List of Independent Lens films

This is a list of films from the Independent Lens series on PBS. All airdates are relative to this series as many of these films were screened, either in theaters or on television, before becoming a part of the Independent Lens series. After the third season, PBS expanded and relaunched the series in 2003 declaring what is technically the fourth season as the new first season. As a result, any reference made by PBS or ITVS to a season number will be three less than the number represented in this list. For example, PBS declares the 2007-2008 season as season 6, but this complete list shows it as season 9. The 2014-2015 season is regarded as the 13th season for the series.

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released
1	10		August 9, 1999 (1999-08-09)	October 11, 1999 (1999-10-11)
2	10		October 2, 2000 (2000-10-02)	December 4, 2000 (2000-12-04)
3	10		September 7, 2001 (2001-09-07)	November 9, 2001 (2001-11-09)
4	14		February 4, 2003 (2003-02-04)	June 3, 2003 (2003-06-03)
5	28		October 14, 2003 (2003-10-14)	June 15, 2004 (2004-06-15)
6	27		October 26, 2004 (2004-10-26)	June 14, 2005 (2005-06-14)
7	29		October 11, 2005 (2005-10-11)	June 22, 2006 (2006-06-22)
8	27		October 24, 2006 (2006-10-24)	June 5, 2007 (2007-06-05)
9	26		October 16, 2007 (2007-10-16)	June 19, 2008 (2008-06-19)
10	25		October 22, 2008 (2008-10-22)	June 19, 2009 (2009-06-19)
11	27		October 13, 2009 (2009-10-13)	June 1, 2010 (2010-06-01)
12	25		October 19, 2010 (2010-10-19)	June 14, 2011 (2011-06-14)
13	27		October 13, 2011 (2011-10-13)	July 26, 2012 (2012-07-26)
14	18		October 1, 2012 (2012-10-01)	June 17, 2013 (2013-06-17)
15	22		September 30, 2013 (2013-09-30)	June 16, 2014 (2014-06-16)
16	19		October 13, 2014 (2014-10-13)	June 22, 2015 (2015-06-22)
17	20		October 20, 2015 (2015-10-20)	August 1, 2016 (2016-08-01)
18	21		October 3, 2016 (2016-10-03)	June 19, 2017 (2017-06-19)
19	20		October 11, 2017 (2017-10-11)	May 28, 2018 (2018-05-28)
20	20		October 29, 2018 (2018-10-29)	May 20, 2019 (2019-05-20)
21	19		October 29, 2019 (2019-10-29)	June 22, 2020 (2020-06-22)
22	15		October 19, 2020 (2020-10-19)	June 28, 2021 (2021-06-28)
23	15		October 11, 2021 (2021-10-11)	May 16, 2022 (2022-05-16)
24	16		September 12, 2022 (2022-09-12)	June 20, 2023 (2023-06-20)
25	16		September 19, 2023 (2023-09-19)	May 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
26	15		September 16, 2024 (2024-09-16)	TBD

Episodes

† denotes that the title is a short film

Season 1 (1999)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
1	1	Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small-Town Gang	John Whitehead	August 9, 1999 (1999-08-09)
2	2	Nothing But the Truth	Mark Steven Shepherd	August 16, 1999 (1999-08-16)
3	3	Visas and Virtue I Am Viet Hung†	Chris Tashima Diep N. Bui	August 23, 1999 (1999-08-23)
4	4	The Man Who Drove with Mandela	Greta Schiller	August 30, 1999 (1999-08-30)
5	5	The Jew in the Lotus	Laurel Chiten	September 6, 1999 (1999-09-06)
6	6	Holy Tortilla Lock and Key†	Lauren Ivy Chiong Kisha Cameron	September 13, 1999 (1999-09-13)
7	7	And Baby Makes Two	Oren Rudavsky and Judy Katz	September 20, 1999 (1999-09-20)
8	8	Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle	Jon H. Else	September 27, 1999 (1999-09-27)
9	9	Secret People	John Anderson and Laura Harrison	October 4, 1999 (1999-10-04)
10	10	I Can't Believe I Married A Lesbian	Stuart Perkin	October 11, 1999 (1999-10-11)

Season 2 (2000)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
11	1	Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors	Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine	October 2, 2000 (2000-10-02)
12	2	No Hair Day	Bob Burns	October 9, 2000 (2000-10-09)
13	3	Short Stories	Robert Byrd	October 16, 2000 (2000-10-16)
14	4	Born in the USA	Marcia Jarmel	October 23, 2000 (2000-10-23)
15	5	Girl Gone Bad	Louis Yansen	October 30, 2000 (2000-10-30)
16	6	Passing Through Graham's Diner†	Nathan Adolfson Courtney Byrd	November 6, 2000 (2000-11-06)
17	7	The Return of Navajo Boy	Jeff Spitz	November 13, 2000 (2000-11-13)
18	8	Music in Their Bones	Norton Dill	November 20, 2000 (2000-11-20)
19	9	In Harm's Way Carved From the Heart†	Jan Krawitz Ellen Frankenstein	November 27, 2000 (2000-11-27)
20	10	A Wok in Progress	Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger	December 4, 2000 (2000-12-04)

Season 3 (2001)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
21	1	Confederacy Theory	Ryan Deussing	September 7, 2001 (2001-09-07)
22	2	Secrets of Silicon Valley	Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman	September 14, 2001 (2001-09-14)
23	3	Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants	David Belle and Nicholas Wrathall	September 21, 2001 (2001-09-21)
24	4	Good Kurds, Bad Kurds	Kevin McKiernan	September 28, 2001 (2001-09-28)
25	5	Who Owns the Past?	Jed Riffe	October 5, 2001 (2001-10-05)
26	6	The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America	Taggart Siegel	October 12, 2001 (2001-10-12)
27	7	Undetectable	Jay Corcoran	October 19, 2001 (2001-10-19)
28	8	Gibtown	Melissa Shachat	October 26, 2001 (2001-10-26)
29	9	Open Outcry	Jon Else	November 2, 2001 (2001-11-02)
30	10	Romancing the Throne	Dominic Ozanne	November 9, 2001 (2001-11-09)

Season 4 (2003)

Note: After the third season, PBS expanded and relaunched the series in 2003 declaring what is technically the fourth season as the new first season. As a result, any reference made by PBS or ITVS to a season number will be three less than the number represented in this list. For example, PBS declares the 2007–08 season as season 6, but this complete list shows it as season 9.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
31	1	Maggie Growls	Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater	February 4, 2003 (2003-02-04)
32	2	Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story	Jamie Meltzer	February 11, 2003 (2003-02-11)
33	3	On This Island	Stephanie Slewka	February 18, 2003 (2003-02-18)
34	4	Downside Up	Nancy Kelly	February 25, 2003 (2003-02-25)
35	5	Los Trabajadores/The Workers	Heather Courtney	March 25, 2003 (2003-03-25)
36	6	Chiefs	Daniel Junge	April 1, 2003 (2003-04-01)
37	7	Strange Fruit	Joel Katz	April 8, 2003 (2003-04-08)
38	8	Bird by Bird with Annie	Freida Lee Mock	April 22, 2003 (2003-04-22)
39	9	Sisters in Resistance	Maia Wechsler	April 29, 2003 (2003-04-29)
40	10	Heart of the Sea	Charlotte Lagarde and Lisa Denker	May 6, 2003 (2003-05-06)
41	11	Guns & Mothers	Thom Powers	May 13, 2003 (2003-05-13)
42	12	Razing Appalachia	Sasha Waters	May 20, 2003 (2003-05-20)
43	13	Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer	Nancy Schiesari	May 27, 2003 (2003-05-27)
44	14	Daddy & Papa	Johnny Symons	June 3, 2003 (2003-06-03)

Season 5 (2003–04)

Episode 510 is a short film block titled "Man Bites Shorts".
Episode 518 "T-Shirt Travels" was first broadcast on PBS on June 1, 2002, but not as part of the Independent Lens series.^[1]
* The New Americans is a seven-hour, three-part special, and therefore does not have an episode number.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
45	1	Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz	Anne-Marie Russell	October 14, 2003 (2003-10-14)
46	2	Foto-Novelas 2: Broken Sky Foto-Novelas 2: Junkyard Saints†	Carlos Avila	October 21, 2003 (2003-10-21)
47	3	Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America	Martha Burr and Mei-Juin Chen	October 28, 2003 (2003-10-28)
48	4	A Wedding in Ramallah	Sherine Salama	November 4, 2003 (2003-11-04)
49	5	Be Good, Smile Pretty	Tracy Droz Tragos	November 11, 2003 (2003-11-11)
50	6	Livermore	Rachel Raney and David Murray	November 25, 2003 (2003-11-25)
Subject: Livermore, California
51	7	Eroica!	Alan Miller	December 9, 2003 (2003-12-09)
52	8	Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson	Jim Wolpaw	December 16, 2003 (2003-12-16)
53	9	Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad	Nancy du Plessis	December 23, 2003 (2003-12-23)
54	10	Compulsory Breathing Don't Nobody Love the Game More Than Me Sergi Dilly Dally Tom Hits His Head Bike Ride†	David Munro Martha Pinson Paul Sullivan Mark Pellington Tom Putnam Tom Schroeder	December 30, 2003 (2003-12-30)
55	11	Make 'em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story	John Whitehead	January 13, 2004 (2004-01-13)
56	12	Life Matters	Kyle Boyd	January 20, 2004 (2004-01-20)
57	13	Why Can't We Be a Family Again? Downpour Resurfacing†	Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel Frances Nkara	January 27, 2004 (2004-01-27)
58	14	Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property	Charles Burnett	February 10, 2004 (2004-02-10)
59	15	A Place of Our Own	Stanley Nelson Jr.	February 17, 2004 (2004-02-17)
60	16	Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew	Matthew Buzzell	February 24, 2004 (2004-02-24)
61	17	Sentencing the Victim	Liz Oakley	March 2, 2004 (2004-03-02)
62	18	T-Shirt Travels	Shantha Bloemen	March 23, 2004 (2004-03-23)
N/A	N/A	The New Americans Episode One	Unknown	March 29, 2004 (2004-03-29)
N/A	N/A	The New Americans Episode Two	Unknown	March 30, 2004 (2004-03-30)
N/A	N/A	The New Americans Episode Three	Unknown	March 31, 2004 (2004-03-31)
63	19	Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas	Jonathan Robinson	April 6, 2004 (2004-04-06)
64	20	Love Inventory	David Fisher	April 13, 2004 (2004-04-13)
65	21	Ram Dass: Fierce Grace	Mickey Lemle	April 20, 2004 (2004-04-20)
66	22	The Weather Underground	Sam Green	April 27, 2004 (2004-04-27)
67	23	One Night at the Grand Star Double Exposure†	Natasha Uppal Kit-Yin Snyder	May 4, 2004 (2004-05-04)
68	24	Refugee	Spencer Nakasako	May 11, 2004 (2004-05-11)
69	25	Death of a Shaman	Richard Hall	May 27, 2004 (2004-05-27)
70	26	Cosmopolitan	Nisha Ganatra	June 1, 2004 (2004-06-01)
71	27	Sumo East and West	Ferne Pearlstein	June 8, 2004 (2004-06-08)
72	28	The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out	Jay Rosenstein	June 15, 2004 (2004-06-15)

Season 6 (2004–05)

Episode 608 is a short film block titled "Short, Not Sweet".

