Julie Wyman is a filmmaker, performer, and scholar whose work investigates the body: locating, exploring, and inventing various situations in which the codes, conditions, and visceral experiences of physicality defy expectation. The University of California-Davis assistant professor’s latest documentary, Strong! premieres on the PBS series Independent Lens July 26.

Immigration is a national issue this election year, but it plays out daily in the lives of people in communities across the country. HOMELAND travels to small towns and big cities that are dealing with immigration; towns such as tiny Monett, Missouri, where immigrants fuel the poultry processing industry.

While March is officially Women's History Month, the multi-year global initiative known as Women and Girls Lead and its subjects and documentarians have been striving each and every day to keep the light shining on human rights, identity, and opportunity. The stories are from mothers, leaders and girls who are involved in their communities and innovators in science, the arts, business and government.