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Episode 1

The Parking Lot Movie

air day: 2010-10-19

This documentary is a couple of singular parking zone in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the choose group of parking zone attendants that inhabit its microcosm. The attendants are a uniquely diverse group of males comprised of each undergraduate and graduate college students, philosophers, intellectuals, musicians, artists, and marginal-type characters.

Episode 2

Art & Copy

air day: 2010-10-26

A take a look at the work and knowledge of a few of the most influential promoting creatives of our time – artists and writers who introduced a rebellious spirit to their work in a enterprise extra typically related to mediocrity or manipulation. “Just Do It,” “I Love NY, ” “Where’s the Beef?,” “Got Milk,” “Think Different,” and different sensible campaigns for all the things from vehicles to presidents.

Episode three

Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian

air day: 2010-11-02

The portrayal of Native Americans in cinema. / Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining, insightful, and infrequently humorous take a look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives by a century of cinema and analyzing the parable of “the Injun.” Narrated by Diamond with infectious enthusiasm and good humor, this movie is a loving take a look at cinema by the eyes of the individuals who appeared in its very first flickering photos and have survived to inform their tales their very own approach.

Episode four

The Longoria Affair

air day: 2010-11-09

Private Felix Longoria fought and died whereas combating the Japanese throughout World War II. When his physique was despatched again to his small hometown in Texas, the one funeral parlor there refused to carry a wake for the Mexican American GI as a result of “the whites would not like it.” The incident would ripple outward, launching the profession of Lyndon B. Johnson, touchdown the undertaker in a psychological establishment, and launching the Mexican American civil rights motion.

Episode 5

Lost Sparrow

air day: 2010-11-16

Filmmaker Chris Billing investigates the deaths of his adopted brothers, two Crow Indian boys who disappeared in 1978. / Some questions are by no means answered. Some solutions are onerous to take. Three many years in the past, two Crow Indian brothers ran away from residence and nobody knew why. Their sudden and mysterious deaths despatched shockwaves by a tiny upstate New York group. This program relates their adoptive brother’s journey to deliver Bobby and Tyler residence and confront a painful fact that shattered his household.

Episode 6

Deep Down

air day: 2010-11-23

Beverly May and Terry Ratliff grew up on reverse sides of a mountain ridge in japanese Kentucky. When a mountaintop removing coal mine encroaches on their group, the 2 discover themselves on reverse sides of a debate that divides their group. Who controls, consumes, and advantages from the planet’s dwindling provide of pure sources? In a small city in dire financial straits and excessive unemployment, the coal firm’s provide to purchase land and supply jobs could be onerous to withstand. How can a group select between its current and its future? Also: The Virtual Mine.

Episode 7

45365

air day: 2010-12-14

An inquisitive take a look at on a regular basis life in Middle America. “45365” explores the vagaries of day by day life in an American city — Sidney, Ohio. Through an intimate take a look at the lives and landscapes that make up this group of 20,000 folks, the movie captures varied facets of their shared expertise. Conclusions are left to the viewers because the element characters converse and act for themselves.

Episode eight

The Calling, Part 1

air day: 2010-12-20

This mini-series follows seven Muslims, Catholics, Evangelical Christians and Jews in coaching to develop into skilled clergy. Embarking on life paths that demand large private sacrifice and dedication, these seminarians should uphold timeless truths in an period that values fast fixes and scorching developments, and face a public that challenges the relevance of their mission. A brand new take a look at an outdated job, “The Calling” takes viewers into the unknown world of seminaries to inform private tales of how religion is lived at the moment. (Part 1 of two)

Episode 9

The Calling, Part 2

air day: 2010-12-21

Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, and Jewish seminarians embark on their life path in a secular and cynical period. An in depth take a look at how religion is lived at the moment. / The conclusion of “The Calling,” about America’s subsequent era of spiritual leaders within the Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths. The documentary chronicles their transformation from college students to ordained non secular professionals.

Episode 10

Men Who Swim

air day: 2011-01-04

A bunch of middle-aged males who’ve discovered unlikely success as members of Sweden’s all-male synchronized swimming workforce. What begins as a weekly escape from the day by day grind of labor and household duties progressively evolves right into a extra critical dedication. Inspired by Esther Williams’s methods from the 1950s, these prepare engineers and meat patrons, archivists and academics have develop into passionate exponents of a sport usually related to girls.

Episode 11

Children of Haiti

air day: 2011-01-11

In the midst of Haiti’s lush mountains and historic relics are 500,000 orphan youngsters who dwell within the streets — referred to as “the soulless” and forgotten by their very own folks. This program follows three teenage boys — Denick, a captivating 14-year-old; Nickenson, a tricky however delicate 16-year-old; and Antoine, an lively paint-thinner abuser — who share a typical dream of schooling, authorities help, and social acceptance. Shot within the northern metropolis of Cap-Haitien over a interval of two years, this movie captures the spirit of human survival.

