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Series of documentary films focusing on a wide range of social and cultural topics.
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Series of documentary films focusing on a wide range of social and cultural topics.

Original Release

08/09/1999 on PBS

US Release

08/09/1999

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Cast

(see additional cast & crew)
# Title Air Date
1 Sansón and Me Tuesday, 19 September 2023
2 El Equipo Monday, 09 October 2023
3 Three Chaplains Monday, 06 November 2023
4 A Town Called Victoria: Part 1 Monday, 13 November 2023
5 A Town Called Victoria: Part 2 Tuesday, 14 November 2023
6 A Town Called Victoria: Part 3 Wednesday, 15 November 2023
7 Beyond Utopia Tuesday, 09 January 2024
8 Racist Trees Monday, 22 January 2024
9 Razing Liberty Square Monday, 29 January 2024
10 Sister Úna Lived a Good Death Monday, 05 February 2024
11 Breaking the News Monday, 19 February 2024
12 Greener Pastures Monday, 25 March 2024
13 A Thousand Pines Monday, 01 April 2024
14 Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's Monday, 08 April 2024
15 One with the Whale Tuesday, 23 April 2024
16 Space: The Longest Goodbye Monday, 06 May 2024
17 The Tuba Thieves
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Directors

Connie Field, Steven Bognar, Geeta Vasant Patel, Julia Reichert, Marco Williams, Yoni Brook, Tracy Droz Tragos, Erika Cohn, Robert Levi, Ramona S. Diaz, Matthew Buzzell, Llewellyn M. Smith, Margaret Brown, Bo Boudart, Gary Hustwit, Dawn Porter, Johnny Symons, Byron Hurt, Daniel Junge, John Whitehead, Jamie Meltzer, Nicole Newnham, Whitney Dow, Alicia Dwyer, Musa Syeed, Morgan Neville, Stanley Nelson, Bill Siegel, Macky Alston, Mat Hames, Alex Gibney, Maggie Bowman, Frederick Wiseman, Travis Tom, Cody Cayou, Susanne Mason, Lisette Marie Flanary, Gwendolen Cates, Siatta Scott Johnson, Sachithanandam Sathananthan, Mark Moormann, Amy Foote, Jim Bigham, Chris Billing, Jeremiah Hayes, Jim Granato, Juan Mandelbaum, Apollo Payne, Lisa Merton, Senain Kheshgi, Monika Navarro, James Rutenbeck, Holly Maxson, Marion Kessel, Kate Hirson, David G. Berger, Allen Mondell, Simone Duarte, Spencer Nakasako, Kit-Yin Snyder, Tami Yeager, Jonathan Meyer Robinson, Shantha Bloeman, Liz Oakley, Brigitte Brault, Beth Davenport, Nelson Walker III, Lynn True, Elizabeth Mandel, Vivian Kleiman, Greg 'Freddy' Camalier, Rita Baghdadi, Frank Popper, Laurel Chiten, Remy Campbell, Jasmin Gordon, Jan Louter, Lisa Gildehaus, Lidia Szajko, Lexi Leban, Anayansi Prado, Frances McElroy, Jørgen Flindt Pedersen, Joanne Caputo, Nicholas D. Wrathall, Sally Rubin, Jihan El-Tahri, Sarita Siegel, Bann Roy, Eugene Yi, Quinn Costello, Jacqueline Olive, Benjamin Franzen, Kahlil Hudson, Jeff Spitz, RaMell Ross, François Verster, Javier Pena, Robert Gordon, Kathleen Hughes, David Evans, Rose Rosenblatt, David Weissman, Linda Hattendorf, Margarita Martinez, Maria Teresa Rodriguez, Cynthia Salzman Mondell, Susan Gray, Catherine Gund, Matthew Fuller, Laura Pacheco, Joe Wilson, Michael Downing, Jared Jakins, Michael Ivey, Andres Caballero, Qing Zhao, Julie Ha, Jeremiah Hammerling, Geoffrey O'Gara, Zeshawn Ali, Andrew Levine, Arthur Jones, Mary Angelica Molina, Peter Murimi, Emma Rossi Landi, Ari Palos, Tsering Perlo, Scott Kirschenbaum, Judy Lieff, Charles Dye, Christine Khalafian, Taylor Hamilton, John Hanson, David Petersen, Matthew Miller, Phillip Rodriguez, Richard Hall, Sam Green, David Fisher, David Munro, David Murray, Nancy Kelly, David Belle, Dylan Williams, Neil Diamond, Pamela Roberts, Nick Clark, Chris Sheridan, Tim Gallagher, Linda Hawkins, Alexander Wiaplah, Gregg Mitman, Vanessa Gould, Tabrez Noorani, Yoruba Richen, Jason Osder, Theo Love, Nati Baratz, Johanna Hamilton, Heather Courtney, Michael Chandler, Billy Luther, Steve Skrovan, Micha X. Peled, Loren Mendell, Amy Nicholson, Kief Davidson, Jon Alpert, Aaron Woolf, Dan Krauss, Laura Dunn, Brett Morgen, Sara Newens, Charles Burnett, Paul Francis Sullivan, Thomas Allen Harris, David France, Jerry Rothwell, Peter Nicks, Alison Klayman, Kim A. Snyder, Megumi Sasaki, Zackary Canepari, Alex