Independent Lens
Date de parution : 9 août 1999
| Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small-Town Gang | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Nothing But the Truth A look at the media circus during the O.J. Simpson civil trial. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Visas and Virtue / I Am Viet Hung VISAS AND VIRTUE is based on the true story of the man known as Japan's Oskar Schindler. In 1940, against the commands of his country and at the... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 4 | The Man Who Drove with Mandela Juxtaposing dramatic 1st person narrations by Corin Redgrave as Williams with interviews with activists in the anti-apartheid and Communist... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 5 | The Jew in the Lotus | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Holy Tortilla / Lock and Key | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 7 | And Baby Makes Two What does a single, working woman have to go through to have a child of her own, without a husband, boyfriend or lover? Following a group of eight... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle SING FASTER is a spirited and comical behind-the-scenes look at Richard Wagner's beloved "Ring Cycle," one of the most ambitious and spectacular... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 9 | Secret People Although it has conjured horrific images of society's most feared outcasts ever since Biblical days, leprosy is in fact a mildly communicable... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 10 | I Can't Believe I Married A Lesbian Stuart Perkin thought he knew everything about his wife, Sue. After two years of marriage and ten years of friendship, intimacy and life... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 1 | Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors NOW & THEN is a four-year journey through the American rite of passage known as college. This feature-length documentary follows ten undergraduates... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 2 | No Hair Day Three breast cancer survivors discuss their fight against breast cancer and the emotional and physical stages of the disease. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Short Stories Documents the trials and triumphs of three families in which some or all of the members are dwarfs. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Born in the USA Three out of every four Americans becomes a parent, yet most of us have never really considered what having a "normal" birth means. How much... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Girl Gone Bad A gripping documentary about the extraordinary world of biker women, an amazing group few of us know anything about. An intimate wild ride with... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 6 | Passing Through / Graham's Diner Passing Through follows Nathan Adolfson—a.k.a. Chai Chee Man, his Korean birth name—as he searches for his identity between two worlds. In the comic... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 7 | The Return of Navajo Boy The Return of Navajo Boy is a documentary film produced by Jeff Spitz and Bennie Klain about the Cly family, Navajo who live on their reservation.... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 8 | Music in Their Bones The program explores the mountain music of Sand Mountain in rural Alabama. This music tradition is woven into the simple lives of the southerners,... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 9 | In Harm's Way / Carved From the Heart In Harm's Way is an experimental film exploring how the experiences of adulthood both defy and reinforce the lessons of childhood. In Carved from... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 10 | A Wok in Progress This video journal chronicles the intertwined stories of Paul Kwan, a Chinese filmmaker and gourmand who came to the United States from Vietnam 25... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Confederacy Theory Confederacy Theory presents and unflinching portrait of the cultural war that has erupted around the confederate flag - a century-old symbol that... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Secrets of Silicon Valley SECRETS OF SILICON VALLEY is a shocking exposé of the hidden downsides of the Internet revolution and also a funny and moving meditation on... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants This film illustrates the most recent wave of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States. Through a close look at the personal impact of new... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Good Kurds, Bad Kurds With a population of 25 million spilling across the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and the former Soviet Union, the Kurds have maintained... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 5 | Who Owns the Past? The final decades of the twentieth century brought unprecedented changes for American Indians, especially in the areas of human rights and tribal... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 6 | The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America THE SPLIT HORN is the sweeping story of a Hmong shaman and his family living in Appleton, Wisconsin. Documenting the 17-year journey of Paja Thao... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 7 | Undetectable Filmed over three years, this award-winning film examines the complex physical and psychological effects of the multi-drug therapies for HIV disease... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 8 | Gibtown In Gibsonton, FL, thousands of carnival and circus show people have built a close-knit community in the twilight of the carnival sideshow. The... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 9 | Open Outcry In the securities markets, virtually everything is now automated as we increasingly trade online. But the legendary, hyper-charged sense of danger... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 10 | Romancing the Throne The sudden death of the King of Lesotho in January 1996 led to the coronation of his thirty-something bachelor son, Prince Mohato. Shot over a... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 1 | Maggie Growls Maggie Kuhn (1905-1995) founded the Gray Panthers after being forced to retire at the age of 65, in what Ralph Nader describes as "the most... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 2 | Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story This program looks at the strange underworld of the song-poem industry. In this little-known subculture, "ordinary" people respond to come-on ads in... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 3 | On This Island On an isolated Maine island of 350 people, a clash over arts education spins out of control into vandalism and death threats, tearing apart friends... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 4 | Downside Up Since the 1980s, the rural working class town of North Adams, Massachusetts, has struggled to kick-start its economy following the mill closings.... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 5 | Los Trabajadores / The Workers It's 1999, and the booming city of Austin, Texas keeps on growing - thanks largely to men like Ramón and Juan, who work some of the hardest jobs in... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 6 | Chiefs An observational documentary about the on- and off-court struggles of Native American basketball players at Wyoming Indian High School. | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 7 | Strange Fruit Radio stations banned it, but when Billie Holiday sang "Strange Fruit" the whole world listened anyway. Sprung from the pen of an unknown Bronx... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 8 | Bird by Bird with Annie From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock ("Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision") comes this engaging portrait of the best-selling author and... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 9 | Sisters in Resistance During the Nazi occupation of France, four very young women -- who were neither Jews nor Communists, nor in any danger of arrest --chose to risk... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 10 | Heart of the Sea HEART OF THE SEA is a portrait of Hawaiian legend Rell Kapolioka' ehukai Sunn, who died of breast cancer at the age of 47. Known worldwide as a... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 11 | Guns & Mothers Maria, mother of four, is a spokeswoman for Second Amendment Sisters and a firm believer in the right to bear arms. Frances is an advocate of gun... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 12 | Razing Appalachia In the face of thunderous blasting and choking dust caused by mountaintop mining, the last 40 families of Blair, WV, stay to fight America's... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 13 | Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer is the compelling tale of a pioneering woman photojournalist who created some of the most indelible images of... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 14 | Daddy & Papa Daddy & Papa is a one-hour documentary film made by producer/director Johnny Symons in 2002, it explores same-sex parenting as seen in the lives of... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 1 | Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz This film takes a look at the work of Brazilian-born contemporary conceptual artist and rising star Vik Muniz -- sculptor, photographer and... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 2 | Foto-Novelas 2: Junkyard Saints and Broken Sky A spiritual thriller set in an automotive graveyard and a story based on a real-life plane crash. | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 3 | Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America The famous fighting monks of the Shaolin Monastery have seen a resurgence throughout the world, aided in part by the popularity of kung-fu movies... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 4 | A Wedding in Ramallah This program puts a human face on the Middle East conflict by chronicling the story of Bassam, a Palestinian American telephone repairman from... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 5 | Be Good, Smile Pretty This personal documentary chronicles the filmmaker's struggle to know and grieve for the father she never knew, a soldier who died in Vietnam when... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 6 | Livermore Part history, part mystery, part comedy, this program is an offbeat look at one eccentric California town. A memorable cast of local armchair... