prisons | June 1, 1999 | Michael J. Moore |
| Golden Threads | June 8, 1999 | Lucy Winer and Karen Eaton |
| In My Corner | June 22, 1999 | Ricki Stern |
| The Green Monster | June 29, 1999 | David Finn, David Hess and A.C. Weary |
| Rabbit in the Moon | July 6, 1999 | Emiko Omori |
| Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena | July 13, 1999 | Lourdes Portillo |
| School Prayer: A Community at War | July 20, 1999 | Slawomir Grünberg and Ben Crane |
| The Double Life of Ernesto Gomez Gomez | July 27, 1999 | Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg |
| Regret To Inform | January 4, 2000 | Barbara Sonneborn and Janet Cole |
| Well-Founded Fear | June 5, 2000 | Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| La Boda | June 27, 2000 | Hannah Weyer |
| Butterfly | June 30, 2000 | Doug Wolens |
| Stranger with a Camera | July 11, 2000 | Elizabeth Barret |
| Blink | July 18, 2000 | Elizabeth Thompson |
| Our House in Havana | July 25, 2000 | Stephen Olsson |
| Dreamland | August 22, 2000 | Lisanne Skyler |
| American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land | August 29, 2000 | Jasmine Dellal |
| KPFA On the Air | September 19, 2000 | Veronica Selver and Sharon Wood |
| Live Free or Die | September 26, 2000 | Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt |
| First Person Plural | December 18, 2000 | Deann Borshay Liem |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Scout's Honor | June 19, 2001 | Tom Shepard |
| The Sweetest Sound | June 26, 2001 | Alan Berliner |
| My American Girls: A Dominican Story | July 3, 2001 | Aaron Matthews |
| Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story | July 10, 2001 | Eric Paul Fournier |
| True-Hearted Vixens | July 17, 2001 | Mylène Moreno |
| Take It From Me | July 24, 2001 | Emily Abt |
| In the Light of Reverence | August 14, 2001 | Christopher McLeod |
| Life and Debt | August 21, 2001 | Stephanie Black |
| High School | August 28, 2001 | Frederick Wiseman |
| 5 Girls | October 2, 2001 | Maria Finitzo |
| Promises | December 13, 2001 | B. Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| The Smith Family | June 25, 2002 | Tasha Oldham |
| Boomtown | July 2, 2002 | Bryan Gunnar Cole |
| Hybrid | July 9, 2002 | Monteith McCollum |
| Refrigerator Mothers | July 16, 2002 | David E. Simpson, J.J. Hanley and Gordon Quinn |
| Fenceline: A Company Town Divided | July 23, 2002 | Slawomir Grünberg and Jane Greenberg |
| Sweet Old Song | July 30, 2002 | Leah Mahan |
| Mai's America | August 6, 2002 | Marlo Poras |
| Señorita Extraviada | August 20, 2002 | Lourdes Portillo |
| Escuela | August 27, 2002 | Hannah Weyer |
| Afghanistan Year 1380 | September 9, 2002 | Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati and Giuseppe Petitto |
| Two Towns of Jasper | January 22, 2003 | Whitney Dow and Marco Williams |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin | January 20, 2003 | Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer |
| Flag Wars | June 17, 2003 | Linda Goode Bryant and Linda Poitras |
| Georgie Girl | June 20, 2003 | Annie Goldson and Peter Wells |
| Larry v. Lockney | July 1, 2003 | Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck |
| Discovering Dominga | July 8, 2003 | Patricia Flynn and Mary Jo McConahay |
| The Flute Player | July 22, 2003 | Jocelyn Glatzer |
| 90 Miles | July 29, 2003 | Juan Carlos Zaldívar |
| American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai'i | August 5, 2003 | Lisette Marie Flanary and Evann Siebens |
| West 47th Street | August 19, 2003 | Bill Lichtenstein and June Peoples |
| Family Fundamentals | August 26, 2003 | Arthur Dong |
| The Sixth Section | September 2, 2003 | Alex Rivera |
| Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam | September 2, 2003 | Charley Trujillo and Sonya Rhee |
| State of Denial | September 16, 2003 | Elaine Epstein |
| What I Want My Words To Do To You | December 16, 2003 | Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz and Gary Sunshine |