Hammond, Sedika Mojadidi, David Gelb, Andrew Cohn, Bill Benenson, Keith Maitland, Judy Irving, Samantha Grant, Jeff Malmberg, Jennifer Redfearn, Adolfo Doring, Turner Ross, Weijun Chen, Taggart Siegel, Jeff Springer, Chris Metzler, Ellen Spiro, João Jardim, Rocco Michaluk, Patty Kim, Jim Wolpaw, Marilyn Ness, Thom Powers, Meema Spadola, Immy Humes, Sally George, Daniel Kraus, Aaron Lubarsky, Robb Moss, Meghan Eckman, Churchill Roberts, Catherine Tambini, Scott Dalton, Sofian Khan, Christopher C.C. Wong, Adrian Belic, James Adolphus, Mona Friis Bertheussen, Anne Makepeace, Ela Troyano, Eric Black, Jackie Mow, Deepti Kakkar, Joel Katz, Mahmoud al Massad, Karen Harley, Alan Adelson, Justin Weinstein, Sandra Dickson, Jim Butterworth, Renee Tajima-Pena, Lydia Nibley, Thomas Balmès, Ravi Patel, Freida Lee Mock, Leslie Sullivan, Nelson George, Abigail Disney, Lacey Schwartz Delgado, Doug Hawes-Davis, Doug Pray, David E. Simpson, Stacy Peralta, Roberta Grossman, Daniel Anker, Geralyn Pezanoski, Duane Baughman, Constance Marks, Neil Berkeley, Jessica Oreck, Ramin Bahrani, Erika Alexander, Phil Bertelsen, Patrick Creadon, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Browne, Bestor Cram, Cullen Hoback, Diep Bui, Heather Rae, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Xiaolu Guo, Peter Galison, Chris Tashima, Carlos Sandoval, Judith Helfand, Debra Granik, Amanda Micheli, Leslee Udwin, Kirsten Kelly, Bill Ross IV, Bradley Beesley, Sasha Joseph Neulinger, Danfung Dennis, Dick Rude, Rodney Evans, Steve Hoover, Julie Wyman, Gonzalo Arijon, Henriette Mantel, Rebecca Dreyfus, Jehane Noujaim, Tyler Measom, Thomas G. Miller, Andrew Droz Palermo, Fahad Mustafa, Nisha Ganatra, James Chressanthis, Laura Gabbert, Tom Putnam, Lee Hirsch, Lizzie Gottlieb, Roger Ross Williams, Roger Weisberg, Scott Thurman, Chris Paine, Camilla Nielsson, Bryan Gunnar Cole, Lucy Walker, Carlos Ávila, Shalini Kantayya, Kim Longinotto, Nina Davenport, Gabriel Noble, Eugene Jarecki, Daniel S. Miller, Barbara Multer-Wellin, Tuggelin Yourgrau, Chris Newberry, Tracy Rector, Daniel H. Birman, Cassandra Herrman, Rachel Raney, Kelly Whalen, Alex Jablonski, Brad Lichtenstein, Dean Hamer, Rick Tejada-Flores, Scott Willis, Nicole Cattell, John J. Valadez, Mark Steven Shepherd, Alexandra Stergiou, Ray Telles, Nancy du Plessis, Alan D Miller, Sherine Salama, Mei-Juin Chen, Kyle Boyd, Diane Zander, Shukree Tilghman, Jen Gilomen, Socheata Poeuv, Violet Du Feng, Sharon LaCruise, Risa Morimoto, Goro Toshima, Andrea Meller, Rachel Lyon, Sandy Northrop, June Cross, Anne-Marie Russell, Nancy Schiesari, Maia Wechsler, Stephanie Slewka, Janet Goldwater, Barbara Attie, Courtney Hayes, Yael Hersonski, Marion Lipschutz, Reuben Atlas, Davy Rothbart, Yvonne Smith, Lisa Denker, David Grabias, Gene Rosow, Michael Beach Nichols, Kayo Hatta, Richard Ladkani, Mina T. Son, Yael Klopmann, Darius Clark Monroe, Drea Cooper, Mickey Lemle, Johnny O'Hara, Ron Lamothe, Nishtha Jain, Jay Rosenstein, Bill Rose, Anne de Mare, Bill Weber, Marc J. Francis, Nick Francis, Alexandra Lescaze, Frauke Sandig, Mai Iskander, Eleonore Dailly, Ezra Krybus, Katja Esson, Murray Nossel, Alberto Vendemmiati, Maro Chermayeff, Drury Gunn Carr, Danny Alpert, Jon Else, Mona Eldaief, Sabiha Sumar, Barbara Ettinger, Julianna Brannum, Shira Avni, Kate Taverna, Lisa Sleeth, Aaron Matthews, Chihiro Wimbush, Amir Soltani, Isaac Solotaroff, Aaron Schock, Garrett Zevgetis, Kyoko Miyake, Carvin Eison, Karen Skloss, Tony Vainuku, James D. Solomon, Gabrielle Weiss, Lisa Blackstone, Melissa Haizlip, James D. Payne, Michel Orion Scott, Suzanne Wasserman, Catherine Bainbridge, Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe, Ferne Pearlstein, Maria Finitzo, Paul Mariano, Scott Christopherson, Brad Barber, Alan Dater, Eric Neudel, Monica Long Ross, Clayton Brown, Philip Shane, Yu Gu, Sophie Sartain, Christopher K. Walker, Annie Silverstein, Daria Sommers, Meg McLagan, Elizabeth Massie, Florence Ayisi, Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope, Sam Pollard, Calvin Skaggs, Kurt Norton, Cristina Ibarra, Sasha Waters, Marjan Tehrani, Martha Burr, S. Leo Chiang, Shaleece Haas, Daniel Klein

