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Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small Town GangOriginal Air Date—9 August 1999Documentary on a gang-related murder/suicide that left four teenagers dead in the small town of Appleton, Wisonsin. |
Season 1, Episode 2: Nothing But the TruthOriginal Air Date—16 August 1999A look at the media circus during the O.J. Simpson civil trial. |
Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a GrooveOriginal Air Date—11 October 2005 |
Unknown Season
A Fish StoryOriginal Air Date—2 January 2007 |
A Lion's TrailOriginal Air Date—5 April 2005 |
A Sad Flower in the SandOriginal Air Date—12 December 2006 |
A Touch of GreatnessOriginal Air Date—11 January 2005The remarkable teacher Albert Cullum broke the mold for the boring, uninspiring public school teachers in the 1950s and 60s. This film depicts how he inspired his students of all ages through movement and imagination, and how he challenged them to want to learn more through acting in theatrical productions of the classics. The productions were unconventional by every school standard, but gained recognition throughout the state for being groundbreaking and inspiring. |
Afghanistan UnveiledOriginal Air Date—23 November 2004 |
AgoraOriginal Air Date—27 December 2005 |
Almost HomeOriginal Air Date—21 February 2006Follows the daily lives of senior residents and the staff of a retirement community in Milwaukee, Wisconisin. |
American MadeOriginal Air Date—10 August 2003 |
BanishedOriginal Air Date—19 February 2008 |
Be Good, Smile PrettyOriginal Air Date—11 June 2003 |
Beyond the CallOriginal Air Date—23 January 2007 |
Beyond the FireOriginal Air Date—2004 |
Billy Strayhorn: Lush LifeOriginal Air Date—1 February 2007 |
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?Original Air Date—16 June 2006 |
CompanerasOriginal Air Date—1 April 2008 |
Death of a ShamanOriginal Air Date—27 May 2003 |
Democracy on Deadline: The Global Struggle for an Independent PressOriginal Air Date—21 November 2006 |
Double ExposureOriginal Air Date—4 May 2004 |
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the RoomOriginal Air Date—January 2005Corporate audio and videotapes tell the inside story of the scandal involving one company's manipulation of California's energy supply and its, and how its executives wrung a billion dollars out of the resulting crisis. |
Eroica!Original Air Date—9 December 2003 |
Face to FaceOriginal Air Date—2002 |
FishbowlOriginal Air Date—12 March 2005 |
Foto-Novelas II: Broken SkyOriginal Air Date—21 October 2003 |
Foto-Novelas II: Junkyard SaintsOriginal Air Date—???? |
Girl TroubleOriginal Air Date—17 January 2006 |
Hard Road HomeOriginal Air Date—26 February 2008 |
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and RhymesOriginal Air Date—January 2006A hip-hop fan addresses the art form's problems with sexism, masculinity, violence, and homophobia. |
Jimmy Scott: If You Only KnewOriginal Air Date—10 March 2002An intimate portrait of 76-year-old jazz vocal legend Jimmy Scott. The film explores Scott's odyssey of loss and redemption through reminiscence, song, and lush Japanese travelogue. |
Joe Strummer Rocks AgainOriginal Air Date—26 April 2005 |
John and MichaelOriginal Air Date—27 December 2005 |
July '64Original Air Date—14 February 2006In the 1950s and 1960s, Rochester, New York became known as a successful city with a thriving business community and few problems. On the other hand, large numbers of poor black southerners had been moving to the city in the recent years. Those black citizens were largely denied the good jobs at local factories. These underprivileged citizens also felt themselves the victims of excessive police scrutiny, as well as police brutality. On a summer night in July 1964, there were altercations between the police and African-American Rochesterians. Those events escalated into riots. Over several nights, Rochester stores were looted and the streets were scenes of chaos and violence. Governor Nelson Rockefeller called out the National Guard to help the police keep order. |
