Dead Souls - Part 2
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as “ultra-rightists” in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the Jiab...
Dead Souls - Part 3
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as “ultra-rightists” in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the Jiab...
Malls r us
Combining nostalgia, dazzling architecture, pop culture, economics and politics, "Malls R Us" examines North America's most popular and profitable suburban destination - the enclosed shopping center - and how for consumers they function as a communa...
Middletown: family business
Howie Snyder is an archetype: a retired Marine colonel in his mid 40s, a prototypical American entrepreneur struggling to make his business go. Howie's Shakey's Pizza franchise in Muncie, Indiana employs his whole family: wife, nine children, and H...
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Middletown: family business [Bonus Material]
Howie Snyder is an archetype: a retired Marine colonel in his mid 40s, a prototypical American entrepreneur struggling to make his business go. Howie's Shakey's Pizza franchise in Muncie, Indiana employs his whole family: wife, nine children, and H...
Le Sel de la Semaine: Jack Kerouac
Largely overlooked in popular and critical assessments of Jack Kerouac's work is how intimately it is connected to his French-Canadian background and his childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts. Kerouac grew up among Canadian ex-pats, learning English on...
Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution
Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and social relevance. This documentary traces the development o...
Goodbye Mubarak!
On January 25, 2011, the world was captivated as thousands of protesters flooded Tahrir Square in Cairo, demanding an end to the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. But the ground for the protests had been laid in the weeks and months preceding the m...
Middletown: community of praise
This program examines faith at work in the lives of a family. Their fundamentalist beliefs shape their encounters with the emergencies and the ordinary problems of daily life.
Cholesterol, the Great Bluff
Cholesterol, the Great Bluff convincingly argues that the link between cholesterol and heart disease is tenuous and that its persistence results from a potent mix of bad science, entrenched interests, and pharmaceutical profits.
The problems date f...