POV - Episode Guide

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jul 5, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jul 5, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jul 12, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jul 19, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jul 19, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Jul 26, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Aug 2, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Aug 9, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Aug 16, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Aug 23, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Aug 30, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Sep 6, 1988 (90 min)

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jul 16, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Jul 23, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Jul 23, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Jul 30, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Aug 6, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Aug 13, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Aug 20, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Aug 20, 1989

"Zworl Quern" was a stage name for Janet Wolfe, whose brief but bizarre acting career including being sawed in half by Orson Welles. Friends and family tell stories about this irrepressible woman who has fearlessly traveled the world in search of love, art and adventure.

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Aug 27, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Sep 3, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1989 (90 min)

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Jun 26, 1990

In 1986, three women convicted of politically motivated nonviolent offenses were transferred to a secret, subterranean prison where they were kept in constantly lit near isolation, watched 24 hours a day and strip-searched routinely for nearly two years. The women were not imprisoned in Turkey or Iran or Chile, but in Lexington, Ky.

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Jun 30, 1990

How can we curb crime? Three big city police chiefs reveal sharply differing philosophies of law enforcement. From Daryl Gates, who introduced SWAT to Los Angeles, to Anthony Bouza, who ruffled feathers in Minneapolis, to Lee P. Brown, who recently left Houston for New York, these top cop's ideas about the causes and cures of crime are as varied as their personalities.

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Jul 3, 1990

Gary, a 39-year-old successful animation artist and devout Christian, is pursuing a lifelong dream — to become a woman. Metamorphosis is a candid, non-sensational and sometimes humorous journey of nearly three years as Gary prepares physically and emotionally for sex reassignment surgery. Along the way, the film raises provocative questions about what really makes us men and women.

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1990

With a subway platform as his stage and a plastic can as his instrument, 14-year-old Larry Wright is a self-taught drummer with astonishing talent. Larry Wright is a rousing tribute to the Harlem youth and the rich culture of the urban streets.

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1990

Cryonics — the freezing of human beings after death for future revival — is the focus of this off-beat film by two science buffs-turned-film-majors. With commentary from Timothy Leary, a theologian and skeptical scientists, On Ice is alternately deadpan and dead serious.

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Jul 17, 1990

Are college students today apathetic and self-centered? Twenty years after National Guardsmen opened fire on student antiwar demonstrators, Jim Klein, a 60's radical-turned-filmmaker (Union Maids, Seeing Red) visits the campus of Kent State to probe behind the stereotypes. Together with young patrons of the local tanning salon, activists-turned-professors, and an ROTC captain, Klein ponders the social forces that are changing campuses and the country in the 90's.

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Jul 24, 1990

In its national broadcast premiere, this bittersweet classic from pioneering filmmakers follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen as they walk the line between hype and despair.

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Aug 7, 1990

The textures and complexities of everyday life in India unfold in Michael Camerini's richly observed story of two poor women and their efforts to improve their lives.

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Aug 14, 1990

Golub is more than a portrait of the socially committed painter Leon Golub, whose massive canvases are intended to provoke viewers. It is about media and contemporary society, social responsibility and creativity, art and information.

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Aug 15, 1990

Artist Estell Peck Ishigo went with her Japanese American husband into an internment camp during World War II, one of the few Caucasians to do so. Vividly recreated from Ishigo's own memoirs, photos and paintings, Days Of Waiting reveals the shattering relocation experience from an "outsider's" perspective.

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Aug 21, 1990

In Going Up, the creation of a skyscraper is transformed by director Gary Pollard into a breathtaking visual experience as time-lapse photography, hard hat banter and construction worker choreography are set to a score by 15 new music composers in an urban ballet forty stories above New York harbor.

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Aug 21, 1990

If a tree can grow in Brooklyn, can an eggplant flourish in the Bronx? Maria De Luca's Green Streets charts the spontaneous emergence of community gardens in New York City and how they've helped to nourish neighborhood pride, racial tolerance and a budding sense of hope for hundreds of enthusiastic gardeners in the urban jungle.

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Aug 28, 1990

Behind the faded signs of three motels in the American Southwest lay entire worlds of passion, loyalty, adventure and fate. Veteran filmmaker Christian Blackwood winds his way into the soul of remarkable people in uniquely American subculture.

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Sep 4, 1990

Founded by a Jesuit priest from St. Louis, a grassroots theatre company takes its shows on the unpaved roads of Honduras to enlighten and inspire villagers in the impoverished countryside.

