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14 Episodes 2022 - 2023
Episode 1
Thu, Jul 7, 2022 30 mins
How citizens in Wuhan united to grapple with a mysterious virus called COVID-19. Featuring the stories of frontline medical workers, patients, and citizens during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city where the mysterious virus was first discovered.
Episode 2
Mon, Jul 18, 2022 30 mins
Three communities intersect, sharing histories of forced removal - Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the Manzanar WWII concentration camp, Native Americans who were forced from these lands, and ranchers turned environmentalists.
Episode 3
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 30 mins
Experience how Greenland reckons with its Danish colonial past and the promised future by a U.S. company.
Episode 4
Mon, Aug 1, 2022 30 mins
How Christine works to assure dignified lives for herself and her brother Peter, born with multiple disabilities, while she faces uncertainties about becoming his primary caregiver.
Episode 5
Mon, Aug 8, 2022 30 mins
How the new leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party Nelson Chamisa challenges the acting president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, in the 2018 general election.
Episode 6
Mon, Aug 29, 2022 120 mins
An immersion in the world of Harar, Ethiopia, where khat, a euphoria-inducing plant, holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life, Faya Dayi captures moments in the lives of everyone.
Episode 7
Mon, Sep 5, 2022 30 mins
Filmmaker Judith Helfand reflects on "new old" parenthood after she adopts a baby at the age of 50 seven months after the death of her terminally ill mother, whom she helped achieve a "good death" with home-hospice. At the same time, she reflects on the emotional connection people have with things due to boxes of her parents' stuff overwhelming her home office-turned-nursery.
Episode 8
Mon, Sep 26, 2022 30 mins
Ecological crusaders protect the island of Palawan, one of Asia's tourist hotspots. Their struggle is akin to a battlefield as they try to stop politicians and businessmen from destroying its valuable natural resources.
Episode 9
Mon, Oct 3, 2022 30 mins
Three Cuban baseball players risk exile so they can chase their dreams of playing in the major leagues.
Episode 10
Mon, Oct 10, 2022 30 mins
A prep school in Louisiana that sends all of its grads to college is rocked by scandal.
Episode 11
Mon, Oct 17, 2022 30 mins
This counter-narrative and collective memory are of the past 30 years of Muslim life in America.
Episode 12
Mon, Nov 21, 2022 30 mins
Two women who are running a makeshift clinic in Myanmar are torn apart by ethnic violence.
Episode 13
Mon, Nov 21, 2022 30 mins
An academic beacon for Black children on Chicago's South Side battles gentrification.
Episode 14
Mon, Jan 9, 2023 30 mins
A timely depiction of a newsroom in crisis, While We Watched follows tormented journalist Ravish Kumar for two years as he battles a barrage of fake news, falling ratings and the resulting cutbacks. Are there viewers for fact-based analyses anymore? Will his show survive or become a swan song of reason – drowning out in sensationalism, misinformation, and ratings-driven editorial decisions?