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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.
| Contents |
Seasons: 1 (1988) • 2 • |
| • References • External links |
| Title | Premiere | Director | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Tongues | July 5, 1988 | Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker | A survey of the many dialects and accents in the American English language and the perceptions around them. [2] |
| Acting Our Age | July 5, 1988 | Michal Aviad | Six women between the ages of 65-75 share their thoughts on body image, sexuality, family dynamics, and mortality. [3] |
| Fire From the Mountain | July 12, 1988 | Deborah Shaffer | A look into Omar Cabezas' life as a student activist, to a guerrilla fighter, to ultimately finding a place in government. [4] |
| Living With AIDS | July 19, 1988 | Tina DiFeliciantonio | A community comes together to support a 22-year-old AIDS patient. [5] |
| Knocking on Armageddon's Door | July 19, 1988 | Torv Carlsen, John Magnus | Spokespeople for the survivalist movement reveal their way of thinking, the way they play, and the way they prepare for the next world war. [6] |
| Rate It X | July 26, 1988 | Paula de Koenigsberg | Fifteen years post the women's movement, two filmmakers survey an array of men to reveal their feelings toward women. [7] |
| The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo | August 2, 1988 | Susana Munoz, Lourdes Portillo | In the late 1970s, a group of Argentinian mothers staged weekly demonstrations in response to kidnappings taking place by the government to demand the release of their children. [8] |
| The Good Fight | August 9, 1988 | Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills | 50 years since volunteering to go to Europe from the United States to fight the spread of fascism, participants recount their experiences as young people during those years and what has taken place since. [9] |
| Metropolitan Avenue | August 16, 1988 | Christine Noschese | A group of "traditional" homemakers in Brooklyn rises to the challenge to become leaders in the effort to save their community, as they combine new roles with old values in a rapidly changing society. [10] |
| Louie Bluie | August 23, 1988 | Terry Zwigoff | A portrait of 76-year-old Harold "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, musician, artist, raconteur and rogue. [11] |
| Gates of Heaven | August 30, 1988 | Errol Morris | At first, a story of pet cemeteries and their proprietors, this film takes a turn into exploring ideas of love, immorality, failure, and the American Dream. [12] |
| Best Boy | September 6, 1988 | Ira Wohl | Philly, a 53-year-old person with a mental disability, adapts to an independent life away from his elderly parents. [13] |
| 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 [14] | June 18, 2018 | Jonathan Olshefski |
| Singing with Angry Bird [15] | June 25, 2018 | Hyewon Jee |
| Brimstone & Glory | July 2, 2018 | Viktor Jakovleski |
| The Workers Cup [16] [15] | July 9, 2018 | Adam Sobel |
| Beatrice (short) [17] | 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 [18] | August 27, 2018 | Zaradasht Ahmed |
| Voices of the Sea | September 3, 2018 | Kim Hopkins |
| 93Queen [19] | September 17, 2018 | Paula Eiselt |
| Survivors [20] | September 24, 2018 | Anna Fitch, Lansana Mansaray, Arthur Pratt, Banker White |
| Dark Money [21] | October 1, 2018 | Kimberly Reed |
| The Apology [22] | October 22, 2018 | Tiffany Hsiung |
| Minding the Gap [23] | 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 [24] | September 2, 2019 | Shaena Mallett [25] |
| 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 [26] | July 27, 2020 | Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaïche |
| Chez Jolie Coiffure [27] | 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 | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who Killed Vincent Chin | June 20,2022 | Christine Choy; Renee Tajima-Peña | An in-depth exploration of murder of Vincent Chin in 1982. [28] |
| Wuhan Wuhan | July 11, 2022 | Yung Chang | Citizens in the city of Wuhan unite to grapple with a new virus called COVID-19. [29] |
| Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust | July 18, 2022 | Ann Kaneko | Native Americans, Japanese Americans, and environmentalists in Northern California are all connected to the water owned by Los Angeles. [30] |
| Winter’s Yearning | July 25, 2022 | Sidse Torstholm Larsen, Sturla Pilskog | A US company challenges Greenland's colonial past and propitious future [31] |
| He’s My Brother | August 1, 2022 | Cille Hannibal, Co-Director: Christine Hanberg | A sister tries to secure a life of dignity for her brother, who was born with multiple disabilities? [32] |
| President | August 8, 2022 | Camilla Nielsson | A new leader challenges the leading party in the 2018 presidential election in Zimbabwe [33] |
| Faya Dayi | August 29, 2022 | Jessica Beshir (Director/Producer) | An exploration of Harar, in Ethiopia, where the euphoria-inducing plant khat reigns supreme. [34] |
| Love & Stuff | September 5, 2022 | Judith Helfand; Co-Director: David Cohen | A multigenerational story that explores the question “How do you live without your mother?” [35] |
| Delikado | September 26, 2022 | Karl Malakunas | Locals unite at a tropical paradise and endanger their safety to defend the last ecological frontier in the Philipine. [36] |
| The Last Out | October 3, 2022 | Michael Gassert, Sami Khan | To pursue their dreams of playing in the US major leagues, three Cuban baseball players take the risk of exile. [37] |
| Accepted | October 10, 2022 | Dan Chen | A Louisiana prep school that guarantees 100% of its grads to college is faced with a national scandal [38] |
| An Act of Worship | August 8, 2022 | Camilla Nielsson | A collective momory and an alternative viewpoint of the American Muslim life over the last 30 years [39] |
| Midwives | November 21, 2022 | Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing | Two women run a makeshift medical clinic despite ethnic conflict. [40] |
| Let the Little Light Shine | December 12, 2022 | Kevin Shaw | An academic hub for Black children resist against gentrification. [41] |