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Sep 4, 1990

Ossian Maclise is not an average American teenager. Born in Massachusetts, he has been living in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery since the age of four. At seven, his monastic order recognized Ossian as a tulku — a reincarnation of a high Tibetan lama.

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Sep 11, 1990

After years of witnessing first hand the horrors of guerrilla wars, Israeli-born producer Ilan Ziv traveled to Chile, the Philippines and the West Bank to explore the development of "People Power" and to reexamine his own long-held belief in the necessary evil of violence to overthrow repressive governments.

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jun 18, 1991

Filmmaker Peter Adair asks 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share their stories about living with the HIV virus.

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1991

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1991

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1991

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Jul 2, 1991

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Jul 9, 1991

Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Jul 9, 1991

Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Jul 9, 1991 (90 min)

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Jul 16, 1991 (90 min)

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Jul 23, 1991

Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Jul 30, 1991 (30 min)

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Jul 30, 1991 (90 min)

Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Aug 6, 1991

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Aug 13, 1991

Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Aug 20, 1991

Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Sep 3, 1991

Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Sep 3, 1991

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Jun 15, 1992

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Jun 22, 1992

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Jun 29, 1992

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Jul 6, 1992

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Jul 6, 1992

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Jul 20, 1992

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Jul 27, 1992

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Aug 3, 1992

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Aug 10, 1992

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Aug 10, 1992

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Aug 21, 1992

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Aug 31, 1992

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1992

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1992

Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Jun 15, 1993

Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Jun 22, 1993

Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Jun 29, 1993

Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Jul 6, 1993

Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Jul 13, 1993

Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Jul 20, 1993

Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Aug 3, 1993

Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Aug 10, 1993

Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Aug 17, 1993

Episode: 6x10 | Airdate: Aug 24, 1993

Episode: 6x11 | Airdate: Aug 24, 1993

Episode: 6x12 | Airdate: Sep 10, 1993

Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Jun 7, 1994

Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Jun 14, 1994

Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Jun 19, 1994

Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Jun 28, 1994

Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Jul 5, 1994

Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Jul 12, 1994

Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Jul 21, 1994

Episode: 7x08 | Airdate: Jul 26, 1994

Episode: 7x09 | Airdate: Aug 2, 1994

Episode: 7x10 | Airdate: Aug 9, 1994

Episode: 8x01 | Airdate: Jun 1, 1995

Episode: 8x02 | Airdate: Jun 6, 1995

Episode: 8x03 | Airdate: Jun 13, 1995

Episode: 8x04 | Airdate: Jun 14, 1995

Episode: 8x05 | Airdate: Jun 20, 1995

Episode: 8x06 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1995

Episode: 8x07 | Airdate: Jul 4, 1995

Episode: 8x08 | Airdate: Jul 11, 1995

Episode: 8x09 | Airdate: Jul 18, 1995

Episode: 8x10 | Airdate: Jul 25, 1995

Episode: 8x11 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1995

Episode: 9x01 | Airdate: May 28, 1996

Episode: 9x02 | Airdate: Jun 1, 1996

Episode: 9x03 | Airdate: Jun 11, 1996

Episode: 9x04 | Airdate: Jun 18, 1996

Episode: 9x05 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1996 (90 min)

Episode: 9x06 | Airdate: Jul 2, 1996

Episode: 9x07 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1996

Episode: 9x08 | Airdate: Jul 16, 1996

Episode: 9x09 | Airdate: Jul 23, 1996

Episode: 9x10 | Airdate: Jul 30, 1996

Episode: 9x11 | Airdate: Jul 30, 1996

Episode: 9x12 | Airdate: Aug 6, 1996 (90 min)

Episode: 9x13 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1996

Episode: 10x01 | Airdate: Jun 3, 1997

Episode: 10x02 | Airdate: Jun 10, 1997

Episode: 10x03 | Airdate: Jun 17, 1997

Episode: 10x04 | Airdate: Jun 24, 1997

Episode: 10x05 | Airdate: Jul 1, 1997

Episode: 10x06 | Airdate: Jul 8, 1997

Episode: 10x07 | Airdate: Jul 15, 1997

Episode: 10x08 | Airdate: Jul 22, 1997

Episode: 10x09 | Airdate: Jul 29, 1997

Episode: 10x10 | Airdate: Aug 5, 1997 (90 min)

Episode: 11x01 | Airdate: Jun 2, 1998

Episode: 11x02 | Airdate: Jun 16, 1998

Episode: 11x03 | Airdate: Jun 19, 1998

Episode: 11x04 | Airdate: Jun 23, 1998

Episode: 11x05 | Airdate: Jun 30, 1998 (90 min)

