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Documentary of the Week

Technology has made non-fiction film easier to make, more available and more popular than ever befor

Episodes

Total: 113

"The 1619 Project" adapts the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism of Nikole Hannah-Jones into a six-pa

"Nothing Lasts Forever" explores how the rise of synthetic diamonds is disrupting the longtime monop

"Body Parts" explores Hollywood's complicated history of filming nudity and sexuality. We hear from

"Roberta" chronicles how the singer of "Killing Me Softly" went from being a classically trained mus

"Angola Do You Hear Us?" follows Liza Jessie Peterson as she performs her one woman show, "The Pecul

"38 at the Garden" looks back on Jeremy Lin's phenomenal scoring streak with the New York Knicks in

In "Bad Axe," filmmaker David Siev documents his immigrant family running their restaurant during th

"Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb" looks at the relationship betwe

Joyce Chopra, who made the ground-breaking 1972 personal documentary "Joyce at 34," has published a

"To the End" follows young activists with the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats as they join fo

"2nd Chance" profiles the complicated life Richard Davis whose invention of body armor saved lives w

"Descendant" explores the legacy of the last known slave ship that arrived in Mobile, Alabama in 186

Before there was Robert Downey Jr., there was his namesake father, an underground filmmaker, who's p

"Fragments of Paradise" celebrates the life of Jonas Mekas, co-founder of New York's Anthology Film

"The Best Chef in the World" profiles Sally Schmitt, founder of the legendary restaurant The French

"Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues" explores the legendary trumpet player and singer in all his comple

Filmmaker Nausheen Dadabhoy interviews American Muslims from diverse backgrounds to create a mosaic

"The Last Out" follows several Cuban baseball players trying to emigrate to the United States to fol

In "Last Flight Home," director Ondi Timoner chronicles her entrepreneur father Eli, creator of Air

"The U.S. and the Holocaust" looks at the World War II era when many European Jews fleeing the Nazis