14 episodesFirst aired 11 July 2022
E1Jul 2022
Exploring the early days of COVID-19 when Chinese citizens and frontline health care workers in Wuhan grappled with a mysterious virus.
E2Jul 2022
Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Manzanar World War II concentration camp; Native Americans forced from their land; ranchers bought out by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
E3Jul 2022
Greenland reckons with its Danish colonial past and the promised future by a U.S. company building a smelting plant.
E4Aug 202253m
Christine works to ensure dignified lives for herself and her brother, Peter.
E5Aug 20221h 53m
A new leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe's 2018 presidential election.
E6Aug 20221h 53m
A look at khat, a euphoria-inducing plant, and the lives of harvesters of the crop in Harar, Ethiopia.
E7Sept 20221h 18m
A multigenerational love story focuses on a daughter who cares for her terminally ill mother and adopts a baby in her 50s.
E8Sept 20221h 23m
Locals on an island paradise risk death to save the Philippines' last ecological frontier.
E9Oct 20221h 23m
Three Cuban baseball players risk exile to chase their dream of playing in the US major leagues.
E10Oct 20221h 23m
A prep school in Louisiana that sends 100% of its grads to college is rocked by scandal.
E11Oct 20221h 23m
The past 30 years of American history through the perspective of Muslims across the U.S. who have lived it.
E12Nov 20221h 23m
Two women in a region beset by violent ethnic divisions run a makeshift medical clinic.
E13Dec 20221h 23m
An academic beacon for Black children on Chicago's South Side battles gentrification.
E14Jan 20231h 25m
A disabled filmmaker ruminates on the corrosive legacy of the Freak Show.