Episode: 11x06 | Airdate: Jul 7, 1998

Episode: 11x07 | Airdate: Jul 14, 1998

Episode: 11x08 | Airdate: Jul 21, 1998

Episode: 11x09 | Airdate: Jul 28, 1998

Episode: 11x10 | Airdate: Aug 4, 1998

Episode: 11x11 | Airdate: Sep 15, 1998

Episode: 12x01 | Airdate: Jun 1, 1999

Episode: 12x02 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1999

Episode: 12x03 | Airdate: Jun 22, 1999

Episode: 12x04 | Airdate: Jun 29, 1999

Episode: 12x05 | Airdate: Jul 6, 1999

Episode: 12x06 | Airdate: Jul 13, 1999

Episode: 12x07 | Airdate: Jul 20, 1999

Episode: 12x08 | Airdate: Jul 27, 1999

Episode: 12x09 | Airdate: Jan 4, 2000

Episode: 12x10 | Airdate: Jun 5, 2000

Episode: 13x01 | Airdate: Jun 27, 2000

Episode: 13x02 | Airdate: Jun 30, 2000

Episode: 13x03 | Airdate: Jul 11, 2000

Episode: 13x04 | Airdate: Jul 18, 2000

Episode: 13x05 | Airdate: Jul 25, 2000

Episode: 13x06 | Airdate: Aug 22, 2000

Episode: 13x07 | Airdate: Aug 29, 2000

Episode: 13x08 | Airdate: Sep 19, 2000

Episode: 13x09 | Airdate: Sep 26, 2000

Episode: 13x10 | Airdate: Dec 18, 2000 (90 min)

Episode: 14x01 | Airdate: Jun 19, 2001 (90 min)

Episode: 14x02 | Airdate: Jun 26, 2001

Episode: 14x03 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2001

Episode: 14x04 | Airdate: Jul 10, 2001

Episode: 14x05 | Airdate: Jul 17, 2001

Episode: 14x06 | Airdate: Jul 24, 2001

Episode: 14x07 | Airdate: Aug 14, 2001 (90 min)

Episode: 14x08 | Airdate: Aug 21, 2001 (90 min)

Episode: 14x09 | Airdate: Aug 28, 2001

Episode: 14x10 | Airdate: Oct 2, 2001

Episode: 14x11 | Airdate: Dec 13, 2001

Episode: 15x01 | Airdate: Jun 25, 2002

Episode: 15x02 | Airdate: Jul 2, 2002

Episode: 15x03 | Airdate: Jul 9, 2002

Episode: 15x04 | Airdate: Jul 16, 2002

Episode: 15x05 | Airdate: Jul 23, 2002

Episode: 15x06 | Airdate: Jul 30, 2002

Episode: 15x07 | Airdate: Aug 6, 2002

Episode: 15x08 | Airdate: Aug 20, 2002

Episode: 15x09 | Airdate: Aug 27, 2002

Episode: 15x10 | Airdate: Sep 9, 2002

Episode: 15x11 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2003

Episode: 15x12 | Airdate: Jan 22, 2003

Episode: 16x01 | Airdate: Jun 17, 2003 (90 min)

Episode: 16x02 | Airdate: Jun 20, 2003 (90 min)

Episode: 16x03 | Airdate: Jul 1, 2003

Episode: 16x04 | Airdate: Jul 8, 2003

Episode: 16x05 | Airdate: Jul 22, 2003

Episode: 16x06 | Airdate: Jul 29, 2003

Episode: 16x07 | Airdate: Aug 5, 2003 (90 min)