Writers

Lois Vossen, Eric Martin, Jeffrey Dinsmore, Zinna Riley, Lisa Ko, Charlie Pearson, Chris Turner, Brooke Shelby Biggs, Janet Patterson, Erin Martin, Scott Pearson, Jon Else, Connie Field, Gregory Scharpen, Michelle Ferrari, Geeta Vasant Patel, Barbara Multer-Wellin, Gabriel Rhodes, Robert Levi, Jessica Abbe, Rhonda Collins, Kristin Tieche, Sophie Sartain, Justin Weinstein, Prudence Baird, Byron Hurt, Russell Friedenberg, Billy McMillin, Morgan Neville, Alisa Weinstein, Stanley Nelson, Alex Gibney, Bernardo Ruiz, Dagoberto Gilb, Gwendolen Cates, Valerie Kelly, Elliot Jaspin, Emiliano Battista, Hui Rao, Chris Billing, Jeremiah Hayes, Philip Owens, Edwin Dobb, Juan Mandelbaum, Anjum Hasan, Sheila Shirazi, Terry Kidder, Sharmila Ariathurai, Senain Kheshgi, William Bryant Logan, Laurie Benenson, Ilil Alexander, Monika Navarro, Claude Luquet, Vasiliy Grossman, Véronique Aubouy, Holly Maxson, Kate Hirson, David G. Berger, Amanda Zinoman, Tami Yeager, Jonathan Meyer Robinson, Shantha Bloeman, Kenneth S. Greenberg, Akhil Sharma, Kembrew McLeod, Jawad Metni, Greg 'Freddy' Camalier, Mike Kime, Matt Coen, Frank Popper, Robert Seidman, Laurel Chiten, Jeffrey Abelson, Chris Christopher, Troy Warr, Jihan El-Tahri, Sarita Siegel, Bann Roy, John Farbrother, Jacqueline Olive, Michael Gross, Maya Krinsky, RaMell Ross, Robert Gordon, Don Perry, Chad Beck, Mark Becker, Kristine Mckenna, Margarita Martinez, Russell Greene, Greg Wright, David Lawrence, Joe Wilson, Don Bernier, Michael Downing, Jessica Lee Salas, Stephen Badger, Paul Carter Harrison, Deborah Willis, Emma Rossi Landi, Robert Ianne Gonzaga, Tyler H. Walk, M. Smoker, Christine Khalafian, Taylor Hamilton, Kevin Klauber, David Lamb, Matthew Miller, Richard Hall, Marcia Smith, David Munro, Bennett Cohen, Nancy Kelly, Amy McDonald, John Whitehead, Russell Martin, Neil Diamond, Ron Goldman, Chris Sheridan, Curt Ellis, Gregg Mitman, Monique Zavistovski, Mehret Mandefro, Joanna Rabiger, Ginny Patrick, Peter Tygesen, Ira Heilveil, John Peterson, Vanessa Gould, Yoruba Richen, Philippe Sands, Nicole Newnham, Nati Baratz, Kwyn Bader, Johanna Hamilton, Michael Chandler, Steve Skrovan, Loren Mendell, Kief Davidson, Yony Leyser, Aaron Woolf, Brett Morgen, Sara Newens, Charles Burnett, Thomas Allen Harris, David France, William Genovese, Dick Lehr, Kirk Marcolina, Sari Gilman, Alex Hammond, Chris Bradley, Samantha Grant, Benjamin Gray, Linda Hoaglund, Patty Kim, Jim