| Love & Diane | April 21, 2004 | Jennifer Dworkin |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Farmingville | June 22, 2004 | Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini |
| Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas | June 29, 2004 | Richard Kassebaum |
| War Feels Like War | July 6, 2004 | Esteban Uyarra |
| Thirst | July 13, 2004 | Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman |
| Last Man Standing: Politics Texas Style | July 20, 2004 | Paul Stekler |
| A Family Undertaking | August 3, 2004 | Elizabeth Westrate |
| Every Mother's Son | August 17, 2004 | Tami Gold and Kelly Anderson |
| Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story | August 24, 2004 | Jesse Moss |
| Wattstax | September 7, 2004 | Mel Stuart |
| Freedom Machines | September 14, 2004 | Jamie Stoble and Janet Cole |
| A Panther in Africa | September 21, 2004 | Aaron Matthews |
| Lost Boys of Sudan | September 28, 2004 | Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed | February 7, 2005 | Shola Lynch |
| The Education of Shelby Knox | June 21, 2005 | Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt |
| Big Enough | June 28, 2005 | Jan Krawitz |
| Street Fight | July 5, 2005 | Marshall Curry |
| The Fire Next Time | July 12, 2005 | Patrice O'Neill |
| The Brooklyn Connection | July 19, 2005 | Klaartje Quirijns |
| The Self-Made Man | July 26, 2005 | Susan Stern |
| In the Realms of the Unreal | August 2, 2005 | Jessica Yu |
| A Thousand Words | August 16, 2005 | Melba Williams |
| Hardwood | August 16, 2005 | Hubert Davis |
| I Used to Be a Filmmaker | August 16, 2005 | Jay Rosenblatt |
| A Song for Daniel | August 23, 2005 | Jason DaSilva |
| Bright Leaves | August 23, 2005 | Ross McElwee |
| Hiding and Seeking | August 30, 2005 | Oren Rudavsky and Menachem Daum |
| The Hobart Shakespeareans | September 6, 2005 | Mel Stuart |
| Omar & Pete | September 13, 2005 | Tod Lending |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| No More Tears Sister | June 27, 2006 | Helene Klodawsky |
| Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball | July 4, 2006 | Kenneth Eng |
| Tintin and I | July 11, 2006 | Anders Østergaard |
| The Fall of Fujimori | July 18, 2006 | Ellen Perry |
| The Tailenders | July 25, 2006 | Adele Horne |
| Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side) | August 1, 2006 | Natalia Almada |
| Lomax the Songhunter | August 22, 2006 | Rogier Kappers |
| Waging a Living | August 29, 2006 | Roger Weisberg |
| The Boys of Baraka | September 12, 2006 | Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady |
| Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela | September 19, 2006 | Thomas Allen Harris |
| No Bigger Than a Minute | October 3, 2006 | Steven Delano |
| Maquilapolis | October 10, 2006 | Vicky Funari & Sergio De La Torre |
| My Country, My Country | October 25, 2006 | Laura Poitras |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Rain in a Dry Land | June 19, 2007 | Anne Makepeace |
| Massacre at Murambi | June 26, 2007 | Sam Kauffman |
| Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars | June 27, 2007 | Banker White and Zach Niles |
| Standing Silent Nation | July 3, 2007 | Suree Towfighnia and Courtney Hermann |
| Revolution '67 | July 10, 2007 | Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno |
| Lawn | July 11, 2006 | Monteith McCollum |
| The Chances of the World Changing | July 17, 2007 | Eric Daniel Metzgar & Nell Carden Grey |
| Prison Town, USA | July 24, 2007 | Katie Galloway and Po Kutchins |
| No Angels in the Outfield | July 24, 2007 | Larry Warner |
| Following Sean | July 31, 2007 | Ralph Arlyck |
| Alice Sees the Light | August 21, 2007 | Ariana Gerstein |
| Arctic Son | August 21, 2007 | Andrew Walton |
| Libby, Montana | August 28, 2007 | Doug Hawes-Davis and Drury Gunn Carr |
| Made in L.A. | September 4, 2007 | Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar |
| Keeping House | September 4, 2007 | May Lin Au Yong |
| Bullet Proof Vest | September 4, 2007 | May Lin Au Yong |
| The Camden 28 | September 11, 2007 | Anthony Giacchino |
