Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own family and health, as he refuses to draw lines between those he counsels and himself.

Haunted by his inability to prevent his father's death at age 17, the making of this film came to span twenty years as Lipman tried to construct an image of his father from relatives' memories and psychiatric records unearthed from hospital archives. The film circles around to become an inquiry into his own life - the choices he has made and how his father's life resonates within his own. Using evocative home movies and poetic imagery, Father's Day...

In 1994, Oregon became the first state in the U.S. to legalize physician aid-in-dying. At the time, only two countries (Switzerland and the Netherlands) permitted the practice, but more than 500 Oregonians have since ended their life using the law. The intimate Sundance Award-winning documentary How To Die in Oregon is a powerful, compassionate exploration of Oregon's historic and controversial Death with Dignity Act, which legalizes physician aid-in-dying...

This film explores the stories of Americans impacted by suicide, and journeys to the frontlines of medical and scientific research to meet some of the people who are working to curb the suicide crisis.

A grieving father seeks answers after his fourteen-year-old son dies by suicide. He uncovers painful truths about the lives of teens, the impact of unfettered access to internet and social media, and the shocking rise of depression among America's youth. The journey brings him together with young suicide survivors, prevention experts, and parents trying to understand the 70% increase in adolescent suicide. Closer to home, with his family fractured,...

In July 1974, 29-year-old TV host Christine Chubbuck went on air in Sarasota, Florida for her morning talk show "Suncoast Digest" and shot herself on live TV. The incident became a national news story and is rumored to have been the inspiration for Sidney Lumet's Oscar-winning film Network. This film follows a young actress named Kate Lyn Sheil who is hired to potray Chubbuck in a new film.

"On Christmas Day, 1929, respected tobacco farmer Charlie Lawson shot his wife and six of his children, and then turned the gun on himself in one of the most brutal murder-suicides in Southern history. Charlie took his reasons to the grave, but his crime has since sparked numerous controversies, generational family feuds, ghost stories, murder ballads, even a tourist attraction and traveling exhibits. This film explores the tall tales and controversies...

Some crimes are so sensational that they leap out of the annals of crime and into popular culture. From Jack the Ripper to Roswell to Lady Di, each episode in this series revisits a page of our shared history, meticulously decoding and deconstructing a sensationalist news item. Unjustly disdained by historians and generally left to the tabloid press, these stories reveal much about the societies that spawned them and the later generations that keep...