 | The Creek Runs Redby Bradley Beesley, James Payne, and Julianna Brannum The Environmental Protection Agency calls the former lead mining town of Picher, Oklahoma one of the most toxic places in America, but a dwindling population still calls it home. The Creek Runs Red explores the human response to environmental disaster, and the complex connections between people and place. Independent Lens |
 | Diamond in the Dunesby Christopher Rufo Meet young Parhat Ablat, a member of a Muslim minority from the deserts of Western China, who is leading the fight against racial segregation using the unlikely medium of baseball. |
 | Digital Divideby David Bolt This series examines the role technology plays in deepening societal divisions based on race, gender and class, and how the lack of access to computers threatens to widen these gaps. |
 | Dinka Diariesby Filmon Mebrahu Five Sudanese refugee orphans resettled near Philadelphia use digital cameras to tell their experiences adjusting to American culture and a new way of life. |
 | The Education of Shelby Knoxby Marion Lipshutz and Rose Rosenblatt When Texas teenager Shelby Knox joins a youth group on a campaign for better sex education in high schools, she begins to question her deeply conservative Southern Baptist upbringing. POV |
 | Education, Educationby Weijun Chen As China's higher education system becomes more privatized, a new generation of Chinese youth are losing access to it. Global Perspectives Collection, Global Voices, Why Poverty? |
 | Epiphany in Progressby Michal Goldman A look at the tumultuous first year of an experimental middle school of low-income, ethnically diverse students in inner-city Boston. |
 | The Eyes of Meby Keith Maitland How do you see yourself, when you can’t see at all? Follow four visually impaired teenagers in Texas as they face the usual challenges of adolescence while simultaneously learning to navigate a world designed for the sighted. Independent Lens |
| From Swastika to Jim Crowby Lori Cheatle, Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher, and Martin D. Toub From Swastika to Jim Crow traces the story of Jewish intellectuals who escaped Nazi Germany only to find anti-Semitism at major U.S. universities. Many secured positions at black colleges in the South, and ultimately impacted the civil rights movement. |
| Front Wards, Back Wardsby William C. Rogers Fernald State School, America’s first institution for individuals with developmental disabilities, was founded in Massachusetts in 1848 and still operates today. It stands as a powerful case study of an endeavor in which the best of intentions go awry. |
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