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 7 | Eroica! A unique classical music ensemble of three young women take the musical world by storm, collaborating with a struggling composer to debut one of the... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 8 | Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson Recruiting a stand-up comic, a rock band, feuding academics and Hollywood actresses to his cause, an irreverent filmmaker searches for the secret... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 9 | Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad Three young Mormon men, age 19, embark on a two-year rite of passage in Germany as part of a long-standing worldwide effort by Mormon missionaries... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 10 | Man Bites Shorts Short film block: "Title": Directed by "Compulsory Breathing": David Munro "Don't Nobody Love the Game More Than Me": Martha Pinson "Sergi": Paul... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 11 | Make 'em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story For nearly 70 years, the Hackberry Ramblers have played an infectious, toe-tapping blend of Cajun music and Western swing. MAKE 'EM DANCE tells the... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 12 | Life Matters A straight-arrow rural Texan Pentecostal/Baptist minister, Curtis Boyd relinquished the pulpit in the heat of the social changes of the 1960s and... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 13 | Why Can't We Be a Family Again? / Downpour Resurfacing Raised by their grandmother, young Raymond and Danny continue to hold out hope for their mother's recovery from drug addiction -- even after she's... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 14 | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property A "troublesome property" for his master, Nat Turner has remained a " troublesome property" for the historians, novelists, dramatists and others who... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 15 | A Place of Our Own: Black Resort Communities and the African American Dream Stanley Nelson is a third-generation, upper middle-class African American who spent the past 40 summers in Oak Bluffs, an affluent African-American... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 16 | Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew Jimmy Scott's voice conveys a young boy's innocence, a soft sensuality and the lessons of 76 hard-lived years of failure and redemption. Through... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 17 | Sentencing the Victim After Joanna Katz, a South Carolina woman, was brutally tortured and gang-raped, she survived to face her assailants and transform herself into a... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 18 | T-Shirt Travels As a worker with an international aid organization stationed in a remote village in Zambia, filmmaker Shantha Bloemen saw more and more unemployed... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 19 | Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas In his life and his work, acclaimed Afro-Cuban-Puerto Rican poet Piri Thomas has used creative expression as a means to confront and overcome... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 20 | Love Inventory Israeli filmmaker David Fisher inspires his four siblings to begin an emotionally challenging search for their long-lost sister. In a creative... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 21 | Ram Dass: Fierce Grace When Harvard expelled faculty members Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary in 1963 for LSD experimentation, Alpert traveled to India and returned... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 22 | The Weather Underground The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous. | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 23 | One Night at the Grand Star / Double Exposure In Los Angeles, there's only one place where you can celebrate the synchronicity of an old-school Chinatown establishment, classic jazz, DJ culture... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 24 | Refugee Three young Cambodian American men, raised on the streets of San Francisco's tough Tenderloin district, travel to Cambodia wielding video cameras to... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 25 | Death of a Shaman Through a journey that takes her back to her roots in Thailand, a young Mien woman from Sacramento strives to come to terms with her father's death... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 26 | Cosmopolitan When his wife and daughter abandon him, East Indian immigrant Gopal (Roshan Seth) reinvents himself as an all-American bachelor. With women's... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 27 | Sumo East and West In recent years, the ancient art of sumo has witnessed the rise of an increasing number of foreigners to the top of its professional ranks. From... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 28 | The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out When lesbian music student Kristina Boerger moved to a small Illinois college town, she didn't find a ready-made community. So she created one with... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 1 | The Political Dr. Seuss Explores a little-known side of Dr. Seuss and some interesting inspirations behind his works. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 2 | Polka Time Each July for more than 30 years, polka lovers from around the United States have descended on the tiny rural town of Gibbon, Minnesota, for the... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 3 | Afghanistan Unveiled Filmed by the first-ever team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this uncompromising film reveals the effects on Afghan women of the... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 4 | Los Angeles Now Look beyond Hollywood to create a fresh candid portrait of America's second largest city. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 5 | The Day My God Died Young girls whose lives were shattered by the child sex trade describe the day they were abducted from their villages as "the day my god died." By... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 6 | Girl Wrestler Follows teenager Tara Neal as she deals with fierce policy debates while facing boys on the mat. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 7 | Fine. / Doki-Doki Fine.: When factory worker Ed is confronted by a co-worker's pressing question over lunch, he begins to question his own decisions and his current... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 8 | Short, Not Sweet Five shorts ranging from funny to creepy to downright scary prove that just because they're short, they don't have to be sweet. "Title" Director... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 9 | A Hard Straight A gang member, a hustler and a small-time dealer. They served their sentences and they're on parole. Now they're about to discover that walking out... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 10 | A Touch of Greatness Stunning footage and interviews showcase the lives transformed by maverick teacher Albert Cullum. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 11 | Power Trip Amid pervasive blackouts and corruption, an American energy company purchases a formerly state-run electricity company in the former Soviet Republic... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 12 | February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four A sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in North Carolina in 1960 was a pivotal civil rights event. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 13 | On a Roll: Disability and the American Dream Greg Smith and his family bare all in this unflinching portrait of a 65-pound man striving for the American dream. Fueled by discrimination, Smith... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 14 | Thunder in Guyana When the filmmaker's cousin was elected Guyana's president seven years ago, Janet Rosenberg Jagan -- considered one of the founders of Guyana along... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 15 | Sisters of '77 On an historic weekend in November 1977, 20,000 women and men attended the first federally funded National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas,... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 16 | Sunset Story Eighty-one-year-old Irja and her 95-year-old best friend Lucille are the only lucid residents at a senior citizens' home for political progressives.... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 17 | Let the Church Say Amen Easter in Washington, DC, means children hunting for eggs on the White House lawn. But blocks away is one of America's poorest neighborhoods, where... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 18 | Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton Legendary jazz bassist Milt Hinton (1910-2000) was also a skilled photographer and storyteller. This insider's view of jazz and life in 20th-century... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 19 | A Lion's Trail An illiterate Zulu musician wrote Africa's most famous song, "Mbube" -inspiration for the pop classic "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" - and received... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 20 | End of the Century: The Ramones / Joe Strummer Rocks Again! In 1974, a new sound hit New York City's underground music scene: a band of misfits called The Ramones. This film follows this quartet of unlikely... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 21 | The Last Letter / Zyklon Portrait and the Walnut Tree A Jewish woman in a Ukrainian city seized by the Germans in 1941 writes her son a final letter. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 22 | Imelda: Power, Myth, Illusion How has Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines, managed to court, coddle, use and abuse power for nearly four decades? News clips,... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 23 | Vietnam: The Next Generation An in-depth look at modern-day Vietnam, where communism and capitalism are going head-to-head. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 24 | Red Hook Justice In 2000, an experimental court opened in Brooklyn's Red Hook, a neighborhood plagued by a cycle of unemployment, poverty and crime. Instead of jail... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 25 | Double Dare / Piki and Poko: Taking The Dare! As Hollywood stuntwomen for "Wonder Woman" and "Xena: Warrior Princess," Jeannie Epper and Zoe Bell have been set on fire, thrown off buildings,... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 26 | Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story Narrated by Cheech Marin and scored by Ry Cooder, this film shows how a community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy and good intentions... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 27 | Brother to Brother A young artist befriends an elderly gay stranger who co-founded the revolutionary journal Fire! | |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 1 | Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove “One Nation Under a Groove,” a profile of Parliament Funkadelic that features animation (including an “Afronaut” character voiced by Eddie Griffin)... |
