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RunningIndependent Lens is an anthology of independent documentary films.
Independent Lens Season 28 at a glance
- Episodes announced
- 4 (3 aired)
- Premiere
- Mon, Sep 14, 2026
- Last announced episode
- Mon, Nov 23, 2026
- Release pattern
- Episodes release on varying dates
- Network
- PBS
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| Season 284 | ||||
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| E1 | Ghost in the Machine | Aired | — | |
| E2 | My Omaha | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Seeds | Previous | — | |
| E4 | Storming: Seasons Of Care | Next Episode | — | |
| Season 2715 | ||||
| E1 | Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Ratified | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Life After | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Vivien's Wild Ride | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Librarians | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Inquisitor | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Keep Quiet and Forgive | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Tallest Dwarf | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Backside: The Unseen Hands of Horse Racing | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Natchez | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Light of the Setting Sun | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Third Act | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Assembly | Aired | — | |
| E14 | True North: Canadian Myths and Black Power | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Flood | Aired | — | |
| Season 2619 | ||||
| E1 | One Person, One Vote? | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Make Peace or Die: Honor the Fallen | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Dallas, 2019 - Week 1 | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Dallas, 2019 - Week 2 | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Dallas, 2019 - Week 3 | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Dallas, 2019 - Week 4 | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Dallas, 2019 - Week 5 | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Minted | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Without Arrows | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Strike | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The In Between | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Skin of Glass | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Bike Vessel | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Home Court | Aired | — | |
| E15 | We Want The Funk | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Free for All: The Public Library | Aired | 8.5 | |
| E17 | Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer's | Aired | — | |
| E18 | And So It Begins | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Who Is Michael Jang? | Aired | — | |
| Season 2517 | ||||
| E1 | Sansón and Me | Aired | — | |
| E2 | El Equipo | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Three Chaplains | Aired | — | |
| E4 | A Town Called Victoria - The Fire | Aired | — | |
| E5 | A Town Called Victoria - The Suspect | Aired | — | |
| E6 | A Town Called Victoria - The Trial | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Beyond Utopia | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Racist Trees | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Razing Liberty Square | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Sister Úna Lived a Good Death | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Breaking The News | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Greener Pastures | Aired | — | |
| E13 | A Thousand Pines | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's | Aired | — | |
| E15 | One With the Whale | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Space: The Longest Goodbye | Aired | — | |
| E17 | The Tuba Thieves | Aired | — | |
| Season 2416 | ||||
| E1 | Hazing | Aired | — | |
| E2 | TikTok, Boom. | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Move Me | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Children of Las Brisas | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Big Payback | Aired | — | |
| E6 | No Straight Lines | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Picture Taker | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Outta the Muck | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Love in the Time of Fentanyl | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Storming Caesars Palace | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Hidden Letters | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Free Chol Soo Lee | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Matter of Mind: My ALS | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Sam Now | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Silent Beauty | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Mama Bears | Aired | — | |
| Season 2316 | ||||
| E1 | Cured | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Ferguson Rises | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Storm Lake | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Duty Free | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Home From School: The Children of Carlisle | Aired | — | |
| E6 | A Reckoning in Boston | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Missing in Brooks County | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Owned: A Tale of Two Americas | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Bulletproof | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Apart | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Writing With Fire | Aired | — | |
| E12 | AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Try Harder! | Aired | — | |
| E14 | When Claude Got Shot | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Scenes From the Glittering World | Aired | — | |
| E16 | A Once and Future Peace | Aired | — | |
| Season 2215 | ||||
| E1 | Feels Good Man | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Represent | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Jonathan Scott's Power Trip | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Belly Of The Beast | Aired | — | |
| E5 | A Woman's Work: The Nfl's Cheerleader Problem | Aired | — | |
| E6 | A Day in the Life of America | Aired | — | |
