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247: Live from Los Angeles, part 2

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246: Live from Los Angeles, part 1

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245: Alex Gibney on "Musk"

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244: Sinead O’Shea on "All About the Money"

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243: Sasha Waters on Mary Oliver

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242: Zayd Ayers Dohrn on the Weather Underground

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241: Live from New York, part 2

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240: Live from New York, part 1

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239: Poh Si Teng on "American Doctor"

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238: Colin Hanks & Ryan Reynolds on John Candy

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237: Judd Apatow & Michael Bonfiglio on Mel Brooks

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236: Raney Aronson-Rath on Frontline

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235: Oscar Shortlist Spotlight

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234: Ryan White & Megan Falley on "Come See Me in the Good Light"

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233: Alexandria Stapleton on "Sean Combs: The Reckoning"

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232: Apocalypse in the Tropics

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231: Docs from Five Countries

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230: Storks, Orphans, Rebels & Predators

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229: Poetry, Murder, Prison & UFOs

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228: Contessa Gayles on "Songs From the Hole"

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227: Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady on "Folktales"

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226: Martha Stewart, Alice Waters, John Williams

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225: Will & Harper, Social Studies, Chimp Crazy

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224: Emmy contenders

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223: Questlove, Reginald Hudlin, David Tedeschi

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222: Sam Soko on telling African stories

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221: Sinead O'Shea on Edna O'Brien

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220: Jeremy Workman on "Secret Mall Apartment"

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219: Frederick Wiseman at 95

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218: Shortlisters, part 2

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217: Shortlisters, part 1

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216: "Queendom" with Agniia Galdanova & Igor Myakotin

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215: Ibrahim Nash'at on "Hollywoodgate"

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214: Adam Kinzinger & Steve Pink on "The Last Republican"

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213: Alex Gibney & Alexis Bloom on "The Bibi Files"

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212: William Kentridge on "Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot"

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211: Live from London

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210: Brian Eno & Ibelin

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209: Raoul Peck on Ernest Cole, George Orwell & Haiti

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208: Johan Grimonprez on "Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat"

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207: Frida, Celine and Daughters

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206: Docs with Laughs

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205: Live from Los Angeles

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204: Shiori Ito on "Black Box Diaries"

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203: Elevating documentary craft in "Nocturnes"

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202: On filming "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story"

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201: Angela Patton & Natalie Rae Robison on "Daughters"

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200: Beadie Finzi & Judy Kibinge on DISCO & the Independence Project

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199: "No Other Land" directors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham

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198: Lucy Walker on "Mountain Queen”

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197: Sonya Childress & Sahar Driver on Color Congress

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196: Jeff Zimbalist on "Skywalkers: A Love Story"

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195: Rethinking Louis C.K. in "Sorry / Not Sorry"

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194: "Copa 71" Restores a Lost History

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193: ESPN 30 for 30

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192: Emmy Contenders, Part 2

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191: Emmy Contenders, Part 1

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190: Chris Wilcha — from "This American Life" to "Flipside"

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189: India's Trail-Blazing Director Anand Patwardhan

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188: Margreth Olin on "Songs of Earth"

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187: Rob Reiner on Albert Brooks and Spinal Tap

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186: Yousef Srouji on Palestinian Home Movies

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185: Paul Cronin on Columbia 1968

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184: Clair Titley on "The Contestant"

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183: Just Vision’s Julia Bacha and Suhad Babaa on 20 Years of Covering Israel-Palestine

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182: Sreemoyee Singh — from India to Iran

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181: Mila Turajlić on Non-Aligned

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180: Asmae El Moudir on "The Mother of All Lies"

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179: Alex Gibney on Paul Simon

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178: Anand Giridharadas on "The Persuaders"

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177: Carla Gutierrez on "Frida"

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176: Alissa Wilkinson at The New York Times

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175: S. Leo Chiang on "Island in Between"

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174: Oscar contenders, part 2

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173: Oscar contenders, part 1

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172: Nicole Newnham on “The Disappearance of Shere Hite”

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171: "Every Body" Profiles Intersex Activists

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170: Raoul Peck on "Silver Dollar Road"

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169: Mstyslav Chernov on “20 Days in Mariupol"

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168: Vinay Shukla on "While We Watched"

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167: Sébastien Lifshitz on "Casa Susanna"

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166: Maite Alberdi on "The Eternal Memory"

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165: D. Smith on "Kokomo City"

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164: Asif Kapadia on Highs and Lows

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163: John Leguizamo Does America

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162: Roger Ross Williams on Donna Summer, "The 1619 Project" and "Cassandro"

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161: Elvis Mitchell on "Is That Black Enough for You?!?"

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160: Inside "Couples Therapy"

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159: Lisa Cortés on "Little Richard: I Am Everything"

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158: Harry Belafonte on "Sing Your Song"

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157: E. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin on "Wild Life"

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156: Chase Joynt Explores Transgender History in "Framing Agnes"

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155: Daniel Roher on "Navalny"

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154: Oscar-nominated Shaunak Sen on "All That Breathes"

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153: Joyce Chopra on "Lady Director"

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152: Violet Du Feng on "Hidden Letters"

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151: Rebeca Huntt on "Beba"

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150: “La Madrina” of the South Bronx

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149: W. Kamau Bell on "We Need to Talk About Cosby"

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148: Abigail Disney & Kathleen Hughes on Disney’s Dark Side