| Saison 7 - épisode 2 | En Route to Baghdad Vieira de Mello, who devoted his life to global humanitarian efforts, was killed in Iraq in 2003. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 3 | The Last Cowboy Vernon Sager is a cowboy struggling to survive in Porcupine, South Dakota, in this story of real cowboys and Indians living in the middle of the... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 4 | A Family at War When one American family loses their son in the Iraq war, their lives -- and views -- are irrevocably changed. Danish filmmakers follow the Kaylor... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 5 | Mirror Dance Identical twins Margarita and Ramona de Saa became acclaimed ballerinas with the National Ballet of Cuba. Once inseparable, their relationship... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 6 | Race is the Place How do American artists address our nation's most pressing social issue? Using spoken, sung and chanted word, African American, Latino, Asian... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 7 | Maid in America As three of the thousands of Latina immigrants working as nannies and housekeepers in Los Angeles, Judith, Telma and Eva have all left family and... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 8 | Seoul Train This film explores the plight of North Korean refugees trying to escape their homeland and China, and tells the story of activists who put... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 9 | Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community This documentary follows the lives of the women of St. Scholastica Monastery in Duluth, Minnesota. The story is told by the Sisters themselves -- at... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 10 | Short Stack: Lost & Found They don't make "buddy movies" like this in Hollywood. Independent Lens presents five short films that focus on a pivotal moment in a friendship:... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 11 | Sheriff With the help of God, guns and the hundreds of blood relatives that populate his jurisdiction, Sheriff Ronald E. Hewett oversees Brunswick County,... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 12 | Girl Trouble Shot over four years, GIRL TROUBLE is the story of three girls entangled in San Francisco's juvenile justice system. Documenting the girls'... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 13 | Almost Home Shot on location in a nursing home, ALMOST HOME tells the real stories of aging: couples both bonded and divided by disability, children torn... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 14 | Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power Credited with inspiring the Black Power movement, Robert Williams led his North Carolina hometown to defend itself against the Ku Klux Klan and... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 15 | July '64 In the summer of 1964, a three-night riot erupted in two predominantly black neighborhoods in downtown Rochester, New York, the culmination of... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 16 | The Loss of Nameless Things In 1978, Oakley Hall was a promising playwright on the verge of national recognition when a mysterious fall violently transformed his life. This... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 17 | Troop 1500 A Girl Scout troop unites daughters with mothers convicted of serious crimes in a Texas prison. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 18 | Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City They faced death threats on the job -- from some of the men they worked with. With the story of Lt. Brenda Berkman of the Fire Department of New... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 19 | Trudell Native American activist and poet John Trudell fuses radical politics with music, writing and art. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 20 | La Sierra La Sierra, a small neighborhood in Medellin, Colombia, is ruled by a group of young men, mostly teenagers, affiliated with Colombia's illegal... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 21 | A League of Ordinary Gentlemen Tracing the history of professional bowling in America, from its glory days in the 1950s to its near extinction by the late 1990s, this program... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 22 | Music from the Inside Out The intersection of art and life are at the core of this program, a musical journey featuring the 105 musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 23 | Fishbowl / American Made FISHBOWL: In the sleepy plantation town of Hilo, Hawaii, 11-year-old Lovey is trying to be anything but herself. In this dramatic short adapted from... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 24 | Frozen Angels This program presents the future of human reproduction available today in Los Angeles. With dreamlike cinematography, the film takes a... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 25 | The Devil's Miner Two young Bolivian brothers brave deadly conditions in mining tunnels to earn money for school. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 26 | The Great Pink Scare Explores the fierce clash between an individual's right to privacy & concerns for national security. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 27 | The Real Dirt on Farmer John This is the epic tale of Farmer John, a maverick Midwestern farmer who -- in spite of the condemnation from his community -- bravely transforms his... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 28 | A Lion in the House: Part 1 This inspiring film follows five children as they fight cancer with the help of their families, nurses and doctors. This harrowing and intimate... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 29 | A Lion in the House: Part 2 This inspiring film follows five children as they fight cancer with the help of their families, nurses and doctors. This harrowing and intimate... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 1 | The World According to Sesame Street The World According to Sesame Street is a 2005 feature-length documentary created by Participant Productions, looking at the cultural impact of the... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 2 | Muskrat Lovely Follows a close-knit Chesapeake Bay community and the events of the 50th crowning of Miss Outdoors. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 3 | Still Life with Animated Dogs Animator Paul Fierlinger presents humorous observations of people, dogs & things of a divine nature. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 4 | Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire Looks at the life and colorful career of the multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 5 | Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press Journalists and champions of independent media work to make and keep their societies free. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 6 | Two Square Miles Residents, artists and activists in Hudson, N.Y., protest the proposal for a multinational coal-fired cement plant. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 7 | A Sad Flower in the Sand A SAD FLOWER IN THE SAND is the first major film documentary about a largely unsung writer of the twentieth century: John Fante, the renegade author... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 8 | Revolucion: Five Visions This documentary tells the story of five Cuban photographers whose lives and work span more than four decades and whose perspectives on photography... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 9 | Short Stack 2006 A selection of four short films that focus on teenagers struggling with different challenges. "Title" Director "Paris, 1951" Jasmin Gordon "Someday... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 10 | A Fish Story Meet two women who lead in a battle against a coalition of national environmental groups for control of the ocean. Three hundred years of fishing... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 11 | Shadya Shadya Zoabi, a charismatic 17-year-old karate world champion, strives to succeed on her own terms within her traditional Muslim village in northern... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 12 | Beyond the Call Three men travel the world delivering live-saving humanitarian aid to civilians and doctors. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 13 | Twisted Meet people with a neurological disorder that causes their muscles to twist in abnormal movements. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 14 | Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life Explore the life and career of the unheralded man who changed jazz and popular music forever. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 15 | Motherland Afghanistan 1 in 7 Afghan women dies in childbirth. Sedika Mojadidi explores the people behind these statistics. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 16 | Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is a 2006 documentary film written, produced, and directed by Byron Hurt. The documentary explores the issues of... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 17 | Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? Follow the 2004 Missouri campaign of unknown Jeff Smith, that took on the political establishment. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 18 | Stolen In 1990, two thieves dressed as police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, successfully executing the largest... | |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 19 | Race to Execution Race discrimination infects America’s capital punishment system. According to a landmark study regarding race and the death penalty, a black... |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 20 | China Blue They live crowded together in cement factory dormitories where water has to be carried upstairs in buckets. Their meals and rent are deducted from... |