| Lumo | September 18, 2007 | Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Nelson Walker III, Co-directed by Louis Abelman and Lynn True |
| 49 Up | October 9, 2007 | Michael Apted |
| Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner | December 12, 2007 | Freida Lee Mock |
| Scaredycat | December 12, 2007 | Andy Blubaugh |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Ars Magna | March 1, 2008 | Cory Kelley |
| Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North | June 24, 2008 | Katrina Browne |
| Election Day | July 1, 2008 | Katy Chevigny |
| The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez | July 8, 2008 | Kieran Fitzgerald |
| The Last Conquistador | July 15, 2008 | John J. Valadez and Cristina Ibarra |
| 9 Star Hotel | July 22, 2008 | Ido Haar |
| Campaign | July 29, 2008 | Kazuhiro Soda |
| Johnny Cash! The Man, His World, His Music | August 5, 2008 | Robert Elfstrom |
| Belarusian Waltz | August 12, 2008 | Andrzej Fidyk |
| The Judge and the General | August 19, 2008 | Elizabeth Farnsworth & Patricio Lanfranco |
| Calavera Highway | September 16, 2008 | Renee Tajima-Pena & Evangeline Griego |
| Critical Condition | September 30, 2008 | Roger Weisberg |
| In the Family | October 1, 2008 | Joanna Rudnick |
| Up the Yangtze | October 8, 2008 | Yung Chang |
| Soldiers of Conscience | October 16, 2008 | Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan |
| City of Cranes | December 10, 2008 | Eva Weber |
| Inheritance | December 10, 2008 | James Moll |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| New Muslim Cool | June 23, 2009 | Jennifer Maytorena Taylor |
| Beyond Hatred | June 30, 2009 | Olivier Meyrou |
| Life. Support. Music. | July 7, 2009 | Eric Daniel Metzgar |
| The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court | July 14, 2009 | Paco de Onis, Peter Kinoy and Pamela Yates |
| The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) | July 21, 2009 | Ellen Kuras & Thavisouk Phrasavath |
| Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go | July 28, 2009 | Kim Longinotto |
| Nutkin's Last Stand | August 18, 2009 | Nicholas Berger |
| 34x25x36 | August 18, 2009 | Jesse Epstein |
| Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall | August 18, 2009 | Sam Green and Carrie Lozano |
| This Way Up | August 25, 2009 | Georgi Lazarevski |
| Ella Es el Matador (She Is the Matador) | September 1, 2009 | Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco |
| The English Surgeon | September 8, 2009 | Geoffrey Smith |
| The Principal Story | September 15, 2009 | Tod Lending and David Mrazek |
| Jennifer | September 22, 2009 | Stewart Copeland |
| So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away | September 22, 2009 | Annie P. Waldman |
| Bronx Princess | September 22, 2009 | Yoni Brook and Musa Syeed |
| The Way We Get By | November 11, 2009 | Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly |
| Patti Smith: Dream of Life | December 30, 2009 | Steven Sebring |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Food, Inc. | April 21, 2010 | Robert Kenner |
| Notes on Milk | April 21, 2010 | Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum |
| William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe | June 22, 2010 | Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler |
| The Beaches of Agnès | June 29, 2010 | Agnès Varda |
| A Different Color Blue | June 29, 2010 | Melanie Vi Levy |
| Promised Land | July 6, 2010 | Yoruba Richen |
| Good Fortune | July 13, 2010 | Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine |
| Bye | July 13, 2010 | Anthony Morrison |
| El General | July 20, 2010 | Natalia Almada |
| Presumed Guilty | July 27, 2010 | Roberto Hernández, Layda Negrete and Geoffrey Smith |
| A Healing Art | August 17, 2010 | Ellen Frick |
| The Archive | August 17, 2010 | Sean Dunne |
| Salt | August 17, 2010 | Michael Angus and Murray Fredericks |
| Trash-Out | August 17, 2010 | Maria Fortiz-Morse |
