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  • Great Migrations: A People on The Move
  • Gospel
  • GOSPEL Live! Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Finding Your Roots
  • Making Black America
  • The Black Church
  • RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
  • Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
  • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
  • The Vietnam War
  • Leonardo da Vinci
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  • The Congress
  • The U.S. and the Holocaust
  • Horatio's Drive
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • The Statue of Liberty
  • The National Parks
  • Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
  • Jazz
  • The American Buffalo
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Thomas Jefferson
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  • The Roosevelts
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  • Country Music
  • Baseball
  • The Tenth Inning
  • Huey Long
  • Central Park Five
  • Prohibition
  • Mark Twain
  • Lewis & Clark
  • The Dust Bowl
  • Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • The Address
  • Thomas Hart Benton
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • The Mayo Clinic
  • Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • The Shakers
  • The War
  • Empire of the Air
American Experience: Defining Moments in History
American Masters: Icons of Art & Culture
  • Independent Lens
  • POV
  • The Calling: A Medical School Journey
  • REEL SOUTH
  • Indie Alaska
  • PBS Short Film Festival
  • Made Here
  • Mini Docs
  • Film School Shorts
  • America ReFramed
  • Chautauqua at 150: Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise
  • Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution
  • Becoming Frida Kahlo
  • American Masters
  • Gospel
  • Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
  • Country Music
  • The Black Church
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Civilizations
  • Jazz
  • Icon: Music Through the Lens
  • Subcultured
  • AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange
  • The Bigger Picture
  • Dante: Inferno to Paradise
  • Shakespeare's Tomb
  • Inside the Met
WE WANT THE FUNK!

Independent Lens

WE WANT THE FUNK!

The syncopated story of funk music, from its roots to the explosion of '70s urban funk and beyond.
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Film School Shorts
VOCES: Latino Stories Through Documentary
REEL SOUTH: Stories of the American South
  • NOVA
  • 8 Days: To the Moon and Back
  • Humanity from Space
  • PBS Space Time
  • The Farthest
  • First Contact: An Alien Encounter
  • Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World
  • A Year in Space
  • Ancient Skies
  • Stellar
  • Crash Course Astronomy
  • Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
  • Lucy Worsley Investigates
  • Tales from the Royal Wardrobe
  • Victoria & Albert: The Wedding
  • Lucy Worsley's Royal Photo Album
  • Lucy Worsley's Royal Palace Secrets
  • Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets
  • Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
Secrets of the Dead: History’s Hidden Truths
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