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- StarsDanica McKellarJohn TartagliaBrian Tyler CohenA web series featuring the beautiful Danica McKellar showing you how to do complicated math - the cool way.
- DirectorMaria DemopoulosJodi WilleStarsAhom AquarianIsis AquarianDon BollesA charismatic leader founds a commune in Los Angeles in the early '70s based on natural food, spiritual practices and psychedelic rock. This short-lived era is recreated with archival material and the memories of participants.
- DirectorRayka ZehtabchiStarsAjeyaAnitaGouri ChoudariIndian women fight the stigma surrounding menstruation and begin manufacturing sanitary pads.
- StarsKal PennShahid ShaikhAdam DavidsonActor and former White House Associate Director of Public Engagement, Kal Penn, takes viewers around the world to meet key players behind some of the more serious and bizarre movements in today's economy.
- DirectorLinda MendozaStarsBaratunde ThurstonTalks and performances from people who have experienced war, including Adam Driver (an actor and Veteran), Sebastian Junger (an American journalist; wrote the 1997 best selling book "The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea" and a documentary filmmaker) and Rufus Wainwright (an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer) among others.
- DirectorAndrea KalinStarsAmy BloomVince BrownPatricia ClarksonIn the grip of the Great Depression, unemployed men and women joined an unlikely WPA program to document America in guidebooks and interviews. With the Federal Writers' Project, the government pitted young, untested talents against the problems of everyday Americans. From that experience, some of America's great writers found their own voices, and discovered the Soul of a People.
- DirectorEd BellThomas LennonStarsWhoopi GoldbergAngela BassettMichael BoatmanWhen the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress. These first-person anecdotes, ranging from the brutal to the bittersweet, have been brought to vivid life, featuring the on-camera voices of over a dozen top African-American actors.
- StarsMichael Kenneth WilliamsO.G. Ron C.DJ HollygroveIn his most personal project to date, Michael K. Williams journeys into the dangerous world of illicit trade.
- StarsKonstantin KisinFrancis FosterDouglas MurrayHonest conversations with fascinating people.
- DirectorEmery EmeryStarsMatt KirshenJanine KrippnerSimon SinghScientists in television get misrepresented and edited out of context more often than you'd dare to guess. Science Friction tells their stories, and gives them a chance to set the record straight.
- DirectorJustin FolkStarsMatt WalshGert ComfreyMarci BowersPolitical commentator Matt Walsh explores the changing concepts of sex and gender in the digital age, particularly the transgender rights movement, anti-transgender bigotry, and what it means to be a woman.
- DirectorJohn MaggioStarsAnton BilanKrystof Bernard HájekMartin JáchimChemist Dr. Harvey Wiley takes on food manufacturers to banish dangerous substances threatening the health of consumers, laying the groundwork for U.S. consumer protection laws and the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.
- DirectorRob RapleyStarsIva BaumanovaChris BowersDaniel BrownIn the early 1900's, the average medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner's treasure chest.
- StarsDonald TrumpDonald Trump Jr.Ivanka TrumpA ground-breaking documentary series with exclusive access to President Donald J. Trump and the First Family as he launches his 2020 re-election campaign, disputes the results of the Presidential election and shakes the foundations of American democracy.
- DirectorJulie CohenStarsSean Saifa WallAlicia Roth WeigelRiver GalloFocuses on three individuals who overcame shame, secrecy, and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods. Choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly were.
- StarsDominic GarfieldAn alternative history of the British Isles, told through art. 1,500 years later, eight dramatic turning points, artists and thinkers encounter key historic art works across the UK, that have shaped history and inspired their own work.