No More Tears Sister

Season 19 - Episode 1

A story of love, revolution and betrayal, No More Tears Sister explores the price of truth in times of war. Set during the violent ethnic co...

Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball

Season 19 - Episode 2

In Japan, baseball is not a pastime — it's a national obsession. And for many of the country's youth, the sport has become a rite of passage...

Tintin and I

Season 19 - Episode 3

Why do the comic-strip Adventures of Tintin, about an intrepid boy reporter, continue to fascinate us decades after their publication? "Tint...

The Fall of Fujimori

Season 19 - Episode 4

In 1990, an unknown candidate named Alberto Fujimori rode a wave of popular support to become the president of Peru. He fought an allout war...

The Tailenders

Season 19 - Episode 5

Global Recordings Network (GRN), founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages, and a...

Al Otro Lado

Season 19 - Episode 6

The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music—captured in the performances of Mexican band Los Tigres del Norte and the late Chalino Sanchez—...

Lomax the Songhunter

Season 19 - Episode 7

Alan Lomax was "the song hunter." He devoted his life to recording the world's folk tunes before they would permanently disappear with the r...

Waging a Living

Season 19 - Episode 8

The term "working poor" should be an oxymoron. If you work full time, you should not be poor, but more than 30 million Americans — one in fo...

The Boys of Baraka

Season 19 - Episode 9

Devon, Montrey, Richard, and Romesh are just at that age — 12 and 13 years old — when boys start to become men. But in their hometown of Bal...

Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

Season 19 - Episode 10

In the wake of his stepfather’s death, Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey of reconciliation with the man who raised him as a son but w...

No Bigger Than a Minute

Season 19 - Episode 11

"My name is Steven, and I am a dwarf..." So begins No Bigger than a Minute, a stylishly eclectic documentary film that introduces viewers to...

Maquilapolis: City of Factories

Season 19 - Episode 12

Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive factories often owned by the world's largest multinational cor...

My Country, My Country

Season 19 - Episode 13

My Country, My Country is a 2006 documentary film about Iraq under U.S. occupation by the filmmaker Laura Poitras.

Lawn

Season 19 - Episode 14