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
73	1	The Political Dr. Seuss	Ron Lamothe	October 26, 2004 (2004-10-26)
74	2	Polka Time	Lisa Blackstone	November 9, 2004 (2004-11-09)
75	3	Afghanistan Unveiled	Brigitte Brault	November 16, 2004 (2004-11-16)
76	4	Los Angeles Now	Phillip Rodriguez	November 23, 2004 (2004-11-23)
77	5	The Day My God Died	Andrew Levine	November 30, 2004 (2004-11-30)
78	6	Girl Wrestler	Diane Zander	December 14, 2004 (2004-12-14)
79	7	Fine. Doki-Doki†	Michael Downing Chris Eska	December 21, 2004 (2004-12-21)
80	8	The Fine Line Between Cute and Creepy La Puppé A Monster's Calling The School Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner†	Robert D. Slane Timothy Greenberg Louise Johnson Ezra Krybus and Matthew Miller Jamie Travis	December 28, 2004 (2004-12-28)
81	9	A Hard Straight	Goro Toshima	January 4, 2005 (2005-01-04)
82	10	A Touch of Greatness	Leslie Sullivan	January 11, 2005 (2005-01-11)
83	11	Power Trip	Paul Devlin	January 25, 2005 (2005-01-25)
84	12	February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four	Unknown	February 1, 2005 (2005-02-01)
85	13	On a Roll	Joanne Caputo	February 15, 2005 (2005-02-15)
86	14	Thunder in Guyana	Suzanne Wasserman	February 22, 2005 (2005-02-22)
87	15	Sisters of '77	Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen Mondell	March 1, 2005 (2005-03-01)
88	16	Sunset Story	Laura Gabbert	March 22, 2005 (2005-03-22)
89	17	Let the Church Say Amen	David Petersen	March 29, 2005 (2005-03-29)
90	18	A Lion's Trail	François Verster	April 5, 2005 (2005-04-05)
91	19	Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton	David G. Berger, Holly Maxson and Kate Hirson	April 12, 2005 (2005-04-12)
92	20	End of the Century: The Ramones Joe Strummer Rocks Again†	Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields Dick Rude	April 26, 2005 (2005-04-26)
93	21	The Last Letter Zyklon Portrait The Walnut Tree†	Frederick Wiseman Elida Schogt	May 3, 2005 (2005-05-03)
94	22	Imelda	Ramona Diaz	May 10, 2005 (2005-05-10)
95	23	Vietnam: The Next Generation	Sandy Northrop	May 17, 2005 (2005-05-17)
96	24	Red Hook Justice	Meema Spadola	May 24, 2005 (2005-05-24)
97	25	Double Dare Piki and Poko: Taking the Dare!†	Amanda Micheli Mark Ewert and David Cutler	May 31, 2005 (2005-05-31)
98	26	Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story	Jordan Mechner	June 7, 2005 (2005-06-07)
99	27	Brother to Brother	Rodney Evans	June 14, 2005 (2005-06-14)

Season 7 (2005–06)

Episode 710 is a short film block titled "Short Stack: Lost & Found".

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
100	1	Parliament-Funkadelic: One Nation Under A Groove	Yvonne Smith	October 11, 2005 (2005-10-11)
101	2	En Route to Baghdad	Simone Duarte	October 18, 2005 (2005-10-18)
102	3	The Last Cowboy	Jon Alpert	October 25, 2005 (2005-10-25)
103	4	A Family at War	Jørgen Flindt Pedersen	November 8, 2005 (2005-11-08)
104	5	Mirror Dance	Frances McElroy and María Teresa Rodríguez	November 15, 2005 (2005-11-15)
105	6	Race is the Place	Raymond Telles and Rick Tejada-Flores	November 22, 2005 (2005-11-22)
106	7	Maid in America	Anayansi Prado	November 29, 2005 (2005-11-29)
107	8	Seoul Train	Jim Butterworth, Lisa Sleeth and Aaron Lubarsky	December 13, 2005 (2005-12-13)
108	9	Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community	John Hanson	December 20, 2005 (2005-12-20)
109	10	Agora John and Michael Miracle Mile The Raftman's Razor Reservation Warparties†	Chris Newberry Shira Avni Dong Hyeuk Hwang Keith Bearden Angelique Midthunder	December 27, 2005 (2005-12-27)
110	11	Sheriff	Daniel Kraus	January 3, 2006 (2006-01-03)
111	12	Girl Trouble	Lexi Leban and Lidia Szajko	January 17, 2006 (2006-01-17)
112	13	Almost Home	Brad Lichtenstein and Lisa Gildehaus	January 31, 2006 (2006-01-31)
113	14	Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power	Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts	February 7, 2006 (2006-02-07)
114	15	July '64	Chris Christopher and Carvin Eison	February 14, 2006 (2006-02-14)
115	16	The Loss of Nameless Things	Bill Rose	February 28, 2006 (2006-02-28)
116	17	Troop 1500	Ellen Spiro	March 21, 2006 (2006-03-21)
117	18	Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City	Bann Roy	March 28, 2006 (2006-03-28)
118	19	Trudell	Heather Rae	April 11, 2006 (2006-04-11)
119	20	La Sierra	Scott Dalton and Margarita Martinez	April 18, 2006 (2006-04-18)
120	21	A League of Ordinary Gentlemen	Chris Browne	April 25, 2006 (2006-04-25)
121	22	Music from the Inside Out	Daniel Anker	May 2, 2006 (2006-05-02)
122	23	Fishbowl American Made†	Kayo Hatta Sharat Raju	May 9, 2006 (2006-05-09)
123	24	Frozen Angels	Eric Black and Frauke Sandig	May 16, 2006 (2006-05-16)
124	25	The Devil's Miner	Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani	May 23, 2006 (2006-05-23)
125	26	The Great Pink Scare	Tug Yourgrau and Dan Miller	June 6, 2006 (2006-06-06)
126	27	The Real Dirt on Farmer John	Taggart Siegel	June 13, 2006 (2006-06-13)
127	28	"A Lion in the House" (Part 1)	Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert	June 21, 2006 (2006-06-21)
128	29	"A Lion in the House" (Part 2)	Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert	June 22, 2006 (2006-06-22)

Season 8 (2006–07)

Episode 803, "Still Life with Animated Dogs," was first broadcast on PBS on March 29, 2001, but not as part of the Independent Lens series.
Episode 809 is a short film block titled "Short Stack 2006".

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
129	1	The World According to Sesame Street	Linda Goldstein Knowlton and Linda Hawkins Costigan	October 24, 2006 (2006-10-24)
130	2	Muskrat Lovely	Amy Nicholson	October 31, 2006 (2006-10-31)
131	3	Still Life with Animated Dogs†	Paul Fierlinger	October 24, 2006 (2006-10-24)
132	4	Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire	Barbara Multer-Wellin	November 7, 2006 (2006-11-07)
133	5	Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press	Cal Skaggs	November 21, 2006 (2006-11-21)
134	6	Two Square Miles	Barbara Ettinger	November 28, 2006 (2006-11-28)
135	7	A Sad Flower in the Sand	Jan Louter	December 12, 2006 (2006-12-12)
136	8	Revolucion: Five Visions	Nicole Cattell	December 19, 2006 (2006-12-19)
137	9	Paris, 1951 Someday Flowers Bloom The Zit My Life Disoriented†	Jasmin Gordon Mai Heiselmann Mike Blum Eric Byler	December 26, 2006 (2006-12-26)
138	10	A Fish Story	Courtney Hayes and Tim Gallagher	January 2, 2007 (2007-01-02)
139	11	Shadya	Roy Westler	January 16, 2007 (2007-01-16)
140	12	Beyond the Call	Adrian Belic	January 23, 2007 (2007-01-23)
141	13	Twisted	Laurel Chiten	January 30, 2007 (2007-01-30)
142	14	Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life	Robert Levi	February 6, 2007 (2007-02-06)
143	15	Motherland Afghanistan	Sedika Mojadidi	February 13, 2007 (2007-02-13)
144	16	Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes	Byron Hurt	February 20, 2007 (2007-02-20)
145	17	Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?	Frank Popper	February 27, 2007 (2007-02-27)
146	18	Stolen	Rebecca Dreyfus	March 20, 2007 (2007-03-20)
147	19	Race to Execution	Rachel Lyon	March 27, 2007 (2007-03-27)
148	20	China Blue	Micha X. Peled	April 3, 2007 (2007-04-03)
149	21	Black Gold	Marc Francis and Nick Francis	April 10, 2007 (2007-04-10)
150	22	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room	Alex Gibney	April 24, 2007 (2007-04-24)
151	23	The Cats of Mirikitani	Linda Hattendorf	May 8, 2007 (2007-05-08)
152	24	Sentenced Home	Nicole Newnham and David Grabias	May 15, 2007 (2007-05-15)
153	25	Knocking	Joel P. Engardio and Tom Shepard	May 22, 2007 (2007-05-22)
154	26	The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill	Judy Irving	May 29, 2007 (2007-05-29)
155	27	La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul	Ela Troyano	June 5, 2007 (2007-06-05)