| E7 | 9to5: The Story Of A Movement | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Women In Blue | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Mr. SOUL! | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Coded Bias | Aired | — | |
| E11 | 'til Kingdom Come/the Debate | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Down A Dark Stairwell | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Donut King | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Two Gods | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The People Vs. Agent Orange | Aired | — | |
| Season 2121 | ||||
| E1 | Made in Boise | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Decade of Fire | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The Interpreters | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Conscience Point | Aired | — | |
| E5 | ATTLA | Aired | — | |
| E6 | American Nomads | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Accept the Call | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The First Rainbow Coalition | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Leftover Women | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Blind Love | Aired | — | |
| E12 | We Believe In Dinosaurs | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Always in Season | Aired | — | |
| E14 | One Child Nation | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Bedlam | Aired | — | |
| E16 | The Hottest August | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Jim Allison: Breakthrough | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Rewind | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Eating Up Easter | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Pipe Dreams | Aired | — | |
| Season 2018 | ||||
| E1 | Wildland | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Dawnland | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The Cleaners | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Judge | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Man on Fire | Aired | — | |
| E6 | My Country No More | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Rodents Of Unusual Size | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The King | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Black Memorabilia | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Hale County This Morning, This Evening | Aired | — | |
| E12 | People's Republic Of Desire | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Tre Maison Dasan | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Providers | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Charm City | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Out Of State | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Harvest Season | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Wrestle | Aired | — | |
| Season 1920 | ||||
| E1 | Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Shadow World | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Supergirl | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Unrest | Aired | — | |
| E6 | I Am Not Your Negro | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Force | Aired | — | |
| E8 | I Am Another You | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Winnie | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story Of Black Colleges And Universities | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Rat Film | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Dolores | Aired | — | |
| E13 | When God Sleeps | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Art Of The Shine | Aired | — | |
| E15 | What Lies Upstream | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky | Aired | — | |
| E17 | True Conviction | Aired | — | |
| E18 | No Man's Land | Aired | — | |
| E19 | ACORN and the Firestorm | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Served Like a Girl | Aired | — | |
| Season 1820 | ||||
| E1 | Best of Enemies | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Meet the Patels | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Best And Most Beautiful Things | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Containment; Excerpt From Uranium Drive-in | Aired | — | |
| E5 | What Was Ours | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Witness | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Birth Of A Movement | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Tower | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Bad Kids | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Ovarian Psycos | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Newtown | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Seed: The Untold Story | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Last Laugh | Aired | — | |
| E15 | National Bird | Aired | — | |
| E16 | The Prison In Twelve Landscapes | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Forever Pure | Aired | — | |
| E18 | They Call Us Monsters | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Farmer Veteran | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Real Boy | Aired | — | |
| Season 1721 | ||||
| E1 | Stray Dog | Aired | — | |
| E2 | India's Daughter | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Mimi and Dona | Aired | — | |
| E4 | East of Salinas | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Chuck Norris vs. Communism | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Autism in Love | Aired | — | |
| E7 | In Football We Trust | Aired | — | |
| E8 | No Más Bebés (No More Babies) | Aired | — | |
| E9 | A Ballerina's Tale | Aired | — | |
| E10 | The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution | Aired | — | |
| E11 | (T)ERROR | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Wilhemina's War | Aired | — | |
| E13 | An Honest Liar | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Welcome to Leith | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Democrats | Aired | — | |
| E16 | My Nazi Legacy | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Peace Officer | Aired | — | |
| E18 | The Armor of Light | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Dogtown Redemption | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Trapped | Aired | — | |
| E21 | T-rex Her Fight For Gold | Aired | — | |
| Season 1619 | ||||