Episode: 16x08 | Airdate: Aug 19, 2003

Episode: 16x09 | Airdate: Aug 26, 2003

Episode: 16x10 | Airdate: Sep 2, 2003

Episode: 16x11 | Airdate: Sep 2, 2003

Episode: 16x12 | Airdate: Sep 16, 2003

Episode: 16x13 | Airdate: Dec 16, 2003

Episode: 16x14 | Airdate: Apr 21, 2004

Episode: 17x01 | Airdate: Jun 22, 2004

Episode: 17x02 | Airdate: Jun 29, 2004

Episode: 17x03 | Airdate: Jul 6, 2004

Episode: 17x04 | Airdate: Jul 13, 2004

Episode: 17x05 | Airdate: Jul 20, 2004

Episode: 17x06 | Airdate: Aug 3, 2004

Episode: 17x07 | Airdate: Aug 17, 2004

Episode: 17x08 | Airdate: Aug 24, 2004

Episode: 17x09 | Airdate: Sep 7, 2004

Episode: 17x10 | Airdate: Sep 14, 2004

Episode: 17x11 | Airdate: Sep 21, 2004

Episode: 17x12 | Airdate: Sep 28, 2004

Episode: 18x01 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2005

Episode: 18x02 | Airdate: Jun 21, 2005

Episode: 18x03 | Airdate: Jun 28, 2005

Episode: 18x04 | Airdate: Jul 5, 2005

Episode: 18x05 | Airdate: Jul 12, 2005

Episode: 18x06 | Airdate: Jul 19, 2005

Episode: 18x07 | Airdate: Jul 26, 2005

Episode: 18x08 | Airdate: Aug 2, 2005

Episode: 18x09 | Airdate: Aug 16, 2005

Episode: 18x10 | Airdate: Aug 16, 2005

Episode: 18x11 | Airdate: Aug 16, 2005

Episode: 18x12 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2005

Episode: 18x13 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2005

Episode: 18x14 | Airdate: Aug 30, 2005

Episode: 18x15 | Airdate: Sep 6, 2005

Episode: 18x16 | Airdate: Sep 13, 2005

Episode: 19x01 | Airdate: Jun 27, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x02 | Airdate: Jul 4, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x03 | Airdate: Jul 11, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x04 | Airdate: Jul 18, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x05 | Airdate: Jul 25, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x06 | Airdate: Aug 1, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x07 | Airdate: Aug 22, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x08 | Airdate: Aug 29, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x09 | Airdate: Sep 12, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x10 | Airdate: Sep 19, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x11 | Airdate: Oct 3, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x12 | Airdate: Oct 10, 2006 (90 min)

Episode: 19x13 | Airdate: Oct 25, 2006

Episode: 20x01 | Airdate: Jun 19, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x02 | Airdate: Jun 26, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x03 | Airdate: Jun 27, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x04 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x05 | Airdate: Jul 10, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x06 | Airdate: Jul 11, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x07 | Airdate: Jul 17, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x08 | Airdate: Jul 24, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x09 | Airdate: Jul 24, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x10 | Airdate: Jul 31, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x11 | Airdate: Aug 21, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x12 | Airdate: Aug 21, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x13 | Airdate: Aug 28, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x14 | Airdate: Sep 4, 2007 (90 min)

Episode: 20x15 | Airdate: Sep 4, 2007

Episode: 20x16 | Airdate: Sep 4, 2007

Episode: 20x17 | Airdate: Sep 11, 2007

Episode: 20x18 | Airdate: Sep 18, 2007

Episode: 20x19 | Airdate: Oct 9, 2007

Episode: 20x20 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2007

Episode: 20x21 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2007

Episode: 21x01 | Airdate: Mar 1, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x02 | Airdate: Jun 24, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x03 | Airdate: Jul 1, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x04 | Airdate: Jul 8, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x05 | Airdate: Jul 15, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x06 | Airdate: Jul 22, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x07 | Airdate: Jul 29, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x08 | Airdate: Aug 5, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x09 | Airdate: Aug 12, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x10 | Airdate: Aug 19, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x11 | Airdate: Sep 16, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x12 | Airdate: Sep 30, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x13 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x14 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x15 | Airdate: Oct 16, 2008 (90 min)

Episode: 21x16 | Airdate: Dec 10, 2008

Episode: 21x17 | Airdate: Dec 10, 2008

Episode: 22x01 | Airdate: Jun 23, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x02 | Airdate: Jun 30, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x03 | Airdate: Jul 7, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x04 | Airdate: Jul 14, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x05 | Airdate: Jul 21, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x06 | Airdate: Jul 28, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x07 | Airdate: Aug 18, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x08 | Airdate: Aug 18, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x09 | Airdate: Aug 18, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x10 | Airdate: Aug 25, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x11 | Airdate: Sep 1, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x12 | Airdate: Sep 8, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x13 | Airdate: Sep 15, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x14 | Airdate: Sep 22, 2009 (90 min)

Episode: 22x15 | Airdate: Sep 22, 2009

Episode: 22x16 | Airdate: Sep 22, 2009

Episode: 22x17 | Airdate: Nov 11, 2009

Episode: 22x18 | Airdate: Dec 30, 2009

Episode: 23x01 | Airdate: Apr 21, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x02 | Airdate: Apr 21, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x03 | Airdate: Jun 22, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x04 | Airdate: Jun 29, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x05 | Airdate: Jun 29, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x06 | Airdate: Jul 6, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x07 | Airdate: Jul 13, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x08 | Airdate: Jul 13, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x09 | Airdate: Jul 20, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x10 | Airdate: Jul 27, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x11 | Airdate: Aug 17, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x12 | Airdate: Aug 17, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x13 | Airdate: Aug 17, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x14 | Airdate: Aug 17, 2010 (90 min)