| Saison 8 - épisode 21 | Black Gold This eye-opening expose of the $80 billion coffee industry traces one man's fight for fair trade. | |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 22 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Enron dives from the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in less than a year in this tale told chronologically. The emphasis is on human drama,... |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 23 | The Cats of Mirikitani In 2001, Japanese American painter Jimmy Mirikitani, over 80 years old, is living in the streets of lower Manhattan. Filmmaker Hattendorf takes an... |
| Saison 8 - épisode 24 | Sentenced Home Three young Cambodian refugees find themselves caught between a tragic past & an uncertain future. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 25 | Knocking Reveals how Jehovah's Witnesses have helped shape history beyond the doorstep. | |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 26 | The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill This film tells the true story of a bohemian St. Francis and his remarkable relationship with a flock of wild red-and-green parrots. Former street... |
| Saison 8 - épisode 27 | La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul Legendary Afro-Cuban pop singer Lupe Victoria Yoli, “The Queen of Latin Soul Music,” aka La Lupe or La Yiyiyi, rose to fame in the 1960s and died in... | |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 1 | Wordplay Fifty million Americans do crossword puzzles each week, many in the venerable New York Times, where Will Shortz has been editor for 12 years.... |
| Saison 9 - épisode 2 | Please Vote for Me This film follows eight-year-old students in an elementary school in China as they campaign for school monitor. This is the first election for a... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 3 | Storm of Emotions This is a film explores the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip and efforts to achieve democracy amidst great social and political turmoil.... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 4 | Red White Black & Blue U.S. soldiers who fought on the island of Attu in Alaska during WWII journey back to the location. | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 5 | Miss Navajo Follows contestants in their quest for the Miss Navajo Nation crown, featuring stories of winners. | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 6 | The Creek Runs Red A town facing serious health risks and age-old racial tensions between Indian and white society. | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 7 | Sisters in Law A look at a small courthouse in Cameroon where two women help others fight against cases of abuse. | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 8 | The Paper Chronicles the pressure of a year in the life of Pennsylvania State University's Daily Collegian. | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 9 | An Unreasonable Man This program offers an unsparing look at Ralph Nader, one of the most important and controversial political figures of our time. | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 10 | Today's Man The story of Nicky Gottlieb, a former child genius diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at age 21. | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 11 | Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita Dr. Jack Kessler, a prominent neurologist, shifts his diabetes research to stem cell research when his daughter is paralyzed from the waist down.... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 12 | A Son's Sacrifice A young Muslim American struggles to take over his father's halal slaughterhouse in New York City. | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 13 | How Is Your Fish Today? While working on his latest screenplay in Beijing, Hui Rao experiences writer's block and begins to live the life of the character he is trying to... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 14 | Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America Banished is a documentary film about four U.S. cities, which were part of many communities that violently forced African American families to flee... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 15 | Hard Road Home Follows two former felons in different stages of life "on the outside." / Examines the challenges faced by ex-convicts as they adjust to life after... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 16 | Iron Ladies of Liberia With unprecedented access, this intimate documentary goes behind the scenes with Africa's first freelyelected female head of state, Ellen... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 17 | Compañeras A profile of America's first all-female mariachi band, Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles. | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 18 | Water Flowing Together Jock Soto, who is Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican as well as gay, retired in June 2005 from the New York City Ballet after a 24-year career; this... | |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 19 | King Corn King Corn is a feature documentary film released in October 2007 following college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis as they move to Greene, Iowa... |
| Saison 9 - épisode 20 | Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula Follow the journey of legendary teacher Robert Cazimero and the only all-male hula school in Hawaii as they celebrate their 30th anniversary and... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 21 | A Dream in Doubt In the wake of 9/11 and the hate crimes that followed, a Sikh American struggles to believe in the American dream amidst a climate of xenophobia and... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 22 | New Year Baby This film follows one woman's quest to uncover the secrets of how her family survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. Socheata Poeuv's family survived the... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 23 | Writ Writer Reveals a little-known battle of the Civil Rights Movement, led by an indigent, under-educated prisoner. Texas-born, Mexican American Fred Cruz came... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 24 | The Cool School The Cool School is an object lesson in how to build an art scene from scratch and what to avoid in the process. Featuring Academy Award nominee... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 25 | Deep Water The amazing and compelling true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 26 | Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story A Japanese family searches for their daughter who was abducted by North Korean spies in 1977. / Recalls the 1977 kidnapping of schoolgirl Megumi... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 1 | Chicago 10 This program combines bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage to explore the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 2 | Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf addresses his ideas for a democratized society. | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 3 | Knee Deep Josh Osborne hatched a plan with his friends and relatives to kill his mother after she reneged on a deal which would have left the family farm to... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 4 | Lioness The story of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first women in American history to be sent into direct ground combat in... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 5 | March Point Meet Cody, Nick and Travis—three teenagers from the Swinomish Tribe. After hard times on the rez lead to rehab and drug court, they are offered an... | |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 6 | The Atom Smashers THE ATOM SMASHERS explores what happens when politicians, not scientists, decide which scientific projects will be funded and which will be cut, and... |
| Saison 10 - épisode 7 | Doc Filmmaker Immy Humes presents a portrait of her father, the legendary forgotten novelist and counterculture icon Harold Louis "Doc" Humes. Doc’s... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 8 | Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic' This program tells the story of making a grand opera about the birth of the atomic bomb. This behind-the-scenes documentary follows composer John... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 9 | Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway This 50-minute documentary unfolds the creative journey of Albert Maysles' cult classic, GREY GARDENS - from non-fiction film to spectacularly... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 10 | Operation Filmmaker Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed gets his dream job working on a Hollywood movie, where expectations and misunderstandings collide. / Iraqi film... | |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 11 | Helvetica Helvetica is about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th... |
