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Episode 1

Still Life With Animated Dogs

air day: 2006-10-24

The World According to Sesame Street is a 2005 feature-length documentary created by Participant Productions, wanting on the cultural impression of the kids’s tv collection Sesame Street, and the complexities of making worldwide variations.[1] It focuses on the variations of Sesame Street in Bangladesh (Sisimpur), Kosovo (Rruga Sesam, in Albanian; and Ulica Sezam, in Serbian), and South Africa (Takalani Sesame).

Episode 2

The World According to Sesame Street

air day: 2006-10-24

Episode three

Muskrat Lovely

air day: 2006-10-31

Episode four

Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire

air day: 2006-11-07

Episode 5

Democracy on Deadline

air day: 2006-11-21

Episode 6

Two Square Miles

air day: 2006-11-28

Residents, artists and activists in Hudson, N.Y., protest the proposal for a multinational coal-fired cement plant.

Episode 7

A Sad Flower within the Sand

air day: 2006-12-12

Episode 8

Revolucion: Five Visions

air day: 2006-12-19

This documentary tells the story of 5 Cuban photographers whose lives and work span greater than 4 a long time and whose views on pictures are as diverse as their opinions concerning the Cuban Revolution. From photographers whose lens portrayed the heroic plenty to extra up to date photographers who search to painting particular person truths, their tales uncover the facility of artwork to liberate.

Episode 9

Short Stack 2006

air day: 2006-12-26

Episode 10

A Fish Story

air day: 2007-01-02

Meet two ladies who lead in a battle in opposition to a coalition of nationwide environmental teams for management of the ocean. Three hundred years of fishing custom and the well being of the ocean grasp within the steadiness.

Episode 11

Shadya

air day: 2007-01-16

Shadya Zoabi, a charismatic 17-year-old karate world champion, strives to succeed on her personal phrases inside her conventional Muslim village in northern Israel. Despite her father’s assist, she faces the problem of balancing her desires together with her non secular commitments and others’ expectations. This movie takes an intimate take a look at the evolution of a younger Arab-Israeli lady with feminist concepts in a male-dominated tradition.

Episode 12

Beyond the Call

air day: 2007-01-23

Episode 13

Twisted

air day: 2007-01-30

Episode 14

Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life

air day: 2007-02-06

Episode 15

Motherland Afghanistan

air day: 2007-02-13

Episode 16

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes

air day: 2007-02-20

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is a 2006 documentary movie written, produced, and directed by Byron Hurt. The documentary explores the problems of masculinity, violence, homophobia and sexism in hip hop music and tradition, by means of interviews with artists, teachers and followers. Hurt’s activism in gender points and his love of hip-hop precipitated him to really feel what he described as a way of hypocrisy, and started engaged on the movie.

Episode 17

Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?

air day: 2007-02-27

Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? is a 2006 documentary movie written by Matt Coen, Mike Kime and Frank Popper and directed by Frank Popper.

Episode 18

Stolen

air day: 2007-03-20

In 1990, two thieves dressed as law enforcement officials gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, efficiently executing the biggest artwork heist in trendy historical past. Among the 13 priceless works lifted was Vermeer’s “The Concert,” considered the world’s most useful stolen portray. This riveting movie totally explores the theft and the fascinating, disparate characters concerned.

Episode 19

Race to Execution

air day: 2007-03-27

Race discrimination infects America’s capital punishment system. According to a landmark research relating to race and the loss of life penalty, a black defendant who kills a white sufferer is as much as 30 instances extra prone to be sentenced to loss of life than a white defendant who kills a black sufferer. RACE TO EXECUTION, a movie by Rachel Lyon, traces the fates of two loss of life row inmates, Robert Tarver in Russell County, Alabama and Madison Hobley in Chicago, Illinois. Their compelling private tales are enlarged and enriched by attorneys who fought for these males’s lives, and by prosecutors, legal justice students and consultants within the fields of legislation and the media.

RACE TO EXECUTION reveals how, past DNA and the difficulty of innocence, the shameful open secret of America’s capital punishment system is a matter of race. Once a sufferer’s physique is found, his or her race—and the race of the accused—deeply affect the authorized course of: how a criminal offense scene is investigated and the deployment of police assets, the interrogation and arrest of main suspects, how the media portrays the crime and finally, the jury choice and sentencing.

Hugh Kite, a white man, normal retailer proprietor and mainstay of his rural Alabama neighborhood, was murdered in the course of the course of a theft on September 15, 1984. Less than 4 months after Kite was murdered, Robert Tarver, a black man, was sentenced to die. The prosecutor at Tarver’s trial rejected all however one of many African Americans certified for jury service. Eleven white Alabamans and one African American composed Tarver’s “jury of his peers.” And as prosecutors have lengthy identified, a trial can activate who’s sitting within the jury field. Recent analysis signifies the extent to which the make-up of the jury impacts sentencing: when 5 or extra white males sit on a capital trial jury, there’s a 70 % likelihood of a loss of life penalty final result. If there are 4 or fewer white males, the possibility of a loss of life sentence is simply 30 %.