Season 9 (2007–08)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
156	1	Wordplay	Patrick Creadon	October 16, 2007 (2007-10-16)
Subject: Crossword puzzle solvers
157	2	Please Vote for Me	Weijun Chen	October 23, 2007 (2007-10-23)
Subject: Chinese primary school election
158	3	Storm of Emotions	Yael Klopmann	October 30, 2007 (2007-10-30)
Subject:
159	4	Red White Black & Blue	Tom Putnam	November 6, 2007 (2007-11-06)
Subject:
160	5	Miss Navajo	Billy Luther	November 13, 2007 (2007-11-13)
Subject: Seven girls compete the Miss Navajo Nation pageant
161	6	The Creek Runs Red	Bradley Beesley and Julianna Brannum	November 20, 2007 (2007-11-20)
Subject: Picher, Oklahoma
162	7	Sisters in Law	Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi	November 27, 2007 (2007-11-27)
Subject:
163	8	The Paper	Aaron Matthews	December 11, 2007 (2007-12-11)
Subject:
164	9	An Unreasonable Man	Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan	December 18, 2007 (2007-12-18)
Subject: Ralph Nader
165	10	Today's Man	Lizzie Gottlieb	January 8, 2008 (2008-01-08)
Subject:
166	11	Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita	Maria Finitzo	January 15, 2008 (2008-01-15)
Subject: Stem cell research
167	12	A Son's Sacrifice	Yoni Brook	January 22, 2008 (2008-01-22)
Subject:
168	13	How Is Your Fish Today?	Xiaolu Guo	January 29, 2008 (2008-01-29)
Subject: Part drama, part documentary about screenwriting
169	14	Banished	Marco Williams	February 19, 2008 (2008-02-19)
Subject: Banishment of blacks in post-Civil War America
170	15	Hard Road Home	Macky Alston	February 26, 2008 (2008-02-26)
Subject:
171	16	Iron Ladies of Liberia	Daniel Junge and Siatta Scott Johnson	March 18, 2008 (2008-03-18)
Subject: Beauty pageant
172	17	Compañeras	Matthew Buzzell and Elizabeth Massie	April 1, 2008 (2008-04-01)
Subject:
173	18	Water Flowing Together	Gwendolen Cates	April 8, 2008 (2008-04-08)
Subject:
174	19	King Corn	Aaron Woolf	April 15, 2008 (2008-04-15)
Subject: Industrialization of maize farming
175	20	Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula	Lisette Marie Flanary	May 6, 2008 (2008-05-06)
Subject:
176	21	A Dream in Doubt	Tami Yeager	May 20, 2008 (2008-05-20)
Subject:
177	22	New Year Baby	Socheata Poeuv	May 27, 2008 (2008-05-27)
Subject:
178	23	Writ Writer	Susanne E. Mason	June 3, 2008 (2008-06-03)
Subject:
179	24	The Cool School	Morgan Neville	June 10, 2008 (2008-06-10)
Subject:
180	25	Deep Water	Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell	June 15, 2008 (2008-06-15)
Subject: Donald Crowhurst's attempted circumnavigation
181	26	Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story	Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim	June 19, 2008 (2008-06-19)
Subject: North Korean abduction of Megumi Yokota

Season 10 (2008–09)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
182	1	Chicago 10	Brett Morgen	October 22, 2008 (2008-10-22)
Subject: Chicago Seven trial
183	2	Dinner With the President	Sabiha Sumar and S. Sathananthan	October 28, 2008 (2008-10-28)
Subject: Pervez Musharraf
184	3	Knee Deep	Michael Chandler	November 6, 2008 (2008-11-06)
Subject:
185	4	Lioness	Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers	November 13, 2008 (2008-11-13)
Subject: Women in the United States armed forces
186	5	March Point	Annie Silverstein	November 18, 2008 (2008-11-18)
Subject: Swinomish (tribe)
187	6	The Atom Smashers	Clayton Brown and Monica Long Ross	November 25, 2008 (2008-11-25)
Subject: Fermilab
188	7	Doc	Immy Humes	December 9, 2008 (2008-12-09)
Subject: Harold L. Humes
189	8	Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic	Jon H. Else	December 16, 2008 (2008-12-16)
Subject: Opera based on Trinity (nuclear test)
190	9	Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway	Albert Maysles Albert Maysles	December 23, 2008 (2008-12-23)
Subject: Making of Grey Gardens (musical)
191	10	Operation Filmmaker	Nina Davenport	December 30, 2008 (2008-12-30)
Subject: Making of Everything Is Illuminated (film)
192	11	Helvetica	Gary Hustwit	January 6, 2009 (2009-01-06)
Subject: Helvetica
193	12	Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene	Loren Mendell	February 3, 2009 (2009-02-03)
Subject:
194	13	Tulia, Texas	Cassandra Herrman and Kelly Whalen	February 10, 2009 (2009-02-10)
Subject:
195	14	Order of Myths	Margaret Brown	February 24, 2009 (2009-02-24)
Subject: Mobile, Alabama's Carnival celebration
196	15	Arusi Persian Wedding	Marjan Tehrani	March 17, 2009 (2009-03-17)
Subject:
197	16	Lakshmi and Me	Nishtha Jain	March 24, 2009 (2009-03-24)
Subject:
198	17	Recycle	Mahmoud al Massad	March 31, 2009 (2009-03-31)
Subject:
199	18	Milking the Rhino	David E. Simpson	April 7, 2009 (2009-04-07)
Subject:
200	19	Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai	Alan Dater and Lisa Merton	April 14, 2009 (2009-04-14)
Subject: Wangari Maathai
201	20	Steal a Pencil for Me	Michèle Ohayon	May 26, 2009 (2009-05-26)
Subject:
202	21	At Home in Utopia	Michal Goldman	April 28, 2009 (2009-04-28)
Subject:
203	22	Wings of Defeat	Risa Morimoto	May 5, 2009 (2009-05-05)
Subject:
204	23	Crips and Bloods: Made in America	Stacy Peralta	May 12, 2009 (2009-05-12)
Subject:
205	24	Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors	Gonzalo Arijón	May 19, 2009 (2009-05-19)
Subject:
206	25	Ask Not	Johnny Symons	June 19, 2009 (2009-06-19)
Subject: Don't ask, don't tell
207	26	Our Disappeared; Nuestros Desaparecidos	Unknown	September 21, 2009 (2009-09-21)
Subject: Don't ask, don't tell

Season 11 (2009–10)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
208	1	Herb & Dorothy	Megumi Sasaki	October 13, 2009 (2009-10-13)
209	2	Butte, Montana	Pamela Roberts	October 20, 2009 (2009-10-20)
Subject: Butte, Montana
210	3	Journals of a Wily School	Sudeshna Bose	October 27, 2009 (2009-10-27)
211	4	Power Paths	Bo Boudart	November 3, 2009 (2009-11-03)
212	5	D Tour	Jim Granato	November 10, 2009 (2009-11-10)
213	6	No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos	James Chressanthis	November 17, 2009 (2009-11-17)
214	7	Objectified	Gary Hustwit	November 24, 2009 (2009-11-24)
215	8	Between the Folds	Vanessa Gould	December 8, 2009 (2009-12-08)
Subject: Origami
216	9	Scenes from a Parish	James Rutenbeck	December 29, 2009 (2009-12-29)
Subject: Lawrence, Massachusetts
217	10	Young@Heart	Stephen Walker	January 12, 2010 (2010-01-12)
Subject: Young@Heart
218	11	Copyright Criminals	Benjamin Franzen	January 19, 2010 (2010-01-19)
Subject: Ramifications of music sampling in hip-hop[2]
219	2	P-Star Rising	Gabriel Noble	February 9, 2010 (2010-02-09)
Subject: P-Star
220	13	Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness	Llewellyn Smith	February 2, 2010 (2010-02-02)
221	14	Mine	Geralyn Pezanoski	February 16, 2010 (2010-02-16)
222	15	Behind the Rainbow	Jihan El Tahri	February 23, 2010 (2010-02-23)
223	16	The Eyes of Me	Keith Maitland	March 2, 2010 (2010-03-02)
224	17	Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)	Monika Navarro	March 23, 2010 (2010-03-23)
225	18	Whatever It Takes	Christopher Wong	March 30, 2010 (2010-03-30)
226	19	Unmistaken Child	Nati Baratz	April 7, 2010 (2010-04-07)
227	20	Blessed Is the Match	Roberta Grossman	April 13, 2010 (2010-04-13)
228	21	Dirt! The Movie	Bill Benenson and Eugene Rosow	April 20, 2010 (2010-04-20)
229	22	Garbage Dreams	Mai Iskander	April 27, 2010 (2010-04-27)
Subject: Zabbaleen
230	23	Sunshine	Karen Skloss	May 4, 2010 (2010-05-04)
231	24	The Horse Boy	Michel Scott	May 11, 2010 (2010-05-11)
232	25	Project Kashmir	Senain Kheshgi and Geeta V. Patel	May 18, 2010 (2010-05-18)
233	26	A Village Called Versailles	Leo Chiang	May 25, 2010 (2010-05-25)
234	27	Goodbye Solo	Ramin Bahrani	June 1, 2010 (2010-06-01)