| Saison 10 - épisode 12 | Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene America's original shock-jock, Petey Greene overcame poverty, drug addiction and prison time to "tell it like it is," shocking and entertaining... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 13 | Tulia, Texas A lone undercover cop moves into a small farming town. By the end of the blazing summer of 1999, 46 people are arrested for selling cocaine—nearly... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 14 | The Order of Myths The doctrine, “separate but equal” ended in the 1950s, right? Think again. At America’s oldest Mardi Gras—celebrated each year in Mobile,... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 15 | Arusi Persian Wedding Iranian American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani chronicles her brother's return to Iran during the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as he travels with... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 16 | Lakshmi and Me Have you ever dreamed of being waited on hand and foot? For the past six years, Lakshmi has been doing just that for her employers—virtually... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 17 | Recycle Abu Amar, an ex-Mujahideen soldier, is trying to build a peaceful life after years of fighting in the Soviet-Afghan war. "Recycle" follows Amar's... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 18 | Milking the Rhino Everyone has seen a nature documentary with a ferocious kill on the Serengeti Plain. Well, here’s a different story about villagers navigating the... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 19 | Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai How does the simple act of planting trees lead to winning the Nobel Peace Prize? Ask Wangari Maathai of Kenya. In 1977, she suggested rural women... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 20 | At Home in Utopia A home of your own: that’s the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers and Communists? Director Michal... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 21 | Wings of Defeat What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? When Risa Morimoto discovered that her beloved uncle trained as a... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 22 | Crips and Bloods: Made in America It’s a civil war that’s lasted 40 years. Passed down from son to son. Fought eye for an eye. Over 15,000 dead and counting, while the world stands by.... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 23 | Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors This is the story of a group of young men who survived for 72 days after their plane crashed in the Andean Cordillera in October 1972. / The 16... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 24 | Steal a Pencil for Me In June 1943, Ina Soep, the rich and beautiful daughter of an Amsterdam diamond cutter, met a married couple—a poor accountant named Jack Polak and... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 25 | Ask Not As wars rage in the Middle East, the U.S. military is eager for more recruits—unless you happen to be openly gay. ASK NOT explores the tangled... | |
| Saison 10 - épisode 26 | Our Disappeared; Nuestros Desaparecidos During the 1976-1983 military dictatorships in Argentina, thousands of citizens were kidnapped and never heard from again. Director Juan Mandelbaum... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 1 | Herb and Dorothy He was a postal clerk, and she was a librarian. With their modest means, Herbert and Dorothy Vogel managed to build one of the most important... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 2 | Butte, America Five generations of mining families illustrate the story of Butte, Mont., once the world's largest producer of copper. / Irish actor Gabriel Byrne... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 3 | Journals of a Wily School Pickpocketing is common practice in Kolkata, India. In an attempt to crack down on more serious crime, the police offer Azad, a young pickpocket, a... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 4 | Power Paths This program follows the efforts of American Indian tribes to bring renewable energy projects into their communities. From the Sioux tribes of Great... | |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 5 | D Tour When indie rock drummer Pat Spurgeon finally gets his big break, his body breaks down. Refusing to make his failing kidney a deterrent, Pat goes on... |
| Saison 11 - épisode 6 | No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos They took Hollywood by storm -- escaping the brutal Soviet oppression of the Hungarian Revolution and rising to fame with classic films like Easy... | |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 7 | Objectified Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.... |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 8 | Between the Folds A documentary exploring the art and science of origami. / Think origami is just paper planes and cranes? Meet a determined group of theoretical... |
| Saison 11 - épisode 9 | Scenes from a Parish A young, irreverent priest arrives at Saint Patrick Parish in Lawrence, Massachusetts, only to confront boiling ethnic tensions in a changing... | |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 10 | Young@Heart A documentary following an New England senior citizens chorus preparing a one-night-only concert of rock, punk and R&B for the town of Northampton,... |
| Saison 11 - épisode 11 | Copyright Criminals This program examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 12 | Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness Who has the authority to define your identity? Considered one of the most controversial scholars of our time, Melville Herskovits — a Jewish... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 13 | P-Star Rising This is the story of a single father who is determined that his nine-year-old daughter become a rap star and thus redeem his deferred dream. This... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 14 | Mine / Home Mine tells the poignant and powerful story of animals left behind during Katrina, and of the struggles of hurricane victims to reunite with their... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 15 | Behind the Rainbow With engrossing interviews and archival footage, filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri exposes the power struggles inside South Africa's African National... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 16 | The Eyes of Me This is an up-close look at four teens who have lost their sight. The film follows their struggles to fit in, prepare for college and live... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 17 | Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas) In 1999, filmmaker Monika Navarro's uncles were deported from the United States to Mexico, forced to leave the only country they knew and, as... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 18 | Whatever It Takes What's a child's education worth? For one visionary rookie principal, it's priceless. At the Bronx Center for Science & Mathematics, an innovative... | |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 19 | Unmistaken Child After world-renowned Tibetan master Geshe Lama Konchog passed away in 2001 at age 84, the Dalai Lama charged the deceased monk’s devoted disciple,... |
| Saison 11 - épisode 20 | Blessed Is the Match Joan Allen narrates this film about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 21 | Dirt! The Movie Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, "DIRT! The Movie" digs into the fascinating history of this lowly substance, explaining how four billion years of... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 22 | Garbage Dreams Filmed over four years, GARBAGE DREAMS follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, a... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 23 | Sunshine In 1975 rural Texas, a local mayor's daughter grapples with an unplanned pregnancy -- finally deciding to have her baby in secret before giving her... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 24 | The Horse Boy Explore one family's unforgettable journey as they travel halfway across the world in search of a miracle to heal their autistic son. The film... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 25 | Project Kashmir Two filmmakers, one Hindu and the other Muslim, sneak their cameras into one of the most beautiful, yet dangerous, places on Earth. In a region... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 26 | A Village Called Versailles Versailles, a tight-knit neighborhood on the edge of New Orleans, is home to the densest ethnic Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. In the... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 27 | Goodbye Solo An elderly man hires Solo, a Senegalese cab driver, to drive him to a mountaintop in North Carolina where he plans to commit suicide. | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 1 | The Parking Lot Movie This documentary is about a singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the select group of parking lot attendants that inhabit its... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 2 | Art & Copy A look at the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time - artists and writers who brought a rebellious... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 3 | Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian The portrayal of Native Americans in cinema. / Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining, insightful, and often humorous look at the... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 4 | The Longoria Affair Private Felix Longoria fought and died while fighting the Japanese during World War II. When his body was sent back to his small hometown in Texas,... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 5 | Lost Sparrow Filmmaker Chris Billing investigates the deaths of his adopted brothers, two Crow Indian boys who disappeared in 1978. / Some questions are never... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 6 | Deep Down Beverly May and Terry Ratliff grew up on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. When a mountaintop removal coal mine encroaches on... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 7 | 45365 An inquisitive look at everyday life in Middle America. "45365" explores the vagaries of daily life in an American town -- Sidney, Ohio. Through an... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 8 | The Calling, Part 1 This mini-series follows seven Muslims, Catholics, Evangelical Christians and Jews in training to become professional clergy. Embarking on life... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 9 | The Calling, Part 2 Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, and Jewish seminarians embark on their life path in a secular and cynical era. A close look at how faith is... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 10 | Men Who Swim A group of middle-aged men who have found unlikely success as members of Sweden's all-male synchronized swimming team. What begins as a weekly... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 11 | Children of Haiti In the midst of Haiti's lush mountains and historical relics are 500,000 orphan children who live in the streets -- known as "the soulless" and... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 12 | For Once in My Life Made up of 28 musicians and singers with severe mental and physical disabilities, the Spirit of Goodwill Band is a raucous home away from home where... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 13 | When I Rise A profile of Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student, who finds herself at the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 14 | William S. Burroughs: A Man Within An iconoclast who himself became an icon, William Burroughs explored the outer boundaries of culture and identity in the 1950s. His work was... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 15 | Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story At the age of 16, Cyntoia Brown, who had suffered a long history of abuse, killed a man who picked her up for sex. The filmmaker has unprecedented... | |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 16 | Pushing the Elephant Civil war came to Rose's Congolese village, with it the nighttime arrest of her entire family, the execution of her husband and grim negotiations... |
