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Episode 13
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Ex-convict Petey Greene burst onto the radio in 1960s Washington, D.C., raw and uncensored. ADJUST YOUR COLOR: The Truth of Petey Greene chronicles the life and times of America's first shock jock, an African American man who spoke the truth to power and influenced a new generation of broadcast personalities.
Episode 12
Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene
aired: Tue, Feb 3, 2009
America's first shock jock, Petey Greene, holds nothing back on his raw, uncensored radio and TV shows in the late 1960s and the '70s.
Episode 6
The Atom Smashers
aired: Tue, Nov 25, 2008
Physicists search for the Higgs Boson, a particle important to the understanding of how the universe is held together.
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Episode 22
A Dream In Doubt
aired: Tue, May 20, 2008
A Sikh man from Mesa, Ariz., is murdered, a victim of a hate crime in the wake of Sept. 11; host Terrence Howard.
Episode 11
Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita
aired: Tue, Jan 15, 2008
The evolving interplay between new discoveries in stem cell research and the courage of people living with disease and injury.
Episode 4
Red, White, Black, and Blue
aired: Tue, Nov 6, 2007
Two U.S. soldiers revisit the Aleutian Island of Attu in Alaska, the site where 3,000 Japanese troops invaded in 1942.
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Episode 10
A Fish Story
aired: Tue, Jan 2, 2007
Two women lead their communities in battles against national environmental groups for control of the ocean.
Episode 4
Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire
aired: Tue, Nov 7, 2006
Political cartoonist Paul Conrad's 50-year career spans 11 U.S. presidents, from Harry S. Truman through George W. Bush.
Episode 2
Still Life With Animated Dogs
aired: Tue, Oct 24, 2006
Animator Paul Fierliger presents an artist's view of people and dogs.
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Episode 19
Every Child is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
aired: Tue, Apr 6, 2004
How Afro-Cuban-Puerto Rican poet Piri Thomas confronted and overcame poverty, racism, violence and isolation.
Episode 17
Sentencing The Victim
aired: Tue, Mar 2, 2004
Rape victim Joanna Katz tells her story of challenging the parole system to heal herself and to give courage to other women of violent crimes.
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Episode 6
Chiefs
aired: Tue, Apr 1, 2003
American Indian Beaver C'Bearing re-evaluates the importance of basketball during his senior year of high school.
Episode 2
Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story
aired: Tue, Feb 11, 2003
A documentary illuminates the odd industry of soliciting people to send in poems to be set to music, with the chance of gaining royalties.
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Episode 5
Independent Lens: Have You Heard From Johannesburg
aired: Thu, Jan 26, 2012
The apartheid regime in Pretoria crumbles under pressure from a united popular uprising inside its borders, and crushing international pressure to reform. Nelson Mandela is freed from prison and in 1990 is elected president of a democratic South Africa.
Episode 4
Independent Lens: Have You Heard From Johannesburg
aired: Fri, Jan 20, 2012
The most effective tactic in globalizing the fight against apartheid was the grassroots boycott and divestment campaign that targeted Western corporations doing business with the South African regime.
Episode 3
Independent Lens: Have You Heard From Johannesburg
aired: Fri, Jan 20, 2012
Only a decade removed from the height of its own civil rights movement, the United States becomes a key battleground as African Americans lead a grassroots movement to force the United States to reverse its policies toward South Africa.
Episode 2
Independent Lens: Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Episode 2
aired: Fri, Jan 13, 2012
When South Africa's ruling whites brutally suppress a youth uprising in Soweto and murder resistance leader Steven Biko, young people in the West join a growing international movement to sanction and isolate South Africa.
Episode 1
Independent Lens: Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Episode 1
aired: Fri, Jan 13, 2012
Just as the United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, South Africa heads in the opposite direction, instituting a system of racist and oppressive laws against non-whites, and imprisoning opposition leaders including Nelson Mandela.
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Independent Lens: Left by the Ship
aired: Fri, May 25, 2012
For nearly a century, American servicemen were stationed at Subic Bay in the Philippines, and many of them fathered children with the women who lived nearby. When the base closed in 1991, hundreds of these children were left behind, stripped of their fathers and their sense of identity.
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Independent Lens: Precious Knowledge
aired: Fri, May 18, 2012
When a highly successful Mexican American Studies program at a high school in Tucson comes under fire for teaching ethnic chauvinism, teachers and students fight back. This modern civil rights struggle is born at the epicenter of the immigration debate in the age of identity politics.