| Danny and Annie: Parts I & II | August 17, 2010 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| Q&A | August 24, 2010 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| Seltzer Works | August 24, 2010 | Jessica Edwards |
| The Edge of Dreaming | August 24, 2010 | Amy Hardie |
| Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy | August 31, 2010 | Stephanie Wang-Breal |
| Germans in the Woods | August 31, 2010 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| Off and Running | September 7, 2010 | Nicole Opper |
| The Human Voice | September 7, 2010 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| The Icing on the Cake | September 7, 2010 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee | September 14, 2010 | Deann Borshay Liem |
| The Oath | September 21, 2010 | Laura Poitras |
| The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers | October 5, 2010 | Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Kings of Pastry | June 21, 2011 | Chris Hegedus & D. A. Pennebaker |
| My Perestroika | June 28, 2011 | Robin Hessman |
| Sweetgrass | July 5, 2011 | Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor |
| Enemies of the People | July 12, 2011 | Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath |
| Biblioburro: The Donkey Library | July 19, 2011 | Carlos Rendón Zipagauta |
| Mugabe and the White African | July 26, 2011 | Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson |
| Steam of Life | August 2, 2011 | Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen |
| Flawed | August 23, 2011 | Andrea Dorfman |
| Miss Devine | August 23, 2011 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| Big Birding Day | August 23, 2011 | David Wilson |
| Tiffany | August 23, 2011 | Alix Lambert |
| No More Questions! | August 23, 2011 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| Six Weeks | August 23, 2011 | Marcin Janos Krawczyk |
| Armadillo | August 30, 2011 | Janus Metz |
| Better This World | September 6, 2011 | Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway |
| StoryCorps Shorts: September 11 Stories | September 6, 2011 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front | September 13, 2011 | Marshall Curry |
| The Learning | September 20, 2011 | Ramona Diaz |
| Last Train Home | September 27, 2011 | Lixin Fan |
| Where Soldiers Come From | November 10, 2011 | Heather Courtney |
| Racing Dreams | February 23, 2012 | Marshall Curry |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| To R.P. Salazar, with Love | January 26, 2012 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| My Reincarnation | June 21, 2012 | Jennifer Fox |
| Granito: How to Nail a Dictator | June 28, 2012 | Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís |
| The City Dark | July 5, 2012 | Ian Cheney |
| Guilty Pleasures | July 12, 2012 | Julie Moggan |
| The Light in Her Eyes | July 19, 2012 | Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix |
| Up Heartbreak Hill | July 26, 2012 | Erica Scharf |
| The Barber of Birmingham | August 9, 2012 | Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday |
| Sin País | August 9, 2012 | Theo Rigby |
| Eyes on the Stars | August 9, 2012 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| Facundo the Great | August 9, 2012 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| A Family Man | August 9, 2012 | Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful | September 20, 2012 | Jonathan Demme |
| El Velador (The Night Watchman) | September 27, 2012 | Natalia Almada |
| Give Up Tomorrow | October 4, 2012 | Michael Collins and Marty Syjuco |
| Sun Kissed | October 18, 2012 | Maya Stark and Adi Lavy |
| Nostalgia for the Light | October 25, 2012 | Patricio Guzmán |
| Reportero | January 7, 2013 | Bernardo Ruiz |
| Girl Model | March 24, 2013 | A. Sabin and David Redmon |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Homegoings | June 24, 2013 | Christine Turner |
| Special Flight (French : Vol spécial ) | July 1, 2013 | Fernand Melgar |
| Herman's House | July 8, 2013 | Angad Singh Bhalla |
| Only the Young | July 15, 2013 | Jason Tippett and Elizabeth Mims |
