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Bike Vessel
Premiered February 24, 2025
Directed by Eric D Seals

After several health crises, a 70-year-old man embarks on a transformative long-distance cycling trip with his son.

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Two men with dark skin tone, a father and son, wearing professional bike gear and helmets while standing in front of the St. Louis Arch with their bicycles at sunset.
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Bike Vessel

After several health crises, a 70-year-old man embarks on a transformative long-distance cycling trip with his son.

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Meera and Suneeta reporting on an illegal mining mafia in the heartlands of Uttar Pradesh.
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Writing With Fire

Meet the fearless women journalists of India's only all-female newspaper. Nominated for an Academy Award.

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Skin of Glass

A filmmaker reckons with Brazil's inequality when learning unhoused people occupy her father’s architectural jewel.

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The In Between

In tribute to the brother she lost, a filmmaker returns home to reflect on life on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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The Strike

How California's Pelican Bay prison ignited a statewide hunger strike as a feat of unity by 30,000 incarcerated people.

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Racist Trees

In Palm Springs, a historically Black neighborhood fights to remove a divisive wall of trees.

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Storming Caesars Palace

How Vegas activist Ruby Duncan's grassroots movement of moms fought for basic income guarantee.

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The Big Payback

The passage of the first-ever tax-funded reparations bill for Black Americans stirs up a debate.

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Hazing

Hazing explores how abusive rituals reflect our desire to belong—even if taken to sometimes deadly lengths.

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A Lakota man stands in a field wearing traditional Native American dress.
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Without Arrows

Eleven years after leaving South Dakota, a Lakota dancer returns to the reservation to carry on the family legacy.

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Minted

The rise and fall of the NFT (non-fungible token) phenomenon that transformed the art world.

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A man with dark skin tone and short braids sits at a desk and looks contemplatively off to the left. He is wearing a blue suit and bowtie. The state seal of Texas is placed behind him on the wall and a book sits open in front of him.
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Dallas, 2019

Dallas, 2019 captures the pulse of a city and the people who work and live there, all trying to build a better future.

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United States of Comedy

Meet diverse, emerging voices in comedy from across America, each trying to make it big.

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Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen

A Marine veteran hand-carves battlefield crosses to reconnect with Gold Star families of the fallen and find healing.

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Illustration of a white man in colonial garb towering over miniature couples and families.
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The History of White People in America

Musical animated series dedicated to telling diverse stories that chronicle the shaping of race relations in America.

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Illustration of six hands each taking a slice of a round "I Voted" sticker.
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One Person, One Vote?

Why does the U.S. have the Electoral College? Learn more following four presidential electors during the 2020 election.

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Wild Hogs and Saffron

A wild hog hunt in the Ozarks leads to a vulnerable dialogue between an Iranian American man and a childhood friend.

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A man wears an American flag wrapped around his head and face with only his eyes showing. Two sets of hands surround him, carrying a hammer and wrench and American dollars, respectively.
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When I Close My Eyes

Samir Khurshid's densely layered oil paintings capture growing up in war-torn Iraq and the challenges of refugee life.

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The Tuba Thieves

The central mystery of this unconventional documentary isn’t about theft; it’s about the nature of sound itself.

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The green eye of a female astronaut is shown looking out of a window on a space station with Earth reflected in the glass.
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Space: The Longest Goodbye

NASA psychologists prepare astronauts for the extreme isolation of a three-year-long mission to Mars.

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A small red boat powers through still water. A figure at the front of the boat holds a harpoon ready to be thrown. Below the boat, the tail of a whale appears.
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One With the Whale

An Alaska Native family maintains a subsistence life on a tiny Bering Sea island where, if you don’t hunt, you die.

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Six diamonds, each showing the face of a character from "Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's", are overlaid over a background of a snowy forest.
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Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s

A mother, an optician, and a cartoonist each navigate their lives with determination in the face of Parkinson’s disease.

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An illustration of a red hand holding a pine sapling. A photo of a family is superimposed on the arm above the hand.
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A Thousand Pines

A crew of 12 Mexican tree planters travel the United States regrowing America’s forests.

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Greener Pastures

Four Midwestern farm families persevere through climate change, industrialization, and mental health crises.

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holding bodies: a justice anthology

A visceral portrait of the New Orleans criminal justice system through vivid first-hand accounts.

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Breaking the News

Women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch startup The 19th* to buck a broken news media system.

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Sister Úna Lived a Good Death

A wisecracking nun with stage IV cancer teaches others that death doesn’t have to be the end.

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Razing Liberty Square

The Liberty Square public housing community in Miami becomes ground zero for climate gentrification.

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