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Season 29

13 episodes · May 23, 2016

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  • The Return
    S29E1

    The Return

    May 23, 201660m

    An unprecedented reform to California's "Three Strikes" law seen through the eyes of those on the front lines – prisoners suddenly freed, families turned upside down, reentry providers helping navigate complex transitions, and attorneys and judges wrestling with an untested law.

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  • Of Men and War
    S29E2

    Of Men and War

    May 30, 201660m

    At a first-of-its-kind PTSD treatment center in California, follow Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families on their paths to recovery as they attempt to make peace with their pasts, their loved ones and themselves.

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  • The Look of Silence
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    The Look of Silence

    Jun 27, 201660m

    An optometrist identifies the men who killed his brother in the horrific 1965 Indonesian genocide. He confronts them while testing their eyesight and demands they accept responsibility.

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    Pervert Park

    Jul 11, 201660m

    Florida Justice Transitions trailer park is home to 120 sex offenders, all battling their own demons as they work toward rejoining society. This film considers how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse - and the silence surrounding it - can be broken.

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  • Iris
    S29E5

    Iris

    Aug 1, 201660m

    Iris pairs the late documentarian Albert Maysles, then 87, with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades.

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  • EXIT: A Mobile Guide to the Post Apocalypse
    S29E6

    EXIT: A Mobile Guide to the Post Apocalypse

    Sep 5, 201660m

    An escape from the doomsday thinking that is ruining our collective imaginations. An experience for smartphones composed of a suite of interconnected nonfiction stories, EXIT dares users to entertain a shocking possibility: that mankind may survive (and even thrive) beyond the challenges that await us in the future.

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  • S29E7

    The Birth of Saké

    Sep 5, 201660m

    Go behind the scenes at Japan's Yoshida Brewery, where a brotherhood of artisans, ranging from 20 to 70, spend six months in nearly monastic isolation as they follow an age-old process to create saké, the nation's revered rice wine.

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  • All the Difference
    S29E8

    All the Difference

    Sep 12, 201660m

    The largely invisible and often crushing struggles of young African-American men come vividly--and heroically--to life in All the Difference, which traces the paths of two teens from the South Side of Chicago who dream of graduating from college.

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  • Kingdom of Shadows
    S29E9

    Kingdom of Shadows

    Sep 19, 201660m

    Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz takes an unflinching look at the hard choices and destructive consequences of the U.S.-Mexico drug war. Witness the human side of the conflict through the eyes of a U.S. drug enforcement agent, an activist nun in Mexico and a former Texas smuggler.

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  • S29E10

    From This Day Forward

    Oct 10, 201660m

    When director Sharon Shattuck's father came out as transgender, Sharon was in the awkward throes of middle school. As the Shattucks reunite to plan Sharon's wedding, she seeks a deeper understanding of how her parents' marriage, and their family, survived intact.

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  • S29E11

    Hooligan Sparrow

    Oct 17, 201660m

    The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows maverick activist Ye Haiyan (aka Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues to southern China as they seek justice in the case of six elementary school girls allegedly sexually abused by their principal.

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  • S29E12

    Thank You For Playing

    Oct 24, 201660m

    When Ryan Green, a video game programmer, learns that his young son Joel has cancer, he and his wife begin documenting their emotional journey with a poetic video game. Follow Ryan and his family over two years creating "That Dragon, Cancer," which evolves from a cathartic exercise into a critically acclaimed work of art that sets the gaming industry abuzz.

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  • S29E13

    What Tomorrow Brings

    Oct 31, 201660m

    Inside the very first girls' school in a small Afghan village, education goes far beyond the classroom as the students discover the differences between the lives they were born into and the lives they dream of leading.

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