| High Tech, Low Life | July 22, 2013 | Stephen Maing |
| Neurotypical | July 29, 2013 | Adam Larsen |
| The Law in These Parts | August 19, 2013 | and Liran Atzmor |
| 5 Broken Cameras | August 26, 2013 | Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi |
| Ping Pong | September 9, 2013 | Hugh Hartford and Anson Hartford |
| The World Before Her | September 16, 2013 | Nisha Pahuja |
| Best Kept Secret | September 23, 2013 | Samantha Buck |
| Brooklyn Castle | October 7, 2013 | Katie Dellamaggiore |
| 56 Up | October 14, 2013 | Michael Apted |
| Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special | November 28, 2013 | StoryCorps by Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| American Promise | February 3, 2014 | Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| When I Walk | June 23, 2014 | Jason DaSilva |
| American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs | June 30, 2014 | Grace Lee |
| My Way to Olympia | July 7, 2014 | Niko von Glasow |
| Getting Back to Abnormal | July 14, 2014 | Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, Peter Odabashian and Paul Stekler |
| Dance for Me | July 21, 2014 | Katrine Philp |
| A Good Man | July 21, 2014 | by StoryCorps and Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch |
| Fallen City | July 28, 2014 | Qi Zhao |
| 15 to Life: Kenneth's Story | August 4, 2014 | Nadine Pequeneza |
| A World Not Ours | August 18, 2014 | Mahdi Fleifel |
| Big Men | August 25, 2014 | Rachel Boynton |
| After Tiller | September 1, 2014 | Martha Shane and Lana Wilson |
| The Genius of Marian | September 8, 2014 | Banker White and Anna Fitch |
| Koch | September 22, 2014 | Neil Barsky |
| The Act of Killing | October 6, 2014 | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Out in the Night | June 22, 2015 | blair dorosh-walther |
| The Overnighters | June 29, 2015 | Jesse Moss |
| Tough Love | July 6, 2015 | Stephanie Wang-Breal |
| Web Junkie | July 13, 2015 | Shosh Shlam, Hilla Medalia |
| The Return to Homs | July 20, 2015 | Talal Derki |
| Tea Time | July 27, 2015 | Maite Alberdi |
| Beats of the Antonov | August 3, 2015 | Hajooj Kuka |
| Neuland | August 17, 2015 | Anna Thommen |
| Point and Shoot | August 24, 2015 | Marshall Curry |
| The Storm Makers | August 31, 2015 | Guillaume Suon |
| Cutie and the Boxer | September 18, 2015 | Zachary Heinzerling |
| Don't Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie) | September 21, 2015 | Mikaela Shwer |
| Art and Craft | September 25, 2015 | Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman; co-directed by Mark Becker |
| Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case | October 2, 2015 | Andreas Johnsen |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| The Return | May 23, 2016 | Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway |
| Of Men and War | May 30, 2016 | Laurent Bécue-Renard |
| The Look of Silence | June 27, 2016 | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| Pervert Park | July 11, 2016 | Frida Barkfors, Lasse Barkfors |
| Iris | August 1, 2016 | Albert Maysles |
| The Birth of Saké | September 5, 2016 | Erik Shirai |
| All the Difference | September 12, 2016 | Tod Lending |
| Kingdom of Shadows | September 19, 2016 | Bernardo Ruiz |
| Marathon (short) | September 19, 2016 | Theo Rigby, Kate McLean |
| From This Day Forward | October 10, 2016 | Sharon Shattuck |
| Pink Boy (short) | October 10, 2016 | Eric Rockey |
| Hooligan Sparrow | October 17, 2016 | Nanfu Wang |
| Thank You for Playing | October 24, 2016 | David Osit, Malika Zouhali-Worrall |
| What Tomorrow Brings | October 31, 2016 | Beth Murphy |
| Seven Songs for a Long Life | January 30, 2017 | Amy Hardie |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Dalya's Other Country | June 26, 2017 | Julia Meltzer |
| 4.1 Miles (short) | June 26, 2017 | Daphne Matziaraki |
| The War Show | July 3, 2017 | Obaidah Zytoon, Andreas Dalsgaard |
| Last Men in Aleppo | July 10, 2017 | Firas Fayyad, Steven Johannessen |