Episode: 23x15 | Airdate: Aug 17, 2010

Episode: 23x16 | Airdate: Aug 24, 2010

Episode: 23x17 | Airdate: Aug 24, 2010

Episode: 23x18 | Airdate: Aug 24, 2010

Episode: 23x19 | Airdate: Aug 31, 2010

Episode: 23x20 | Airdate: Aug 31, 2010

Episode: 23x21 | Airdate: Sep 7, 2010

Episode: 23x22 | Airdate: Sep 7, 2010

Episode: 23x23 | Airdate: Sep 7, 2010

Episode: 23x24 | Airdate: Sep 14, 2010

Episode: 23x25 | Airdate: Sep 21, 2010

Episode: 23x26 | Airdate: Oct 5, 2010

Episode: 24x01 | Airdate: Jun 21, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x02 | Airdate: Jun 28, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x03 | Airdate: Jul 5, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x04 | Airdate: Jul 12, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x05 | Airdate: Jul 19, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x06 | Airdate: Jul 26, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x07 | Airdate: Aug 2, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x08 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x09 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x10 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x11 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x12 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x13 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x14 | Airdate: Aug 30, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x15 | Airdate: Sep 6, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x16 | Airdate: Sep 6, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x17 | Airdate: Sep 13, 2011 (90 min)

Episode: 24x18 | Airdate: Sep 20, 2011

Episode: 24x19 | Airdate: Sep 27, 2011

Episode: 24x20 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2011

Episode: 24x21 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2012

Episode: 24x22 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2012

Episode: 25x01 | Airdate: Jun 21, 2012 (90 min)

Witness the epic story of exiled Tibetan Buddhist master Chagyal Namkhai Norbu and his Western-born son, Yeshi.

Episode: 25x02 | Airdate: Jun 28, 2012 (90 min)

Hear the extraordinary story of a film that provided key evidence for bringing an indictment against a dictator.

Episode: 25x03 | Airdate: Jul 5, 2012 (90 min)

Get a fascinating introduction to the science of the dark and an exploration of our relationship to the stars.

Episode: 25x04 | Airdate: Jul 12, 2012 (90 min)

Take an amusing and touching look at the global phenomenon of romance novels.

Episode: 25x05 | Airdate: Jul 19, 2012 (90 min)

View a portrait of a Syrian leader who challenges women to live according to Islam without giving up their dreams.

Episode: 25x06 | Airdate: Jul 26, 2012 (90 min)

Take a moving look at a new generation of Americans struggling to be both Native and modern.

Episode: 25x07 | Airdate: Aug 9, 2012 (90 min)

Episode: 25x08 | Airdate: Aug 9, 2012 (90 min)

Episode: 25x09 | Airdate: Aug 9, 2012 (90 min)

Episode: 25x10 | Airdate: Aug 9, 2012 (90 min)

Episode: 25x11 | Airdate: Aug 9, 2012 (90 min)

Episode: 25x12 | Airdate: Sep 20, 2012 (90 min)

Episode: 25x13 | Airdate: Sep 27, 2012 (90 min)

Episode: 25x14 | Airdate: Oct 4, 2012 (90 min)

Episode: 25x15 | Airdate: Oct 18, 2012

Episode: 25x16 | Airdate: Oct 25, 2012

Episode: 25x17 | Airdate: Jan 7, 2013

Episode: 25x18 | Airdate: Mar 24, 2013

Episode: 26x01 | Airdate: Jun 24, 2013 (90 min)

Take an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community.

Episode: 26x02 | Airdate: Jul 1, 2013 (90 min)

Witness the plight of undocumented foreigners and the wardens at a detention center in Switzerland.

Episode: 26x03 | Airdate: Jul 8, 2013 (90 min)

Venture inside the relationship of a solitary confinement prisoner and an artist who befriended him.

Episode: 26x04 | Airdate: Jul 15, 2013 (90 min)

Follow three unconventional Christian teenagers coming of age in a small Southern California town.

Episode: 26x05 | Airdate: Jul 15, 2013 (90 min)

Episode: 26x06 | Airdate: Jul 22, 2013 (90 min)

Trail two of China's first citizen-reporters as they document the underside of rapid development.

Episode: 26x07 | Airdate: Jul 29, 2013 (90 min)

Episode: 26x08 | Airdate: Aug 19, 2013 (90 min)

Examine the system of military administration used by Israel since the Six Day War of 1967.

