by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
Premiere Date: August 26, 2013
Oscar®nominee 5 Broken Cameras depicts life in a West Bank village where a security fence is being built. The film was shot by a Palestinian and co-directed by an Israeli. (90 minutes)
by Michael Apted
Premiere Date: October 14, 2013
In 1964 a group of 7-year-old children were interviewed for the groundbreaking documentary Seven Up. Michael Apted has been back to film them every seven years since. Now they are 56. (140 minutes)
by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson
Premiere Date: TBD
In American Promise, African-American parents Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson film their son and his friend, who attend one of the country’s most prestigious private schools.
by Samantha Buck
Premiere Date: September 23, 2013
A Newark, N.J. public high school teacher races against the clock to find a place in the world for her students with autism before they graduate and "age out" of a unique and caring support system. (90 minutes)
by Katie Dellamaggiore
Premiere Date: October 7, 2013
Brooklyn public school I.S. 318, serving mostly minority students from working-class families, has won more than 30 national chess championships, the country’s best record. (90 minutes)
by Seth Keal
Premiere Date: Online Only
Mr. Lee is an adopted stray cat that routinely disappears from his North Carolina home. Where does he go? An engineer straps a camera to the cat and inadvertently creates a media sensation.
by Elizabeth Strickler and Phoebe Brown
Premiere Date: Online Only
A glimpse into an artist's everyday struggles and her fierce determination to be seen as a whole and vital person through her art making.
by Angad Singh Bhalla
Premiere Date: July 8, 2013
Herman Wallace has spent more than 40 years in a 6’ x 9’ prison cell. He works with artist Jackie Sumell to imagine his "dream home," questioning justice and punishment in America. (90 minutes)
by Stephen Maing
Premiere Date: July 22, 2013
High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first citizen-reporters, bloggers who are fighting censorship to document the underside of the country’s rapid economic development. (90 minutes)
by Christine Turner
Premiere Date: June 24, 2013
Through the eyes of Harlem funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African-American funerals are brought to life. Homegoings paints a portrait of grieving families and a man who sends loved ones "home." (60 minutes)
by Lixin Fan
Premiere Date: September 27, 2011
Encore Broadcast: August 5, 2013
Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year in the world’s largest human migration. (90 minutes)
by Adam Larsen
Premiere Date: July 29, 2013
A 4-year-old, a teenager and an adult, all on the autism spectrum and at pivotal moments in their lives, work with their perceptual and behavioral differences in a "neurotypical" world. (60 minutes)
by Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims
Premiere Date: July 15, 2013
Three teens in a Southern California town wrestle with questions of love and friendship along with adult realities of financial uncertainty. (70 minutes)
by Hugh Hartford and Anson Hartford
Premiere Date: September 9, 2013
Eight players with 703 years between them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships. Ping Pong is a meditation on mortality and a joyous tribute to the human spirit. (60 minutes)
by Fernand Melgar
Premiere Date: July 1, 2013
The plight of undocumented immigrants at a detention center in Geneva, Switzerland, points up contradictions between compassionate social policies and intractable immigration laws. (60 minutes)
by Mike Rauch and Tim Rauch
Premiere Date: TBD
Celebrate the transformative power of listening with this animated special from the oral history project StoryCorps, which captures intimate conversations among everyday people. (60 minutes)
by Ian Cheney
Premiere Date: July 5, 2012
Encore Broadcast: August 12, 2013
Is darkness becoming extinct? Exploring the physical and psychological effects of light pollution, The City Dark is a portrait of the world after dusk, and a meditation on the human relationship to the stars. (60 minutes)
by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz and Liran Atzmor
Premiere Date: August 19, 2013
For the first time, Israeli military and legal professionals who devised the legal framework behind the occupation are interviewed about this system, which mirrors the country’s toughest moral quandaries. (90 minutes)
by Nisha Pahuja
Premiere Date: September 16, 2013
The World Before Her is a tale of two Indias: In one, a small-town girl competes in the Miss India pageant. In the other, a militant woman leads a fundamentalist Hindu camp for girls. (60 minutes)
by Nancy Schwartzman
Premiere Date: July 15, 2013
The modern-day love story of a guy from small-town Illinois who reaches out to a beautiful New York City art student from Korea. They meet in the only place that such different people might ever find each other—online. (14 minutes)