This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history.
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| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small-Town Gang | 1999-08-09 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Nothing But the Truth | 1999-08-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Visas and Virtue / I Am Viet Hung | 1999-08-23 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | The Man Who Drove with Mandela | 1999-08-30 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | The Jew in the Lotus | 1999-09-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Holy Tortilla / Lock and Key | 1999-09-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | And Baby Makes Two | 1999-09-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle | 1999-09-27 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Secret People | 1999-10-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | I Can't Believe I Married A Lietendent | 1999-10-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors | 2000-10-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | No Hair Day | 2000-10-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Short Stories | 2000-10-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Born in the USA | 2000-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Girl Gone Bad | 2000-10-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Passing Through / Graham's Diner | 2000-11-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | The Return of Navajo Boy | 2000-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Music in Their Bones | 2000-11-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | In Harm's Way / Carved From the Heart | 2000-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | A Wok in Progress | 2000-12-04 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Confederacy Theory | 2001-09-07 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Secrets of Silicon Valley | 2001-09-14 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants | 2001-09-21 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Good Kurds, Bad Kurds | 2001-09-28 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Who Owns the Past? | 2001-10-05 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America | 2001-10-12 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Undetectable | 2001-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Gibtown | 2001-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Open Outcry | 2001-11-02 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | Romancing the Throne | 2001-11-09 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Maggie Growls | 2003-02-04 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story | 2003-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | On This Island | 2003-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Downside Up | 2003-02-25 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Los Trabajadores / The Workers | 2003-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | Chiefs | 2003-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | Strange Fruit | 2003-04-08 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | Bird by Bird with Annie | 2003-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | Sisters in Resistance | 2003-04-29 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | Heart of the Sea | 2003-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 11 | Guns & Mothers | 2003-05-13 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 12 | Razing Appalachia | 2003-05-20 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 13 | Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer | 2003-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 14 | Daddy & Papa | 2003-06-03 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz | 2003-10-14 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | Foto-Novelas 2: Junkyard Saints and Broken Sky | 2003-10-21 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America | 2003-10-28 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | A Wedding in Ramallah | 2003-11-04 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Be Good, Smile Pretty | 2003-11-11 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | Livermore | 2003-11-25 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Eroica! | 2003-12-09 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson | 2003-12-16 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad | 2003-12-23 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | Man Bites Shorts | 2003-12-30 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 11 | Make 'em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story | 2004-01-13 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 12 | Life Matters | 2004-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 13 | Why Can't We Be a Family Again? / Downpour Resurfacing | 2004-01-27 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 14 | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property | 2004-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 15 | A Place of Our Own: Black Resort Communities and the African American Dream | 2004-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 16 | Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew | 2004-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 17 | Sentencing the Victim | 2004-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 18 | T-Shirt Travels | 2004-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 19 | Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas | 2004-04-06 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 20 | Love Inventory | 2004-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 21 | Ram Dass: Fierce Grace | 2004-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 22 | The Weather Underground | 2004-04-27 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 23 | One Night at the Grand Star / Double Exposure | 2004-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 24 | Refugee | 2004-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 25 | Death of a Shaman | 2004-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 26 | Cosmopolitan | 2004-06-01 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 27 | Sumo East and West | 2004-06-08 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 28 | The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out | 2004-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | The Political Dr. Seuss | 2004-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | Polka Time | 2004-11-09 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | Afghanistan Unveiled | 2004-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | Los Angeles Now | 2004-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | The Day My God Died | 2004-11-30 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Girl Wrestler | 2004-12-14 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | Fine. / Doki-Doki | 2004-12-21 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | Short, Not Sweet | 2004-12-28 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 9 | A Hard Straight | 2005-01-04 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 10 | A Touch of Greatness | 2005-01-11 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 11 | Power Trip | 2005-01-25 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 12 | February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four | 2005-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 13 | On a Roll: Disability and the American Dream | 2005-02-15 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 14 | Thunder in Guyana | 2005-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 15 | Sisters of '77 | 2005-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 16 | Sunset Story | 2005-03-22 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 17 | Let the Church Say Amen | 2005-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 18 | A Lion's Trail | 2005-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 19 | Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton | 2005-04-12 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 20 | End of the Century: The Ramones; Joe Strummer Rocks Again | 2005-04-26 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 21 | The Last Letter / Zyklon Portrait and the Walnut Tree | 2005-05-03 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 22 | Imelda: Power, Myth, Illusion | 2005-05-10 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 23 | Vietnam: The Next Generation | 2005-05-17 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 24 | Red Hook Justice | 2005-05-24 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 25 | Double Dare / Piki and Poko: Taking The Dare! | 2005-05-31 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 26 | Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story | 2005-06-07 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 27 | Brother to Brother | 2005-06-14 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove | 2005-10-11 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | En Route to Baghdad | 2005-10-18 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | The Last Cowboy | 2005-10-25 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 4 | A Family at War | 2005-11-08 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 5 | Mirror Dance | 2005-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 6 | Race is the Place | 2005-11-22 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 7 | Maid in America | 2005-11-29 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 8 | Seoul Train | 2005-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 9 | Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community | 2005-12-20 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 10 | Short Stack: Lost & Found | 2005-12-27 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 11 | Sheriff | 2006-01-03 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 12 | Girl Trouble | 2006-01-17 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 13 | Almost Home | 2006-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 14 | Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power | 2006-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 15 | July '64 | 2006-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 16 | The Loss of Nameless Things | 2006-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 17 | Troop 1500 | 2006-03-21 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 18 | Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City | 2006-03-28 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 19 | Trudell | 2006-04-11 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 20 | La Sierra | 2006-04-18 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 21 | A League of Ordinary Gentlemen | 2006-04-25 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 22 | Music from the Inside Out | 2006-05-02 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 23 | Fishbowl / American Made | 2006-05-09 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 24 | Frozen Angels | 2006-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 25 | The Devil's Miner | 2006-05-23 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 26 | The Great Pink Scare | 2006-06-06 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 27 | The Real Dirt on Farmer John | 2006-06-13 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 28 | A Lion in the House: Part 1 | 2006-06-21 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 29 | A Lion in the House: Part 2 | 2006-06-22 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 1 | Still Life with Animated Dogs | 2006-10-24 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 2 | The World According to Sesame Street | 2006-10-24 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 3 | Muskrat Lovely | 2006-10-31 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 4 | Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire | 2006-11-07 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 5 | Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press | 2006-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 6 | Two Square Miles | 2006-11-28 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 7 | A Sad Flower in the Sand | 2006-12-12 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 8 | Revolucion: Five Visions | 2006-12-19 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 9 | Short Stack 2006 | 2006-12-26 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 10 | A Fish Story | 2007-01-02 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 11 | Shadya | 2007-01-16 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 12 | Beyond the Call | 2007-01-23 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 13 | Twisted | 2007-01-30 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 14 | Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life | 2007-02-06 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 15 | Motherland Afghanistan | 2007-02-13 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 16 | Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes | 2007-02-20 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 17 | Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? | 2007-02-27 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 18 | Stolen | 2007-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 19 | Race to Execution | 2007-03-27 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 20 | China Blue | 2007-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 21 | Black Gold | 2007-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 22 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | 2007-04-24 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 23 | The Cats of Mirikitani | 2007-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 24 | Sentenced Home | 2007-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 25 | Knocking | 2007-05-22 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 26 | The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill | 2007-05-29 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 27 | La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul | 2007-06-05 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 1 | Wordplay | 2007-10-16 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 2 | Please Vote for Me | 2007-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 3 | Storm of Emotions | 2007-10-30 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 4 | Red White Black & Blue | 2007-11-06 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 5 | Miss Navajo | 2007-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 6 | The Creek Runs Red | 2007-11-20 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 7 | Sisters in Law | 2007-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 8 | The Paper | 2007-12-11 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 9 | An Unreasonable Man | 2007-12-18 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 10 | Today's Man | 2008-01-08 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 11 | Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita | 2008-01-15 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 12 | A Son's Sacrifice | 2008-01-22 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 13 | How Is Your Fish Today? | 2008-01-29 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 15 | Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America | 2008-02-19 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 