Season 12 (2010–11)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
235	1	The Parking Lot Movie	Meghan Eckman	October 19, 2010 (2010-10-19)
Subject: Parking lot workers
236	2	Art & Copy	Doug Pray	October 26, 2010 (2010-10-26)
Subject: Advertising
237	3	Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian	Neil Diamond	November 2, 2010 (2010-11-02)
Subject: Portrayal of Native Americans in Film
238	4	The Longoria Affair	John J. Valadez	November 9, 2010 (2010-11-09)
Subject: Felix Z. Longoria Jr.
239	5	Lost Sparrow	Chris Billing	November 16, 2010 (2010-11-16)
Subject: Child abuse
240	6	Deep Down	Sally Rubin and Jen Gilomen	November 23, 2010 (2010-11-23)
Subject: Mountaintop removal mining
241	7	45365	Bill Ross and Turner Ross	December 14, 2010 (2010-12-14)
Subject: Sidney, Ohio
242	8	The Calling: Part 1	Danny Alpert	December 20, 2010 (2010-12-20)
Subject: Religion in the United States
243	9	The Calling: Part 2	Danny Alpert	December 21, 2010 (2010-12-21)
Subject: Religion in the United States
244	10	Men Who Swim	Dylan Williams	January 4, 2011 (2011-01-04)
Subject: Synchronized swimming
245	11	Children of Haiti	Alexandria Hammond	January 11, 2011 (2011-01-11)
Subject: Orphans in Haiti
246	12	For Once in My Life	Jim Bigham and Mark Moormann	February 1, 2011 (2011-02-01)
Subject: Spirit of Goodwill Band and Disability
247	13	When I Rise	Mat Hames	February 8, 2011 (2011-02-08)
Subject: Barbara Smith Conrad and Desegregation
248	14	William S. Burroughs: A Man Within	Yony Leyser	February 22, 2011 (2011-02-22)
Subject: William S. Burroughs
249	15	Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story	Daniel Birman	March 1, 2011 (2011-03-01)
Subject: Juvenile delinquency, sexual abuse
250	16	Pushing the Elephant	Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel	March 29, 2011 (2011-03-29)
Subject: Congolese American activist Rose Mapendo
251	17	The Desert of Forbidden Art	Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev	April 5, 2011 (2011-04-05)
Subject: Igor Savitsky
252	18	Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child	Tamra Davis	April 12, 2011 (2011-04-12)
Subject: Jean-Michel Basquiat
253	19	Waste Land	Lucy Walker	April 19, 2011 (2011-04-19)
Subject: Vik Muniz land fill recycling "pickers"
254	20	Marwencol	Jeff Malmberg	April 26, 2011 (2011-04-26)
Subject: Mark Hogancamp / Outsider art
255	21	A Film Unfinished	Yael Hersonski	May 3, 2011 (2011-05-03)
Subject: History of a Nazi propaganda film on the Warsaw Ghetto
256	22	Bhutto	Duane Baughman and Johnny O'Hara	May 10, 2011 (2011-05-10)
Subject: Benazir Bhutto
257	23	Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo	Jessica Oreck	May 17, 2011 (2011-05-17)
Subject: Insect aficionados in Japan
258	24	Welcome to Shelbyville	Kim A. Snyder	May 24, 2011 (2011-05-24)
Subject: Immigration to the United States
259	25	Two Spirits	Lydia Nibley	June 14, 2011 (2011-06-14)
Subject: Two-Spirit people

Season 13 (2011–12)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
260	1	Wham! Bam! Islam!	Isaac Solotaroff	October 13, 2011 (2011-10-13)
Subject: The 99
261	2	Donor Unknown	Jerry Rothwell	October 20, 2011 (2011-10-20)
Subject: Donor conceived person
262	3	Lives Worth Living	Eric Neudel	October 27, 2011 (2011-10-27)
Subject: Disability rights movement
263	4	Deaf Jam	Judy Lieff	November 3, 2011 (2011-11-03)
Subject: Deaf Poetry slam
264	5	We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân	Anne Makepeace	November 17, 2011 (2011-11-17)
Subject: Saving the language of the Wampanoag people
265	6	The Woodmans	C. Scott Willis	December 22, 2011 (2011-12-22)
Subject: Francesca Woodman
266	7	These Amazing Shadows	Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton	December 29, 2011 (2011-12-29)
Subject: National Film Registry
267	8	Have You Heard From Johannesburg? - Episode 1: The Road to Resistance	Connie Field	January 12, 2012 (2012-01-12)
Subject: South Africa under apartheid
268	9	Have You Heard From Johannesburg? - Episode 2: The New Generation	Connie Field	January 12, 2012 (2012-01-12)
Subject: South Africa under apartheid
269	10	Have You Heard From Johannesburg? - Episode 3: From Selma to Soweto	Connie Field	January 19, 2012 (2012-01-19)
Subject: South Africa under apartheid
270	11	Have You Heard From Johannesburg? - Episode 4: The Bottom Line	Connie Field	January 19, 2012 (2012-01-19)
Subject: South Africa under apartheid
271	12	Have You Heard From Johannesburg? - Episode 5: Free at Last	Connie Field	January 26, 2012 (2012-01-26)
Subject: South Africa under apartheid
272	13	Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock	Sharon La Cruise	February 2, 2012 (2012-02-02)
Subject: Daisy Bates (civil rights activist)
273	14	Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975	Goran Hugo Olsson	February 9, 2012 (2012-02-09)
Subject: Black Power movement
274	15	More Than a Month	Shukree Hassan Tilghman	February 16, 2012 (2012-02-16)
Subject: Black History Month
275	16	You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't	Scott Kirschenbaum	March 29, 2012 (2012-03-29)
Subject: Living with Alzheimer's disease
276	17	Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey	Constance Marks	April 5, 2012 (2012-04-05)
Subject: Kevin Clash and Elmo
277	18	When the Drum is Beating	Whitney Dow	April 12, 2012 (2012-04-12)
Subject: Septentrional and the Music of Haiti
278	19	Revenge of the Electric Car	Chris Paine	April 19, 2012 (2012-04-19)
Subject: The re-emergence of the Electric car
279	20	Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison	Doug Hawes-Davis	April 26, 2012 (2012-04-26)
Subject: American bison
280	21	Circo	Aaron Schock	May 3, 2012 (2012-05-03)
Subject: Mexican Circus family
281	22	Summer Pasture	Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Tsering Perlo	May 10, 2012 (2012-05-10)
Subject: Nomads in Eastern Tibet
282	23	Precious Knowledge	Ari Luis Palos	May 17, 2012 (2012-05-17)
Subject: Controversy over Ethnic studies in Arizona
283	25	Left by the Ship	Emma Rossi Landi and Alberto Vendemmiati	May 24, 2012 (2012-05-24)
Subject: Amerasian children in the Philippines
284	24	Hell and Back Again	Danfung Dennis	May 28, 2012 (2012-05-28)
Subject: Sgt. Nathan Harris, veteran of the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
285	26	We Were Here	David Weissman	June 14, 2012 (2012-06-14)
Subject: The AIDS crisis in San Francisco
286	27	Strong!	Julie Wyman	July 26, 2012 (2012-07-26)
Subject: Former U.S. Olympic weightlifting team member Cheryl Haworth

Season 14 (2012–13)

"Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide" was a special co-presentation between Independent Lens and Show of Force.
Episode 1410 "Kind Hearted Woman" is a co-presentation with the PBS series Frontline.

No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
--	Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide	Maro Chermayeff, Jamie Gordon, and Mikaela Beardsley	October 1, 2012 (2012-10-01)
Subject: Half the Sky movement and Women's rights
1	As Goes Janesville	Brad Lichtenstein	October 8, 2012 (2012-10-08)
Subject: Controversy over 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 and effects of 2008–2012 global recession in Janesville, Wisconsin
2	Love Free or Die	Macky Alston	October 29, 2012 (2012-10-29)
Subject: Gene Robinson and Homosexuality and Anglicanism
3	Solar Mamas	Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief	November 5, 2012 (2012-11-05)
Subject: Barefoot College and Women's rights
4	Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream	Alex Gibney	November 12, 2012 (2012-11-12)
Subject: Wealth inequality in the United States and power
5	Soul Food Junkies	Byron Hurt	January 14, 2013 (2013-01-14)
Subject: Soul food and Obesity in the United States
6	Beauty is Embarrassing	Neil Berkeley	January 21, 2013 (2013-01-21)
Subject: Wayne White (artist)
7	The Revisionaries	Scott Thurman	January 28, 2013 (2013-01-28)
Subject: Texas Education Agency and Intelligent design in politics
8	The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights	Bonnie Boswell, Christine Khalafian, and Taylor Hamilton	February 18, 2013 (2013-02-18)
Subject: Whitney Young
9	Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry	Alison Klayman	February 25, 2013 (2013-02-25)
Subject: Ai Weiwei
10	Kind Hearted Woman	David R. Sutherland	April 1, 2013 (2013-04-01)
Subject: Domestic violence in Oglala Lakota community.
11	The House I Live In	Eugene Jarecki	April 8, 2013 (2013-04-08)
Subject: America's War on Drugs
12	Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines	Kristy Guevara-Flanagan	April 15, 2013 (2013-04-15)
Subject: History of Wonder Woman and other female super heroes.
13	The Island President	Jon Shenk	April 22, 2013 (2013-04-22)
Subject: Mohamed Nasheed and Climate change
14	The Undocumented	Marco Williams	April 29, 2013 (2013-04-29)
Subject: Illegal immigration to the United States
15	Seeking Asian Female	Debbie Lum	May 6, 2013 (2013-05-06)
Subject: Asian fetish and Mail-order bride
16	The Invisible War	Kirby Dick	May 13, 2013 (2013-05-13)
Subject: Sexual assault in the United States military
17	Detropia	Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady	May 27, 2013 (2013-05-27)
Subject: Detroit and Urban decay
18	The Revolutionary Optimists	Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen	June 17, 2013 (2013-06-17)
Subject: Children working to alleviate effects of Poverty in India

Season 15 (2013–14)

