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- 1988–8.8 (19)TV Episode
- 1988–8.2 (10)TV Episode
- Global Recordings Network, a Christian organization, has recorded Bible stories in over 5,500 of the world's 8,000-plus languages. GRN's use of inventive, ultra-low technology makes it possible for these people - many of whom live in the most remote corners of the world - to hear The Good News for the first time in their lives.
- In 1964, to explore the adage "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man," World in Action filmed seven-year-olds. Every seven years, Michael Apted visits them. At 49, 12 agree to talk about family, work, their hopes, and the series. We also see footage from previous interviews. Some marriages seem stronger; some have ended. Being a parent or a grandparent dominates life's pleasures. Simon has found responsibility; John's charity work flourishes. Neil remains in politics, against all odds. Jackie leads the critique of a more deliberately-present Apted and the series' intrusiveness. None enjoy participating; all are reflective; several surpass expectations.
- In a startling loop of time and memory, Granito shows how a filmmaker's first documentary has been instrumental to indict Guatemalan ex-dictator RÃos Montt. In January 2012, after 30 years of legal impunity, RÃos Montt was indicted by a Guatemalan court for crimes against humanity. He was charged with committing genocide against the Mayan people in the 1980s, becoming the first former head of state to be tried in his own country for genocide. Back in 1982, a young first time filmmaker, Pamela Yates, gained unprecedented access to RÃos Montt, his generals and leftist guerrillas waging a clandestine war deep in the mountains. The resulting film, When the Mountains Tremble (1983) revealed that the Guatemalan army was killing Mayan civilians. When the Mountains Tremble became central to her life again 30 years later when a Spanish lawyer investigating the RÃos Montt regime asked for her help. Granito spans 30 years and portrays seven protagonists in Guatemala, Spain and the United States as they attempt to bring justice to violence-plagued Guatemala. Among the twists of fate. A 22-year-old Mayan woman, Rigoberta Menchú, the storyteller in When the Mountains Tremble, goes on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 and then initiates the court case against General RÃos Montt that eventually leads to the use of Yates' footage as evidence. A guerrilla commander, Gustavo Meoño, who authorized Yates' filming with the insurgents in 1982, becomes a key player in uncovering the mechanisms of disappearances and state terror. Granito is about the remarkable impact of a film on a nation's fight for justice, dramatically entered as evidence to bring a dictator to justice and give Mayan people their day in court. It is an inside, as-it-happens account of the way a new generation of human rights activists operates in a globalized world. Granito shows how each individual's effort becomes a tiny grain of sand, a Granito to tip the scales of justice.
- A timely depiction of a newsroom in crisis, While We Watched follows tormented journalist Ravish Kumar for two years as he battles a barrage of fake news, falling ratings and the resulting cutbacks.
- Middle class black parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., document their son's progress through private school.
- Photographs taken by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970's, their lives since then, and the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time.
- Comic and filmmaker C.J. Hunt documents the dispute over the removal of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans.
- The Chinese government is the first to classify internet addiction as a clinical disorder. Web Junkie (2013) identifies internet addiction and focuses on the treatment used in Chinese rehabilitation centres. The film delves into a Beijing treatment centre and explores the cases of three adolescents from the day they arrive at the treatment centre through the three-month period of being held at the centre, and then their return to their homes. The film follows both the underlying issues related to the disorders, as well as the manner and treatment the patients receive. Professor Ran Tao established the world's first internet addiction clinic, and he promises to cure children of so-called internet addiction, which has grown into one of China's most feared public health hazards. The program admits children between the ages of 13 and 18 years; they are forced to undergo military-inspired physical training and comply with monitored sleep and food standards. Throughout their stay at the clinic, they are patrolled by the military guards who protect the children's quarters, which, like prisons, are surrounded by gates and fences. Despite such conditions, parents voluntarily send their children to the treatment centre and relinquish personal involvement. There is no one-on-one therapy, and the children's psychological needs are 'met' with group therapy sessions twice a week. The treatment is very expensive, and parents often borrow money in order to afford to send their child to the clinic. For them it is worth it - steering their child away from this addiction and redeveloping direct communication skills takes priority. 'Web Junkie' provides a microcosm of modern Chinese life, examines intergenerational pressures, and takes a hard look at one of the symptoms of the internet age.
