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Episode 1

Wham! Bam! Islam!

air day: 2011-10-13

Episode Synopsis: Season 13 premieres with new host Mary-Louise Parker introducing “Wham! Bam! Islam,” concerning the challenges involving “The 99,” a comic book e-book about Muslim superheroes created by Kuwaiti psychologist Naif Al-Mutawa. He raised $7 million in capital, employed Marvel comedian veterans and launched the primary difficulty throughout Ramadan 2006, however it was banned in Saudi Arabia and Middle East gross sales failed to satisfy expectations. As a outcome, he tried to go international with out sacrificing the comedian’s underlying Muslim beliefs.

Episode 2

Donor Unknown

air day: 2011-10-20

Episode Synopsis: “Donor Unknown” charts the story of 20-year-old JoEllen Marsh, who was raised by two moms in Pennsylvania, as she searches for her sperm-donor father, recognized solely as “Donor 150.” Thanks to a web-based registry for the youngsters of sperm donors, she meets half-siblings that she by no means knew existed; and, due to a New York Times article about her quest that he simply occurs to see in a Venice, Cal., espresso store, ultimately manages to attach along with her organic dad.

Episode three

Lives Worth Living

air day: 2011-10-27

“Lives Worth Living” tells the story of the incapacity rights motion in America, which started after WWII when disabled veterans returned residence; and culminated in 1990 with the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The documentary consists of remarks from the motion’s pioneers, together with Fred Fay (1940-2011) and Judi Chamberlin (1944-2010); former congressman Tony Coelho; and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).

Episode four

Deaf Jam

air day: 2011-11-03

“Deaf Jam” chronicles the experiences of Aneta Brodski, a deaf Israeli teen dwelling in New York, as she strikes from American Sign Language poetry, the place physique actions convey that means, into the spoken-word slam scene and collaborates with Palestinian slam poet Tahani Salah on a politics-transcending efficiency.

Episode 5

We Still Live Here — as Nutayunean

air day: 2011-11-17

Anne Makepeace’s “We Still Live Here—As Nutayunean” tells the story of linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird’s work to resurrect the long-forgotten language of the Wampanoag (the Native Americans who saved the Pilgrims from hunger). The documentary particulars what led Baird, in 1994, to start the trouble to return the dormant language to the dwelling; and likewise explains the elements that led to the language’s extinction a century in the past.

Episode 6

The Woodmans

air day: 2011-12-22

“The Woodmans” charts the quick lifetime of influential photographer Francesca Woodman, who took her personal life in 1981 on the age of 22. The profile consists of feedback from her dad and mom, artists George and Betty Woodman; and brother Charles Woodman.

Episode 7

These Amazing Shadows

air day: 2011-12-29

“These Amazing Shadows” focuses on the National Film Registry, an eclectic assortment of films thought-about to be “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the National Film Preservation Board. Included: clips from lots of the movies; remarks from Librarian of Congress James Billington; such administrators as Barbara Kopple, Christopher Nolan, Rob Reiner, John Singleton and John Waters; such actors as Tim Roth, Debbie Reynolds and Zooey Deschanel; and movie critics and historians.

Episode eight

Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Road to Resistance

air day: 2012-01-12

The five-part “Have You Heard From Johannesburg?,” a historical past of the worldwide anti-apartheid motion, opens with “Road to Resistance,” which remembers the 1948 implementation of government-sanctioned discrimination in South Africa. The African National Congress launches a nonviolent marketing campaign towards apartheid, however its leaders are compelled underground or, like Nelson Mandela, imprisoned. ANC deputy president Oliver Tambo, in the meantime, travels the world in quest of help for the anti-apartheid trigger.

Episode 9

Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The New Generation

air day: 2012-01-12

Part 2 of 5 of “Have You Heard From Johannesburg?” examines “The New Generation,” and its effort to overturn South Africa’s apartheid system. Included: the refusal of western nations to boycott South Africa; a youth rebellion within the township of Soweto; the 1977 homicide of activist Steve Biko.