No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
1	Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey	Ramona S. Diaz	September 30, 2013 (2013-09-30)
Subject: How Arnel Pineda became lead singer of Journey
2	The Waiting Room	Pete Nicks	October 21, 2013 (2013-10-21)
Subject: Health care in the United States and Highland Hospital (Oakland, California)
3	The Graduates/Los Graduados	Bernardo Ruiz	October 28, 2013 (2013-10-28)
Subject: Latinos and high school
4	Indian Relay	Charles Dye	November 18, 2013 (2013-11-18)
Subject: Native Americans in the United States and horse racing
5	Young Lakota	Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt	November 25, 2013 (2013-11-25)
Subject: Cecilia Fire Thunder and controversy over Planned Parenthood on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
6	Playwright: From Page to Stage	Robert Levi	December 16, 2013 (2013-12-16)
Subject: Playwrights Tarell Alvin McCraney and Rajiv Joseph
7	Jiro Dreams of Sushi	David Gelb	December 23, 2013 (2013-12-23)
Subject: Sushi master chef Sukiyabashi Jiro
8	How to Survive a Plague	David France (writer)	December 30, 2013 (2013-12-30)
Subject: AIDS epidemic and grassroots activists ACT UP and TAG
9	At Berkeley	Frederick Wiseman	January 13, 2014 (2014-01-13)
Subject: University of California, Berkeley
10	Blood Brother	Steve Hoover	January 20, 2014 (2014-01-20)
Subject: AIDS orphans in India.
11	The State of Arizona	Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini	January 27, 2014 (2014-01-27)
Subject: Arizona SB 1070 and the debate over immigration in Arizona
12	Spies of Mississippi	Dawn Porter	February 10, 2014 (2014-02-10)
Subject: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and Civil rights movement
13	Las Marthas	Cristina Ibarra	February 17, 2014 (2014-02-17)
Subject: The Laredo, Texas Society of Martha Washington Debutante ball
14	All of Me	Alexandra Lescaze	March 24, 2014 (2014-03-24)
Subject: Women who met via National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
15	Medora	Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart	March 31, 2014 (2014-03-31)
Subject: High school basketball team in Medora, Indiana
16	Brothers Hypnotic	Reuben Atlas	April 7, 2014 (2014-04-07)
Subject: The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Phil Cohran
17	The Trials of Muhammad Ali	Bill Siegel	April 14, 2014 (2014-04-14)
Subject: Muhammad Ali's refusal to serve in Vietnam War and subsequent ban from boxing
18	Muscle Shoals	Greg Camalier	April 21, 2014 (2014-04-21)
Subject: The famous Muscle Shoals, Alabama music studios FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
19	A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The New York Times	Samantha Grant	May 5, 2014 (2014-05-05)
Subject: Jayson Blair, The New York Times, and plagiarism
20	Let the Fire Burn	Jason Osder	May 12, 2014 (2014-05-12)
Subject: 1985 standoff between MOVE and Philadelphia Police Department
21	God Loves Uganda	Roger Ross Williams	May 19, 2014 (2014-05-19)
Subject: International House of Prayer's efforts to spread Christianity and promote Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill
22	The New Black	Yoruba Richen	June 16, 2014 (2014-06-16)
Subject: African American divide on Same-sex marriage in Maryland and Maryland Question 6

Season 16 (2014–15)

^[3]

No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
1	Bully	Lee Hirsch	October 13, 2014 (2014-10-13)
Subject: Bullying in United States schools
2	Twin Sisters	Mona Friis Bertheussen	October 20, 2014 (2014-10-20)
Subject: Twins adoption from China to the United States and Norway
3	Brakeless	Kyoko Miyake	October 27, 2014 (2014-10-27)
Subject: Amagasaki rail crash in Japan
4	Powerless	Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar	November 3, 2014 (2014-11-03)
Subject: Kanpur, India and Electricity sector in India
5	Happiness	Thomas Balmès	November 17, 2014 (2014-11-17)
Subject: When television and internet came to Bhutan
6	Rich Hill	Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos	January 5, 2015 (2015-01-05)
Subject: Challenges, hopes, and dreams of three young residents of a rural, impoverished American town
7	Evolution of a Criminal	Darius Clark Monroe	January 12, 2015 (2015-01-12)
Subject: Filmmaker explores the Bank robbery he committed as a teenager
8	The Kill Team	Dan Krauss	January 19, 2015 (2015-01-19)
Subject: Maywand District murders during the War in Afghanistan
9	A Path Appears	Maro Chermayeff	January 26, 2015 (2015-01-26)
Subject: Sequel to the series based on Half the Sky, as Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn track stories of women overcoming gender-based oppression, sexual violence and sex trafficking
10	Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People	Thomas Allen Harris	February 16, 2015 (2015-02-16)
Subject: African American photography from American Civil War to present
11	American Denial	Llewellyn Smith, Christine Herbes-Sommers, and Kelly Thomson	February 23, 2015 (2015-02-23)
Subject: Gunnar Myrdal and unconscious racism in the United States of America
12	Little White Lie	Lacey Schwartz Delgado	March 23, 2015 (2015-03-23)
Subject: A Jewish filmmaker discovers she may also be African-American
13	Little Hope Was Arson	Theo Love	April 6, 2015 (2015-04-06)
Subject: 2010 East Texas church burnings
14	The Homestretch	Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly	April 13, 2015 (2015-04-13)
Subject: Homeless teenagers in Chicago
15	The Great Invisible	Margaret Brown	April 20, 2015 (2015-04-20)
Subject: BP oil spill in the Gulf in 2010 and its aftermath
?	After the Storm	?	April 27, 2015 (2015-04-27)
Subject: "tells the story of what happens in the wake of a devastating tornado that ripped through central Alabama in 2011"
16	Kumu Hina	Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson	May 4, 2015 (2015-05-04)
Subject: Transgender Hawaiian teacher
17	Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity	Catherine Gund	May 11, 2015 (2015-05-11)
Subject: Choreographer Elizabeth Streb
18	1971	Johanna Hamilton	May 18, 2015 (2015-05-18)
Subject: Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI, FBI and COINTELPRO
19	Limited Partnership	Thomas G. Miller and Kirk Marcolina	June 15, 2015 (2015-06-15)
Subject: On one of the first Same-sex marriages, a couple then denied legal status by Immigration and Naturalization Service
?	In the Shadow of Ebola	Sarita Siegel and Gregg Mitman	June 22, 2015 (2015-06-22)
Subject:

Season 17 (2015–16)

^[4]

No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
?	Immigration Battle	Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini	October 20, 2015 (2015-10-20)
1	Stray Dog	Debra Granik	November 9, 2015 (2015-11-09)
2	India's Daughter	Leslee Udwin	November 16, 2015 (2015-11-16)
3	Mimi and Dona	Sophie Sartain	November 23, 2015 (2015-11-23)
4	East of Salinas	Laura Pacheco and Jackie Mow	December 28, 2015 (2015-12-28)
5	Chuck Norris vs Communism	Ilinca Calugareanu	January 4, 2016 (2016-01-04)
6	Autism in Love	Matt Fuller	January 11, 2016 (2016-01-11)
7	In Football We Trust	Tony Vainuku and Erika Cohn	January 25, 2016 (2016-01-25)
8	No Más Bebés (No More Babies)	Renee Tajima-Peña	February 1, 2016 (2016-02-01)
9	A Ballerina's Tale	Nelson George	February 8, 2016 (2016-02-08)
10	The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution	Stanley Nelson	February 16, 2016 (2016-02-16)
11	(T)ERROR	Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe	February 22, 2016 (2016-02-22)
12	Wilhemina's War	June Cross	February 29, 2016 (2016-02-29)
13	An Honest Liar	Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein	March 28, 2016 (2016-03-28)
14	Welcome to Leith	Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker	April 4, 2016 (2016-04-04)
15	Democrats	Camilla Nielsson	April 18, 2016 (2016-04-18)
16	My Nazi Legacy	David Evans	May 2, 2016 (2016-05-02)
17	Peace Officer	Brad Barber and Scott Christopherson	May 9, 2016 (2016-05-09)
18	The Armor of Light	Abigail Disney	May 10, 2016 (2016-05-10)
19	Dogtown Redemption	Amir Soltani and Chihiro Wimbush	May 16, 2016 (2016-05-16)
20	Trapped	Dawn Porter	June 2016 (2016-06)
21	T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold	Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari	August 2, 2016 (2016-08-02)

Season 18 (2016–17)

^[5]

No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
1	Best of Enemies[6]	Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville	October 3, 2016 (2016-10-03)
2	Meet the Patels[7]	Ravi Patel and Geeta Patel	December 26, 2016 (2016-12-26)
3	Best and Most Beautiful Things[8]	Garrett Zevgetis	January 2, 2017 (2017-01-02)
4	Containment[9]	Robb Moss and Peter Galison	January 9, 2017 (2017-01-09)
5	What Was Ours[10]	Mat Hames	January 16, 2017 (2017-01-16)
6	The Witness[11]	James Solomon	January 23, 2017 (2017-01-23)
7	Birth of a Movement[12]	Susan Gray and Bestor Cram	February 6, 2017 (2017-02-06)
8	Accidental Courtesy[13]	Matt Ornstein	February 13, 2017 (2017-02-13)
9	TOWER[14]	Keith Maitland	February 14, 2017 (2017-02-14)
10	The Bad Kids[15]	Lou Pepe and Keith Fulton	March 20, 2017 (2017-03-20)
11	Ovarian Psycos[16]	Kate Trumbull-LaValle and Joanna Sokolowski	March 27, 2017 (2017-03-27)
12	Newtown[17]	Kim A. Snyder	April 3, 2017 (2017-04-03)
13	SEED: The Untold Story[18]	Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel	April 17, 2017 (2017-04-17)
14	The Last Laugh[19]	Ferne Pearlstein	April 24, 2017 (2017-04-24)
15	National Bird[20]	Sonia Kennebeck	May 1, 2017 (2017-05-01)
16	The Prison in Twelve Landscapes[21]	Brett Story	May 8, 2017 (2017-05-08)
17	Forever Pure[22]	Maya Zinshtein	May 15, 2017 (2017-05-15)
18	They Call Us Monsters[23]	Ben Lear	May 22, 2017 (2017-05-22)
19	Farmer/Veteran[24]	D.L. Anderson, Alexandra Blair and Jeremy Lange	May 29, 2017 (2017-05-29)
20	Real Boy[25]	Shaleece Haas and Charlotte Lagarde	June 19, 2017 (2017-06-19)

