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Roberto Clemente
Born in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights, and cultural change.
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Secrecy
Is government secrecy the key to victory in our struggle against terrorism, or our Achilles heel? Focusing on classified secrets, this film explores the tensions between our safety as a nation and our ability to function as a democracy.
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Torturing Democracy
With exclusive interviews, explosive documents, and rare archival footage, this series tells the inside story of how the U.S. government adopted torture as official policy in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Traces of the Trade
After Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were part of the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, she and fellow descendants set off to learn more, uncovering the extent of Northern complicity in slavery while stumbling through the minefield of contemporary race relations.
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Trouble the Water
An aspiring rap artist trapped in the Ninth Ward during Katrina films herself and her husband and neighbors. Footage of their harrowing ordeal is interwoven with news segments and with images shot in the city over the next two years.
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Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Unnatural Causes explores the social and racial determinants of health and the stark disparities in health care nationwide. Findings reveal that low socioeconomic status is as disruptive a root cause of illness as bad habits, unlucky genes, germs, and viruses.
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Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Zora Neale Hurston’s unique artistic vision is traced back to her childhood in Eatonville, Florida (the first all-black incorporated town in the US), as insights from leading scholars are interspersed with rare footage of the rural South — some of it shot by Hurston herself.