Episode 10

Have You Heard From Johannesburg: From Selma to Soweto

air day: 2012-01-19

Part three of 5 of “Have You Heard From Johannesburg?,” “From Selma to Soweto,” particulars the anti-apartheid motion within the U.S., the place in 1986 laws was handed that imposed sanctions on South Africa over the objections of President Reagan.

Episode 11

Have You Heard From Johannesburg: The Bottom Line

air day: 2012-01-19

Part four of 5 of “Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, The Bottom Line,” particulars how worldwide grassroots campaigns to boycott and divest from corporations that did enterprise in South Africa pressured these corporations to exit the apartheid state.

Episode 12

Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Free at Last

air day: 2012-01-26

The conclusion of “Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, Free at Last,” remembers the top stage of South Africa’s apartheid system, when inside and exterior pressures compelled the federal government to the negotiating desk and consent to elections in 1994 that resulted within the once-banned ANC profitable a majority in parliament and the once-imprisoned Nelson Mandela changing into president.

Episode 13

Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock

air day: 2012-02-02

Daisy Bates was a fancy, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights motion who led the cost to desegregate the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

Episode 14

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

air day: 2012-02-09

The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement within the black neighborhood and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. The movie combines music, startling 16mm footage (mendacity undiscovered within the cellar of Swedish Television for 30 years), and up to date audio interviews from main African-American artists, activists, musicians and students.

Episode 15

More Than A Month

air day: 2012-02-16

Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, is on a cross-country marketing campaign to finish Black History Month. Through this tongue-in-cheek journey, “More Than a Month” investigates what the therapy of historical past tells us about race and equality in a “post-racial” America.

Episode 16

You’re Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don’t

air day: 2012-03-30

In Danville, California, Lee Gorewitz wanders on a soul-searching odyssey via her Alzheimer’s & Dementia care unit. Confined by the bounds of her bodily boundaries, she scavenges for reminders of her life within the exterior world. Yet her search is for greater than a phrase, or a reminiscence, or a well-known face. It is a quest for understanding.

A complete immersion into the fragmented day-to-day expertise of psychological sickness, You’re Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don’t is the primary documentary filmed completely in an Alzheimer’s & Dementia care unit, and the primary advised from the attitude of somebody affected by Alzheimer’s illness. The movie reveals Lee’s penetrating ruminations and charismatic vitality, difficult our preconceptions of sickness and growing old. Here is the journey of a girl who won’t allow us to neglect her – whilst she struggles to recollect her self.

Episode 17

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey

air day: 2012-04-05

Every day, hundreds of thousands tune in to Sesame Street to see one of many world’s most adored and recognizable characters — a furry purple three-and-a-half year-old monster named Elmo. Yet, with all of Elmo’s fame, the person behind the icon is ready to stroll down the road with out being acknowledged.

As a teen rising up in Baltimore within the 1970s, Kevin Clash had very completely different aspirations from his classmates — he wished to be a puppeteer. More particularly, he wished to be a part of Jim Henson’s group, the inventive power accountable for delivering the magic of Sesame Street each day. With a supportive household behind him, Kevin made his desires come true.

Combining superb archival footage with materials from the current day, filmmaker Constance Marks explores Kevin’s story in vivid element and chronicles the meteoric rise of Jim Henson within the course of. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and together with interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O’Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney and others, this insightful and private documentary provides up a uncommon, behind-the-scenes take a look at Sesame Street and the Jim Henson legacy.

Episode 18

When the Drum Is Beating

air day: 2012-04-12

Interweaves the extraordinary story of Septentrional’s six many years of creativity with the historical past of Haiti.

How did the nation go from being the primary free black republic with an enormous wealth of pure assets to a shattered nation unable to help its residents?

How did the hope created by the rise of Jean Bertrand Aristide and the despair that adopted the coup that drove him from energy contribute to the inevitability of the January 2010 earthquake’s horrific dying toll?

The movie provides context to the present issues dealing with Haiti, from the brutality of French colonialism and the bloody revolution that introduced Haitians their freedom to the crushing international debt, the 15-year American occupation that ushered within the brutal dictatorship of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, and the earthquake that killed virtually 300,000 individuals.

