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If you're arrested in New York City and can't make bail, you'll be sent to Rikers Island -- a mammoth holding facility for 17,000 men and women awaiting trial. TV journalist Jon Alpert spent ten months filming there, coming away with a graphic and unblinking portrait of life inside America's largest jail complex, including a moving look at the human faces behind the statistics.

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Thirty years after Ford Motor Company began dumping toxic waste in their backyard – and after one too many premature deaths – the Ramapo Mountain Indians filed a major class-action lawsuit: Mann v. Ford. This tiny tribe and their team of passionate lawyers took on the 'big dogs' – Ford and the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Four families with children who were born after their fathers perished on 9/11 share their stories of bravery and inspiration and reflect on how they rebuilt hope for their futures and came of age over the past 20 years.

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Dr. Riley Elliott returns to Australia's Norfolk Island with underwater cinematographer Kina Scollay to see what happens when the island's tiger sharks go head-to-head with migrating great whites over an unusual food source: cow carcasses.

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.Americans have had a long love affair with dogs, with many of us referring to our canine companions as best friends, significant others, soul mates, even children. But lost amidst all the pampering and pedestaling are hard and often tragic truths surrounding dog ownership, care and commerce, not to mention the daunting odds continuing to face millions of unwanted shelter dogs. Divided into three parts – “Fear,” “Loss” and “Betrayal” – this 73-minute documentary is comprised of eight case studies that probe the complicated and conflicted relationship we have with canines. Collectively, the segments reveal the sobering realities behind our relationship with dogs, showing not only how far some dog lovers will go for their pets, but how far we as nation have to go in order to treat all dogs humanely.

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The Right to Dissent: A Press Conference, records a pre-convention press conference of the National Committee to End in the War in Vietnam. David Dellinger and Rennie Davis recount their difficulties in dealing with the City of Chicago to plan their protests against the 1968 Democratic Convention.

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In 2021, scientists grew human stem cells in a monkey embryo, creating a human-ape hybrid. Previous experiments led to rumors of an actual live birth. Is this mad science? Is it immoral, even criminal? Or could creating hybrids now help us defeat disease?

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Led by archaeologist Ciprian Ardlean, this groundbreaking special unearths fresh archaeology that is transforming the understanding of when and who the earliest humans traveled to the Americas.

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Inclusion reaches the next level in this documentary about the Argentine restaurant where neurodiverse young people cook and serve.

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Law and Order vs. Dissent intercuts footage of the police response to the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Convention with press conferences by Mayor Richard J. Daley and a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department in which they place the blame for the violence on the student protesters.

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Shark expert Tristan Guttridge and his mad scientist team use CGI to build the ultimate "Frankenshark." Pulling from a variety of shark species, they build the deadliest, weirdest shark on the planet.

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International wildlife conservationist and biologist Forrest Galante travels the world in search of new and mysterious species of sharks, as well as forgotten or unseen creatures that have been misidentified or declared extinct.

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Wildlife biologist Forrest Galante explores the alien world of Japan's oceans; teaming up with deep sea shark expert Christina de Silva, they search for the extremely rare Japanese angelshark, the ghost of the sea.

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