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Trailer | Home Court
March 31, 2025
Home Court is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Southern California. As her high school career crescendos, her life intensifies amid recruitment, injury, and triumph as her natural talent inspires the support of those around her.
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Season 26
Trailer | Bike Vessel
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Father and son bond on an ambitious 350-mile bike ride in this portrait of familial love.
Skin of Glass
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How the turbulent history of her architect father's iconic building reflects Brazil's own struggles....
The In Between
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A filmmaker returns to her hometown on the U.S.-Mexico border to reflect on growing up fronterizo....
The Strike
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How a small hunger strike against solitary confinement turned into a massive statewide protest....
Without Arrows
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A champion grass dancer returns home after 13 years to reconnect with his Indigenous culture....
Dallas, 2019 | Episode 5
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The final episode of Dallas, 2019 poses the question: What does it mean to be alive?
Dallas, 2019 | Episode 1
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Episode 1 of Dallas, 2019 shows workers navigating a city in crisis after a tornado.
Dallas, 2019 | Episode 2
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A graduating high school student, superintendent, and county sheriff all strive for a better...
Dallas, 2019 | Episode 3
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Three diverse spirits with longstanding Texas roots struggle with their place in the world....
Dallas, 2019 | Episode 4
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A D.A. tries to reform a broken system; a judge upholds laws adversely affecting her own community....
Who Can Become American? | The History of White People in America, Episode 6
December 18, 2024
Catchy, musical short chronicles the 175-year-long arbitrary system of race in America.
Ready For Your Headliner? | United States of Comedy, Ep 5
December 10, 2024
Iranian American comic Sohrab Forouzesh gets his big break: headlining Chicago's legendary...
The Art of Clown | United States of Comedy, Ep 4
December 3, 2024
L.A.'s Christina Catherine Martinez is a bewitching hybrid of standup, clown and performance...
America’s Gay Christian Sweetheart | United States of Comedy, Ep 3
November 26, 2024
Legendary Atlanta comic Ian Aber takes the stage with jokes about growing up queer in the South....
Be Too Much | United States of Comedy, Ep 2
November 19, 2024
Called "too much" her whole life, Austin's Lea’h Sampson now embraces her true self in her...
The Making of a Griot | United States of Comedy, Ep 1
November 12, 2024
Haitian-born, Brooklyn-based comic Tanael Joachim mines comedy from being a fish out of water....
Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen
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A veteran uses hand-carved battlefield crosses to reconnect with families of fallen, fellow...
Season 25
The Tuba Thieves
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The central mystery of this unconventional documentary is the nature of sound itself.
Space: The Longest Goodbye
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NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation of a Mars mission.
One With the Whale
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For Native Alaskans living on a tiny Bering Sea island, if you don’t hunt, you die.
Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s
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Three people navigate their lives with determination in the face of Parkinson’s disease....
A Thousand Pines
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A crew of 12 Mexican tree planters travel the United States regrowing America’s forests....
Greener Pastures
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Midwestern families deal with unseen mental health issues affecting farmers in America.
Breaking The News
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Women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch startup The 19th* to buck a broken news media system.
Sister Úna Lived a Good Death
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A nun with stage IV cancer teaches others that death doesn’t have to be the end.
Trailer | Razing Liberty Square
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Miami's Liberty City public housing projects become ground zero for climate gentrification...
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