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21x1
Made in Boise
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A surprising industry has emerged in Boise, Idaho: Women are becoming paid reproductive surrogates for people from around the world. Here, four women share their experiences as they .. show full overview
21x2
Decade of Fire
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Why the Bronx burned in the 1970s. Included: archival and home movie footage; and insights from retired FDNY firefighters, Bronx historians and community organizers.
21x3
The Interpreters
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Afghan and Iraqi interpreters risked their lives aiding American troops and are now in danger unless they emigrate.
21x4
Conscience Point; Jewel's Hunt
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A Native American activist fights to protect her tribe from the onslaughts of development in the Hamptons. Can Jewel balance the complications of a modern teenager with her connection to village life?
21x5
ATTLA
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The gripping but little-known story of legendary Alaska Native dogsled champion, George Attla.
21x6
American Nomads
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As the cost of living rises across the United States, so too is the number of people who dwell in their vehicles. Some travel across the country looking for work and to fulfill the .. show full overview
21x6
Accept the Call
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Twenty-five years after Yusuf Abdurahman left Somalia as a refugee to begin his life anew in Minnesota — which has the largest population of Somalis in the United States — his worst fear .. show full overview
21x7
The First Rainbow Coalition
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In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party began to form alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including the Latino group the Young .. show full overview
21x8
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
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The 1995 Chicago heatwave led to 739 deaths in a week, consisting mostly of poor, elderly, and African American residents.
21x9
Leftover Women
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China's severe demographic imbalance has led to a social crisis for single women who are faced with the constant pressure to marry.
21x11
Blind Love
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Blind Love follows four single, blind millennials in their quest for love. With assists from their eager circle of family and friends, these young men and women hope to find The One. .. show full overview
21x10
We Believe In Dinosaurs
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We Believe in Dinosaurs tells the story of the building of an enormous, $120 million Noah’s Ark at the Creation Museum in rural Williamstown, Kentucky, an exhibit designed to prove the .. show full overview
21x11
Always in Season
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Explores recent grassroots efforts to acknowledge the victims of lynching, repair the damage, and reconcile in four U.S. communities.
21x12
One Child Nation
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Nanfu Wang uncovers the startling, untold history of China's One-Child policy.
21x13
Bedlam
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Haunted by the death of a mentally ill sister, psychiatrist Ken Rosenberg takes on the role of filmmaker to examine a national health crisis.
21x14
The Hottest August
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This cinematic experience offers a mirror onto a society on the verge of catastrophe, registering the anxieties, distractions, and survival strategies that preoccupy ordinary lives.
21x15
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
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The astounding, true story of one warm-hearted, stubborn man’s visionary quest to find a cure for cancer.
21x16
Rewind
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For as long as Sasha Neulinger can remember, a video camera was ever-present, with his father constantly filming— from birthday parties, to hockey games, to holidays. But his father’s .. show full overview
21x17
Eating Up Easter
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A sudden boom in tourism trade that brings in money - and waste - and a changing climate that threatens the fragile ecology on Easter Island.
21x18
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
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Marion Stokes secretly recorded American television 24 hours a day for 30 years, from 1975 until her death in 2012. Long before the era of “fake news,” the Philadelphia-based Communist .. show full overview
21x19
Pipe Dreams
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Focuses on five organ players, each with their own pressures and abilities as they compete in the Canadian International Organ Competition.
21x20
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
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This hit film takes an intimate look at America's most beloved neighbor: Mister Rogers.
21x21
Driver Radio: Jamaica
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Ron and Don Brodie, twin brothers and first-generation Jamericans raised in Washington, D.C., grew up making family visits to Jamaica. Driver Radio: Jamaica is inspired by the road trips .. show full overview

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