Free Everyday People Documentaries

In the provocative documentary "Chicken Ranch," filmmakers Nick Broomfield and Sandi Sissel take us on a captivating journey into one of the few legal brothels in Nevada.

American Experience, television's most-watched history series, brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form our nation.

In this gripping documentary, a group of young, unaccompanied Central American children struggle to make their way through Mexico, in order to ultimately reach the United States and jump the border to a new home.

This audio documentary put out by American Public Media recounts the incredible true-life tale of how 28 Men survived a ship-wreck in Antarctica for 2 years.

My name is Alberta Martin and I was born in nineteen hundred and six, the first day of December. I'm the last Confederate widow living as far as anybody knows...

To make this documentary, journalist Bill Moyers checked in on two middle-class American families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for over two decades.

The Woman Who Wasn't There is a psychological thriller that goes inside the mind of history's most infamous 9/11 survivor.

1992, Florida, USA. Aileen Wuornos is claimed to be the world's first female serial killer. She killed seven of her clients and was on death row in the State of Florida facing the electric chair.

In a nondescript warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain over 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind.

This documentary looks at life for the 600,000 inmates that are released from prison each year in America. It follows how life after prison affects the ability to get a job, the toll prison has taken on family life, and many other aspects of life after prison.