| Presenting Princess Shaw | July 17, 2017 | Ido Haar |
| Shalom Italia | July 24, 2017 | Tamar Tal Anati |
| Joe's Violin (short) | July 24, 2017 | Kahane Cooperman, Raphaela Neilhausen |
| Memories of a Penitent Heart | July 31, 2017 | Cecilia Aldarondo |
| Tribal Justice | August 21, 2017 | Anne Makepeace |
| Raising Bertie | August 28, 2017 | Margaret Byrne |
| The Grown-Ups | September 4, 2017 | Maite Alberdi |
| My Love, Don't Cross That River | September 11, 2017 | Jin Mo-young |
| Swim Team | October 2, 2017 | Lara Stolman |
| The Islands and The Whales | October 9, 2017 | Mike Day |
| Motherland | October 16, 2017 | Ramona S. Diaz |
| Cameraperson | October 23, 2017 | Kirsten Johnson |
| Almost Sunrise | November 13, 2017 | Michael Collins & Marty Syjuco |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Bill Nye: Science Guy | April 18, 2018 | David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg |
| Quest [2] | June 18, 2018 | Jonathan Olshefski |
| Singing with Angry Bird [3] | June 25, 2018 | Hyewon Jee |
| Brimstone & Glory | July 2, 2018 | Viktor Jakovleski |
| The Workers Cup [4] [3] | July 9, 2018 | Adam Sobel |
| Beatrice (short) [5] | July 23, 2018 | Lorena Alvarado |
| Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2 | July 16, 2018 | Florent Vassault |
| The War to Be Her | July 23, 2018 | Erin Heidenreich |
| Whose Streets? | July 30, 2018 | Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis |
| Still Tomorrow | August 6, 2018 | Jian Fan |
| Nowhere to Hide [6] | August 27, 2018 | Zaradasht Ahmed |
| Voices of the Sea | September 3, 2018 | Kim Hopkins |
| 93Queen [7] | September 17, 2018 | Paula Eiselt |
| Survivors [8] | September 24, 2018 | Anna Fitch, Lansana Mansaray, Arthur Pratt, Banker White |
| Dark Money [9] | October 1, 2018 | Kimberly Reed |
| The Apology [10] | October 22, 2018 | Tiffany Hsiung |
| Minding the Gap [11] | February 18, 2019 | Bing Liu |
| 306 Hollywood | March 18, 2019 | Elan Bogarín, Jonathan Bogarín |
| Wendy's Shabbat (short) | March 18, 2019 | Rachel Myers |
| 116 Cameras (short) | March 18, 2019 | Davina Pardo |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Roll Red Roll | June 17, 2019 | Nancy Schwartzman |
| The Gospel of Eureka | June 24, 2019 | Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri |
| Call Her Ganda | July 1, 2019 | PJ Raval |
| Bisbee '17 | July 15, 2019 | Robert Greene |
| On Her Shoulders | July 22, 2019 | Alexandria Bombach |
| Inventing Tomorrow | July 29, 2019 | Laura Nix |
| The Distant Barking of Dogs | August 5, 2019 | Simon Lereng Wilmont |
| Happy Winter | August 12, 2019 | Giovanni Totaro |
| Farmsteaders [12] | September 2, 2019 | Shaena Mallett [13] |
| Grit | September 9, 2019 | Cynthia Wade, Sasha Friedlander |
| The Silence of Others | September 30, 2019 | Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo |
| América | October 7, 2019 | Chase Whiteside,Erick Stoll |
| The Feeling of Being Watched | October 14, 2019 | Assia Boundaoui |
| BLOWIN' UP | October 21, 2019 | Stephanie Wang-Breal |
| Midnight Traveler | December 30, 2019 | Hassan Fazili |
| The Rescue List | March 23, 2020 | Alyssa Fedele, Zachary Fink |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| And She Could Be Next | June 29, 2020 | Grace Lee, Marjan Safinia |
| We Are the Radical Monarchs | July 20, 2020 | Linda Goldstein Knowlton |
| Advocate [14] | July 27, 2020 | Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaïche |
| Chez Jolie Coiffure [15] | August 3, 2020 | Rosine Mbakam |
| About Love | August 10, 2020 | Archana Atul Phadke |
| Portraits and Dreams | September 7, 2020 | Wendy Ewald, Elizabeth Barret |
| Love Child | September 14, 2020 | Eva Mulvad |
| In My Blood It Runs | September 21, 2020 | Maya Newell |
| Our Time Machine | September 28, 2020 | Yang Sun, S. Leo Chiang |
| The Infiltrators | October 5, 2020 | Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera |
| Softie | October 12, 2020 | Sam Soko |
| The Mole Agent | January 25, 2021 | Maite Alberdi |