Episode: 26x09 | Airdate: Aug 26, 2013 (90 min)

Watch this Oscar-nominated account of a West Bank village where Israel is building a security fence.

Episode: 26x10 | Airdate: Sep 9, 2013 (90 min)

Follow competitors in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships in China's Inner Mongolia.

Episode: 26x11 | Airdate: Sep 16, 2013 (90 min)

Meet two Indian women: a pageant contestant and the leader of a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls.

Episode: 26x12 | Airdate: Sep 23, 2013 (90 min)

Study a public school for severely autistic minority boys and their options for independent living.

Episode: 26x13 | Airdate: Oct 7, 2013 (90 min)

Follow five members of a champion chess team from a below-the-poverty-line junior high in Brooklyn.

Episode: 26x14 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2013 (90 min)

Return to England for the eighth film in a series that's followed the same group since age seven.

Episode: 26x15 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2013 (90 min)

Celebrate the transformative power of listening with this animated special from StoryCorps.

Episode: 26x16 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2014 (90 min)

Trace the experiences of an African-American boy and his friend at a prestigious private school.

Episode: 27x01 | Airdate: Jun 23, 2014 (90 min)

Get a surprisingly uplifting look at the new life of a filmmaker diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Episode: 27x02 | Airdate: Jun 30, 2014 (90 min)

Meet Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese-American philosopher who has been waging a revolution for 75 years.

Episode: 27x03 | Airdate: Jul 7, 2014 (90 min)

Accompany a disabled filmmaker, who frankly hates sports, as he covers the London Paralympics.

Episode: 27x04 | Airdate: Jul 14, 2014 (90 min)

Witness a provocative mix of race, corruption and politics in a New Orleans re-election campaign.

Episode: 27x05 | Airdate: Jul 21, 2014 (90 min)

Delight in a poetic coming-of-age story, with a global twist and thrilling dance moves.

Episode: 27x06 | Airdate: Jul 21, 2014 (90 min)

Episode: 27x07 | Airdate: Jul 28, 2014 (90 min)

Episode: 27x08 | Airdate: Aug 4, 2014 (90 min)

Episode: 27x09 | Airdate: Aug 18, 2014 (90 min)

Episode: 27x10 | Airdate: Aug 25, 2014 (90 min)

Episode: 27x11 | Airdate: Sep 1, 2014 (90 min)

Episode: 27x12 | Airdate: Sep 8, 2014 (90 min)

Episode: 27x13 | Airdate: Sep 22, 2014 (90 min)

Episode: 27x14 | Airdate: Oct 6, 2014

Episode: 27x15 | Airdate: Nov 11, 2014

Episode: 28x01 | Airdate: Jun 22, 2015 (90 min)

Examine a case that reveals the role of race and gender identity in the criminal justice system.

Episode: 28x02 | Airdate: Jun 29, 2015 (90 min)

See what ensues when a pastor opens his church to desperate job-seekers in need of housing.

Episode: 28x03 | Airdate: Jul 6, 2015 (90 min)

Follow the struggles of two parents to win back the trust of the courts and reunite their families.

Episode: 28x04 | Airdate: Jul 13, 2015 (90 min)

Follow the treatment of Chinese teenagers - obsessive gamers who prefer the virtual to the real world.

Episode: 28x05 | Airdate: Jul 20, 2015 (90 min)

See how a star goalkeeper for the Syrian national soccer team became an armed insurgent.

Episode: 28x06 | Airdate: Jul 27, 2015 (90 min)

See how a routine of tea and pastries has sustained five Chilean women through 60 years of change.

Episode: 28x07 | Airdate: Aug 3, 2015 (90 min)

Learn how music and dance bind a community in the war-ravaged Sudan region.

Episode: 28x08 | Airdate: Aug 17, 2015 (90 min)

Meet young migrants in a Swiss integration class as they struggle to make new lives for themselves.

Episode: 28x09 | Airdate: Aug 24, 2015 (90 min)

Witness Matt Van Dyke's transformation from timid 26-year-old to motorcycle-driving rebel.

Episode: 28x10 | Airdate: Aug 31, 2015 (90 min)

See an exposé of Cambodia's human traffickers, who transport the poor and illiterate across borders.

Episode: 28x11 | Airdate: Sep 18, 2015 (90 min)

View an Oscar-nominated reflection on love, sacrifice and the creative spirit. This candid New York tale explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed "boxing" painter Ushio Shinohara and artist Noriko Shinohara.

Episode: 28x12 | Airdate: Sep 21, 2015 (90 min)

Meet immigrant activist Angy Rivera, the country's only advice columnist for undocumented youth. In a community where silence is often seen as necessary for survival, she steps out of the shadows to share her own parallel experiences of being undocumented and sexually abused.

