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First Aired: August 9th, 1999
Status: Continuing
Network: PBS
Summary: This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history.
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Season 14
Episode 1: As Goes Janesville
Air Date: October 8th, 2012
Summary: Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde on a journey to tell the stories of inspiring, courageous individuals. Across the globe oppression is being confronted, and real meaningful solutions are being fashioned through health care, education, and economic empowerment for women and girls.
Episode 2: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Part 2)
Air Date: October 2nd, 2012
Summary: Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde on a journey to tell the stories of inspiring, courageous individuals. Across the globe oppression is being confronted, and real meaningful solutions are being fashioned through health care, education, and economic empowerment for women and girls.
Episode 4: Love Free or Die
Air Date: October 29th, 2012
Episode 5: Solar Mamas
Air Date: November 5th, 2012
Episode 6: Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream
Air Date: November 12nd, 2012
Episode 7: Soul Food Junkies
Air Date: January 14th, 2013
Summary: Food traditions are hard to change, especially when they're passed on from generation to generation. Baffled by his dad's unwillingness to change his traditional soul food diet in the face of a health crisis, filmmaker Byron Hurt sets out to learn more about this rich culinary tradition and its relevance to black cultural identity.
Episode 8: Beauty Is Embarrassing
Air Date: January 21st, 2013
Summary: Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work design some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.
Episode 9: The Revisionaries
Air Date: January 28th, 2013
Summary: The Texas State Board of Education rewrites teaching and textbook standards once every decade.
Episode 10: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights
Air Date: February 18th, 2013
Episode 11: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Air Date: February 25th, 2013
Summary: Profiling Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei, who helped design Beijing's iconic Bird's Nest Olympic stadium and later criticized the Games as party propaganda. His opposition to his country's autocratic rule, which he voices in his art and on social media, has caused him many difficulties, as filmmaker Alison Klayman witnesses during the making of this documentary: Government authorities shut down Ai's blog, beat him up, demolish his studio and hold him in secret detention for 81 days.
Episode 12: The House I Live In; As I Am
Air Date: April 8th, 2013
Episode 13: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Air Date: April 15th, 2013
Summary: Wonder Women! explores the nation’s long-term love affair with comic book superheroes and raises questions about the possibilities and contradictions of heroines within the genre. The film goes behind the scenes with Lynda Carter, Lindsay Wagner, Gloria Steinem, Kathleen Hanna, comic writers and artists, and others who offer an enlightening and entertaining counterpoint to the male-dominated superhero genre.
Episode 14: The Island President
Air Date: April 22nd, 2013
Episode 15: The Undocumented
Air Date: April 29th, 2013
Summary: Thousands of migrants have perished in recent years while trying to cross the unforgiving Sonora desert in search of a better life in the United States. The film gives a face to some of the dead, and follows them on their long journey home.
Episode 16: Seeking Asian Female
Air Date: May 6th, 2013
Summary: Two strangers — an aging white man and a young Chinese woman — pursue a marriage brokered by the Internet. They get more than they bargained for when she moves to America to be his bride in this quirky, appealing documentary.
Episode 17: The Invisible War
Air Date: May 13rd, 2013
Summary: The most shameful and best-kept secret in the U.S. Military? The epidemic of rape and sexual assault within the ranks. An American female soldier in a combat zone is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.
Episode 18: Detropia
Air Date: May 27th, 2013
Summary: Can the Motor City rise from its ashes? A dynamic cluster of local innovators, entrepreneurs, and proud, self-proclaimed "hustlers” are poised to resurrect Detroit. The result could be a radically new city for the postindustrial age.
Episode 19: The Revolutionary Optimists
Air Date: June 17th, 2013
Summary: Amlan Ganguly, a lawyer-turned social entrepreneur, has sown hope in the poorest neighborhoods of Calcutta by empowering children to become leaders in improving health, health, transforming their communities for the better.
Episode 20: Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman's Journey
Air Date: September 30th, 2013
Episode 21: The Waiting Room
Air Date: October 21st, 2013
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