16 | Hard Road Home | 2008-02-26 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 17 | Iron Ladies of Liberia | 2008-03-18 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 18 | Compañeras | 2008-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 19 | Water Flowing Together | 2008-04-08 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 20 | King Corn | 2008-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 21 | Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula | 2008-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 22 | A Dream in Doubt | 2008-05-20 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 23 | New Year Baby | 2008-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 24 | Writ Writer | 2008-06-03 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 25 | The Cool School | 2008-06-10 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 26 | Deep Water | 2008-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 27 | Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story | 2008-06-19 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 1 | Chicago 10 | 2008-10-22 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 2 | Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey | 2008-10-28 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 3 | Knee Deep | 2008-11-06 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 4 | Lioness | 2008-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 5 | March Point | 2008-11-18 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 6 | The Atom Smashers | 2008-11-25 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 7 | Doc | 2008-12-09 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 8 | Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic' | 2008-12-16 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 9 | Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway | 2008-12-23 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 10 | Operation Filmmaker | 2008-12-30 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 11 | Helvetica | 2009-01-06 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 12 | Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene | 2009-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 13 | Tulia, Texas | 2009-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 14 | The Order of Myths | 2009-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 15 | Arusi Persian Wedding | 2009-03-17 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 16 | Lakshmi and Me | 2009-03-24 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 17 | Recycle | 2009-03-31 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 18 | Milking the Rhino | 2009-04-07 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 19 | Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai | 2009-04-14 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 20 | At Home in Utopia | 2009-04-28 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 21 | Wings of Defeat | 2009-05-05 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 22 | Crips and Bloods: Made in America | 2009-05-12 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 23 | Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors | 2009-05-19 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 24 | Steal a Pencil for Me | 2009-05-26 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 25 | Ask Not | 2009-06-06 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 1 | Our Disappeared; Nuestros Desaparecidos | 2009-09-21 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 2 | Herb and Dorothy | 2009-10-13 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 3 | Butte, America | 2009-10-20 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 4 | Journals of a Wily School | 2009-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 5 | Power Paths | 2009-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 6 | D Tour | 2009-11-10 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 7 | No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos | 2009-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 8 | Objectified | 2009-11-24 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 9 | Between the Folds | 2009-12-08 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 10 | Scenes from a Parish | 2009-12-29 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 11 | Young@Heart | 2010-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 12 | Copyright Criminals | 2010-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 13 | Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness | 2010-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 14 | P-Star Rising | 2010-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 15 | Mine / Home | 2010-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 16 | Behind the Rainbow | 2010-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 17 | The Eyes of Me | 2010-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 18 | Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas) | 2010-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 19 | Whatever It Takes | 2010-03-30 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 20 | Unmistaken Child | 2010-04-07 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 21 | Blessed Is the Match | 2010-04-13 | 90 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 22 | Dirt! The Movie | 2010-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 23 | Garbage Dreams | 2010-04-27 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 24 | Sunshine | 2010-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 25 | The Horse Boy | 2010-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 26 | Project Kashmir | 2010-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 27 | A Village Called Versailles | 2010-05-25 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 28 | Goodbye Solo | 2010-06-01 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 1 | The Parking Lot Movie | 2010-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 2 | Art & Copy | 2010-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 3 | Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian | 2010-11-02 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 4 | The Longoria Affair | 2010-11-09 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 5 | Lost Sparrow | 2010-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 6 | Deep Down | 2010-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 7 | 45365 | 2010-12-14 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 8 | The Calling, Part 1 | 2010-12-20 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 9 | The Calling, Part 2 | 2010-12-21 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 10 | Men Who Swim | 2011-01-04 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 11 | Children of Haiti | 2011-01-11 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 12 | For Once in My Life | 2011-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 13 | When I Rise | 2011-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 14 | William S. Burroughs: A Man Within | 2011-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 15 | Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story | 2011-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 16 | Pushing the Elephant | 2011-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 17 | The Desert of Forbidden Art | 2011-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 18 | Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child | 2011-04-12 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 19 | Waste Land | 2011-04-19 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 20 | Marwencol | 2011-04-26 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 21 | A Film Unfinished | 2011-05-03 