Episode: 28x13 | Airdate: Sep 25, 2015 (90 min)

The jig is up for art forger Mark Landis, who has donated his expert copies to museums for 30 years. But stopping isn't simple. This cat-and-mouse caper uncovers the universal in one man's search for connection and respect.

Episode: 28x14 | Airdate: Oct 2, 2015

This stunning dissection of the persecution of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei explores how the government's attempts to silence him have backfired and turned him into an irrepressible voice for free speech and human rights around the globe.

Episode: 29x01 | Airdate: May 23, 2016 (90 min)

In 2012, California amended its "Three Strikes" law, suddenly freeing prisoners and turning lives upside down.

Episode: 29x02 | Airdate: May 30, 2016 (90 min)

At a PTSD treatment center in California, follow veterans and their families on their paths to recovery.

Episode: 29x03 | Airdate: Jun 27, 2016 (90 min)

Watch as an optometrist confronts the men who killed his brother in the 1965 Indonesian genocide.

Episode: 29x04 | Airdate: Jul 11, 2016 (90 min)

Consider how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse - and the silence surrounding it - can be broken.

Episode: 29x05 | Airdate: Aug 1, 2016 (30 min)

Meet Iris Apfel, a 93-year-old style maven with an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene.

Episode: 29x06 | Airdate: Sep 5, 2016

Go behind the scenes of Yoshida Brewery to see how artisans create saké, Japan's revered rice wine.

Episode: 29x07 | Airdate: Sep 12, 2016 (90 min)

Accompany two African-American teens on their journey to achieve a dream of graduating from college.

Episode: 29x08 | Airdate: Sep 19, 2016 (90 min)

Take an unflinching look at the hard choices and destructive consequences of the US-Mexico drug war.

Episode: 29x09 | Airdate: Sep 19, 2016 (90 min)

Episode: 29x10 | Airdate: Oct 10, 2016 (90 min)

Episode: 29x11 | Airdate: Oct 10, 2016 (90 min)

Episode: 29x12 | Airdate: Oct 17, 2016

Episode: 29x13 | Airdate: Oct 24, 2016

Episode: 29x14 | Airdate: Oct 31, 2016

Episode: 30x01 | Airdate: Jun 26, 2017 (75 min)

Dalya's Other Country tells the nuanced story of members of a family displaced by the Syrian conflict who are remaking themselves after the parents separate. Effervescent teen Dalya goes to Catholic high school and her mother, Rudayna, enrolls in college as they both walk the line between their Muslim values and the new world in which they find themselves.

Episode: 30x02 | Airdate: Jun 26, 2017 (24 min)

In the Oscar®-nominated short film 4.1 Miles, Daphne Matziaraki follows a day in the life of Kyriakos Papadopoulos, a captain in the Greek coast guard who is caught in the middle of the refugee crisis in which Europe is embroiled. Despite limited resources, the captain and his crew attempt to save thousands of migrants from drowning in the Aegean Sea.

Episode: 30x03 | Airdate: Jun 26, 2017 (24 min)

In the documentary short From Damascus to Chicago, two young Syrian siblings recently resettled in Chicago enroll in a dance class, while the film follows their family's experiences in navigating a new city and country.

Episode: 30x04 | Airdate: Jul 3, 2017 (90 min)

Radio host Obaidah Zytoon captures the fate of Syria through the intimate lens of a small circle of friends and journalists. Beginning with peaceful Arab Spring protests in 2011, The War Show offers a four-year, ground-level look at how the country spiraled into bloody civil war.

Episode: 30x05 | Airdate: Jul 10, 2017 (90 min)

After five years of war in Syria, the remaining citizens of Aleppo are getting ready for a siege. Through the eyes of volunteer rescue workers called the White Helmets, Last Men in Aleppo allows viewers to experience the daily life, death, and struggle in the streets, where they are fighting for sanity in a city where war has become the norm.

Episode: 30x06 | Airdate: Jul 17, 2017 (90 min)

Samantha Montgomery placed her dreams on YouTube. Then they became a reality. Presenting Princess Shaw is the extraordinary story of an aspiring musician, down on her luck, who inspired internationally famous musician, composer and video artist Ophir "Kutiman" Kutiel to create a magical collaboration that would introduce her talent to a whole new audience.

Episode: 30x07 | Airdate: Jul 17, 2017 (3 min)

Wendell Scott was the first African American inducted in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. His son, Frank, remembers what it took for his father to cross the finish line at racetracks throughout the South in the '60s and '70s.