- Prior to the 20th century, most Americans prepared their dead for burial with the help of family and friends, but today most funerals are part of a multimillion-dollar industry run by professionals. This increased reliance on mortuaries has alienated Americans from life's only inevitability - death. "A Family Undertaking" explores the growing home-funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life, forgoing a typical mortuary funeral to care for their loved ones at home.
- A story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up (Part 1).
- A documentarian deals with her mother, their lives, and the cycle of parent/child. And stuff.
- Two Korean American children of liquor store owners confront the racial landscape of Los Angeles.
- Filmmaker Niko von Glasow, who claims to hate sports, covers London's Paralympics competition.
- Families, attorneys and judges struggle with California's decision to amend its Three Strikes law, which shortens the sentences of thousands of prisoners.
- The director follows a Sunni doctor as he prepares to run for the early 2005 elections in Iraq.
- Christine works to ensure dignified lives for herself and her brother, Peter, who was born with multiple disabilities, while facing uncertainties about becoming his primary caregiver.
- 1988– 1h 26m7.0 (61)TV EpisodeHistory finally gets rewritten as descendants of the largest slave-trading family in early America face their past, and present, as they explore their violent heritage across oceans and continents.
- The human fallout of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is explored through the work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel, who has represented Palestinian political prisoners for decades.
- Two women run a makeshift medical clinic in western Myanmar, a region torn apart by violent ethnic divisions.
- In the shadow of war by the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine, a safe haven provides refuge for children who have been temporarily separated from their parents.
- 1988–7.0 (9)TV EpisodeThe life of Grace Lee Boggs, a 98-year-old Chinese-American philosopher, writer and activist.
- Supporters of the National Teachers Academy in Chicago fight to save their institution when a wealthy parents' group seeks to close it down.
- Citizens in the city of Wuhan unite to grapple with a mysterious virus called COVID-19.
- Three leaders work with Indigenous communities to save their natural resources on the Philippine island of Palawan.
- A filmmaker explores the history of freakdom, vision and (in)visibility from the vantage point of his wheelchair when a circus tent goes up outside his Oakland, Calif., apartment.
- Decades after moving to the U.S. to help care for her grandchildren, Mama Icha returns to her hometown of Mompox, Colombia.
- A look at khat, a euphoria-inducing plant, and the lives of harvesters of the crop in Harar, Ethiopia, and the people lost in its narcotic haze.
- A U.S. Supreme Court decision could set free Kenneth Young, who was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences for armed robbery when he was 15.
- Bill Nye advocates the importance of science, research and discovery, taking in deniers of climate change, evolution and a science-based world view.
- A young couple flee Iran with their son, Mani, seeking asylum in Turkey so they can start a new life.
- A look at Puerto Rico post-Hurricane María as it faces a new threat - disaster capitalism.
- A story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up (Part 2).
- Annina van Neel learns of a mass burial site of about 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans during construction of St. Helena's airport. She and Peggy King Jorde fight for their proper commemoration, exposing the UK's colonial past and present.
- On the brink of incarceration, a 10-yr-old child healer and hunter grapples with school as he faces scrutiny from welfare authorities and the police.
- Paralyzed by late-stage ALS and reliant on round-the-clock care, Kathryn clings to a mordant wit as she yearns to witness her daughter's wedding.
- While traveling through the Amazon, Uýra shares ancestral knowledge with Indigenous youth to promote the significance of identity and place, threatened by Brazil's oppressive political regime.
- Rember Yahuarcani, an indigenous artist from an almost extinguished nation, returns to his grandmother's land looking for inspiration and discovers why the stories of his ancestors cannot be forgotten.
- Children of the Mist traces the story of Di, a 13-year-old girl coming of age in an indigenous Hmong community in the mountains of Northwest Vietnam.
- Three Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to chase their Major League dreams.
- Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after emancipation.
