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• First Person Plural (#1310)

  A Korean woman adopted by an American family in 1966 unites her biological and adoptive families. [56 minutes]

• Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (#2014)

  The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner has emerged as one of the country's fiercest moral critics. [116 minutes]

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• Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North (#2101)

  A filmmaker sets off from Rhode Island to slave forts in Ghana and sugar plantation ruins in Cuba. [86 minutes]

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• The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (#2103)

  Tommy Lee Jones narrates a look at the death of an American citizen on the Texas-Mexico border. [86 minutes]

• Calavera Highway (#2110)

  Seven Mexican American men grapple with masculinity, fatherhood and a legacy of rootless beginnings. [86 minutes]

• Beyond Hatred (#2202)

  A gay man's family struggles to seek justice after he is beaten and killed by skinheads in France. [86 minutes]

• The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) (#2205)

  The story of a Laotian family who escaped to America after the U.S. abandoned a secret war in Laos. [86 minutes]

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• Patti Smith: Dream of Life (#2214)

  Performance clips and personal reflections create an intimate portrait of the legendary rocker. [116 minutes]

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• William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe (#2302)

  The life of one of the most beloved and hated lawyers in America is recounted by his two daughters. [86 minutes]

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• The Beaches of Agnes (#2303)

  French filmmaker Agnes Varda uses film clips and reenactments to showcase her life and her career. [116 minutes]

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• Promised Land (#2304)

  Tensions rise as two black communities struggle to reclaim land from white owners in South Africa. [56 minutes]

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• Good Fortune (#2305)

  International efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may undermine communities they aim to benefit. [86 minutes]

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• El General (#2306)

  Sheds light on revolutionary general Plutarco Elias Calles, who became Mexico's president in 1924. [86 minutes]

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• Presumed Guilty (#2307)

  Lawyers struggle to free an innocent man who was picked up off the street and charged with murder. [56 minutes]

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• Salt (#2308)

  Highlights Murray Fredericks's remarkable photos of Lake Eyre's desolate yet beautiful environment. [56 minutes]

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• The Edge of Dreaming (#2309)

  Amy Hardie investigates the human subconscious after becoming ill, just as a dream predicted. [86 minutes]

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• Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy (#2310)

  An 8-year-old Chinese orphan is adopted by an American family and struggles with her new identity. [86 minutes]

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• Off and Running (#2311)

  An African-American teen adopted as a child by white Jewish lesbians struggles over her identity. [86 minutes]

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• In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (#2312)

  A filmmaker returns to her native Korea to find the mysterious girl whose place she took in America. [56 minutes]

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• The Oath (#2313)

  The stories of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and a Guantanamo prisoner facing war crimes charges. [86 minutes]

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• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (#2314)

  In 1971, Ellsberg leaked top-secret documents regarding the war in Vietnam to The New York Times. [116 minutes]

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• Kings of Pastry (#2401)

  Chefs whip up gorgeous, delectable, gravity-defying concoctions for a top competition in France. [86 minutes]

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• My Perestroika (#2402)

  An intimate look at the last generation of Soviet children follows five people in today's Moscow. [86 minutes]

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• Sweetgrass (#2403)

  The last modern-day cowboys lead their sheep up into the breathtaking mountains of Montana. [86 minutes]

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• Enemies of the People (#2404)

  Sheds light on the Khmer Rouge slaughter of nearly two million people in the late 1970s in Cambodia. [86 minutes]

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• Biblioburro, The Donkey Library (#2405)

  A look at a Colombian teacher who used two hard-working donkeys to bring books to poor children. [56 minutes]

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• Mugabe and the White African (#2406)

  Robert Mugabe's "land reform" program uses violence and intimidation to drive whites from Zimbabwe. [86 minutes]

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• Steam of Life (#2407)

  A moody, comic and moving study of Finnish men, as framed by the national obsession with the sauna. [56 minutes]

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• Short Cuts (#2408)