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Independent Lens: Summer Pasture
aired: Fri, May 11, 2012
Locho and Yama are nomadic herders in Tibet's high grasslands, who carve their existence from the land as their ancestors have for generations. As traditional nomadic life confronts rapid modernization, Summer Pasture captures a family at a crossroads, ultimately revealing the profound sacrifice they will make to ensure their daughter's future.
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Independent Lens: Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison
aired: Fri, Apr 27, 2012
From the first Americans who relied on bison for food, shelter and clothing, to modern wildlife conservationists who are struggling to re-establish a place for bison in the Great Plains, Facing the Storm introduces viewers to a rich history of conservation and spiritual relations with the ultimate icon of wild America.
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Independent Lens: You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't
aired: Fri, Mar 30, 2012
Lee Gorewitz lives in a care facility for Alzheimer's patients, but she is not simply waiting to die. She is full of curiosity and frustration, struggling to remember herself and make sense of a world that is falling away from her.
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Independent Lens: Available through March
aired: Fri, Mar 2, 2012
March is Women's History Month, and to celebrate we're bringing you 10 films as part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. Watch Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, whose simple act of planting trees grew into a global movement.
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Independent Lens: A Women and Girls Lead Online Festival Selection
aired: Thu, Mar 1, 2012
March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we're bringing you 10 films as part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. Watch Pushing the Elephant, a story of forgiveness, hope, and the joy of family life that captures one woman's mission for peace in her country beset by genocidal violence.
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Independent Lens: A Women and Girls Lead Online Festival Selection
aired: Wed, Feb 29, 2012
March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we're bringing you 10 films as part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. Watch Sentencing the Victim, about a South Carolina woman who, after a vicious gang-rape, is transformed into a committed and eloquent activist challenging laws she believes favor prisoners' rights over victims' rights.
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Independent Lens: A Women and Girls Lead Online Festival Selection
aired: Wed, Feb 29, 2012
March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we're bringing you 10 films as part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. Watch Shadya, about a charismatic 17-year-old karate world champion who strives to succeed on her own terms within her traditional Muslim village in northern Israel.
Episode
Independent Lens: More Than a Month
aired: Fri, Feb 17, 2012
Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman sets off on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. His thoughtful, humorous journey explores the complexity and contradictions of relegating an entire group's history to one month in a so-called 'post-racial' America.
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Independent Lens: Available through March
aired: Fri, Feb 3, 2012
March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we're bringing you 10 films as part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. Watch Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock, about a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegregate the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
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Independent Lens: Bonus Episode: Have You Heard From Johannesburg
aired: Fri, Jan 27, 2012
Faced with governments reluctant to take meaningful action against the apartheid regime, athletes and activists around the world hit white South Africa where it hurts: on the playing field.
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Independent Lens: Children of Haiti
aired: Mon, Jan 9, 2012
In the midst of Haiti's lush mountains and historical relics is an epidemic of over 500,000 orphan children who wander the streets. Known as the "soulless" and forgotten by their own people, they do what they must to survive each day. Follow three teenage boys who share a common dream of education, government assistance, and social acceptance in Children of Haiti.
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Independent Lens: A Women and Girls Lead Online Festival Selection
aired: Thu, Dec 8, 2011
March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we're bringing you 10 films as part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers, and drug dealers, but the Girl Scouts of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers, and marine biologists. Watch Troop 1500.
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Independent Lens: As Nutayunean
aired: Fri, Nov 18, 2011
The Wampanoag saved the Pilgrims from starvation, and lived to regret it. Spurred on by their celebrated linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird, the Wampanoag of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard are reviving their language more than a century after the last native speaker died.
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Independent Lens: As Nutayunean
aired: Fri, Nov 18, 2011
The Wampanoag saved the Pilgrims from starvation, and lived to regret it. Spurred on by their celebrated linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird, the Wampanoag of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard are reviving their language more than a century after the last native speaker died.
Episode
Independent Lens: As Nutayunean
aired: Fri, Nov 18, 2011
The Wampanoag saved the Pilgrims from starvation, and lived to regret it. Spurred on by their celebrated linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird, the Wampanoag of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard are reviving their language more than a century after the last native speaker died.
Episode
Independent Lens: As Nutayunean
aired: Fri, Nov 18, 2011
The Wampanoag saved the Pilgrims from starvation, and lived to regret it. Spurred on by their celebrated linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird, the Wampanoag of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard are reviving their language more than a century after the last native speaker died.
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Independent Lens: D Tour
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Pat Spurgeon has big dreams to make it as an indie rock musician. Just as his career is about to take off, he suffers an incredible setback when one of his kidneys begins to fail. Follow Pat on his emotional search for a living organ donor. But can he balance his health with a rock 'n' roll lifestyle?