The ardour, dedication, desires, and pleasure of Septentrional’s musicians reveal the indomitable Haitian spirit. With a sweeping narrative and infectious music, that is the story of not only one band’s survival, but additionally Haiti’s survival.

Episode 19

Revenge of the Electric Car

air day: 2012-04-19

Revenge follows 4 entrepreneurs from 2007 via the top of 2010 as they battle to convey the electrical automobile again to the world market within the midst of a worldwide recession. The protagonists are Bob Lutz from General Motors, Elon Musk from the American start-up Tesla Motors, Carlos Ghosn from Nissan, and Greg Abbott, an unbiased electrical automobile converter from California.

Whereas the 2006 movie Who Killed the Electric Car? ended with the destruction of almost 5,000 electrical automobiles from California’s clear air program, notably the GM EV1, the brand new movie options the delivery of a brand new era of electrical automobiles together with the Chevrolet Volt, the Nissan Leaf and the Tesla Roadster.

Episode 20

Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison

air day: 2012-04-26

Millions of bison as soon as roamed the Great Plains. Can this almost extinct icon of the American West make a 21st century comeback?

Episode 21

Circo

air day: 2012-05-03

The Ponce household circus has been dwelling and performing in rural Mexico for seven generations. Its historical past dates again to the late 19th century, when Genaro Ponce based the Circo Ponce Hermanos. Today, the circus members are nonetheless carrying on their ancestors’ traditions. But their performing days could also be numbered.

Tino, the ringmaster, has lengthy been pushed by his dream to steer his dad and mom’ circus to success. He urges everybody within the household, together with his 4 younger youngsters, to assist meet this aim. But Tino’s spouse Ivonne is decided to make a change. Feeling exploited by her in-laws, she regrets that her youngsters have spent their childhoods laboring within the circus. Can Tino select between his circus desires and a spouse who needs a greater life for his or her youngsters?

Filmed alongside the again roads of Mexico, Circo is an intimate portrait of a household attempting to remain collectively regardless of mounting debt, dwindling audiences, and simmering battle. With a wedding in hassle and a century-old custom hanging within the steadiness, the Ponce household circus struggles to make a dwelling off its artistry, sweat, and wit.

Episode 22

Summer Pasture

air day: 2012-05-10

Locho and Yama are nomadic herders in Tibet’s excessive grasslands, who carve their existence from the land as their ancestors have for generations. As conventional nomadic life confronts fast modernization, Summer Pasture captures a household at a crossroads, finally revealing the profound sacrifice they are going to make to make sure their daughter’s future.

Episode 23

Precious Knowledge

air day: 2012-05-17

When a extremely profitable Mexican American Studies program at a highschool in Tucson comes beneath fireplace for instructing ethnic chauvinism, academics and college students battle again. This trendy civil rights wrestle is occurring on the epicenter of the immigration debate within the age of identification politics.

Episode 24

Left by the Ship

air day: 2012-05-24

JR, Charlene, Margarita, and Robert are half American; they’re among the many many youngsters born to native girls and U.S. servicemen who had been stationed in army bases within the Philippines till in 1992. Their tales illuminate a era of Filipino Amerasians who dwell in limbo.

Episode 25

Hell and Back Again

air day: 2012-05-28

U.S. Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris, 25, leads his unit to battle a ghostlike enemy in Afghanistan. Wounded in battle, Harris returns to North Carolina and his devoted spouse to battle ache, dependancy, and the terrifying normalcy of life at residence.

Episode 26

We Were Here

air day: 2012-06-07

When AIDS arrived in San Francisco in 1981, it decimated a neighborhood, but additionally introduced individuals collectively in inspiring and shifting methods to help and look after each other and to battle for dignity and a treatment.

Episode 27

Strong!

air day: 2012-06-26

A formidable determine standing at 5’eight” and weighing greater than 300 kilos, Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion standing as her lifetime weightlifting profession inches in the direction of its inevitable finish. Her journey as an elite athlete presents bodily and private challenges, together with widespread notions of energy, energy, magnificence, and well being.