Movies: Corporation For Public Broadcasting

  • 2016
    Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

    Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016)

    Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

    7.92016HD

    A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining civil rights moments. From her upbringing in the De...

    Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
  • 2018
    People's Republic of Desire

    People's Republic of Desire (2018)

    People's Republic of Desire

    6.32018HD

    In China’s popular live-streaming showrooms, three millennials – a karaoke singer, a migrant worker and a rags-to-riches comedian – seek fame, fortune and human connection, ultimately finding the same promises and perils online as in their real lives...

    People's Republic of Desire
  • 2019
    The Silence of Others

    The Silence of Others (2019)

    The Silence of Others

    8.12019HD

    The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, th...

    The Silence of Others
  • 2013
    The Kill Team

    The Kill Team (2013)

    The Kill Team

    6.72013HD

    In 2010, the media branded a platoon of U.S. Army infantry soldiers “The Kill Team” following reports of its killing for sport in Afghanistan. Now, one of the accused must fight the government he defended on the battlefield, while grappling with his ...

    The Kill Team
  • 2017
    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2017)

    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

    6.72017HD

    The incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only U.S. bank to face criminal charge...

    Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
  • 2011
    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)

    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

    6.52011HD

    Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved in deforestation, while simultaneously offering a profile of Oregon ELF member Daniel McGowan, who w...

    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  • 2016
    National Bird

    National Bird (2016)

    National Bird

    6.72016HD

    Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections, traumas, and responses—of three American military veterans whose lives have been shaken by the roles they play...

    National Bird
  • 2024
    My Sweet Land

    My Sweet Land (2024)

    My Sweet Land

    02024HD

    For 11-year-old Vrej, life in his homeland Artsakh is like a paradise, but when war starts again, can he carry a nation’s hopes on his young shoulders?...

    My Sweet Land
  • 2017
    The Force

    The Force (2017)

    The Force

    6.82017HD

    The Force presents a cinema vérité look deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson, MO, and an explosive scandal....

    The Force
  • 2020
    The People vs. Agent Orange

    The People vs. Agent Orange (2020)

    The People vs. Agent Orange

    8.82020HD

    Two women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable for the Agent Orange catastrophe. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination exposing a massive cover-up....

    The People vs. Agent Orange
  • 1987
    Who Killed Vincent Chin?

    Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987)

    Who Killed Vincent Chin?

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    This film recounts the murder of Vincent Chin, an automotive engineer mistaken as Japanese who was slain by an assembly line worker who blamed him for the competition by the Japanese auto makers that were threatening his job. It then recounts how tha...

    Who Killed Vincent Chin?
  • 2017
    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2017)

    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

    8.12017HD

    A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. They have been unapolo...

    Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
  • 2022
    Storming Caesars Palace

    Storming Caesars Palace (2022)

    Storming Caesars Palace

    02022HD

    This inspiring documentary chronicles the extraordinary life of Ruby Duncan, an activist who fights the welfare system and becomes a White House advisor....

    Storming Caesars Palace
  • 2020
    Cured

    Cured (2020)

    Cured

    4.22020HD

    Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. And as long as they were “sick”, progress toward equality was impossible. This d...

    Cured
  • 2015
    A Ballerina's Tale

    A Ballerina's Tale (2015)

    A Ballerina's Tale

    6.42015HD

    A feature documentary on African American ballerina Misty Copeland that examines her prodigious rise, her potentially career ending injury alongside themes of race and body image in the elite ballet world....

    A Ballerina's Tale
  • 1993
    The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's

    The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's (1993)

    The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's

    01993HD

    Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming American economy. His offer of high wages in exchange for hard work attracted workers to Detroit, but it be...

    The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's
  • 2018
    Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal

    Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal (2018)

    Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal

    6.62018HD

    In Namibia, conservationist Maria Diekmann found herself on the frontline of the battle to save these wanted animals after unexpectedly becoming a surrogate mother to an orphaned baby pangolin named Honey Bun. On an emotional journey, Diekmann travel...

    Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal
  • 2006
    Knocking

    Knocking (2006)

    Knocking

    8.52006HD

    Knocking opens the door on Jehovah's Witnesses. They are moral conservatives who stay out of politics and the Culture War, but they won a record number of court cases expanding freedom for everyone. They refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds...

    Knocking
  • 2019
    Words from a Bear

    Words from a Bear (2019)

    Words from a Bear

    02019HD

    A visual journey into the mind and soul of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Navarro Scott Momaday, relating each written line to his unique Native American experience representing ancestry, place, and oral history....

    Words from a Bear
  • 2014
    The Homestretch

    The Homestretch (2014)

    The Homestretch

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    Three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a brighter future....

    The Homestretch