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The Gas Station Attendant

By Ben Glidden | June 2026

It’s no surprise that Karla Murthy became a filmmaker. From a young age, she had a camera in her hands, capturing the…

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The Gas Station Attendant

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It’s no surprise that Karla Murthy became a filmmaker. From a young age, she had a camera in her hands, capturing the daily life of her family. And...

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Hard Hat Riot

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Director Marc Levin's Hard Hat Riot, a documentary in PBS's American Experience series, is a provocative piece that covers America during the turbulent...

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Minted

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The PBS documentary Minted, directed by Nicholas Bruchman, explores NFTs and the artists behind them. It begins with the massive sale of Beeple's...

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Fauna

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Paul Faus' POV documentary, Fauna, uses cinema verité style storytelling to nudge us to reflect on the importance of animals in our lives, both good and...

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Bridging Divides: Sharing Heartbeats

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Director Susan Polis Schutz is a poet and filmmaker with an activist spirit. Her previous work includes Love Wins Over Hate, a film combatting white...

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Native Ball: Legacy of a Trailblazer

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A common misconception about short films is that they cannot be as effective as feature-length titles. Longer is often mistakenly viewed as better, with...

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Bulls and Saints

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Often, documentaries about issues that are political in nature tend to repeat themselves in their messaging and approach. Director Rodrigo Dorfman's...

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American Masters: Elsa Sjunneson

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NOW ON PBS! PBS has come out with some of the finest documentaries out there. Many of them stem from their American Masters series. The latest...

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Love in the Time of Fentanyl

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When considering his life's many hardships, one of the heroin users in Love in the Time of Fentanyl soberly remarks that "going down was easier than...

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Broken Wings

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Jonathan Sutak's Broken Wings is a decidedly unique documentary about Jayne Lakhani. She's a tenderhearted waitress who dedicates a large portion of her...

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