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The Inquisitor

The Inquisitor

Meet Barbara Jordan: a civil rights icon whose powerful voice masked a complex private life.

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  • 1Independent Lens
  • 2POV
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  • 4America's Stairway
  • 5REEL SOUTH
  • 6Film School Shorts
  • 7Short Takes
  • 8Immutable
  • 9Maine Public Film Series
  • 10PBS Short Film Festival
Crisis in Venezuela

FRONTLINE

Crisis in Venezuela

What’s next for Venezuela after the dramatic fall of Nicolás Maduro?
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POV: Unique Stories from Indie Filmmakers
Independent Lens: Bold Stories, Real Impact
Bombshell

American Experience

Bombshell

Bombshell explores how the US manipulated the narrative about the toll of the WWII atomic bombings.
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  • Finding Your Roots
  • Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
  • Great Migrations: A People on The Move
  • Gospel
  • GOSPEL Live! Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Making Black America
  • The Black Church
  • RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
  • Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
  • Africa's Great Civilizations
  • The American Revolution
  • The West
  • The Roosevelts
  • Mark Twain
  • Jackie Robinson
  • The American Buffalo
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • The Civil War
  • Country Music
  • The Vietnam War
  • The U.S. and the Holocaust
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Hemingway
  • Jazz
  • Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Central Park Five
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
  • Prohibition
  • The Statue of Liberty
  • The Congress
  • The National Parks
  • Horatio's Drive
  • The Tenth Inning
  • Huey Long
  • Lewis & Clark
  • The Dust Bowl
  • The Address
  • Thomas Hart Benton
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • The Shakers
  • The War
John Goodman on "The Big Lebowski" and Jeff Bridges

American Masters

John Goodman on "The Big Lebowski" and Jeff Bridges

Actor John Goodman talks about his work on the film, "The Big Lebowski."
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  • King of Them All: The Story of King Records
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • The Black Church
  • American Masters
  • Subcultured
  • Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
  • Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
  • Country Music
  • Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution
  • Gospel
  • Becoming Frida Kahlo
  • Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
  • Southern Storytellers
  • Chautauqua at 150: Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise
  • Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
  • Civilizations
  • Jazz
  • Hemingway
  • Emery Blagdon and His Healing Machine
  • The Bigger Picture
  • Dante: Inferno to Paradise
  • Fanny: The Right to Rock
  • James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty
  • John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
  • Charlie Russell's Old West
  • Jack Has A Plan
  • We Knew What We Had: The Greatest Jazz Story Never Told
  • The Last Mambo
  • Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
A Decent Home

America ReFramed

A Decent Home

How are the lives of mobile home park residents impacted by class and economic injustice?
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Maine Public Film Series
Deaf Theatre

The Story In Us

Deaf Theatre

A Deaf director debuts his first showcase, celebrating Deaf culture and ASL.
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Jan Beauboeuf: The Creative Spirit

REEL SOUTH

Jan Beauboeuf: The Creative Spirit

An 88-year-old artist reflects on life and creation in rural Louisiana.
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