The season premiere of the show focuses on "Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North," a journey into the past undertaken by filmmaker Katrina Brown. She investigates her ancestors, the DeWolf family of Rhode Island, who profited fr…

Discard the statistical displays, the meticulously colored maps, and the breathless pronouncements of commentators. What does it truly mean to be a voter in America today? In a remarkable achievement of documentary filmmaking, *Election Day…

In 1997, U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexico border as part of the War on Drugs fatally shot Esequiel Hernández Jr. Mistaken for a drug runner, the eighteen-year-old was, in reality, an American citizen tending his family’s goats with …

Sculptor John Houser, celebrated for his artistry, harbors an ambition: to erect the world's tallest bronze equestrian statue in El Paso, Texas. He intends a magnificent tribute to Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate, a monument meant to cel…

In Modi'in, an Israeli city, a cohort of young Palestinians labor as construction workers, operating outside the bounds of the law. Caught between the reach of Israeli security measures and a Palestinian Authority they perceive as unrespons…

This is democracy, rendered in the Japanese manner. *Campaign* offers a revealing glimpse behind the scenes of Japanese electoral politics, charting the course of a man thrust from anonymity into a pivotal position on a suburban city counci…

Captured at the height of his fame, Johnny Cash, the Man in Black, is presented in this seminal 1969 documentary, a prelude to a career marked by both triumph and hardship. Following the release of his acclaimed *Folsom Prison* album, Cash …

Often described as "Europe's last dictatorship," Belarus has been under the firm control of Alexander Lukashenko since 1994. He has consolidated power through the imprisonment of opponents, suppression of the press, and a refusal to investi…

In 1998, when Chilean judge Juan Guzmán was tasked with prosecuting the first criminal cases against General Augusto Pinochet, the country's former dictator, few anticipated significant consequences. Guzmán had been a supporter of Pinochet'…

Armando and Carlos Peña embark on a road trip to South Texas, carrying the ashes of their mother, but their journey becomes a search for understanding a deeply concealed past. Along the way, they reconnect with five other brothers, and toge…

The consequences of illness can be devastating for those lacking health insurance. *Critical Condition* by Roger Weisberg (Waging a Living, POV 2006) illuminates the nation's escalating healthcare crisis by portraying the harrowing experien…

What price would you pay for survival? When Chicago filmmaker Joanna Rudnick received a positive result for the "breast cancer gene" at the age of twenty-seven, she understood the information offered a chance at life. She also knew she was …

As the colossal Three Gorges Dam nears completion, it reshapes the landscape and irrevocably alters the lives of those who dwell along the legendary Yangtze River. Countless ancient villages and historic sites will vanish beneath the rising…

The question of when taking a life is justifiable echoes loudest in the crucible of war. Can one ethically refuse such a demand? *Soldiers of Conscience*, featuring eight American servicemen – some who took lives, others who refused – delve…

To watch *Schindler's List* and realize the man who embodied the sadistic Nazi camp commandant was one's own father is a burden almost too great to bear. *Inheritance* tells the story of Monika Hertwig, the daughter of mass murderer Amon Gö…