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- East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison-the end of the line in Alabama's correctional system-is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence dwells a host of convicts who will never see the light of day. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting ten days. The Dhamma Brothers tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates at Donaldson Correction Facility who enter into this arduous and intensive program.
- Part-time hobos and full time philosophers, who narrates their way through the incredible scenery of the Northwest and gives us his views on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Some guy gets scared and stuff happens and things like that.
- Cash performs a concert for the inmates of California's Folsom Prison, and the show was recorded for a live album.
- Puerto Rico, the last relic of colonization in the western hemisphere, has been a dependent territory of the USA since 1917. Los Macheteros and one of its leaders Juan Segarra have been fighting for its full independence for many decades.
- Between June 14, 1962 and January 4, 1964, in Boston, Massachusetts, 13 women became victims of what was thought to be a serial killer.
- A small-town Texan raises an army of 30,000 tribesmen for the C.I.A. in Southeast Asia and fights an innovative, successful war ... for a while. Forty years later, Bill Lair is back home in Texas, with strong ideas on how the U.S. government should (and should not) be fighting wars overseas with the help of indigenous people. Meanwhile, 200,000 Hmong tribes people from Laos have come to the U.S., as a direct result of Bill Lair's C.I.A. operation, and they have a few things to say to him about changing their destinies.
- The story of Bill McGowan, who took on the most powerful monopoly of his time - ATT, and its Bell System of local phone companies - and won against all odds.
- In March of 2008, 250 veterans and active duty soldiers marked the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by gathering in Washington, DC to testify from their own experience about the nature of the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Inspired by the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation held by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, they too sought to express their opposition to those wars with their first-hand accounts, bearing witness with voices not generally heard. Our documentary is a portrait of three participants. If follows their lives for 6 weeks leading to the even and afterward; an active duty female soldier, a 9 year National Guard Veteran, and a 3 tour former Marine. This is their story.
- How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists -The New York Times' David Halberstam, the Associated Press' Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and legendary photojournalist Horst Faas, and UPI's Neil Sheehan -- during the early years of the Vietnam War as President John F. Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is initially dismissed by some as 'a nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants.' 'When the government is telling the truth, reporters become a relatively unimportant conduit to what is happening,' Halberstam tells us. 'But when the government doesn't tell the truth, begins to twist the truth, hide the truth, then the journalist becomes involuntarily infinitely more important.'
- The Earth is warming the Earth. In this series of five short films, learn why natural warming loops have scientists alarmed - and why we have less time than we think. Narrated by Richard Gere.
- One is from a remote Inuit community in the Arctic Tundra, the other from the bustling but poverty-stricken capital of Guinea, West Africa. But Guillaume and Yamoussa share a dream: take circus to the youth in their communities.
- The slaves of the American south did not always accept their lot. Many tried to escape, at risk of their lives, and the 'runaway' became a key figure in the story of abolition.
- For every flaw in our political campaigns - rigged elections, dark money, vote suppression, "Citizens United," grassroots movements have come up with solutions and have been winning reforms. This is the story of People Power in action.
- A documentary about the history of African American race films during the Golden Age of Hollywood.