  The films "Big Birding Day," "Flawed" and "Tiffany" are showcased. [56 minutes]

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• Armadillo (#2409)

  Captured the lives of young Danish soldiers at a combat operations base in southern Afghanistan. [86 minutes]

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• Better This World (#2410)

  The story of two friends accused of intending to firebomb the 2008 Republican National Convention. [86 minutes]

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• If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (#2411)

  A revealing look at a radical environmental group focuses on a former member facing life in prison. [86 minutes]

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• The Learning (#2412)

  Follows four Filipino women who reluctantly leave their families and schools to teach in Baltimore. [86 minutes]

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• Last Train Home (#2413)

  Migrant workers journey to their home villages for the Chinese New Year as their family grows distant. [86 minutes]

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• Where Soldiers Come From (#2414)

  Childhood friends who join the National Guard are followed, from northern Michigan to Afghanistan. [86 minutes]

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• Racing Dreams (#2415)

  Chronicles a year in the life of three tweens who dream of becoming NASCAR drivers. [86 minutes]

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• My Reincarnation (#2501)

  The story of exiled Tibetan Buddhist master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu and his Western-born son, Yeshi. [86 minutes]

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• Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (#2502)

  The story of how a 1983 documentary film influenced the indictment of a former Guatemalan dictator. [86 minutes]

• The City Dark (#2503)

  A fascinating look at the science of the dark and an exploration of our relationship to the stars. [56 minutes]

• Guilty Pleasures (#2504)

  The global popularity of romance novels published by Harlequin and Mills & Boon are explored. [56 minutes]

• The Light in Her Eyes (#2505)

  Houda al-Habash challenges the women of her Syrian community to live according to Islam. [56 minutes]

• Up Heartbreak Hill (#2506)

  Two teens struggle with the lure of a brighter future and in their town on a Navajo reservation. [56 minutes]

• Short Cuts (2012) (#2507)

  Brief documentaries include "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement." [56 minutes]

• I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful (#2508)

  Jonathan Demme documents a fearless matriarch's crusade to rebuild her community in New Orleans. [86 minutes]

• El Velador (The Night Watchman) (#2509)

  Follow a guard as he watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious drug lords. [56 minutes]

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• Give Up Tomorrow (#2510)

  A sensational trial in the Philippines exposes shocking corruption in the country's judicial system. [86 minutes]

• Sun Kissed (#2511)

  A Navajo couple discovers their children have a disorder that makes exposure to sunlight fatal. [56 minutes]

• Nostalgia for the Light (#2512)

  Archaeologists dig for ancient civilizations and astronomers scan the sky in Chile's Atacama Desert. [86 minutes]

• Reportero (#2513)

  Journalists at a Tijuana-based newsweekly stubbornly ply their trade as the drug war intensifies. [56 minutes]

• Girl Model (#2514)

  A look at the modeling industry focuses on an American model scout and a 13-year-old Siberian girl. [86 minutes]

• Homegoings (#2601)

  The beauty and grace of African American funerals are explored from a historic Harlem neighborhood. [56 minutes]

  • Wed, June 26, 7:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Thu, June 27, 12:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Thu, June 27, 8:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Thu, June 27, 2:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, June 29, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sun, June 30, 11:00 PM on IPTV

• Special Flight (#2602)

  The plight of undocumented foreigners at the Frambois detention center in Switzerland is revealed. [56 minutes]

• Herman's House (#2603)

  An art project focuses on prisoner Herman Wallace who has been in solitary confinement for 40 years. [86 minutes]

• Only The Young (#2604)

  Three unconventional Christian teenagers come of age in a small Southern California town. [86 minutes]

• High Tech, Low Life (#2605)

  Two of China's first citizen-reporters document the underside of China's economic development. [86 minutes]

• Neurotypical (#2606)

  An exploration of autism is showcased from the point of view of autistic people themselves. [56 minutes]

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