| E1 | Bully | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Twin Sisters | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Brakeless | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Powerless | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Happiness | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Rich Hill | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Evolution of a Criminal | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Kill Team; Confusion Through Sand | Aired | — | |
| E9 | A Path Appears | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People | Aired | — | |
| E11 | American Denial | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Little White Lie | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Little Hope Was Arson; A City in Flames | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Homestretch | Aired | — | |
| E15 | The Great Invisible | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Kumu Hina | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity | Aired | — | |
| E18 | 1971 | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Limited Partnership | Aired | — | |
| Season 1522 | ||||
| E1 | Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey | Aired | — | |
| E2 | The Waiting Room | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The Graduates/Los Graduados | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Indian Relay | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Young Lakota | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Playwright: From Page to Stage | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Jiro Dreams of Sushi | Aired | — | |
| E8 | How to Survive a Plague | Aired | — | |
| E9 | At Berkeley | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Blood Brother | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The State of Arizona | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Spies of Mississippi | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Las Marthas | Aired | — | |
| E14 | All of Me: A Story of Love, Loss, and Last Resorts | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Medora | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Brothers Hypnotic | Aired | — | |
| E17 | The Trials of Muhammad Ali | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Muscle Shoals | Aired | — | |
| E19 | A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at The New York Times | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Let the Fire Burn | Aired | — | |
| E21 | God Loves Uganda | Aired | — | |
| E22 | The New Black | Aired | — | |
| Season 1418 | ||||
| E1 | As Goes Janesville | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Love Free or Die | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Solar Mamas | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Soul Food Junkies | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Beauty Is Embarrassing | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Revisionaries | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Kind Hearted Woman | Aired | — | |
| E11 | The House I Live In; As I Am | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines | Aired | — | |
| E13 | The Island President | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Undocumented | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Seeking Asian Female | Aired | — | |
| E16 | The Invisible War | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Detropia | Aired | — | |
| E18 | The Revolutionary Optimists | Aired | — | |
| Season 1327 | ||||
| E1 | Wham! Bam! Islam! | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Donor Unknown | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Lives Worth Living | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Deaf Jam | Aired | — | |
| E5 | We Still Live Here -- as Nutayunean | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Woodmans | Aired | — | |
| E7 | These Amazing Shadows | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The New Generation | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma to Soweto | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | Aired | — | |
| E15 | More Than A Month | Aired | — | |
| E16 | You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | Aired | — | |
| E18 | When the Drum Is Beating | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Revenge of the Electric Car | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Circo | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Summer Pasture | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Precious Knowledge | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Left by the Ship | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Hell and Back Again | Aired | — | |
| E26 | We Were Here | Aired | — | |
| E27 | Strong! | Aired | — | |
| Season 1225 | ||||
| E1 | The Parking Lot Movie | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Art & Copy | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Longoria Affair | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Lost Sparrow | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Deep Down | Aired | — | |
| E7 | 45365 | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Calling, Part 1 | Aired | — | |
| E9 | The Calling, Part 2 | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Men Who Swim | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Children of Haiti | Aired | — | |
| E12 | For Once in My Life | Aired | — | |
| E13 | When I Rise | Aired | — | |
| E14 | William S. Burroughs: A Man Within | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Pushing the Elephant | Aired | — | |
| E17 | The Desert of Forbidden Art | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Waste Land | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Marwencol | Aired | — | |
| E21 | A Film Unfinished | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Bhutto | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Welcome to Shelbyville | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Two Spirits | Aired | — | |
| Season 1128 | ||||
| E1 | Our Disappeared; Nuestros Desaparecidos | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Herb and Dorothy | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Butte, America | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Journals of a Wily School | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Power Paths | Aired | — | |
| E6 | D Tour | Aired | — | |
| E7 | No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Objectified | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Between the Folds | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Scenes from a Parish | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Young@Heart | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Copyright Criminals | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness | Aired | — | |