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 22 | Bhutto | 2011-05-10 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 23 | Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo | 2011-05-17 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 24 | Welcome to Shelbyville | 2011-05-24 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 25 | Two Spirits | 2011-06-14 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 1 | Wham! Bam! Islam! | 2011-10-13 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 2 | Donor Unknown | 2011-10-20 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 3 | Lives Worth Living | 2011-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 4 | Deaf Jam | 2011-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 5 | We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean | 2011-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 6 | The Woodmans | 2011-12-22 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 7 | These Amazing Shadows | 2011-12-29 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 8 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance | 2012-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 9 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The New Generation | 2012-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 10 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma to Soweto | 2012-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 11 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line | 2012-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 12 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last | 2012-01-26 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 13 | Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock | 2012-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 14 | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | 2012-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 15 | More Than A Month | 2012-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 16 | You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't | 2012-03-30 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 17 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | 2012-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 18 | When the Drum Is Beating | 2012-04-12 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 19 | Revenge of the Electric Car | 2012-04-19 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 20 | Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison | 2012-04-26 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 21 | Circo | 2012-05-03 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 22 | Summer Pasture | 2012-05-10 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 23 | Precious Knowledge | 2012-05-17 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 24 | Left by the Ship | 2012-05-24 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 25 | Hell and Back Again | 2012-05-28 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 26 | We Were Here | 2012-06-07 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 27 | Strong! | 2012-07-26 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 1 | As Goes Janesville | 2012-10-08 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 2 | Love Free or Die | 2012-10-29 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 3 | Solar Mamas | 2012-11-05 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 4 | Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream | 2012-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 5 | Soul Food Junkies | 2013-01-14 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 6 | Beauty Is Embarrassing | 2013-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 7 | The Revisionaries | 2013-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 8 | The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights | 2013-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 9 | Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry | 2013-02-25 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 10 | Kind Hearted Woman | 2013-04-01 | 90 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 11 | The House I Live In; As I Am | 2013-04-08 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 12 | Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines | 2013-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 13 | The Island President | 2013-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 14 | The Undocumented | 2013-04-29 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 15 | Seeking Asian Female | 2013-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 16 | The Invisible War | 2013-05-13 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 17 | Detropia | 2013-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 18 | The Revolutionary Optimists | 2013-06-17 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 1 | Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey | 2013-09-30 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 2 | The Waiting Room | 2013-10-21 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 3 | The Graduates/Los Graduados | 2013-10-28 | 120 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 4 | Indian Relay | 2013-11-18 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 5 | Young Lakota | 2013-11-25 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 6 | Playwright: From Page to Stage | 2013-12-16 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 7 | Jiro Dreams of Sushi | 2013-12-23 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 8 | How to Survive a Plague | 2013-12-30 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 9 | At Berkeley | 2014-01-13 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 10 | Blood Brother | 2014-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 11 | The State of Arizona | 2014-01-27 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 12 | Spies of Mississippi | 2014-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 13 | Las Marthas | 2014-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 14 | All of Me: A Story of Love, Loss, and Last Resorts | 2014-03-24 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 15 | Medora | 2014-03-31 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 16 | Brothers Hypnotic | 2014-04-07 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 17 | The Trials of Muhammad Ali | 2014-04-14 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 18 | Muscle Shoals | 2014-04-21 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 19 | A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The New York Times | 2014-05-05 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 20 | Let the Fire Burn | 2014-05-12 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 21 | God Loves Uganda | 2014-05-19 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 22 | The New Black | 2014-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 1 | Bully | 2014-10-13 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 2 | Twin Sisters | 2014-10-20 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 3 | Brakeless | 2014-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 4 | Powerless | 2014-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 5 | Happiness | 2014-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 6 | Rich Hill | 2015-01-05 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 7 | Evolution of a Criminal | 2015-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 8 | The Kill Team; Confusion Through Sand | 2015-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 9 | A Path Appears | 2015-01-26 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 10 | Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People | 2015-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 11 | American Denial | 2015-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 12 | Little White Lie | 2015-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 13 | Little Hope Was Arson; A City in Flames | 2015-04-06 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 14 | The Homestretch | 2015-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 15 | The Great Invisible | 2015-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 16 | Kumu Hina | 2015-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 17 | Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity | 2015-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 18 | 1971 | 2015-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 19 | Limited Partnership | 2015-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 1 | Stray Dog | 2015-11-09 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 2 | India's Daughter | 2015-11-16 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 3 | Mimi and Dona | 2015-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 4 | East of Salinas | 2015-12-28 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 5 | Chuck Norris vs. Communism | 2016-01-04 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 6 | Autism in Love | 2016-01-11 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 7 | In Football We Trust | 2016-01-25 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 8 | No Más Bebés (No More Babies) | 2016-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 9 | A Ballerina's Tale | 2016-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 10 | The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | 2016-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 11 | (T)ERROR | 2016-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 12 | Wilhemina's War | 2016-02-29 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 13 | An Honest Liar | 2016-03-28 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 14 | Welcome to Leith | 2016-04-04 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 15 | Democrats | 2016-04-18 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 16 | My Nazi Legacy | 2016-05-02 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 17 | Peace Officer | 2016-05-09 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 18 | The Armor of Light | 2016-05-10 | 90 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 19 | Dogtown Redemption | 2016-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 20 | Trapped | 2016-06-20 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 21 | T-rex Her Fight For Gold | 2016-08-02 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 1 | Best of Enemies | 2016-10-03 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 2 | Meet the Patels | 2016-12-26 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 3 | Best And Most Beautiful Things | 2017-01-02 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 4 | Containment; Excerpt From Uranium Drive-in | 2017-01-09 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 5 | What Was Ours | 2017-01-16 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 6 | The Witness | 2017-01-23 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 7 | Birth Of A Movement | 2017-02-06 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 8 | Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America | 2017-02-13 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 9 | Tower | 2017-02-14 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 10 | The Bad Kids | 2017-03-20 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 11 | Ovarian Psycos | 2017-03-27 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 12 | Newtown | 2017-04-03 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 13 | Seed: The Untold Story | 2017-04-17 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 14 | The Last Laugh | 2017-04-24 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 15 | National Bird | 2017-05-01 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 16 | The Prison In Twelve Landscapes | 2017-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 17 | Forever Pure | 2017-05-15 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 18 | They Call Us Monsters | 2017-05-22 | 90 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 19 | Farmer Veteran | 2017-05-29 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 20 | Real Boy | 2017-06-19 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 1 | Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary | 2017-11-06 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 2 | Shadow World | 2017-11-20 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 3 | Supergirl | 2017-12-18 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 4 | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | 2018-01-01 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 5 | Unrest | 2018-01-08 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 6 | I Am Not Your Negro | 2018-01-15 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 7 | The Force | 2018-01-22 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 8 | I Am Another You | 2018-01-29 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 9 | Winnie | 2018-02-05 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 10 | Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story Of Black Colleges And Universities | 2018-02-19 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 11 | Rat Film | 2018-02-26 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 12 | Dolores | 2018-03-27 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 13 | When God Sleeps | 2018-04-02 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 14 | The Art Of The Shine | 2018-04-09 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 15 | What Lies Upstream | 2018-04-16 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 16 | Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky | 2018-04-23 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 17 | True Conviction | 2018-04-30 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 18 | No Man's Land | 2018-05-07 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 19 | ACORN and the Firestorm | 2018-05-14 | 90 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 20 | Served Like a Girl | 2018-05-28 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 1 | Wildland | 2018-10-29 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 2 | Dawnland | 2018-11-05 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 3 | The Cleaners | 2018-11-12 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 4 | The Judge | 2018-11-19 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 5 | Man on Fire | 2018-12-17 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 6 | My Country No More | 2019-01-07 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 7 | Rodents Of Unusual Size | 2019-01-14 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 8 | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World | 2019-01-21 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 9 | The King | 2019-01-28 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 10 | Black Memorabilia | 2019-02-04 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 11 | Hale County This Morning, This Evening | 2019-02-11 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 12 | People's Republic Of Desire | 2019-02-25 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 13 | Tre Maison Dasan | 2019-04-01 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 14 | The Providers | 2019-04-08 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 15 | Charm City | 2019-04-22 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 16 | Out Of State | 2019-05-06 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 17 | Harvest Season | 2019-05-13 | 90 