| Through the Night | May 10, 2021 | Loira Limbal |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| The Neutral Ground | July 5, 2021 | CJ Hunt |
| Landfall | July 12, 2021 | Cecilia Aldarondo |
| Stateless | July 19, 2021 | Michèle Stephenson |
| Mayor | July 26, 2021 | David Osit |
| Pier Kids | August 2, 2021 | Elegance Bratton |
| The Song Of The Butterflies | August 30, 2021 | Nuria Frigola Torrent |
| Fruits of Labor | October 4, 2021 | Emily Cohen Ibañez |
| La Casa de Mama Icha | October 18, 2021 | Oscar Molina |
| Things We Dare Not Do | October 25, 2021 | Bruno Santamaría |
| North By Current | November 1, 2021 | Angelo Madsen Minax |
| Unapologetic | December 27, 2021 | Ashley O'Shay |
| Not Going Quietly | January 24, 2022 | Nicholas Bruckman |
| On The Divide | Spring 2022 | Maya Cueva, Leah Galant |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Wuhan Wuhan | July 11, 2022 | Yung Chang |
| Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust | July 18, 2022 | Ann Kaneko |
| Winter's Yearning | July 25, 2022 | Sidse Torstholm Larsen, Sturla Pilskog |
| He's My Brother | August 1, 2022 | Cille Hannibal, Co-director: Christine Hanberg |
| President | August 8, 2022 | Camilla Nielsson |
| Faya Dayi | August 29, 2022 | Jessica Beshir (Director/Producer) |
| Love & Stuff | September 5, 2022 | Judith Helfand; Co-director: David Cohen |
| Delikado | September 26, 2022 | Karl Malakunas |
| The Last Out | October 3, 2022 | Director/Producer: Michael Gassert, Sami Khan |
| Accepted | October 10, 2022 | Director/Producer: Dan Chen |
| An Act of Worship | August 8, 2022 | Nausheen Dadabhoy |
| Midwives | November 21, 2022 | Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing |
| Let the Little Light Shine | December 12, 2022 | Kevin Shaw |
| I Didn't See You There | January 9, 2023 | Reid Davenport |
| Title | Premiere | Director |
|---|---|---|
| After Sherman | June 26, 2023 | Jon-Sesrie Goff |
| A Story of Bones | July 3, 2023 | Joseph Curran, Dominic Aubrey de Vere |
| Liquor Store Dreams | July 10, 2023 | So Yun Um |
| A House Made of Splinters | July 17, 2023 | Simon Lereng Wilmont |
| Eat Your Catfish | July 24, 2023 | Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand, Senem Tüzen |
| Children of the Mist | July 31, 2023 | Hà Lệ Diễm |
| While We Watched | September 4, 2023 | Vinay Shukla |
| Bulls & Saints | September 18, 2023 | Rodrigo Dorfman |
| Uýra: The Rising Forest | September 25, 2023 | Juliana Curi |
| Murders That Matter | October 2, 2023 | Marco Williams |
| Aurora’s Sunrise | October 23, 2023 | Inna Sahakyan |
| Fire Through Dry Grass | October 30, 2023 | Andres "Jay" Molina |
| Wisdom Gone Wild | November 20, 2023 | Rea Tajiri |
| How To Have An American Baby | December 11, 2023 | Leslie Tai |
| Brief Tender Light | January 15, 2024 | Arthur Musah |
| unseen | March 18, 2024 | Set Hernandez |
| Title | Premiere | Director | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| King Coal | June 6, 2024 | Elaine McMillion Sheldon | The history of coal mining and the modern impact on the people of central appalachia. [16] [17] |
| Hummingbirds | July 1, 2024 | Estefanía “Beba” Contreras, Silvia Del Carmen Castaños | Two filmmakers document their life during one summer in Laredo, Texas. [18] [19] |
| Is There Anybody Out There? | July 8, 2024 | Ella Bee Glendining | The filmmaker chronicles her life with a rare condition that causes her to confront ableism. [20] [21] |
| Against the Tide | July 29, 2024 | Sarvnik Kaur | Two fishermen from Mumbai facing the challenges caused by the threat of climate change. [22] [23] [24] |
| Fauna | August 5, 2024 | Pau Faus | An aging shepherd outside Barcelona tends to his flock near a high-tech laboratory that uses animal experimentation. [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] |
| Name Me Lawand | September 9, 2024 | Edward Lovelace | Follow a young, deaf Kurdish man's recent move to the United Kingdom and as they learn British Sign Language at the Royal School for the Deaf in Derby. [30] [31] |
