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Stream award-winning documentaries, independent films, and documentary shorts exploring history, science, nature, culture, journalism, and powerful real-life stories.
Stream award-winning documentaries, independent films, and documentary shorts exploring history, science, nature, culture, journalism, and powerful real-life stories.
First It Was My Dream

First It Was My Dream

Andy Dominguez, an immigrant boxer from Mexico, tries to make his mark in the boxing world.

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American Voices 2026

FRONTLINE

American Voices 2026

Following the changing views and experiences of Americans from the 2020 election to today.
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POV Documentaries: Independent Films with a Point of View
Documentaries from Independent Lens: Bold Stories, Real Impact
Paquito D'Rivera: From Carne y Frijol to Carnegie Hall

VOCES

Paquito D'Rivera: From Carne y Frijol to Carnegie Hall

A celebration of the remarkable life, career, and legacy of Latin jazz legend Paquito D’Rivera.
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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
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (EAD)

American Masters

American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (EAD)

Discover filmmaker and playwright Luis Valdez, a founding figure of the Chicano Movement.
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  • Henry David Thoreau
  • 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
  • Chautauqua at 150: Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise
  • Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
  • Southern Storytellers
  • Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
  • Jazz
  • Hemingway
  • The Bigger Picture
  • Emery Blagdon and His Healing Machine
  • Dante: Inferno to Paradise
  • Fanny: The Right to Rock
  • James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty
  • 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
  • City of a Million Dreams
  • The American Revolution
  • The Civil War
  • The American Buffalo
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Jazz
  • The U.S. and the Holocaust
  • Hemingway
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • The West
  • The Roosevelts
  • Country Music
  • Prohibition
  • Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • The Shakers
  • The War
  • The Vietnam War
  • Mark Twain
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • Central Park Five
  • 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
  • Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
A Woman on the Outside

America ReFramed

A Woman on the Outside

A story of Kristal Bush's fight against the impact of mass incarceration in Philadelphia.
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Mini Docs
Internal Peaks

Homegrown: Documentary Shorts Collection

Internal Peaks

Two Wyoming-based skiers are on a mission to make ski culture more inclusive.
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Fueling the South

REEL SOUTH

Fueling the South

Gas stations across the South reveal the people and stories sustaining rural America.
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