| Saison 12 - épisode 17 | The Desert of Forbidden Art This story of how a treasure trove of banned Soviet art worth millions of dollars was stashed in a far-off desert of Uzbekistan develops into a... | |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 18 | Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. Discovered in the late 1970s through his graffiti art on the Lower East Side, he sold... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 19 | Waste Land Artist Vik Muniz journeys from to his home country of Brazil, and to Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest garbage dump located on the outskirts of... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 20 | Marwencol After being beaten into a coma, Mark Hogancamp is left brain damaged and traumatized. He devises his own brand of therapy by constructing a... |
| Saison 12 - épisode 21 | A Film Unfinished This haunting film about a film examines a classic Nazi propaganda movie used by historians for decades to provide insight into the realities of... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 22 | Bhutto As the first Muslim woman to lead an Islamic nation, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto evolved from a pampered princess to a polarizing... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 23 | Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo Beginning in the modern day and working backward, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo explores the history of Japan's love affair with bugs. Using insects... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 24 | Welcome to Shelbyville Welcome to Shelbyville is a glimpse of America at a crossroads. In this one small town in the heart of America's Bible Belt, a community grapples... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 25 | Two Spirits Fred Martinez was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at 16. Two Spirits explores the life and... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 1 | Wham! Bam! Islam! Episode Synopsis: Season 13 premieres with new host Mary-Louise Parker introducing "Wham! Bam! Islam," about the challenges involving "The 99," a... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 2 | Donor Unknown Episode Synopsis: "Donor Unknown" charts the story of 20-year-old JoEllen Marsh, who was raised by two mothers in Pennsylvania, as she searches for... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 3 | Lives Worth Living "Lives Worth Living" tells the story of the disability rights movement in America, which began after WWII when disabled veterans returned home; and... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 4 | Deaf Jam "Deaf Jam" chronicles the experiences of Aneta Brodski, a deaf Israeli teen living in New York, as she moves from American Sign Language poetry,... | |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 5 | We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean Anne Makepeace's "We Still Live Here—As Nutayunean" tells the story of linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird's work to resurrect the long-forgotten... |
| Saison 13 - épisode 6 | The Woodmans "The Woodmans" charts the short life of influential photographer Francesca Woodman, who took her own life in 1981 at the age of 22. The profile... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 7 | These Amazing Shadows "These Amazing Shadows" focuses on the National Film Registry, an eclectic collection of movies considered to be "culturally, historically or... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 8 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance The five-part "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?," a history of the global anti-apartheid movement, opens with "Road to Resistance," which recalls... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 9 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The New Generation Part 2 of 5 of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?" examines "The New Generation," and its effort to overturn South Africa's apartheid system.... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 10 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma to Soweto Part 3 of 5 of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?," "From Selma to Soweto," details the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S., where in 1986... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 11 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line Part 4 of 5 of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, The Bottom Line," details how international grassroots campaigns to boycott and divest from... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 12 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last The conclusion of "Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, Free at Last," recalls the end stage of South Africa's apartheid system, when internal and... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 13 | Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock Daisy Bates was a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegregate the... | |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 14 | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. The film combines... |
| Saison 13 - épisode 15 | More Than A Month Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, is on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. Through this... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 16 | You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't In Danville, California, Lee Gorewitz wanders on a soul-searching odyssey through her Alzheimer’s & Dementia care unit. Confined by the limits of... | |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 17 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey Every day, millions tune in to Sesame Street to see one of the world’s most adored and recognizable characters — a furry red three-and-a-half... |
| Saison 13 - épisode 18 | When the Drum Is Beating Interweaves the extraordinary story of Septentrional’s six decades of creativity with the history of Haiti. How did the country go from being the... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 19 | Revenge of the Electric Car Revenge follows four entrepreneurs from 2007 through the end of 2010 as they fight to bring the electric car back to the world market in the midst... | |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 20 | Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison Millions of bison once roamed the Great Plains. Can this nearly extinct icon of the American West make a 21st century comeback? |
| Saison 13 - épisode 21 | Circo The Ponce family circus has been living and performing in rural Mexico for seven generations. Its history dates back to the late 19th century, when... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 22 | Summer Pasture Locho and Yama are nomadic herders in Tibet's high grasslands, who carve their existence from the land as their ancestors have for generations. As... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 23 | Precious Knowledge When a highly successful Mexican American Studies program at a high school in Tucson comes under fire for teaching ethnic chauvinism, teachers and... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 24 | Left by the Ship JR, Charlene, Margarita, and Robert are half American; they are among the many children born to local women and U.S. servicemen who were stationed... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 25 | Hell and Back Again U.S. Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris, 25, leads his unit to fight a ghostlike enemy in Afghanistan. Wounded in battle, Harris returns to North... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 26 | We Were Here When AIDS arrived in San Francisco in 1981, it decimated a community, but also brought people together in inspiring and moving ways to support and... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 27 | Strong! A formidable figure standing at 5'8" and weighing more than 300 pounds, Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion status as her lifetime... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 1 | Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Part 1) Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 2 | Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Part 2) Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 3 | As Goes Janesville As Goes Janesville is a verité documentary that records two years in the lives of laid-off workers, business leaders, and elected officials all... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 4 | Love Free or Die The life and work of Bishop Gene Robinson, an openly gay man who set a precedent in New Hampshire in the battle for LGBT people to receive full... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 5 | Solar Mamas Jordanian wife and mother Rafea is leaving home for the first time to attend a college in India that is training rural women to become solar energy... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 6 | Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream Filmmaker Alex Gibney investigates the fact that the 400 richest Americans control more wealth than the 150 million people in the bottom 50 percent... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 7 | Soul Food Junkies Food traditions are hard to change, especially when they're passed on from generation to generation. Baffled by his dad's unwillingness to change... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 8 | Beauty Is Embarrassing Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 9 | The Revisionaries The Texas State Board of Education rewrites teaching and textbook standards once every decade. | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 10 | The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights Whitney Young was one of the most powerful, controversial, and largely forgotten leaders of the civil rights movement, who took the fight directly... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 11 | Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Profiling Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei, who helped design Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest Olympic stadium and later criticized the Games as party... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 12 | The House I Live In; As I Am For the past 40 years, the war on drugs has resulted in more than 45 million arrests, $1 trillion dollars in government spending, and America’s role... | |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 13 | Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines Wonder Women! explores the nation’s long-term love affair with comic book superheroes and raises questions about the possibilities and... |