Whether within the rural South or the internal metropolis North, nearly all-white juries are commonplace—and doubtlessly deadly to black defendants. In 1987, in Chicago, Madison Hobley, a younger black medical technician married to his highschool sweetheart, misplaced his spouse and son in an residence home blaze. Hobley was accused of setting the hearth. Police officers claimed that Hobley had signed a written confession however that spilled espresso had destroyed the doc. A panel consisting of 11 white jurors and one African American juror convicted Madison Hobley and sentenced him to die.

With key 2005 Supreme Court choices overturning loss of life sentences in Texas and California as a consequence of racial discrimination in jury choice, RACE TO EXECUTION provides a well timed evaluation. The movie examines the delicate but persistent methods wherein American tradition persistently overlooks issues of race in legal justice. Neither advocating nor repudiating capital punishment, the movie catalyzes dialogues concerning the inherent imbalances that result in inaccuracy and unfairness within the utility of the “ultimate punishment.”

The movie concludes with the exoneration of 1 man and the execution of one other. In each circumstances, race is an element not possible to keep away from. Yet there are indicators that the loss of life penalty is getting used much less usually within the United States and scrutinized in another way than it was even 5 years in the past. The Supreme Court heard 5 loss of life penalty circumstances in 2005 alone. Is this progress, or are latest reforms nonetheless insufficient? The diverse voices heard in RACE TO EXECUTION contribute to a considerate examination of the elements that affect who lives and who dies by the hands of the state.

Episode 20

China Blue

air day: 2007-04-03

They stay crowded collectively in cement manufacturing unit dormitories the place water must be carried upstairs in buckets. Their meals and hire are deducted from their wages, which quantity to lower than a greenback a day. Most of the denims they make within the manufacturing unit are bought by retailers within the U.S. and different nations. China Blue takes viewers inside a blue denims manufacturing unit in southern China, the place teenage staff battle to outlive harsh working situations. Providing views from each the highest and backside ranges of the manufacturing unit’s hierarchy, the movie appears at advanced problems with globalization from the human degree.

China Blue, which was made with out permission from the Chinese authorities, provides an alarming report on the financial pressures utilized by Western firms and the ensuing human penalties, as the true income are made—and saved—in first-world nations. The sudden ending makes the connection between the exploited staff and U.S. shoppers even clearer.

Episode 21

Black Gold

air day: 2007-04-10

This eye-opening expose of the $80 billion espresso trade traces one man’s combat for honest commerce.

Episode 22

Enron: The Smartest Guys within the Room

air day: 2007-04-24

Enron dives from the seventh largest US firm to chapter in lower than a 12 months on this story informed chronologically. The emphasis is on human drama, from suicide to 20,000 folks sacked: the personalities of Ken Lay (with Falwellesque rectitude), Jeff Skilling (he of huge concepts), Lou Pai (gone with $250 M), and Andy Fastow (the darkish prince) dominate. Along the way in which, we watch Enron sport California’s deregulated electrical energy market, get a free go from Arthur Andersen (which okays the doubtful mark-to-market accounting), use greed to govern banks and brokerages (Merrill Lynch fires the analyst who questions Enron’s rise), and listen to from each Presidents Bush what nice guys these are.

Episode 23

The Cats of Mirikitani

air day: 2007-05-08

In 2001, Japanese American painter Jimmy Mirikitani, over 80 years outdated, resides within the streets of decrease Manhattan. Filmmaker Hattendorf takes an curiosity, and begins to have interaction with him to create a documentary of his life. After the World Trade Center destruction on September 11, 2001, the debris- and dust-choked streets are abandoned. When Hattendorf appears for Mirikitani, he’s nonetheless in his regular spot close to Washington Square Park. She invitations him to remain some time at her residence close by to get better from the devastation and unhealthy air within the streets. Gradually we be taught who he’s, and of his previous…with wonderful and sudden outcomes. (The cats of the title are featured in Mirikitani’s paintings.)

Episode 24

Sentenced Home

air day: 2007-05-15

Episode 25

Knocking

air day: 2007-05-22

Episode 26

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

air day: 2007-05-29

This movie tells the true story of a bohemian St. Francis and his exceptional relationship with a flock of untamed red-and-green parrots. Former road musician and San Francisco dharma bum Mark Bittner falls in with the flock as he searches for which means in his life, unaware that the parrots will convey him all the things he seeks.

Episode 27

La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul

air day: 2007-05-06

Legendary Afro-Cuban pop singer Lupe Victoria Yoli, “The Queen of Latin Soul Music,” aka La Lupe or La Yiyiyi, rose to fame within the 1960s and died in 1992 nearly unknown. Beautiful, sexual and the epitome of Afro-Cuban 60s sophistication, La Lupe stays the quintessential unhealthy lady and perpetual outsider, famend for emotional performances and because the embodiment of feminine narcissism who stopped at nothing within the title of affection and fervour. Shot in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the U.S., this movie tells her story by means of interviews and uncommon archival footage from the groundbreaking musical period.