Episode 12

For Once in My Life

air day: 2011-02-01

Made up of 28 musicians and singers with extreme psychological and bodily disabilities, the Spirit of Goodwill Band is a raucous residence away from residence the place members are free to show their expertise, humor, and tenacity. This movie challenges preconceived notions of what it means to be disabled. / South Florida’s Spirit of Goodwill Band, a music group of individuals with psychological and bodily disabilities, because it progresses from small appearances to bigger public performances, together with the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami.

Episode 13

When I Rise

air day: 2011-02-08

A profile of Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music scholar, who finds herself on the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling in opposition to the chances and finally ascending to the heights of worldwide opera.

Episode 14

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

air day: 2011-02-22

An iconoclast who himself grew to become an icon, William Burroughs explored the outer boundaries of tradition and id within the 1950s. His work was vilified by conservatives and banned by the U.S. authorities, however emerged to affect artists for generations to come back. Burroughs’s mates and colleagues keep in mind the general public persona and the non-public man.

Episode 15

Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story

air day: 2011-03-01

At the age of 16, Cyntoia Brown, who had suffered an extended historical past of abuse, killed a person who picked her up for intercourse. The filmmaker has unprecedented entry to Cyntioa in jail, and spends two years together with her and her household as they await her eventual sentencing to life in jail in Tennessee. This movie challenges our assumptions about violence and explores how a teen could be predestined for tragedy by life circumstances.

Episode 16

Pushing the Elephant

air day: 2011-03-29

Civil warfare got here to Rose’s Congolese village, with it the nighttime arrest of her whole household, the execution of her husband and grim negotiations with guards which led to her separation from her five-year-old daughter, Nangabire. More than a decade later, resettled in Phoenix, Rose and her youngsters are reunited with Nangabire. Rose emerged from her expertise advocating forgiveness and reconciliation.

Episode 17

The Desert of Forbidden Art

air day: 2011-04-05

This story of how a treasure trove of banned Soviet artwork value tens of millions of was stashed in a far-off desert of Uzbekistan develops into a bigger exploration of how artwork survives in instances of oppression.

Episode 18

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

air day: 2011-04-12

In his quick profession, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. Discovered within the late 1970s by his graffiti artwork on the Lower East Side, he bought his first portray to Deborah Harry for $200 and later grew to become greatest mates with Andy Warhol. Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her good friend on this documentary.

Episode 19

Waste Land

air day: 2011-04-19

Artist Vik Muniz journeys from to his residence nation of Brazil, and to Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest rubbish dump situated on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There Muniz images an eclectic band of catadores — pickers of recyclable supplies — and works with them to “paint” their portraits utilizing rubbish. The ensuing collaboration with these inspiring characters gives profoundly transferring proof of the transformative energy of artwork and its affect on the human spirit.

Episode 20

Marwencol

air day: 2011-04-26

After being crushed right into a coma, Mark Hogancamp is left mind broken and traumatized. He devises his personal model of remedy by developing a 1/Sixth-scale World War II-era city in his yard and weaving advanced storylines round his characters. Through Marwencol, Mark embarks on an extended journey again into the actual world, each bodily and emotionally.

Episode 21

A Film Unfinished

air day: 2011-05-03

This haunting movie a couple of movie examines a basic Nazi propaganda film utilized by historians for many years to supply perception into the realities of life within the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942. The current discovery of a second reel in an East German archive has thrown the veracity and intent of the Warsaw Ghetto footage into query.

Episode 22

Bhutto

air day: 2011-05-10

As the primary Muslim girl to steer an Islamic nation, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto advanced from a pampered princess to a polarizing politician in one of the harmful nations on Earth. Accused of rampant corruption, imprisoned, then exiled overseas, Bhutto was known as again to Pakistan in 2007 as her nation’s greatest hope for democracy. Struck down by assassins, her premature dying despatched shock waves all through the world.

Episode 23

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

air day: 2011-05-17

Beginning within the modern-day and dealing backward, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo explores the historical past of Japan’s love affair with bugs. Using bugs like an anthropologist’s toolkit, the movie uncovers Japanese philosophies that can shift viewers’ views on nature, magnificence, and life, and counter the exigencies of day-to-day life.

Episode 24

Welcome to Shelbyville

air day: 2011-05-24

Welcome to Shelbyville is a glimpse of America at a crossroads. In this one small city within the coronary heart of America’s Bible Belt, a group grapples with quickly altering demographics. Just a stone’s throw away from Pulaski, Tennessee (the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan), longtime African American and white residents are challenged with how greatest to combine with a rising Latino inhabitants and the newer arrival of tons of of Muslim Somali refugees.

Episode 25

Two Spirits

air day: 2011-06-14

Fred Martinez was one of many youngest hate-crime victims in trendy historical past when he was brutally murdered at 16. Two Spirits explores the life and dying of a boy who was additionally a woman, and the primarily religious nature of gender.