Wolpaw, Thom Powers, Meema Spadola, Christine O'Malley, Sharon Guskin, Sam George, Kirk Souder, Gregory Beauchamp, Tyson VanSkiver, Phinehas Hodges, Scott Dalton, Johnny Symons, Peter Elkind, Tom Vickers, Adrian Belic, Eric Black, Linda Garmon, Greg O'Toole, Sandra Dickson, Lydia Nibley, Tim Toyama, Ravi Patel, Freida Lee Mock, Lacey Schwartz Delgado, Doug Pray, David E. Simpson, Robert Edwards, Stacy Peralta, Roberta Grossman, Neil Berkeley, Jessica Oreck, Ramin Bahrani, Richard Hankin, Patrick Creadon, Stanley Tucci, Diep Bui, Xiaolu Guo, Spencer Parsons, Chris Tashima, Ramona S. Diaz, Kirsten Kelly, Rodney Evans, Steve Hoover, Henriette Mantel, Dawn Porter, Tyler Measom, Margaret Brown, Thomas G. Miller, Fahad Mustafa, Lee Hirsch, Roger Ross Williams, Tracy Droz Tragos, Scott Thurman, Chris Paine, Michele Ohayon, Ian Cheney, Eugene Corr, Eugene Jarecki, Eliza Byard, Bonnie Boswell, Judith Dwan Hallet, Daniel H. Birman, Dean Hamer, Rick Tejada-Flores, Fahm Fong Saeyang, James D. Solomon, John J. Valadez, Natalie Bullock Brown, Lenga Bui Kazan, Tom Graves, Ray Telles, Nancy du Plessis, John Sant D'Ambrogio, Michael Cho, Edit Villarreal, Shukree Tilghman, Erin Casper, Charles Vogl, Violet Du Feng, Sandra Guardado, Ken Chowder, John W. Walter, Daniel Blake Smith, Christine Intagliata, Linda Post, Sandy Northrop, Iris Cahn, Anne-Marie Russell, Cooper Wood, Nancy Schiesari, Stephanie Slewka, Sharon LaCruise, Yael Hersonski, Marion Lipschutz, Michal Goldman, Yvonne Smith, Mat Hames, David Grabias, Gene Rosow, Michael Beach Nichols, Leslie Simmer, Kayo Hatta, Richard Ladkani, Alberto Vendemmiati, Adam Bolt, Matthew Hamachek, Renny McCauley, Johnny O'Hara, Ron Lamothe, Smriti Nevatia, Nishtha Jain, Jay Rosenstein, Rick Bowers, Anne de Mare, Frauke Sandig, Jeffrey K. Miller, Frank Christopher, Ezra Krybus, P.G. Morgan, Bahareh Azimi, Woody Richman, Carl Pfirman, Cynthia Lowen, Aaron Matthews, Isaac Solotaroff, Aaron Schock, Bethany McLean, Christopher K. Walker, Tom Donaldson, Melissa Haizlip, James D. Payne, Suzanne Wasserman, Catherine Bainbridge, Paul Mariano, Scott Christopherson, Brad Barber, Philip Shane, Douglas Blush, Sabrina Dhawan, Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope, Kurt Norton, Azin Samari, Marjan Tehrani, Martha Burr, Joanna Sokolowski

Cast

Producers

Editors

Sharmila Ariathurai, Brian A. Kates, Josh Cramer, Billy McMillin

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