Season 19 (2017–18)

^[5]

No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
1	Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary[26]	John Scheinfeld	November 6, 2017 (2017-11-06)
The great saxophonist John Coltrane, the man and the musical artist.
2	Shadow World[27]	Johan Grimonprez	November 20, 2017 (2017-11-20)
The billion-dollar global arms trade.
3	Supergirl[28]	Jessie Auritt	December 18, 2017 (2017-12-18)
The story of Naomi Kutin, an ordinary Orthodox Jewish pre-teen with extraordinary powerlifting talent.
4	The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin[29]	Jennifer Kroot	January 1, 2018 (2018-01-01)
The story of writer Armistead Maupin, whose Tales of the City series inspired millions to claim their own truth.
5	Unrest[30]	Jennifer Brea	January 8, 2018 (2018-01-08)
Filmmaker Jennifer Brea's struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
6	I Am Not Your Negro[31]	Raoul Peck	January 15, 2018 (2018-01-15)
The book James Baldwin never finished is envisioned to examine race in America then and now.
7	The Force[32]	Peter Nicks	January 22, 2018 (2018-01-22)
Inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles with demands for reform during tumultuous times.
8	I Am Another You[33]	Nanfu Wang	January 29, 2018 (2018-01-29)
A charismatic young homeless drifter who left a comfortable home life for a life on the road.
9	Winnie[34]	Pascale Lamche	February 5, 2018 (2018-02-05)
The overshadowed life of Winnie Mandela and her contributions to bring down apartheid from the inside.
10	Tell Them We Are Rising[35]	Stanley Nelson Jr. and Marco Williams	February 19, 2018 (2018-02-19)
The pivotal role historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have played over the course of 150 years in American history, culture, and identity.
11	Rat Film[36]	Theo Anthony	February 26, 2018 (2018-02-26)
The history of Baltimore via the rat and the city's connection between infestations and economic inequity.
12	Dolores[37]	Peter Bratt	March 27, 2018 (2018-03-27)
Activist icon Dolores Huerta, who led the fight for racial and labor justice.
13	When God Sleeps[38]	Till Schauder	April 2, 2018 (2018-04-02)
A rap-punk-rock documentary about Iranian musician Shahin Najafi, who is forced into hiding after hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death.
14	The Art of the Shine[39]	Stacey Tenenbaum	April 9, 2018 (2018-04-09)
An intimate look at the people around the world who restore dignity and delight to a forgotten profession.
15	What Lies Upstream[40]	Cullen Hoback	April 16, 2018 (2018-04-16)
The 2014 Elk River chemical spill (the unprecedented loss of clean water for over 300,000 people in West Virginia).
16	Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky[41]	Laura Dunn	April 23, 2018 (2018-04-23)
Rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, through the eyes of beloved poet and farmer Wendell Berry.
17	True Conviction[42]	Jamie Meltzer	April 30, 2018 (2018-04-30)
After a combined 60 years in prison before exoneration, 3 Texans form a detective agency to free other innocent people.
18	No Man's Land[43]	David Byars	May 7, 2018 (2018-05-07)
The 2016 standoff between protesters in Oregon's Malheur Refuge and federal authorities.
19	ACORN and the Firestorm[44]	Reuben Atlas and Sam Pollard	May 21, 2018 (2018-05-21)
A sting to bring down community organizers sets off media frenzy affecting real people on all sides of political divide.
20	Served Like a Girl[45]	Lysa Heslov	May 28, 2018 (2018-05-28)
A group of women veterans as they transition from active US military duty to civilian life with its challenges, and their participation in the "Ms. Veteran America" competition.

Season 20 (2018–19)

^[46]

No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original release date
1	"Wildland"[47]	Alex Jablonski and Kahlil Hudson	October 29, 2018 (2018-10-29)
A firefighting crew training to battle nature's most extraordinary force.
2	"Dawnland"[48]	Adam Mazo and Ben Pender-Cudlip	November 5, 2018 (2018-11-05)
An untold story of indigenous child removal, the stakes of family separation policy are no less than cultural survival.
3	"The Cleaners"[49]	Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block	November 12, 2018 (2018-11-12)
The shadow industry of "content moderators", hired by Silicon Valley leaders to control what we see online. (Duration: 86 min.)
4	"The Judge"[50]	Erika Cohn	November 19, 2018 (2018-11-19)
The story of the first-ever female judge in Palestine's religious courts who overcame a male-dominated tradition to change minds. (Duration: 81 min.)
5	"Man on Fire"[51]	Joel Fendelman	December 17, 2018 (2018-12-17)
A community deals with the aftermath of a shocking public suicide.
6	"My Country No More"[52]	Rita Baghdadi and Jeremiah Hammerling	January 7, 2019 (2019-01-07)
The human cost of the oil boom seen through the intimate lens of a family fighting for their agricultural way of life.
7	"Rodents of Unusual Size"[53]	Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer	January 14, 2019 (2019-01-14)
The story of the introduction of nutria (20-pound rodents) to Louisiana and the creative efforts being used in the attempts to eradicate them.
8	"RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World"[54]	Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana	January 21, 2019 (2019-01-21)
The electric story of how Native American influence shaped rock and roll, a missing chapter in music history. (Duration: 86 min.)
9A	"The King"[55]	Eugene Jarecki	January 28, 2019 (2019-01-28)
Climb into Elvis's 1963 Rolls-Royce for a musical road trip and meditation on modern America. (Duration: 107 min.)
9B	"Accident, MD"[56] (short)	Dan Rybicky	January 28, 2019 (2019-01-28)
A short documentary about America's healthcare crisis as seen in the town of Accident, Maryland during the summer before the 2016 election. (Duration: 8 min.)
10	"Black Memorabilia"[57]	Chico Colvard	February 4, 2019 (2019-02-04)
A look at those who reproduce, consume and reclaim racially-charged memorabilia.
11	"Won't You Be My Neighbor?"[58]	Morgan Neville	February 9, 2019 (2019-02-09)
An intimate look at America's favorite neighbor: Mister Rogers.
12A	"Hale County This Morning, This Evening"[59]	RaMell Ross	February 11, 2019 (2019-02-11)
A journey through the world of Hale County, Alabama, an intimate glimpse into the southern black experience. (Nominated for an Academy Award; Timeslot: 90 min.)
12B	"While I Yet Live"[60] (short)	Maris Curran	February 11, 2019 (2019-02-11)
A short documentary about five acclaimed quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama as they are quilting and talk about love, religion and their fight for civil rights.
13	"People's Republic of Desire"[61]	Hao Wu	February 25, 2019 (2019-02-25)
The stunning but lonely world of Chinese live-streaming "showrooms". (Timeslot: 90 min.)
14	"Tre Maison Dasan"[62]	Denali Tiller	April 1, 2019 (2019-04-01)
Life with a parent in prison through eyes of their children. (Timeslot: 90 min.)
15	"The Providers"[63]	Laura Green & Anna Moot-Levin	April 8, 2019 (2019-04-08)
Three rural healthcare providers try to make a difference in the lives of their patients against overwhelming odds. (Timeslot: 90 min.)
16	"Marcos Doesn't Live Here Anymore"[64]	David Sutherland	April 15, 2019 (2019-04-15)
This documentary examines the US immigration system through the eyes of a couple (a decorated US Marine veteran and her undocumented husband) separated by deportation. (A special presentation of Independent Lens, FRONTLINE and VOCES; Timeslot: 120 min.)
17	"Charm City"[65]	Marilyn Ness	April 22, 2019 (2019-04-22)
Meet the people working to stem the tide of violence in Baltimore, in Marilyn Ness's acclaimed documentary. (Timeslot: 90 min.)
18	"Out of State"[66]	Ciara Lacy	May 6, 2019 (2019-05-06)
Follows the journeys of native Hawaiians in a prison thousands of miles from home.
19	"Harvest Season"[67]	Bernardo Ruiz	May 13, 2019 (2019-05-13)
Documentary spotlights California's Latino winemakers and the migrant workers behind every bottle. (Timeslot: 90 min.)
20	"Wrestle"[68]	Suzannah Herbert & Lauren Belfer	May 20, 2019 (2019-05-20)
An intimate and inspiring portrait of an Alabama high school wrestling team as they face challenges on and off the mat. (Timeslot: 90 min.)