| Saison 14 - épisode 14 | The Island President Follow the story of former President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 15 | The Undocumented Thousands of migrants have perished in recent years while trying to cross the unforgiving Sonora desert in search of a better life in the United... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 16 | Seeking Asian Female Two strangers — an aging white man and a young Chinese woman — pursue a marriage brokered by the Internet. They get more than they bargained for... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 17 | The Invisible War The most shameful and best-kept secret in the U.S. Military? The epidemic of rape and sexual assault within the ranks. An American female soldier in... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 18 | Detropia Can the Motor City rise from its ashes? A dynamic cluster of local innovators, entrepreneurs, and proud, self-proclaimed "hustlers” are poised to... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 19 | The Revolutionary Optimists Amlan Ganguly, a lawyer-turned social entrepreneur, has sown hope in the poorest neighborhoods of Calcutta by empowering children to become leaders... | |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 20 | Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman's Journey Filipino musician Arnel Pineda gets the opportunity of a lifetime when Journey guitarist Neal Schon sees him perform on YouTube, leading to a job... |
| Saison 14 - épisode 21 | The Waiting Room | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 22 | The Graduates | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 23 | Indian Relay Indian Relay documents an unheralded aspect of modern-day Native American life and what it takes to win one of the more exciting forms of horse... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 24 | Young Lakota | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 25 | Playwright: From Page to Stage Two young playwrights from different backgrounds come together to create a new language for the stage. | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 26 | Jiro Dreams of Sushi Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a 2011 American documentary film directed by David Gelb. The film follows Jiro Ono, an 85-year-old sushi master and owner of... | |
| Saison 14 - épisode 27 | How to Survive a Plague Activists from ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) help identify new drugs that may be beneficial to people with AIDS. | |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 1 | The Graduates, Part 1 Part 1 of 2. The Latino dropout crisis is examined through the eyes of six students from across the U.S., beginning with three young women. One left... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 2 | The Graduates, Part 2 Conclusion. The Latino dropout crisis is seen through the eyes of three young men. One, whose parents moved from Mexico to San Diego so that he and... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 3 | Indian Relay Episode Synopsis: "Indian Relay" chronicles a season of Indian relay-horse races, which are popular within Native American communities across the... |
| Saison 15 - épisode 4 | Young Lakota Three young people living in the Pine Ridge Reservation try to forge a better future. When the first female president of Oglala Lakota defies a... | |
| Saison 15 - épisode 5 | Playwright: From Page to Stage The lives of two outstanding young playwrights — an African American from Miami’s inner city and an Indian American from Cleveland — are brought... | |
| Saison 15 - épisode 6 | Jiro Dreams of Sushi Eighty-five-year-old Jiro Ono, considered the world’s greatest sushi chef, is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat restaurant... | |
| Saison 15 - épisode 7 | How to Survive a Plague This acclaimed film tells the story of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), two groups whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death... | |
| Saison 15 - épisode 8 | At Berkeley Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman goes back to school for this intimate yet sprawling film about the University of California at Berkeley,... | |
| Saison 15 - épisode 9 | Blood Brother An intimate portrait of Rocky Braat, who travels to India as a disillusioned tourist. When he meets a group of HIV-positive children living at an... | |
| Saison 15 - épisode 10 | The State of Arizona The turbulent battle over illegal immigration in Arizona that came to a head with Senate Bill 1070 frames this riveting documentary that tracks... | |
| Saison 15 - épisode 11 | Spies of Mississippi The story of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a secret agency created by the state during the 1950s to spy on its citizens and maintain... | |
| Saison 15 - épisode 12 | Las Marthas Dating from the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the annual debutante ball in Laredo, Texas is unlike any other. Las Marthas follows two... | |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 13 | All of Me: A Story of Love, Loss, and Last Resorts A group of women friends who met via the Austin chapter of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance and have tried every diet and diet... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 14 | Medora The story of a high school basketball team suffering from a long losing streak in a small town. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 15 | Brothers Hypnotic Eight brothers who were forged into a band as children by their father, Chicago jazz maverick Phil Cohran, now try to march to their own beat on the... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 16 | The Trials of Muhammad Ali The story of the explosive crossroads of Muhammad Ali’s life, after the famed boxer’s conversion to Islam and refusal to serve in the Vietnam War... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 17 | Muscle Shoals How a small town in Alabama became influential in the music of Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Aretha Franklin. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 18 | A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The New York Times A Fragile Trust tells the shocking story of Jayson Blair, the most infamous serial plagiarist of our time, and how he unleashed the massive scandal... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 19 | Let the Fire Burn This documentary brings to life one of the most tumultuous clashes between government and citizens in modern U.S. history, as a longtime feud... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 20 | God Loves Uganda Inspired by his own African American Baptist roots, director Roger Ross Williams explores a place where religion and African culture intersect, as... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 21 | The New Black How African-American churches and gays deal with the rise of the gay-rights movement. |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 1 | Bully The story of the children bullied at school and online. The film questions assumptions about bullying behaviour beyond cliches and stereotypes of... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 2 | Twin Sisters Two sisters adopted in China as infants by Californian and Norwegian parents grow up knowing they have a twin living on the other side of the world.... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 3 | Brakeless In April, 2005 a Japanese train engineer accelerated beyond permissible speeds in order to make up an 80-second delay. Brakeless examines the... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 4 | Powerless Powerless tracks the battle between an Indian electric company and a renegade electrician who illegally connects poor families to the grid. |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 5 | Happiness A nine-year-old child in Burma is spurred to leave his village for the first time in his life when his village gets electricity. He walks for over... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 6 | Rich Hill Rich Hill, winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, goes inside the homes and lives of small town America,... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 7 | Evolution of a Criminal Tens years after robbing a Bank of America, filmmaker Darius Monroe explores what led him to pull a heist as a teenager in Texas, and returns to the... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 8 | The Kill Team; Confusion Through Sand Winner of the Best Documentary Feature award at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Kill Team tells the harrowing story of Specialist Adam Winfield, a... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 9 | Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People For the last 170 years, pioneering African American photographers — men and women, celebrated and anonymous — have recorded the dramas and... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 10 | American Denial In the wake of recent events that have sparked a national dialogue, American Denial explores the power of unconscious biases around race and class.... |
| Saison 16 - épisode 11 | Little White Lie Lacey Schwartz grew up in an upper-middle-class household with two loving Jewish parents. When she discovers that the man she's always assumed was... | |
| Saison 16 - épisode 12 | Little Hope Was Arson; A City in Flames The investigation into a spate of church burnings that occured in East Texas during January and February 2010 is chronicled. | |
| Saison 16 - épisode 13 | The Homestretch Three homeless Chicago teens strive to graduate from high school despite the difficulties inherent in their situations. | |
