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- A program about the true story of William Luke, a determined Canadian who came to Cross Plains, Alabama, to preach equality and to educate ex-slaves during Reconstruction, and who was eventually killed by a lynch mob.
- From Toyko to Tuscaloosa. A Japanese CFO moves his family of four to Alabama when JVC opens a new plant there. The film follows the Itabachi family to work, school, and social events to see how the family copes, how the two cultures adjust to one another, and what they find in common.
- The first recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award, Carl Elliott championed the cause of education for the poor and working class, including a pioneering student loan program that for many made college possible for the first time. His progressive positions cost him his seat when the Civil Rights Movement ignited white reaction, and he ran a last ditch campaign against the Wallace machine for the Alabama governorship.
- JUANA HERNANDEZ earned a college scholarship five years after coming to the U.S. from Mexico speaking no English. WALTER VENTURA escaped war in El Salvadore. Now he's a popular Collinsville High football star and the leading tackler in Dekalb County. MARINA PADILLA's fiance, a Salvadoran army captain was assassinated two weeks before their wedding. She has built a new life here and owns her own travel agency. A Mexican army veteran, SALOMON MORALES could not support his family in Mexico and came to the U.S. for a better life. The small Alabama crossroads village of Collinsville adjusts to the rapid Hispanic immigration that has brought both stress and economic revitalization. Immigrants tell their own stories - the opportunities, the challenges and the friendships they've formed with longtime residents.
- An experimental community intended to address the ills of income disparity during the Gilded Age, Fairhope, Alabama was founded by mid-westerners in 1894 on the shores of Mobile Bay. It attracted artists, eccentrics, and reformers including Marietta Johnson, who along with Maria Montessori, was a pioneer of non-traditional education. The community's founding organization and the school are both still there. But as the town has evolved into a nationally known resort and retirement community, it has struggled to reconcile its present with its past.
- A lifetime of effort promoting economic power and self-sufficiency for low-income southerners was a calling for EARNEST JOHNSON. Enraged by the economic exploitation of blacks in 1950's Alabama, he applied Civil Rights Movement experience to the development of small independent credit unions. He continues his fight in an era when subprime and often predatory finance has become a mainstream industry.
- The history of an Alabama fishing village and its perseverance through a century of adversity as seen through the stories of people of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
- As the Editor of The Crimson-White, the student newspaper at the University of Alabama, GOULD BEECH was inspired by FDR and The New Deal. He was joined by his wife and colleague, MARY FOSTER, and together the Beeches joined in a lifelong battle against barriers of class and race that was always out of step with most of their fellow Alabamians. They published a folksy populist newspaper for farmers, managed Gov. Jim Folsom's first campaign, and exiled to Texas, worked for the election of African American Rep. Barbara Jordan.
- It's a David and Goliath story. In a bigger-is-better era of school consolidation, one tiny department at The University of Alabama, The Program for Rural Service and Research, champions the educational and social benefits of small public schools. "These are good schools. They are good environments that promote academic achievement and personal well-being and community responsibility," says Robin Lambert the Program Coordinator. "We need places like these small rural schools. You can see the caring of the principal and the caring of the teachers and how it applies to kids who don't have a lot of chance, and you take that school away from them and they have virtually none, " adds Jack Shelton, the Director of the Center. Their experience and research bolstered by wide ranging studies from highly credible sources suggests that these benefits apply to many of the problems associated with modern education on the national level.
- Mama Called is a documentary that provides an in-depth look at the legendary Coach Paul W. Bryant through those who knew him best. Interviews from his family, friends, and former players including Gene Stallings, Bobby Bowden, Bob Baumhower, Nick Saban, Jerry Duncan, Kenny Stabler, and many more give an inside look at the life of Bryant from his early childhood in rural Arkansas, to his playing days at The University of Alabama, through his legendary career as a collegiate coach. Follow the inspiring story of his life and the lasting impact of his legacy.
- TIME magazine called it "one of the best newspapers in America." It has served as a kind of farm team for rising young journalists who go on to the big leagues at major U.S. dailies. The Anniston Star and the Ayers family, its owners, have deep roots in this Alabama city founded by northern industrialists after the Civil War. The colorful current publisher, Brandt Ayers has spent his career as a voice for what is often called "The New South."
- The Student Government Association at The University of Alabama has been a launching pad for many prominent Alabama politicians. But most owed their success to a secret coalition of All-White fraternities and sororities. It's official name is Theta Nu Epsilon whose Greek letters spell ONE, but it is commonly referred to simply as "The Machine." Progressive New Deal Sen. Lister Hill is thought to be "The Father of the Machine." Richard Shelby, Don Siegelman, George Wallace, and Bill Baxley all ran for SGA positions while at The University of Alabama. UA's first Black SGA president was one of the few ever to defeat the machine. Cleo Thomas, now a retired member of the university's board of trustees, is an Anniston attorney.
- A journalist known for her collections of ghost stories has become a star on the storytelling festival circuit, and a nationally recognized commentator on NPR. The film is her first person account of her roots in small town Alabama, her pioneering career as a female news reporter and photographer, and her passion for using the written and spoken word to build community.
- Auburn University historian DR.WAYNE FLYNT is also an ordained minister. He draws from both those roles in his quest to take on a third, particularly daunting one in Alabama. The role of prophet in his own land.
- The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee, Alabama including the work of activist and sociologist Dr. Charles Gomillion of Tuskegee University.
- Will D. Campbell is a Mississippi backwoods Baptist preacher with a Yale degree. He was the only white founder of the SCLC and a friend and confident to Dr. Martin Luther King. He was a strategist and negotiator at major Civil Rights Movement campaigns. He is an intellectual who chews tobacco, wears cowboy boots, and has befriended Black Panthers and members of the Ku Klux Klan. He is the author of 15 books including "Brother to a Dragonfly," the winners of the Lillian Smith Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award.
- They talk about mutual support, self determination and the satisfaction of a good smack well-delivered. Roller Derby has been reborn as a women's amateur sport in 200 cities. The participants are well educated middle class professionals for whom the activity is an outlet for physical expression and a source of refuge and community. And so it is for this Birmingham team known as The Tragic City Rollers.