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Authentic stories. Extraordinary people.
- 1999-2026
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Authentic stories. Extraordinary people.
Season 26 Episode Guide
19 Episodes 2024 - 2025
Episode 1
One Person, One Vote?
Mon, Sep 30, 2024
One Person, One Vote? unveils the complexities of the Electoral College, the uniquely American and often misunderstood mechanism for electing a president.
Episode 2
Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen
Mon, Nov 11, 2024
U.S. Marine Veteran Anthony Marquez hand-carves battlefield crosses to reconnect with Gold Star families in his search for healing and peace.
Episode 3
Dallas, 2019 - Ep. 1
Fri, Jan 3, 2025
Tornados. Drive-by shootings. Environmental racism, The stark North-South Dallas economic divide. Dallas residents and city workers like City Manager T.C. Broadnax respond to the causal effects of natural and human-caused disasters.
Episode 4
Dallas, 2019 - Ep. 2
Fri, Jan 3, 2025
Dreaming of a brighter future through the eyes of three people: a graduating high school student prepares to navigate the real world; Dallas Superintendent Michael Hinojosa; and Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown.
Episode 5
Dallas, 2019 - Ep. 3
Fri, Jan 3, 2025
Three spirits with longstanding Texas roots struggle with their place in the world: a transgender woman working at an LGBTQ organization; a Dallas County Court commissioner; and the director of Health and Human Services.
Episode 6
Dallas, 2019 - Ep. 4
Fri, Jan 3, 2025
Meet a criminal district attorney bringing reform to the justice system; a judge who is dedicated to breaking cycles of incarceration; the owner of the largest bail bonds company in Dallas; and a community organizer with a mighty voice.
Episode 7
Dallas, 2019 - Ep. 5
Fri, Jan 3, 2025
Featuring intimate stories of workers and young people-the chief medical examiner, a hospital worker, an auto body shop owner, and a high school senior-who all in their own ways make Dallas what it is.
Episode 8
Minted
Mon, Jan 6, 2025
An insider's look at the rise and fall of the NFT (non-fungible token) phenomenon and how technology transformed the traditional art world, for better and worse.
Episode 9
Without Arrows
Mon, Jan 13, 2025
After 13 years living in Philadelphia, Delwin Fiddler Jr., a champion grass dancer, embraces indigenous culture by returning to his ancestral home on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota.
Episode 10
The Strike
Mon, Feb 3, 2025 85 mins
The Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary confinement, often for a decade or more, and with little due process. In 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on a hunger strike that spread into a feat of unity across California prisons.
Episode 11
The In Between
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Following her brother's death, a filmmaker returns to Eagle Pass, the Texas bordertown where she grew up, to document the places that shaped their family.
Episode 12
Skin of Glass
Mon, Feb 17, 2025
A filmmaker discovers that her architect father's building in Sao Paulo, the 24 story "Pelr de Vidro" is inhabited by unhoused people.
Episode 13
Bike Vessel
Mon, Feb 24, 2025
After several health crises, a 70-year-old man embarks on a transformative long-distance cycling trip with his son.
Episode 14
Home Court
Mon, Mar 24, 2025
Home Court is the coming-of-age story of Ashley Chea, a Cambodian American basketball prodigy in Southern California whose life intensifies as recruitment heats up.
Episode 15
We Want the Funk!
Tue, Apr 8, 2025 80 mins
A musical journey exploring funk's evolution from African, soul and jazz origins through James Brown, Parliament Funkadelic, Labelle and Fela Kuti, showing its impact on new wave and hip-hop.
Episode 16
Free for All: The Public Library
Tue, Apr 29, 2025
The women behind the "Free Library Movement" to the librarians who service the public amid the age of closures and book bans, create a civic institution that is free and open to all.
Episode 17
Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's
Mon, May 5, 2025
A portrayal of three families confronting the unique challenges of Alzheimer's, and how the disease transforms roles and relationships.
Episode 18
And So It Begins
Mon, May 12, 2025
See how the Philippines' tense race for president in 2022 became the nation's fight for its soul.
Episode 19
Who Is Michael Jang?
Mon, May 19, 2025
San Francisco photographer Michael Jang sat for decades on a hidden treasure of pictures taken in his 20s. Until now.