Season 21 (2019–20)

^[69]

Prod. code[70]	style="background-color:#475A27; color: #ffffff;"|No. in season !! style="background-color:#475A27; color: #ffffff;"|Title !! style="background-color:#475A27; color: #ffffff;"|Directed by !! style="background-color:#475A27; color: #ffffff; width:112px;"|Original airdate
2101	1	"Made in Boise"[71]	Beth Aala	October 29, 2019 (2019-10-29)
Four surrogates carry children for intended parents, developing bonds like no other. (Timeslot: 90 min.)
2102[72]	2	"Decade of Fire"[73]	Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran	November 4, 2019 (2019-11-04)
Discover why the Bronx burned in the 1970s displacing a quarter-million residents and meet those who chose to resist, remain and rebuild.
2103	3	"The Interpreters"[74]	Andrés Caballero and Sofian Khan	November 11, 2019 (2019-11-11)
Meet local interpreters who helped US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, now in danger themselves.
2104	4A	"Conscience Point"[75]	Treva Wurmfeld	November 18, 2019 (2019-11-18)
Development in the Hamptons of Long Island, including mega-mansions and the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club built atop a sacred burial ground, triggers a woman's relentless fight to protect her tribe, the Shinnecock Indian Nation, from the onslaughts of development. (Duration: 74 min.)
-	4B	"Jewel's Hunt"[76] (short)	Alexandra Stergiou	November 18, 2019 (2019-11-18)
Sixteen-year-old high school student Jewel Wilson explores what it means to come of age as an Inupiat subsistence hunter in Unalakleet, Alaska. (Timeslot: 15 min.)
2105	5	"Attla"[77]	Catharine Axley	December 16, 2019 (2019-12-16)
The inspiring true story of the one-good-legged legendary Alaska Native dogsled champion George Attla is woven with his coming out of retirement to train his twenty-year-old grandnephew, Joe Bifelt, to compete in one of the world's largest dogsled sprint races.
2106	6	"A Day in the Life of America"[78]	Jared Leto	January 11, 2020 (2020-01-11)
Shot over the course of 2017 Independence Day, the film depicts glimpses into the diversity and division of the United States.
2107	7	"The First Rainbow Coalition"[79]	Ray Santisteban	January 27, 2020 (2020-01-27)
The Chicago Black Panther Party, the Latino group Young Lords Organization, and the Young Patriots Organization band together to confront issues such as police brutality and substandard housing.
2108	8	"Cooked: Survival by Zip Code"[80]	Judith Helfand	February 3, 2020 (2020-02-03)
The July 1995 heat wave in Chicago claimed 739 lives in a single week, and became the most traumatic heat wave in U.S. history.
2109	9	"Leftover Women"[81]	shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia	February 10, 2020 (2020-02-10)
Three modern women search for Mr. Right before Chinese society deems them 'leftover' for putting jobs ahead of marriage.
2110	10	"We Believe in Dinosaurs"[82]	Monica Long Ross and Clayton Brown	February 17, 2020 (2020-02-17)
The Bible and science collide over a Kentucky creationism museum and a $120 million Noah's Ark-inspired theme park.
2111	11	"Always in Season"[83]	Jacqueline Olive	February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24)
The suspicious death of Lennon Lacy and a mother's quest for truth.
2112	12	"One Child Nation"	Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang	March 30, 2020 (2020-03-30)
Explores the devastating impacts of China's one-child policy.
2113	13	"Bedlam"[84]	Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, M.D.	April 13, 2020 (2020-04-13)
Examines the mental health crisis through intimate stories of people in-and-out of ERs, jails and homeless camps.
2114	14	"The Hottest August"[85]	Brett Story	April 20, 2020 (2020-04-20)
Raises the specter of our changing climate with interviews from ordinary New Yorkers sharing their anxieties about the future.
2115	15	"Jim Allison: Breakthrough"[86]	Bill Haney	April 27, 2020 (2020-04-27)
Nobel Prize-winning immunologist James P. Allison went from small-town Texas to taking on the medical establishment.
2116	16	"Rewind"	Sasha Joseph Neulinger	May 11, 2020 (2020-05-11)
A vivid but ultimately hopeful portrait of a family plagued by a vicious cycle of abuse.
2117	17	"Eating Up Easter"	Sergio M. Rapu	May 25, 2020 (2020-05-25)
Rapa Nui is facing increasing challenges to preserve its culture and environment from tourism and modern society.
2118	18	"Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project"	Matt Wolf	June 15, 2020 (2020-06-15)
Radical activist-turned-recluse Marion Stokes videotaped everything on TV for thirty years in the name of truth.
2119	19	"Pipe Dreams"	Stacey Tenenbaum	June 22, 2020 (2020-06-22)
A new generation of talented young musicians compete in the world's most prestigious pipe organ competition.

Season 22 (2020–21)

^[69]

Prod. code[70]	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original airdate
2201	1	"Feels Good Man"[87]	Arthur Jones	October 19, 2020 (2020-10-19)
Chronicles the surreal story of Pepe the Frog's journey from laid-back cartoon character to registered hate symbol.
2202	2	"Represent"[88]	Hillary Bachelder	October 26, 2020 (2020-10-26)
Leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, three midwestern women tackle politics on their own terms.
2203	3	"Jonathan Scott's Power Trip"[89]	Jonathan Scott (television personality)	November 16, 2020 (2020-11-16)
Property Brothers' Jonathan Scott journeys across the U.S. to uncover why solar energy isn't available to all.
2204	4	"Belly of the Beast"[90]	Erika Cohn	November 23, 2020 (2020-11-23)
Two women investigate a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women's prisons and battle the Department of Corrections.
2205	5	"A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem"[91]	Yu Gu	January 4, 2021 (2021-01-04)
Two brave cheerleaders battle the massive, male-dominated sports league the NFL for recognition, and a raise.
2206	6	"A Day in the Life of America"[78]	Jared Leto	January 11, 2021 (2021-01-11)
Shot over the course of 2017 Independence Day, the film depicts glimpses into the diversity and division of the United States.
2207	7	"9to5: The Story of a Movement"[92]	Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar	February 1, 2021 (2021-02-01)
Captures the real-life fight that inspired a hit and changed the American workplace.
2208	8	"Women in Blue"[93]	Deirdre Fishel	February 8, 2021 (2021-02-08)
Female officers in the Minneapolis Police Department fight for gender equity and police reform from the inside.
2209	9	"Mr. SOUL!"[94]	Melissa Haizlip	February 22, 2021 (2021-02-22)
Explores the first nationally broadcast all-Black variety show on public television, Ellis Haizlip's SOUL!
2210	10	"Coded Bias"[95]	Shalini Kantayya	March 22, 2021 (2021-03-22)
Exposes prejudices and threats to civil liberty in facial recognition algorithms and artificial intelligence.
2211	11	"Down a Dark Stairwell"[96]	Ursula Liang	April 12, 2021 (2021-04-12)
A Chinese American cop's (Peter Liang) killing of Akai Gurley, an innocent Black man, sets two marginalized communities to seek racial justice.
2212	12	"Philly D.A."[97]	Ted Passon, Yoni Brook and Nicole Salazar	April 20, 2021 (2021-04-20)
Eight-part inside look at the tumultuous first term of Philadelphia's unapologetic progressive District Attorney, Larry Krasner.
2213	13	"The Donut King"	Alice Gu	May 21, 2021 (2021-05-21)
Meet the Donut King, Ted Ngoy, the Cambodian refugee who built a multi-million-dollar empire baking America's favorite pastry.
2214	14	"Two Gods"	Zeshawn Ali and Aman Ali	June 21, 2021 (2021-06-21)
Portrait of community, faith, and healing through the eyes of a Muslim casket maker and his mentees.
2215	15	"The People vs. Agent Orange"	Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna	June 28, 2021 (2021-06-28)
Two women, one American and one Vietnamese, fight to hold the chemical industry accountable for a devastating legacy.

Season 23 (2021–22)

^[98]

Prod. code[70]	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original airdate
2301	1	"Cured"[99]	Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer	October 11, 2021 (2021-10-11)
When homosexuality was considered a mental illness to be "cured", LGBTQ+ activists fought back.
2302	2	"Ferguson Rises"[100]	Mobolaji Olambiwonnu	November 8, 2021 (2021-11-08)
Michael Brown Sr. seeks justice after a white police officer kills his son in Ferguson.
2303	3	"Storm Lake"[101]	Jerry Risius and Beth Levison	November 15, 2021 (2021-11-15)
Inside the family-run newspaper keeping local journalism alive.
2304	4	"Duty Free"[102]	Sian-Pierre Regis	November 22, 2021 (2021-11-22)
Fired from a lifelong job, a 75-year-old mom teams up with her son to reclaim her future through bucket list adventures.
2305	5	"Home from School: The Children of Carlisle"[103]	Geoffrey O'Gara	November 23, 2021 (2021-11-23)
130 years after Native American boys died at an Indian boarding school, their tribe tries to bring them home.
2306	6	"A Reckoning in Boston"[104]	James Rutenbeck	January 17, 2022 (2022-01-17)
A white filmmaker collaborates with Clemente Course students of color to reckon with Boston's racial history.
2307	7	"Missing in Brooks County"[105]	Lisa Molomot and Jeff Bemiss	January 31, 2022 (2022-01-31)
The deadliest part of a migrant's journey is just beyond the border. For those missing, one man offers a last hope.
2308	8	"Owned: A Tale of Two Americas"[106]	Giorgio Angelini	February 7, 2022 (2022-02-07)
Exposé on how the American housing policy market has been manipulated for years in discriminatory ways.
2309	9	"Bulletproof"[107]	Todd Chandler	February 14, 2022 (2022-02-14)
In an era of mass shootings, take a provocative look at what Americans will do to feel safe in schools.
2310	10	"Apart"[108]	Jennifer Redfearn	February 21, 2022 (2022-02-21)
In a country leading the world in incarcerating women, three mothers fight to rebuild their lives.
2311	11	"Writing with Fire"[109]	Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh	March 28, 2022 (2022-03-28)
Meet the fearless women journalists of India's only all-female newspaper. It was the first Indian film nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.
2312	12	"AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness"[110]	Frauke Sandig and Eric Black	April 25, 2022 (2022-04-25)
Brilliant researchers go on a journey to investigate the mysteries of consciousness.
2313	13	"Try Harder!"[111]	Debbie Lum	May 2, 2022 (2022-05-02)
At San Francisco's academic pressure cooker Lowell High School, stressed-out seniors chase college dreams.
2314	14	"When Claude Got Shot"	Brad Lichtenstein	May 9, 2022 (2022-05-09)
After being shot in the face by a teenager, can law student Claude find it in himself to forgive his attacker?
2315	15	"Scenes from the Glittering World"	Jared Jakins	May 16, 2022 (2022-05-16)
On the Navajo Nation reservation, Indigenous teens at one of the most remote schools in America plan their futures.

