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Documentary of the Week

by WNYC
168 EPISODES
May 9
All Episodes
'Silver Dollar Road' tells a story of Black resistance
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'Reality Winner' profiles a whistleblower
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'Joan Baez: I Am a Noise' is a road trip through history
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'Antidote' profiles a journalist on Russia's wanted list
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'River of Grass' explores the Everglades
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'Drop Dead City' covers New York in the '70s
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 'One to One'
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'We Want the Funk' moves your mind and body
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'Secret Mall Apartment' explores a rebellious art project
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Looking back at Japan's Aum cult
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'Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse' profiles the cartoonist of 'Maus'
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'Sly Lives!' explores a musical legacy
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A painting escapes from prison
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'The Fall of Diddy' explores accusations against Sean Combs
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Liza Minnelli looks back
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'The Only Girl in the Orchestra' profiles Orin O'Brien
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'The Bibi Files' exposes leaked footage of Netanyahu
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Exploring the legacy of Loïe Fuller in 'Obsessed with Light'
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'Space Cowboy' profiles an aerial stunt artist
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'Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat' blends music and history
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'No Other Land' focuses on the West Bank
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Japan's #MeToo moment in 'Black Box Diaries'
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'Union' follows the labor movement at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island
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'Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid' profiles the maverick political consultant
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'Patrice: The Movie' is a romantic comedy about disability rights
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Certifying elections in 'Denial'
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Will Ferrell and Harper Steele take a road trip
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Pursuing a surfing record in 'Maya and the Wave'
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'Look Into My Eyes' profiles psychics in New York City
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'Happy Campers' on the fleeting pleasures of summer
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'Mountain Queen' profiles Lhakpa Sherpa
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Trespassing on rooftops in 'Skywalkers: A Love Story'
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'Sorry / Not Sorry' looks at Louis C.K.
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'The Grab' is a journalistic thriller on global politics
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'Copa 71' uncovers a hidden history of women in sports
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'The Luckiest Guy in the World' profiles Bill Walton
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Collecting records and reviving dreams in 'Flipside'
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'Queen of the Deuce' profiles the grandmother who ran porn theaters
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'A Time to Stir' looks at Columbia University in 1968
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Is 'The Contestant' the most bizarre documentary of the year?
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'Uncropped' profiles photographer James Hamilton
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'Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story' profiles a Chinatown hero
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'Kim's Video' is film history as a heist movie
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Exploring the career of Paul Simon
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'Carol Doda Topless at the Condor' profiles a trail blazer
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'Frida' profiles the Mexican painter in her own words
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'A Revolution on Canvas' profiles Iranian artists in exile
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'God Save Texas' challenges preconceptions about the state
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'Breaking the News' follows the journalism team at The 19th*
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'Island in Between' looks at tensions between Taiwan and China
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