| E14 | P-Star Rising | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Mine / Home | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Behind the Rainbow | Aired | — | |
| E17 | The Eyes of Me | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas) | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Whatever It Takes | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Unmistaken Child | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Blessed Is the Match | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Dirt! The Movie | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Garbage Dreams | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Sunshine | Aired | — | |
| E25 | The Horse Boy | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Project Kashmir | Aired | — | |
| E27 | A Village Called Versailles | Aired | — | |
| E28 | Goodbye Solo | Aired | — | |
| Season 1025 | ||||
| E1 | Chicago 10 | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Knee Deep | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Lioness | Aired | — | |
| E5 | March Point | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Atom Smashers | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Doc | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic' | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Operation Filmmaker | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Helvetica | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Tulia, Texas | Aired | — | |
| E14 | The Order of Myths | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Arusi Persian Wedding | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Lakshmi and Me | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Recycle | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Milking the Rhino | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai | Aired | — | |
| E20 | At Home in Utopia | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Wings of Defeat | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Crips and Bloods: Made in America | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Steal a Pencil for Me | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Ask Not | Aired | — | |
| Season 926 | ||||
| E1 | Wordplay | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Please Vote for Me | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Storm of Emotions | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Red White Black & Blue | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Miss Navajo | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Creek Runs Red | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Sisters in Law | Aired | — | |
| E8 | The Paper | Aired | — | |
| E9 | An Unreasonable Man | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Today's Man | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita | Aired | — | |
| E12 | A Son's Sacrifice | Aired | — | |
| E13 | How Is Your Fish Today? | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Hard Road Home | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Iron Ladies of Liberia | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Compañeras | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Water Flowing Together | Aired | — | |
| E20 | King Corn | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula | Aired | — | |
| E22 | A Dream in Doubt | Aired | — | |
| E23 | New Year Baby | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Writ Writer | Aired | — | |
| E25 | The Cool School | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Deep Water | Aired | — | |
| E27 | Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story | Aired | — | |
| Season 827 | ||||
| E1 | Still Life with Animated Dogs | Aired | — | |
| E2 | The World According to Sesame Street | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Muskrat Lovely | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Two Square Miles | Aired | — | |
| E7 | A Sad Flower in the Sand | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Revolucion: Five Visions | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Short Stack 2006 | Aired | — | |
| E10 | A Fish Story | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Shadya | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Beyond the Call | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Twisted | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Motherland Afghanistan | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Stolen | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Race to Execution | Aired | — | |
| E20 | China Blue | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Black Gold | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Aired | — | |
| E23 | The Cats of Mirikitani | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Sentenced Home | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Knocking | Aired | — | |
| E26 | The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill | Aired | — | |
| E27 | La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul | Aired | — | |
| Season 729 | ||||
| E1 | Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove | Aired | — | |
| E2 | En Route to Baghdad | Aired | — | |
| E3 | The Last Cowboy | Aired | — | |
| E4 | A Family at War | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Mirror Dance | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Race is the Place | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Maid in America | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Seoul Train | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Sisters: Portrait of a Benedictine Community | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Short Stack: Lost & Found | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Sheriff | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Girl Trouble | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Almost Home | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power | Aired | — | |
| E15 | July '64 | Aired | — | |
| E16 | The Loss of Nameless Things | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Troop 1500 | Aired | — | |
| E18 | Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Trudell | Aired | — | |
| E20 | La Sierra | Aired | — | |