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 18 | Wrestle | 2019-05-20 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 1 | Made in Boise | 2019-10-28 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 2 | Decade of Fire | 2019-11-04 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 3 | The Interpreters | 2019-11-11 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 4 | Conscience Point | 2019-11-18 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 5 | ATTLA | 2019-12-16 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 6 | American Nomads | 2020-01-14 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 7 | Accept the Call | 2020-01-20 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 8 | The First Rainbow Coalition | 2020-01-27 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 9 | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code | 2020-02-03 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 10 | Leftover Women | 2020-02-10 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 11 | Blind Love | 2020-02-14 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 12 | We Believe In Dinosaurs | 2020-02-17 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 13 | Always in Season | 2020-02-24 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 14 | One Child Nation | 2020-03-30 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 15 | Bedlam | 2020-04-13 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 16 | The Hottest August | 2020-04-20 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 17 | Jim Allison: Breakthrough | 2020-04-27 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 18 | Rewind | 2020-05-11 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 19 | Eating Up Easter | 2020-05-25 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 20 | Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project | 2020-06-15 | 90 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 21 | Pipe Dreams | 2020-06-22 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 1 | Feels Good Man | 2020-10-19 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 2 | Represent | 2020-10-26 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 3 | Jonathan Scott's Power Trip | 2020-11-16 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 4 | Belly Of The Beast | 2020-11-23 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 5 | A Woman's Work: The Nfl's Cheerleader Problem | 2021-01-04 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 6 | A Day in the Life of America | 2021-01-11 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 7 | 9to5: The Story Of A Movement | 2021-02-01 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 8 | Women In Blue | 2021-02-08 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 9 | Mr. SOUL! | 2021-02-22 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 10 | Coded Bias | 2021-03-22 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 11 | 'til Kingdom Come/the Debate | 2021-03-29 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 12 | Down A Dark Stairwell | 2021-04-12 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 13 | The Donut King | 2021-05-24 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 14 | Two Gods | 2021-06-21 | 90 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 15 | The People Vs. Agent Orange | 2021-06-28 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 1 | Cured | 2021-10-11 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 2 | Ferguson Rises | 2021-11-08 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 3 | Storm Lake | 2021-11-15 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 4 | Duty Free | 2021-11-22 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 5 | Home From School: The Children of Carlisle | 2021-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 6 | A Reckoning in Boston | 2022-01-17 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 7 | Missing in Brooks County | 2022-01-31 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 8 | Owned: A Tale of Two Americas | 2022-02-07 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 9 | Bulletproof | 2022-02-14 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 10 | Apart | 2022-02-21 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 11 | Writing With Fire | 2022-03-28 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 12 | AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness | 2022-04-25 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 13 | Try Harder! | 2022-05-02 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 14 | When Claude Got Shot | 2022-05-09 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 15 | Scenes From the Glittering World | 2022-05-16 | 90 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 16 | A Once and Future Peace | 2022-05-23 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 1 | Hazing | 2022-09-12 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 2 | TikTok, Boom. | 2022-10-24 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 3 | Move Me | 2022-11-07 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 4 | Children of Las Brisas | 2023-01-02 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 5 | The Big Payback | 2023-01-16 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 6 | No Straight Lines | 2023-01-23 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 7 | The Picture Taker | 2023-01-30 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 8 | Outta the Muck | 2023-02-06 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 9 | Love in the Time of Fentanyl | 2023-02-13 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 10 | Storming Caesars Palace | 2023-03-20 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 11 | Hidden Letters | 2023-03-27 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 12 | Free Chol Soo Lee | 2023-04-24 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 13 | Matter of Mind: My ALS | 2023-05-01 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 14 | Sam Now | 2023-05-08 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 15 | Silent Beauty | 2023-05-15 | 90 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 16 | Mama Bears | 2023-06-20 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 1 | Sansón and Me | 2023-09-19 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 2 | El Equipo | 2023-10-09 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 3 | Three Chaplains | 2023-11-06 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 4 | A Town Called Victoria - The Fire | 2023-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 5 | A Town Called Victoria - The Suspect | 2023-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 6 | A Town Called Victoria - The Trial | 2023-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 7 | Beyond Utopia | 2024-01-09 | 120 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 8 | Racist Trees | 2024-01-22 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 9 | Razing Liberty Square | 2024-01-29 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 10 | Sister Úna Lived a Good Death | 2024-02-05 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 11 | Breaking The News | 2024-02-19 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 12 | Greener Pastures | 2024-03-25 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 13 | A Thousand Pines | 2024-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 14 | Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's | 2024-04-08 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 15 | One With the Whale | 2024-04-23 | 90 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 16 | Space: The Longest Goodbye | 2024-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 17 | The Tuba Thieves | 2024-05-20 | 60 min |
