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Re-examines a prominent event involving a sports figure. First season will follow the story of Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots and convicted murderer.

Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.

The ensuing investigation of a murder proves to be a lightning rod for the city, igniting decades-old racial tensions and brutal targeting amidst a media firestorm.

In the personal and inspiring stories of four patients urgently searching for answers to mysterious symptoms, Below the Belt exposes widespread problems in our health care systems.

SLATERSVILLE: AMERICA'S FIRST MILL VILLAGE is a historical documentary series told across eleven episodes that retraces the two-hundred-year history of the first industrialized mill village created in Rhode Island, America.

An inspiring look at Alderman Robin Rue Simmons' fight to redress the wrongs of "redlining" and the legacy of slavery through a groundbreaking reparations program in Evanston, Illinois.

Scientists discuss the possibility of reverse-engineering the DNA of modern birds to recreate dinosaur species, instead of cloning fragments of dinosaur DNA extracted from amber and other ancient fossils.

A study on the gaying of the American sitcom. Tickled Pink includes behind-the-scenes visits to some of America's favorite sitcom sets including Roseanne, Frasier, Suddenly Susan and Married With Children.

Fight For Football is a documentary film looking back at the decision to cancel the 2020 Big Ten football season, and the fight by players, coaches, parents, and fans around the league to save it. The film includes interviews with players and their families, as well as journalists from around the Big Ten and the rest of the nation who covered every minute of the most historic year in the sport's history. When everyone had access to the same medical information, why did some conferences decide to play with only minor tweaks to their schedules, while others felt it was simply impossible to do so safely?

Former Boston mobster Mark Silverman rates seven Irish mob scenes in movies and television for realism, such as "The Departed" and "The Town." Silverman discusses the accuracy of Irish mob stereotypes in "The Departed" (2006), "The Town" (2010) and "Black Mass" (2015). He also comments on the portrayal of Irish gang activities in "The Boondock Saints" (1999) and "The Kitchen" (2019). He analyzes the depiction of violence in the Irish mob in "Death to Smoochy" (2002) and "What Doesn't Kill You" (2008).

Host Mark Shanahan shares a deeply personal, sometimes harrowing, often funny, always true story about prostate cancer, a disease that affects him and millions of other men. With bracing candor and an eye for the absurd, Mark confronts cultural attitudes about masculinity, controversies surrounding screening and treatment and that his diagnosis would wreck the healthy sex life he enjoyed with his wife. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Mr. 80 Percent is a heartfelt, hilarious, and helpful resource for men, and their families, touched by this disease.

A single, burning question about love and relationships, every season. Explored through stories.

The story of the Charles and Carol is hosted by Adrian Walker who, along with a team of Pulitzer-winning investigative reporters, unveils explosive new findings and change the narrative of a story long cemented in the city's lore.

Two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 cause President Richard Nixon to cancel his "madman" plans for a massive escalation of the U.S. war in Vietnam.

When brothers Samuel and John find a location in northern Rhode Island to create and control their own village, they transform the landscape by building a whole new mill, utilizing water power from the Branch River, constructing houses, and forcing those in an agricultural lifestyle to conform to their time-punching needs for manufacturing. John's wife Ruth plays a prominent role over the villagers. Through houses of worship, rules of temperance, and child labor, they struggle to control the lives of their rebellious workforce.

Upon inheriting his father's fortune, John Whipple Slater, owner of Slatersville, becomes an absentee landlord and embarks on extravagance. His excursions on multiple grand tours, big spending and bad behavior makes the national headlines, while his nephew Rufus Waterman III is invited to take over the family business and manage a mounting pile of problems on the home front. Through Rufus's thorough record keeping of diary entries and family letters (hidden for over seven decades), this period is dramatically reconstructed. With dying relatives, striking workers and negligent supervisors, the village descends into chaos and ruin as the Slater and Waterman families struggle to hold onto the foundation built by their fathers, leaving the future of Slatersville in peril.

The passage of the first-ever tax-funded reparations bill for Black Americans stirs up a debate.

In 1989 Boston, a shooting involving a Black suspect and a white couple ignites racial tensions. Police target the Black community, leading to the arrest of a Black man in Mission Hill.

Amid police targeting of Black neighborhoods, a new suspect, William Bennett, emerges in the aftermath of a failed case. Arrested on an unrelated charge, media attention overshadows Chuck's narrative, ignoring crucial details.

A pregnant woman is murdered. Her husband is blamed but kills himself. His brother reveals new information, police errors emerge. The Black community protests the investigation and media. Boston reflects on the lasting impact of the case.