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Uýra – The Rising Forest
September 25, 2023
While traveling through the Amazon, Uýra shares ancestral knowledge with Indigenous youth to promote the significance of identity and place, threatened by Brazil's oppressive political regime. Through dance, poetry, and stunning characterization, Uýra boldly confronts historical racism, transphobia, and environmental destruction, while emphasizing the interdependence of humans and the environment.
TV Schedule
2024 Season
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Aspiring social worker faces the uncertainty of life as a blind, undocumented immigrant.
Brief Tender Light
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At MIT, an alum follows four African students striving to become change agents for home.
Trailer | Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
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Native Americans, Japanese Americans and environmentalists defend their water from LA.
2023 Season
How to Have an American Baby
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An intimate look behind the closed doors of the Chinese birth tourism industry in the US.
Wisdom Gone Wild
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In this reflection on aging and transformation, a woman with dementia reinvents herself.
Fire Through Dry Grass
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An unlikely group of nursing home residents launch a movement during the pandemic.
Aurora's Sunrise
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A teenage girl escapes a genocide and makes a meteoric rise to Hollywood stardom.
Murders That Matter
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A Black Muslim mother vows to save all the other Black sons, on both sides of the gun.
Bulls and Saints
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After 20 years in the United States, an undocumented family decides to return home.
While We Watched
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In a world of fake news, journalist Ravish Kumar stands his ground. Will his show survive?...
Children of the Mist
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A Hmong girl living in rural Northern Vietnam is caught between tradition and change.
Freshwater
July 25, 2023
A meditation on Detroit unveiling the fluid nature of memory in familial legacies.
Eat Your Catfish
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An intimate view of a woman with ALS and a family pushed to its breaking point.
A House Made of Splinters
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By the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine, social workers create a sanctuary for kids in limbo....
Liquor Store Dreams
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Immigrant dreams and generational divides collide against LA's complex racial landscape.
A Story of Bones
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A burial site containing thousands of once enslaved Africans is discovered on St. Helena.
You Can't Stop Spirit
February 13, 2023
Black women create a space for freedom through the Baby Doll Mardi Gras masking tradition....
Freedom Swimmer
February 13, 2023
A perilous swim from China to Hong Kong parallels a new generation's quest for freedom.
Are You Down?
February 13, 2023
A portrait of the life and work of Jamaican New Yorker and visual artist Michael Richards....
All Riders
February 13, 2023
A close look at disabled New Yorkers fighting for accessibility on the MTA.
My Duduś
February 13, 2023
After her son leaves home, a Polish mother fills her empty nest with a baby squirrel.
StoryCorps Shorts
StoryCorps Shorts: Then and Now
April 10, 2024
Janaki and her big sister Melissa talk about how they really feel about each other.
StoryCorps Shorts: The Family Equation
February 15, 2024
Lynn Weaver and his daughter talk about his father who worked as a janitor and chauffeur.
StoryCorps Shorts: Rules of the Road
October 5, 2023
A father recalls how a driving lesson gone wrong turned into a legendary family story.
StoryCorps Shorts: Dreamer's Gift
September 28, 2023
Dreamer sits down with his friend Paul to discuss the transformative power of a haircut.
StoryCorps Shorts: Family Harmony
September 21, 2023
Gilbert Zermeño shares how his musical journey began on a bad note, but ended in harmony....
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