| Saison 16 - épisode 14 | The Great Invisible First hand accounts of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and its impact on the Gulf of Mexico. | |
| Saison 16 - épisode 15 | Kumu Hina A Hawaiian transgender woman finds acceptance, but still is searching for love. | |
| Saison 16 - épisode 16 | Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity Examining daredevil choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her STREB Extreme Action Company. Included: the evolution of her philosophy, which challenges... | |
| Saison 16 - épisode 17 | 1971 The story of the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, which broke into an FBI field office in Media, Pa., on the night of March 8, 1971, and... | |
| Saison 16 - épisode 18 | Limited Partnership Married in 1975, Richard and Tony lead a 40-year fight for legal immigration status for same sex spouses. | |
| Saison 16 - épisode 19 | In the Shadow of Ebola An African family’s tense experience during West African Ebola outbreak. This intimate film brings us on Emmanuel’s journey as he battles to keep... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 1 | Stray Dog The portrait of a motorcycle-riding Vietnam veteran. There’s much more to Ron “Stray Dog” Hall than meets the eye. Behind the tattoos and leather... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 2 | India's Daughter The story of the brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi of 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Singh, which sparked outrage and protests in India, a... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 3 | Mimi and Dona What happens when love runs out of time? For 92-year-old Mimi, who has spent much of her life caring for 64-year-old Dona, her daughter with an... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 4 | East of Salinas Born in Mexico but living in Salinas, California, 3rd-grader Jose loves school. With little support at home, he turns to his teacher, Oscar Ramos,... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 5 | Chuck Norris vs. Communism 1980s Romania: thousands of American movies were smuggled through the Iron Curtain, opening a window into the free world. A black market racketeer... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 6 | Autism in Love Finding love can be hard enough for anyone, but for those on the autism spectrum, the challenges may seem overwhelming. The disorder can jeopardize... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 7 | In Football We Trust Transporting viewers deep inside the tightly-knit and complex Polynesian community in Salt Lake City, one of the chief sources of the modern influx... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 8 | No Más Bebés (No More Babies) The story of a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of Mexican immigrant women sued county doctors, the... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 9 | A Ballerina's Tale Misty Copeland is on a mission to make history by becoming the first African American principal dancer of a major ballet company. | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 10 | The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Weaving together a treasure trove of rare footage with the voices of a diverse group of people who were there, Stanley Nelson tells the vibrant... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 11 | Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights tells the story of Whitney Young, who biographer Nancy Weiss Malkiel called “the inside man... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 12 | (T)ERROR With twists and turns fit for an espionage thriller, (T)error goes deep inside an active terror sting without FBI consent. | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 13 | Wilhemina’s War A Southern grandmother struggles to help her granddaughter survive the health risks and social stigma of living with HIV in South Carolina. | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 14 | An Honest Liar Fed up with faith healers, fortune-tellers, and psychics using his beloved magician’s tricks to swindle money out of credulous people, James “The... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 15 | Welcome to Leith When a notorious white supremacist and his followers hatch a scheme to gain electoral control of Leith, North Dakota, the residents of the tiny town... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 16 | Democrats; Soft Vengeance Rival political operatives attempt to make history as they navigate Zimbabwe's volatile political landscape to draft a new constitution. Activist... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 17 | My Nazi Legacy My Nazi Legacy explores the relationship between two men, each the sons of high-ranking Nazi officials, and internationally renowned British human... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 18 | Peace Officer | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 19 | The Armor of Light An Evangelical anti-abortion activist and a black mother whose son was murdered both fight against gun violence. | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 20 | Dogtown Redemption Three street recyclers fight for survival in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Oakland, Calif. | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 21 | TRAPPED Healthcare providers and others in Texas, Mississippi and Alabama fight new Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws designed to... | |
| Saison 17 - épisode 22 | T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, 17, from Flint, Mich., wins the gold medal in women's boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 1 | Best of Enemies The debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley during the 1968 political conventions. | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 2 | Meet the Patels Actor Ravi Patel, whose traditional Hindu parents are eager for him to find a mate, enters the semi-arranged marriage system in America. | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 3 | Best and Most Beautiful Things The story of a quirky young woman's pursuit of love and freedom. Michelle Smith is legally blind and on the autism spectrum; and, after graduating... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 4 | Containment; Excerpt From Uranium Drive-in Governments around the world struggle to protect future generations from nuclear waste; excerpt from "Uranium Drive-In." | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 5 | What Was Ours A Shoshone veteran, a teenage powwow princess, and an Arapaho journalist discover their purpose on the Wind River Indian Reservation as they seek... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 6 | The Witness Bill Genovese investigates the 1964 murder of his sister Kitty, who was stabbed to death in Queens while 38 bystanders did nothing—at least, that's... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 7 | Birth of a Movement In 1915, the film "The Birth of a Nation" by D.W. Griffith sparks outcry from African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter,... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 8 | Accidental Courtesy Black musician Daryl Davis meets and befriends Ku Klux Klan members hoping to forge racial conciliation. | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 9 | Tower Survivors of the 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas frame the events of the day and offer perspectives on its impact. | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 10 | The Bad Kids At Black Rock Continuation High School in the Mojave Desert of California, the principal and teachers make it their mission to educate students who... | |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 11 | Ovarian Psycos The story of the Ovarian Psycos Cycle Brigade, a group of young Latinas from East Los Angeles who are confronting injustice, building community and... |
| Saison 18 - épisode 12 | Newtown An examination of the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 children and six adults were killed.... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 13 | Seed: The Untold Story Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds -- worshiped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. This documentary follows passionate... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 14 | The Last Laugh Whether the Holocaust should be off-limits to comedy. Included: a profile of Auschwitz survivor Renee Firestone; remarks from comedians; footage of... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 15 | National Bird National Bird is the first in-depth investigation of the U.S. drone war with unique access to two courageous women, a drone-target analyst and a... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 16 | The Prison in Twelve Landscapes More people are imprisoned in the United States at this present moment than in any other time or place in history, yet prisons themselves have never... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 17 | Forever Pure The story of famed Israeli soccer club Beitar Jerusalem F.C. after it acquired two Muslim players, which led to a racist backlash and a lot of... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 18 | They Call Us Monsters They Call Us Monsters takes viewers behind the walls of the Compound, the facility where Los Angeles houses its most violent juvenile criminals. To... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 19 | Farmer/Veteran A combat veteran starts a farm to help cultivate a healthier life outside the Army. While the sense of duty he once felt as a soldier returns, his... | |
| Saison 18 - épisode 20 | Real Boy Real Boy is an intimate story of a family in transition. As 19-year-old Bennett Wallace navigates early sobriety, late adolescence, and the... | |
| Saison 19 - épisode 1 | Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary Set against the social, political and cultural landscape of the times, Chasing Trane brings saxophone great John Coltrane to life, as a man and an... | |
| Saison 19 - épisode 2 | Shadow World Explore the shocking realities of the billion-dollar global arms trade through those who perpetrate and investigate it. | |
| Saison 19 - épisode 3 | Supergirl A profile of a seemingly ordinary Orthodox Jewish preteen from New Jersey whose extraordinary talent—breaking world powerlifting records—has turned... | |
| Saison 19 - épisode 4 | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin A profile of "Tales of the City" creator Armistead Maupin, including his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South to a gay rights pioneer. |