| I Didn't See You There | January 9, 2023 | Reid Davenport | A filmmaker with disabilities reflects on the impact of the Freak Show legacy. [42] |
| Title | Premiere | Director | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| After Sherman | June 26, 2023 | Jon-Sesrie Goff | An investigation in coastal South Carolina explores Black inheritance, trauma, and wisdom. [43] |
| A Story of Bones | July 3, 2023 | Joseph Curran, Dominic Aubrey de Vere | A burial site of formerly enslaved Africans is discovered on St. Helena. [44] |
| Liquor Store Dreams | July 10, 2023 | So Yun Um | Immigrant dreams and generational divides clash against LA's landscape. [45] |
| A House Made of Splinters | July 17, 2023 | Simon Lereng Wilmont | Near the frontlines of Eastern Ukraine, social workers create a safe haven for kids in limbo. [46] |
| Eat Your Catfish | July 24, 2023 | Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand, Senem Tüzen | A portrait of a woman with ALS and her family. [47] |
| Children of the Mist | July 31, 2023 | Hà Lệ Diễm | In rural Northern Vietnam, a Hmong girl is caught between tradition and modernity. [48] |
| While We Watched | September 4, 2023 | Vinay Shukla | Journalist Ravish Kumar stands his ground in a world of "fake news." [49] |
| Bulls & Saints | September 18, 2023 | Rodrigo Dorfman | An undocumented family decides to return home after two decades of living in the US. [50] |
| Uýra: The Rising Forest | September 25, 2023 | Juliana Curi | In the Amazon forest, Uýra is a trans-indigenous artist on a journey of self-discovery. [51] |
| Murders That Matter | October 2, 2023 | Marco Williams | A mother transforms from a victim of trauma into an advocate against gun violence in Black communities. [52] |
| Aurora’s Sunrise | October 23, 2023 | Inna Sahakyan | After she survives a genocide, a teenage girl makes a rise to Hollywood stardom. [53] |
| Fire Through Dry Grass | October 30, 2023 | Andres "Jay" Molina | A group of nursing home residents document their lives on lockdown during Covid and kickstart a movement. [54] |
| Wisdom Gone Wild | November 20, 2023 | Rea Tajiri | A woman with dementia reinvents herself. [55] |
| How To Have An American Baby | December 11, 2023 | Leslie Tai | A voyage into the Chinese birth tourism industry in the US. [56] |
| Brief Tender Light | January 15, 2024 | Arthur Musah | A Ghanaian MIT alum follows four African students at his alma mater as they try to make change back home. [57] |
| unseen | March 18, 2024 | Set Hernandez | A blind, undocumented immigrant, and an aspiring social worker confront life. [58] |
| 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. [59] [60] |
| Hummingbirds | July 1, 2024 | Estefanía “Beba” Contreras, Silvia Del Carmen Castaños | Two filmmakers document their life during one summer in Laredo, Texas. [61] [62] |
| 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. [63] [64] |
| Against the Tide | July 29, 2024 | Sarvnik Kaur | Two fishermen from Mumbai facing the challenges caused by climate change. [65] [66] [67] |
| Fauna | August 5, 2024 | Pau Faus | An aging shepherd outside Barcelona tends to his flock near a high-tech laboratory that uses animal experimentation. [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] |
| 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. [73] [74] |
| 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. [75] [76] [77] |
| 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. [78] [79] |
| Twice Colonized | October 14, 2024 | Lin Alluna | Profiles Aaju Peter, an Inuk lawyer and activist who has lived in both Greenland and Nunavut. [80] [81] |
| Tokyo Uber Blues | October 21, 2024 | Taku Aoyagi | The filmmaker documents his work life as gig worker doing food delivery in Tokyo. [82] [83] |
| 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. [84] [85] |
| 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. [86] [87] |
| 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. [88] [89] [90] |
| The Taste of Mango | April 28, 2025 | Chloe Abrahams | The filmmaker documents generational trauma with interviews of her mother and grandmother. [91] [92] |
| Title | Premiere | Director | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union | June 23, 2025 | Brett Story, Stephen Maing | A group of workers comes together to unionize against the corporate entity, Amazon. [93] |
| Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place | July 7, 2025 | Juan Mejía Botero | A Black Colombian womans pursuit of the presidency sparks a national confrontation. [94] |
| 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. [95] |
| The Ride Ahead | July 21, 2025 | Samuel Habib and Dan Habib | A group of disability activists guides Samuel Habib on the path to adulthood. [96] |
| Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision | July 22, 2025 | Freida Lee Mock | Watch the controversy behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial created by Maya Lin. [97] |
| Emergent City | August 18, 2025 | Kelly Anderson, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg | Local demcoracy is tested in a dividied Brooklyn community coined as a "innovation district". [98] |
| 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. [99] |
| Driver | September 1, 2025 | Nesa Azimi | Desiree Woods gives herself a second chance on life as a truck driver. [100] |
| Age of Water | September 8, 2025 | Isabel Alcántara Atalaya, Alfredo Alcántara | A community in Mexico seeks answers about their water, revealing new truths. [101] |
| Black Snow | September 15, 2025 | Alina Simone | A journey that reveals the human cost of coal. [102] |
| The Bitter Pill | September 22, 2025 | Clay Tweel | An attorney in a small town fights a pharmaceutical giant bringing opioids. [103] |
| Porcelain War | September 29, 2025 | Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev | In an effort to confront war, Ukrainian artists turn to art. [104] |
| A Mother Apart | October 13, 2025 | Laurie Townshend | Staceyann Chin takes us on a journey of healing, forgiveness, and mothering. [105] |
| Between Goodbyes | December 8, 2025 | Jota Mun | A Korean birth mother and her daughter attempt to reunite for the long haul. [106] |
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