La Lupe: Queen of Latin SoulOriginal Air Date—2 March 2007A born rebel and innovator, Lupe Yoli aka La Lupe or La Yiyiyi was renowned for her emotional performances. Her renditions of classics such as "My Way," "Fever" and "Going Out of My Head" were known worldwide. But beyond her musicianship, celebrity and scandal, Lupe Yoli was also a single mother of two, a survivor of domestic abuse, a Santera who later became a Christian Evangelist speaker. Shot in New York City, Miami, La Habana and San Juan, this documentary evokes two groundbreaking cultural periods through rare archival footage -- pre-Revolutionary 1950's La Habana and the burgeoning Latin music scene in New York City in the 1960's and 1970's. The documentary begins with her funeral in 1992, attended by fans, family and the whole of New York's Latino music aristocracy and follows her from poverty to celebrity and back again. La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul tells La Lupe's story through character driven interviews in first person anecdotes, in an oral history much like those found in a folk ballad or a bolero. She was born in a small rural town in Cuba in 1936, one that La Lupe herself loved to describe as "so poor that no one knew it existed until I got famous". Her older sister Norma Yoli describes her as "just another black girl from Santiago", one who loved to imitating the singers she heard on the radio. One of these was Olga Guillot, Cuba's reigning bolero singer - our Latin Frank Sinatra. When the rebellious teenage Lupe wins a radio contest, much like our present day's American Idol, she gets to meet Olga Guillot in La Habana and to sing on the radio. By 1957 La Lupe was the rage in the thriving competitive nightlife in La Habana. Rare archival footage showcases Lupe's peers - Perez Prado, Beni More with Mongo Santamaria, a young Celia Cruz. Helio Orovio, the noted Cuban musicologists describes La Habana in the late 50's as having the most "intense" nightlife in the midst of the onset of Cuba's revolution. Lupe's gay following adores her, and the avant-garde follows. A newspaper headline appears: "La Lupe Divides Cuba in Two". While her inimitable style is described as one befitting the revolutionary times, the headline was a prescient one: like many artists at the time, she leaves Cuba: "there was no room in Cuba for me and the revolution." La Lupe arrives penniless in New York City in 1962. She befriends the world-renowned Afro-Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaria, and records with him. Mongo proudly recalls how he introduced La Lupe to "an American" jazz audience and how Tito Puente stole La Lupe from his band once she became the "hottest thing". La Lupe and Tito Puente went on to record a mayor hit in 1964, a Latin classic: "Que Te Pedi" (What Did I Ask of You). Fred Weinberg, La Lupe's favorite recording engineer recalls their collaboration and the early recording sessions. "She was like a hurricane coming in" with Tito urging him to just "start recording". For the next four years they recorded classics and toured the Latin music circuit at the time, in the US, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Panama and Spain. Ralph Mercado the Latin music impresario (who was also Tito Puente and Celia Cruz's manager) recounts their falling out with the hit "Oriente" where La Lupe herself sings: "Tito Puente kicked me out". La Lupe had gotten too big and Tito had begun to record with Celia Cruz. Striking out on her own in 1968 La Lupe appears on English language television shows. In a present day interview of Dick Cavett, her appearance on his show is put into context for an audience watching in 1973 - though her performance remains thoroughly contemporary. Johnny Pacheco the composer, arranger and music producer recounts the birth of Fania records and the origins of "salsa", the new Latin music sensation. By 1975 La Lupe's career is on the decline while Fania has a new rising star -- Celia Cruz. By 1985 Lupe Yoli has rebounded from a descent into homelessness. Having taken on the preacher's pulpit she recounts this period in her evangelical testimonials. Ahead of her time and often described as the first performance artist and a long-time gay icon, La Lupe's story is universal in its appeal; with the current boom in Latin pop music, it is also timely in trying to discover who Lupe was. The documentary is also a collective portrait of mid-20th century Latin musical history. |
Los Trabajadores/The WorkersOriginal Air Date—25 March 2003 |
Make'em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' StoryOriginal Air Date—12 January 2004 |
Mirror DanceOriginal Air Date—15 November 2005 |
Motherland AfghanistanOriginal Air Date—14 February 2007Medical care for Afghan women, after the U.S. invasion. |