| E21 | A League of Ordinary Gentlemen | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Music from the Inside Out | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Fishbowl / American Made | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Frozen Angels | Aired | — | |
| E25 | The Devil's Miner | Aired | — | |
| E26 | The Great Pink Scare | Aired | — | |
| E27 | The Real Dirt on Farmer John | Aired | — | |
| E28 | A Lion in the House: Part 1 | Aired | — | |
| E29 | A Lion in the House: Part 2 | Aired | — | |
| Season 627 | ||||
| E1 | The Political Dr. Seuss | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Polka Time | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Afghanistan Unveiled | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Los Angeles Now | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Day My God Died | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Girl Wrestler | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Fine. / Doki-Doki | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Short, Not Sweet | Aired | — | |
| E9 | A Hard Straight | Aired | — | |
| E10 | A Touch of Greatness | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Power Trip | Aired | — | |
| E12 | February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four | Aired | — | |
| E13 | On a Roll: Disability and the American Dream | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Thunder in Guyana | Aired | — | |
| E15 | Sisters of '77 | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Sunset Story | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Let the Church Say Amen | Aired | — | |
| E18 | A Lion's Trail | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton | Aired | — | |
| E20 | End of the Century: The Ramones; Joe Strummer Rocks Again | Aired | — | |
| E21 | The Last Letter / Zyklon Portrait and the Walnut Tree | Aired | — | |
| E22 | Imelda: Power, Myth, Illusion | Aired | — | |
| E23 | Vietnam: The Next Generation | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Red Hook Justice | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Double Dare / Piki and Poko: Taking The Dare! | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story | Aired | — | |
| E27 | Brother to Brother | Aired | — | |
| Season 528 | ||||
| E1 | Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Foto-Novelas 2: Junkyard Saints and Broken Sky | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America | Aired | — | |
| E4 | A Wedding in Ramallah | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Be Good, Smile Pretty | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Livermore | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Eroica! | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Man Bites Shorts | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Make 'em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Life Matters | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Why Can't We Be a Family Again? / Downpour Resurfacing | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property | Aired | — | |
| E15 | A Place of Our Own: Black Resort Communities and the African American Dream | Aired | — | |
| E16 | Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew | Aired | — | |
| E17 | Sentencing the Victim | Aired | — | |
| E18 | T-Shirt Travels | Aired | — | |
| E19 | Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas | Aired | — | |
| E20 | Love Inventory | Aired | — | |
| E21 | Ram Dass: Fierce Grace | Aired | — | |
| E22 | The Weather Underground | Aired | — | |
| E23 | One Night at the Grand Star / Double Exposure | Aired | — | |
| E24 | Refugee | Aired | — | |
| E25 | Death of a Shaman | Aired | — | |
| E26 | Cosmopolitan | Aired | — | |
| E27 | Sumo East and West | Aired | — | |
| E28 | The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out | Aired | — | |
| Season 414 | ||||
| E1 | Maggie Growls | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story | Aired | — | |
| E3 | On This Island | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Downside Up | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Los Trabajadores / The Workers | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Chiefs | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Strange Fruit | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Bird by Bird with Annie | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Sisters in Resistance | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Heart of the Sea | Aired | — | |
| E11 | Guns & Mothers | Aired | — | |
| E12 | Razing Appalachia | Aired | — | |
| E13 | Hansel Mieth: Vagabond Photographer | Aired | — | |
| E14 | Daddy & Papa | Aired | — | |
| Season 310 | ||||
| E1 | Confederacy Theory | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Secrets of Silicon Valley | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Good Kurds, Bad Kurds | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Who Owns the Past? | Aired | — | |
| E6 | The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America | Aired | — | |
| E7 | Undetectable | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Gibtown | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Open Outcry | Aired | — | |
| E10 | Romancing the Throne | Aired | — | |
| Season 210 | ||||
| E1 | Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors | Aired | — | |
| E2 | No Hair Day | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Short Stories | Aired | — | |
| E4 | Born in the USA | Aired | — | |
| E5 | Girl Gone Bad | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Passing Through / Graham's Diner | Aired | — | |
| E7 | The Return of Navajo Boy | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Music in Their Bones | Aired | — | |
| E9 | In Harm's Way / Carved From the Heart | Aired | — | |
| E10 | A Wok in Progress | Aired | — | |
| Season 110 | ||||
| E1 | Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small-Town Gang | Aired | — | |
| E2 | Nothing But the Truth | Aired | — | |
| E3 | Visas and Virtue / I Am Viet Hung | Aired | — | |
| E4 | The Man Who Drove with Mandela | Aired | — | |
| E5 | The Jew in the Lotus | Aired | — | |
| E6 | Holy Tortilla / Lock and Key | Aired | — | |
| E7 | And Baby Makes Two | Aired | — | |
| E8 | Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle | Aired | — | |
| E9 | Secret People | Aired | — | |
| E10 | I Can't Believe I Married A Lietendent | Aired | — | |
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