- Set in Philadelphia, Murders That Matter documents African American, Muslim mother Movita Johnson-Harrell over five years as she transforms from victim of violent trauma into a fierce advocate against gun violence in Black communities.
- Co-founders of an Oakland, Calif.-based alternative to the Girl Scouts for girls of color aged 8-13, which encourages girls to earn badges for social justice and for being an LGBTQ ally, face challenges growing their organization.
- After 20 years living in the United States, an undocumented Mexican family decides to return home. Little do they know it will be the most difficult journey of their lives and reawaken an intense desire for a place to belong.
- Greenland reckons with its Danish colonial past and the promised future by a U.S. company building a smelting plant, which could serve as the nation's first steps toward economic renewal and political sovereignty.
- An exploration of the celebration and impact of "independence day" - the 4th of July - on a native American reservation, told through the eyes primarily of native-Americans who earn a substantial portion of their livelihood through the sale of fireworks.
- The agonies of war torn Africa are deeply etched in the bodies of women. In eastern Congo, vying militias, armies and bandits use rape as a weapon of terror. Recently engaged to a young man from her village, 20 year-old Lumo Sinai can't wait to have children and start a family. But when she crosses paths with marauding soldiers who brutally attack her, she is left with a fistula- a condition that renders her incontinent and threatens her ability to give birth. Rejected by her fiancé and cast aside by her family, Lumo finds her way to the one place that may save her, a hospital for rape survivors. Buoyed by the love of the hospital staff, including a formidable team of wise women known to all as "the Mamas," Lumo and her friends keep alive the hope of one day resuming their former lives, thanks to an operation that can restore them fully to health. A feisty young woman with a red comb perpetually jutting from her hair, Lumo faces the challenge of recovery with remarkable courage and sass. As she and her friends recover from surgery, they pass the days by gossiping and sharing their dreams of one day finding love. But when it looks like her operation may have failed, Lumo's faith is thrown entirely into question. On this uncertain road to recovery, LUMO proves that the solidarity of women can bind even the most irreparable of wounds.
- Two children recover from enslavement to fishermen in a rehabilitation shelter in Ghana.
- Upon finding out about his father's Alzheimer's disease, artist Maleonn creates "Papa's Time Machine," an autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets.
- In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11, code-named "Operation Vulgar Betrayal." With unprecedented access, The Feeling of Being Watched weaves the personal and the political as it follows the filmmaker's examination of why her community fell under blanket government surveillance. Assia struggles to disrupt the government secrecy shrouding what happened and takes the FBI to federal court to compel them to make the records they collected about her community public. In the process, she confronts long-hidden truths about the FBI's relationship to her community. The Feeling of Being Watched follows Assia as she pieces together this secret FBI operation, while grappling with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and her family.
- P.O.V airing of Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
- Two young immigrants, members of a group of radical Dreamers, are arrested by Border Patrol and put in a detention center.
- A private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.
- The stories of two working mothers and a child care provider whose lives intersect at a 24-hour day care in New Rochelle, NY.
- When a man and his brothers return to their hometown of Colima, Mexico, to care for their grandmother, they clash over money, communication and caregiving.
- When the Taliban puts a bounty on Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two daughters. Capturing the journey, Fazili shows the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
- 1988–TV Episode
- 1988–TV Episode
- Freedom Machines is an unprecedented look at disability in the age of technology, presenting intimate stories of people ages 8-93, whose talents and independence are being unleashed by access to modern, enabling technologies. Nearly twenty years after the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, the film reflects on the gaps between its promise and the realities for our largest minority group - 54,000,000 American with disabilities. Whether mainstream tools or extraordinary inventions such as stair climbing wheelchairs, Freedom Machines reveals the power of technology to change lives.
- A documentary on the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley's Chisholm, the United States' first African-American congresswoman.
- Two film crews document the aftermath of the murder of a black man by three white men in 1998 and the trials of the men charged with the crime.
- A teenager with dreams of graduating high school and going to college is forced to work when ICE raids threaten her family.
- Millennial abolitionists challenge a Chicago administration complicit in state violence against its Black residents.