| Who's Afraid of Nathan Law? | September 23, 2024 | Joe Piscatella | Profile of Nathan Law, one of the lead organizers of the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, when he was elected to serve as a legislator. A follow-up to Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower , a film by the same director covering earlier activities by the same group. [32] [33] [34] |
| In the Rearview | October 7, 2024 | Maciek Hamela | The filmmaker in a van, traverses the roads of Ukraine with evacuated people, following the Russian invasion. [35] [36] |
| Twice Colonized | October 14, 2024 | Lin Alluna | Profiles Aaju Peter, an Inuk lawyer and activist who has lived in both Greenland and Nunavut. [37] [38] |
| Tokyo Uber Blues | October 21, 2024 | Taku Aoyagi | The filmmaker documents his work life as gig worker doing food delivery in Tokyo. [39] [40] |
| The Body Politic | November 25, 2024 | Gabriel Francis, Paz Goodenough | Follow Mayor of Baltimore Brandon Scott during his first year in office as he addresses violence in the city. [41] [42] |
| Who I am Not | December 30, 2024 | Tünde Skovrán | Two South African friends, both born intersex, are challenged by gender dysphoria. One a beauty queen and the other an activist provide mutual support. [43] [44] |
| Break the Game | April 7, 2025 | Jane M. Wagner | Narcissa Wright, online gamer, breaks records on Legend of Zelda while live streaming and finds love in the digital age. [45] [46] [47] |
| The Taste of Mango | April 28, 2025 | Chloe Abrahams | The filmmaker documents generational trauma with interviews of her mother and grandmother. [48] [49] |
| Title | Premiere | Director | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union | June 23, 2025 | Brett Story, Stephen Maing | A group of workers comes together to pursue a great feat of unionizing against the massive corporate entity, Amazon. [50] |
| Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place | July 7, 2025 | Juan Mejía Botero | A Black Colombian womans pursuit of the presidency sparks a national confrontation. [51] |
| Made in Ethiopia | July 14, 2025 | Xinyan Yu, Max Duncan | As a Chinese industrial zone alters an Ethiopian community, three women navigate the changing landscape. [52] |
| The Ride Ahead | July 21, 2025 | Samuel Habib and Dan Habib | A group of disability activists guides Samuel Habib on the path to adulthood. [53] |
| Maya Lin – A Strong Clear Portrait | July 22, 2025 | Frieda Lee Mock | Watch the controversy behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial created by Maya Lin. [54] |
| Emergent City | August 18, 2025 | Kelly Anderson, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg | Local demcoracy is tested in a dividied Brooklyn community coined as a "innovation district". [55] |
| A New Kind of Wilderness | August 25, 2025 | Silje Evensmo Jacobsen | When tragedy strikes a family must transition into modern society, a stark difference from their former life in nature. [56] |
| Driver | September 1, 2025 | Nesa Azimi | Desiree woods gives herself a second chance on life as a truck driver after losing everything. [57] |
| Age of Water | September 8, 2025 | Isabel Alcántara Atalaya, Alfredo Alcántara | A community in Mexico seeks answers about their water, revealing unsettling truths. [58] |
| Black Snow | September 15, 2025 | Alina Simone | A community in Mexico seeks answers about their water, revealing unsettling truths. [59] |
| The Bitter Pill | September 22, 2025 | Clay Tweel | An attorney in a small town fights a pharmaceutical giant that is devastating his community with opioids. [60] |
| Porcelain War | September 29, 2025 | Clay Tweel | In an effort to confront war, Ukrainian artists find strength in their art. [61] |
| A Mother Apart | October 13, 2025 | Laurie Townshend | Stacey Ann Chin takes us on a journey of healing, forgiveness, and mothering. [62] |
| Between Goodbyes | December 8, 2025 | Jota Mun | A Korean birth mother and her daughter struggle to stay reunited for the long haul. [63] |
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