Episode: 30x08 | Airdate: Jul 24, 2017 (24 min)

In the Oscar-nominated Joe's Violin, a donated musical instrument forges an improbable friendship. 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Joe Feingold and 12-year-old Bronx school girl Brianna Perez show how the power of music can bring light in the darkest of times, and how a small act can have a significant impact.

Episode: 30x09 | Airdate: Jul 24, 2017

In Shalom Italia, three Italian Jewish brothers set off on a journey through Tuscany, in search of a cave where they hid as children to escape the Nazis. Their quest, full of humor, food and Tuscan landscapes, straddles the boundary between history and myth — a profound, funny, and endearing exploration of individual and communal memory.

Episode: 30x10 | Airdate: Jul 31, 2017

Filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo suspected that there was something ugly in her family's past. Memories of a Penitent Heart excavates a buried conflict around her uncle Miguel, who died at a time when AIDS was synonymous with sin. As she searches for Miguel's partner decades later, the film — both a love story and a tribute — offers a cautionary tale of how faith can be used and abused in times of crisis.

Episode: 30x11 | Airdate: Aug 21, 2017 (90 min)

In Tribal Justice, two Native American judges reach back to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarceration rates, foster greater safety for their communities and create a more positive future for youth. By addressing the root causes of crime, they are modeling restorative systems that are working. Mainstream courts across the country begin to take notice.

Episode: 30x12 | Airdate: Aug 28, 2017 (90 min)

Raising Bertie is an intimate portrait of three African American boys as they face a precarious coming of age in rural Bertie County, North Carolina. Like many rural areas, Bertie County struggles with a dwindling economy, a declining population, and a high school graduation rate below the state average. This powerful vérité film weaves the young men's narratives together as they work to define their identities and grow into adulthood while navigating complex relationships, institutional racism, violence, poverty, and educational inequity.

Episode: 30x13 | Airdate: Sep 4, 2017

In a school for individuals with Down Syndrome, four middle-aged friends yearn for a life of greater autonomy in a society that marginalizes them as disabled. The Grown-Ups is a humorous and at times sad and uncomfortable look at the tragic limbo of conscious adults.

Episode: 30x14 | Airdate: Sep 11, 2017

89-year-old Kang Gye-Yeol and 98-year-old Jo Byeong-Man are married and have lived together for 76 years. While Kang and Jo spend every day like a newlywed couple, they now must face the reality of their aging romance. My Love, Don't Cross that River captures the fleeting moments of their twilight days.

Episode: 30x15 | Airdate: Oct 2, 2017 (90 min)

Parents of a boy on the autism spectrum form a competitive swim team, recruiting other teens on the spectrum and training them with high expectations and zero pity. Swim Team chronicles the extraordinary rise of three diverse young athletes, capturing a moving quest for inclusion, independence and a life that feels like winning.

Episode: 30x16 | Airdate: Oct 9, 2017

On the isolated North Atlantic archipelago of the Faroe Islands, the longtime hunting practices of the Faroese are threatened by dangerously high mercury levels in the whales, decimated seabird populations, and anti-whaling activists. The Faroe islanders consider themselves a canary in the mine, their tale a warning to the rest of the world.

Episode: 30x17 | Airdate: Oct 16, 2017 (90 min)

Motherland is an absorbingly intimate, vérité look at the busiest maternity hospital on the planet, in one of the world's most populous countries: the Philippines. Women share their stories with other mothers, their families, doctors and social workers. In a hospital that is literally bursting with life, we witness the miracle and wonder of the human condition.

Episode: 30x18 | Airdate: Oct 23, 2017 (90 min)

A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into a tapestry of footage captured over the twenty-five-year career of cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. A work that combines documentary, autobiography, and ethical inquiry, Cameraperson is a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world.

Episode: 30x19 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2017 (90 min)

In an attempt to put haunting combat experiences behind them, two friends embark on an epic 2,700-mile trek on foot across America, seeking redemption and healing as a way to close the moral chasm opened by war. Almost Sunrise is an intimate, vérité film that eschews stereotypes and instead captures an unprecedented portrait of veterans — one of hope, potential and untold possibilities.

Episode: 30x20 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2018 (90 min)

A vital and influential exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States. Do Not Resist puts viewers in the center of the action — from inside a police training seminar that teaches the importance of "righteous violence" to the floor of a congressional hearing on the proliferation of military equipment in small-town police departments.

Episode: S33 Special | Airdate: Jul 20, 2020 (30 min)

Episode: S33 Special | Airdate: Nov 9, 2020