My Life... DisorientedOriginal Air Date—19 October 2006Life gets turned upside down for Kimberee and Aimee Fung when their father decides to leave his well-paying corporate executive job in San Francisco and move the family to Bakersfield to live with their grandparents and help out with the family business, a massage parlor called "Touch of the Orient." If the social pressure of starting a new high school in the middle of the school year wasn't enough, Kimberlee and Aimee are only two of a handful of Asian American kids at North High. They are constantly challenged by having to make choices that ultimately affect how their peers perceive them as they try to find acceptance. |
On a RollOriginal Air Date—15 February 2005 |
Paris 1951Original Air Date—26 December 2006 |
Race Is the PlaceOriginal Air Date—22 November 2005A documentary featuring contemporary performance artists treating the subject of Race In America, along with archival footage and commentary from poet laureate Amiri Baraka. |
Race to ExecutionOriginal Air Date—19 December 2006 |
RefugeeOriginal Air Date—11 May 2004 |
Revolution: Five VisionsOriginal Air Date—19 December 2006 |
Sentencing the VictimOriginal Air Date—2 March 2004 |
ShadyaOriginal Air Date—16 January 2007 |
Someday Flowers BloomOriginal Air Date—26 December 2006 |
StolenOriginal Air Date—30 January 2005In March of 1990, two thieves dressed as Boston police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston Massachusetts and successfully executed the largest art heist in modern history. Among the thirteen priceless works stolen was Vermeer's "The Concert" one of only 35 of the masters surviving works. Not a single one of the works has been recovered. STOLEN is a full exploration of the Gardner theft, and the fascinating, disparate characters involved: from the 19th century Grand dame Isabella Gardner to a private detective obsessed with finding the art to a terrorist organization with a penchant for stealing Vermeers. |
Sumo East and WestOriginal Air Date—5 May 2003"Sumo East and West" is a feature documentary about Americans in the ancient Japanese sport of sumo wrestling. Sumo is not only the national sport of Japan but a centuries-old cultural treasure that is literally part of the Shinto religion. Yet this highly traditional world is facing profound changes due to the postwar influx of foreign images and ideas in Japanese culture. At the same time other changes in sumo are being prompted by its growing popularity in the West, where its adherents are lobbying for sumo's inclusion in the Olympic Games even as other promoters are arranging amateur sumo tournaments in venues like Las Vegas casinos - tournaments that not surprisingly bear little resemblance to the sport's Japanese forebear. "Sumo East and West" takes us into this world through the story of Wayne Vierra of Hawaii, aka Kamakiiwa, a former professional sumo wrestler in Japan whose pro career was cut short by injury, but who rebounded to become a champion in the growing world of amateur sumo. The film also features the Hawaii-born superstars of professional sumo: Konishiki, Jesse "Takamiyama" Kuhaulua, and Akebono (the first non-Japanese to reach the exalted rank of yokozuna, or grand champion) . |
Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York CityOriginal Air Date—28 March 2006 |
The Amasong Chorus: Singing OutOriginal Air Date—15 June 2004 |
The Atom SmashersOriginal Air Date—25 November 2008 |
The Great Pink ScareOriginal Air Date—6 June 2006 |
The Last CowboyOriginal Air Date—15 October 2005 |
The New AmericansOriginal Air Date—29 March 2004The New Americans follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America. The detailed portraits--woven together in the seven-hour miniseries-- present a kaleidoscopic picture of immigrant life and a personal view of the new America. We follow an Indian couple to Silicon Valley through the dot-com boom and bust. A Mexican meatpacker struggles to reunite his family in rural Kansas. Two families of Nigerian refugees (including the sister of slain Ogoni activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa) escape government persecution. Two Los Angeles Dodgers prospects follow their big dreams of escaping the barrios of the Dominican Republic. A Palestinian woman who marries into a new life in Chicago only to discover in the wake of September 11, she cannot leave behind the pain of her homeland's conflict. |
The ZitOriginal Air Date—26 December 2006 |
TwistedOriginal Air Date—30 January 2007 |
Two Square MilesOriginal Air Date—28 November 2006 |
Vietnam: The Next GenerationOriginal Air Date—22 May 2005 |
Water Flowing TogetherOriginal Air Date—8 April 2008 |
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik MunizOriginal Air Date—16 October 2003 |
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