Season 31

The Rainey family are an African-American family living in Philadelphia.

Bill Nye advocates the importance of science, research and discovery.

Jae-Chang Kim, a Korean opera singer who runs a children's choir in India, trains parents and their children for a joint concert.

The town of Tultepec in south-central Mexico becomes famous for its manufacturing of fireworks.

African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar participate in a football tournament for laborers.

A juror deals with guilt and regret after she and 11 others hand down the death penalty to a Mississippi man convicted of a double homicide.

Maria Toorpakai represents Pakistan as an internationally competitive squash player.

An account of the Ferguson uprising as told by the people who lived it.

Yu Xiuhua, a 39-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy, deals with fame when her book of poetry becomes a best-seller in China.

Male nurse Nori Sharif and his family experience many changes as conflicts continue with Iraqi militias and the Islamic State group in central Iraq's "triangle of death."

A Cuban mother of four longs for escape and a chance to build a better life.

Hasidic women in Borough Park, Brooklyn, create the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps in New York.

Two health care workers in Sierra Leone face the Ebola epidemic in their country.

A journalist in Montana investigates the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

Former comfort women who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II fight for justice and reconciliation.

Three young men bond through skateboarding to escape their volatile family life in their Rust Belt home town.

Two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house.