Season 24 (2022–23)

^[98]

Prod. code[70]	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original airdate
2401	1	"Hazing"[112]	Byron Hurt	September 12, 2022 (2022-09-12)
Explores how abusive rituals reflect our desire to belong—even if taken to sometimes deadly lengths.
2402	2	"TikTok, Boom."[113]	Shalini Kantayya	October 24, 2022 (2022-10-24)
Explores the power and complexity of technology through the lens of TikTok and the Gen Z influencers who know it best.
2403	3	"Move Me"[114]	Kelsey Peterson and Daniel Klein	November 7, 2022 (2022-11-07)
A dancer paralyzed with a spinal cord injury tests the limits of her recovery while adapting to life with a disability.
2404	4	"Children of Las Brisas"[115]	Marianela Maldonado	January 2, 2023 (2023-01-02)
In Venezuela, the power of music is put to the test for El Sistema youth orchestra.
2405	5	"The Big Payback"[116]	Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow	January 16, 2023 (2023-01-16)
The passage of the first-ever tax-funded reparations bill for Black Americans stirs up a debate.
2406	6	"No Straight Lines"[117]	Vivian Kleiman	January 23, 2023 (2023-01-23)
Five queer comic book artists journey from the underground comix scene to mainstream acceptance.
2407	7	"The Picture Taker"[118]	Phil Bertelsen	January 30, 2023 (2023-01-30)
The vibrant life of Ernest Withers—civil rights photographer, and FBI informant—was anything but black and white.
2408	8	"Outta the Muck"[119]	Ira McKinley and Bhawin Suchak	February 7, 2022 (2022-02-07)
The people of Pahokee, Florida rise "outta the muck" to celebrate family history and big-time football.
2409	9	"Love in the Time of Fentanyl"[120]	Colin Askey	February 13, 2023 (2023-02-13)
A supervised drug consumption site gives hope to a marginalized community ravaged by the overdose crisis.
2410	10	"Storming Caesars Palace"[121]	Hazel Gurland-Pooler	March 20, 2023 (2023-03-20)
How Vegas activist Ruby Duncan's grassroots movement of moms fought for basic income guarantee.
2411	11	"Hidden Letters"[122]	Violet Du Feng and Zhao Qing	March 27, 2023 (2023-03-27)
Modern women in China keep alive the tradition of Nüshu, a secret written language.
2412	12	"Free Chol Soo Lee"[123]	Julie Ha and Eugene Yi	April 24, 2023 (2023-04-24)
The rollercoaster life story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant wrongfully convicted of murder.
2413	13	"Matter of Mind: My ALS"[124]	Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green	May 1, 2023 (2023-05-01)
Three people with ALS confront complex choices in this intimate exploration.
2414	14	"Sam Now"[125]	Reed Harkness	May 8, 2023 (2023-05-08)
Coming-of-age documentary about generational trauma follows Sam Harkness from age 11 to 36 as his middle-class Seattle family is heartbroken and unsure of what to do after his mother suddenly leaves them.
2415	15	"Silent Beauty"[126]	Jasmín Mara López	May 15, 2023 (2023-05-15)
One woman's journey to heal from childhood sexual abuse evolves into a family bonding over generational trauma.
2416	16	"Mama Bears"[127]	Daresha Kyi	June 20, 2023 (2023-06-20)
Conservative, Christian beliefs have defined their lives. Now they're championing their LGBTQ+ children.

Season 25 (2023–24)

^[98]

Prod. code[70]	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original airdate
2501	1	"Sansón and Me"[128]	Rodrigo Reyes	September 19, 2023 (2023-09-19)
The life story of an incarcerated young man, told through dramatic reenactments.
2502	2	"El Equipo"[128]	Bernardo Ruiz	October 9, 2023 (2023-10-09)
An unlikely collaboration changes the course of forensic science and international human rights.
2503	3	"Three Chaplains"[128]	David Washburn	November 7, 2023 (2023-11-07)
Muslim chaplains work for change inside the U.S. military, fighting for equality and religious freedom.
2504	4	"A Town Called Victoria"[128]	Li Lu	January 2, 2023 (2023-01-02)
When arson strikes the local mosque, Victoria, Texas must reckon with its troubled past. Three-part series.
2505	5	"Beyond Utopia"[129]	Madeleine Gavin	January 9, 2024 (2024-01-09)
The story of families who risk everything escaping North Korea.
2506	6	"Racist Trees"[129]	Sara Newens and Mina T. Son	January 22, 2024 (2024-01-22)
In Palm Springs, a historically Black neighborhood fights to remove a divisive wall of trees.
2507	7	"Razing Liberty Square"[129]	Katja Esson	January 29, 2024 (2024-01-29)
The Liberty Square public housing community in Miami becomes ground zero for climate gentrification.
2508	8	"Sister Úna Lived a Good Death"[129]	Parthiv Parekh	February 5, 2024 (2024-02-05)
A wisecracking nun with stage IV cancer teaches others that death doesn't have to be the end.
2509	9	"Breaking the News"[129]	Heather Courtney, Princess A. Hairston, and Chelsea Hernandez	February 19, 2024 (2024-02-19)
Women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch startup The 19th* to buck a broken news media system.
2510	10	"Greener Pastures"[129]	Samuel-Ali Mirpoorian	March 25, 2024 (2024-03-25)
Four Midwestern farm families persevere through climate change, industrialization, and mental health crises.
2511	11	"If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis"[130]	Ramin Bahrani	March 25, 2024 (2024-03-25)
With rural hospitals closing at alarming rates, a look at some of the people trying to get help in healthcare deserts.
2512	12	"A Thousand Pines"[131]	Sebastián Díaz Aguirre and Noam Osband	April 1, 2024 (2024-04-01)
Over the course of a season, Oaxacan guest workers plant trees across America's forests.
2513	13	"Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's"[132]	Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green	April 8, 2024 (2024-04-08)
Three individuals navigate their lives with determination in the face of Parkinson's disease.
2514	14	"One With the Whale"[133]	Jim Wickens, Peter Chelkowski, and Yaari Walker	May 1, 2024 (2024-05-01)
An Alaska Native family maintains a subsistence life on a tiny Bering Sea island where, if you don't hunt, you die.
2515	15	"Space: The Longest Goodbye"[134]	Ido Mizrahy	May 8, 2024 (2024-05-08)
NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation of a three-year-long mission to Mars.
2516	16	"The Tuba Thieves"[135]	Alison O'Daniel	May 20, 2024 (2024-05-20)
The central mystery of this unconventional documentary isn't about theft; it's about the nature of sound itself.

Season 26 (2024–25)

^[136]

Prod. code[70]	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Original airdate
2600	Short	"Wild Hogs and Saffron"[137]	Andy Sarjahani	September 16, 2024 (2024-09-16)
Short. A wild hog hunt in the Ozarks leads to a vulnerable dialogue between an Iranian American man and a childhood friend.
2601	1	"One Person, One Vote?"[137]	Maximina Juson	September 30, 2024 (2024-09-30)
A look at the Electoral College through the eyes of four presidential electors during the 2020 United States presidential election.
N–A	Short	"History of White People in America"[138]	Ed Bell, Pierce Freelon, Jonathan Halperin, Aaron Keane, and Drew Takahashi	October 7, 2024 (2024-10-07)
Musical animated series of shorts dedicated to telling diverse stories that chronicle the shaping of race relations in America.
N–A	Short	"United States of Comedy"[139]	Habib Yazdi	November 12, 2024 (2024-11-12)
Series of shorts about emerging voices in stand-up comedy from across America, each trying to make it big.
2602	2	"Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen"[137]	Manny Marquez	November 24, 2024 (2024-11-24)
A Marine Corps veteran makes it his mission to help Gold Star families of the fallen, and find healing himself.
2603–2607	3–7	"Dallas, 2019"[140]	Darius Clark Monroe	January 3, 2025 (2025-01-03)
Five-part series showing a cross section of life in Dallas the year before the pandemic hit.
2608	8	"Minted"[141]	Nicholas Bruckman	January 6, 2025 (2025-01-06)
The rise and fall of the NFT (Non-fungible token) phenomenon that transformed the art world.
2609	9	"Without Arrows"	Jonathan Olshefski and Elizabeth Day	January 13, 2025 (2025-01-13)
A champion grass dancer returns home to South Dakota after 13 years to reconnect with his Indigenous culture.
2610	10	"The Strike"	JoeBill Muñoz and Lucas Guilkey	February 3, 2025 (2025-02-03)
a small movement against solitary confinement turned into a massive 2013 California prisoner hunger strike.
2611	11	"The In Between"	Robie Flores	February 10, 2025 (2025-02-10)
A filmmaker returns to her hometown on the Mexico-United States border to reflect on growing up fronterizo.
2612	12	"Skin of Glass"	Denise Zmekhol	February 17, 2025 (2025-02-17)
How the turbulent history of a filmmaker's architect father's iconic building in São Paulo reflects Brazil's own struggles.
2613	13	"Bike Vessel"	Eric D. Seals	February 24, 2025 (2025-02-24)
A father and son take a 350-mile bike ride in a quest for health and bonding.
2614	14	"Home Court"	Erica Tanamachi	March 24, 2025 (2025-03-24)
The coming-of-age story and rise of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy.
2615	15	"We Want the Funk!"[142]	Stanley Nelson and Nicole London	April 8, 2025 (2025-04-08)
2616	16	"Free for All: The Public Library"[143]	Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor	April 29, 2025 (2025-04-29)
2617	17	"Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's"[144]	Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green	May 5, 2025 (2025-05-05)
2618	18	"And So It Begins"[145]	Ramona Diaz	May 12, 2025 (2025-05-12)
During the historic 2022 presidential race in the Philippines, a grassroots movement emerges to protect truth from growing threats to democracy and journalism.
2619	19	"Who is Michael Jang?"[146]	Michael Jacobs	May 19, 2025 (2025-05-19)
Elusive photographer Michael Jang shares his wondrous work with the world.