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81) A Life's Work
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
What’s it like to dedicate your life to work that won’t be completed in your lifetime? Fifteen years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused on four projects and the people behind them in an effort to answer this universal question. The subjects are Jill Tarter, Director of the SETI Institute, who has been involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence since the 1970s and who was the basis for the Ellie Arroway character in Carl Sagan’s...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs of addiction, poverty and incarceration plaguing America, from the inner city to small towns like Yamhill, Oregon. While pockets of empathy and aid exist, are they enough to rescue the thousands of Americans in despair, for whom the American Dream of self-reliance is impossibly out of reach?
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"It's Union Time, people!" — the rallying cry of workers at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Since its opening in 1993, employees of the plant have endured various abuses such as intimidation tactics, low pay, and dangerous working conditions which resulted in bodily injury and, on one occasion, death. Often treated as expendable, the workers came together and engaged in a 16-year-long struggle for the right...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Children of Deaf Adults, known as CODA, are caught in the middle; between the deaf and the hearing, between isolation and community, and between childhood and adulthood. Through the stories of three CODAs, this film explores the daily reality of able hearing children born to deaf parents. Discover how their unique upbringings can be considered both a burden and an opportunity, and how it has shaped who they are today. MOTHER, FATHER, DEAF offers a...
85) Man on the Bus
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Man on the Bus is a moving story about love, lies and loss. Eve always thought there was something not quite right about her family. She had wild ideas about being an Australian implant into her holocaust family. Over a decade of searching for the truth, she makes a remarkable discovery that changes her life forever.
86) After Action
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Hosted by Air Force combat veteran Stacy Pearsall, After Action reveals the experiences of 21 veterans from across the country through candid conversations about what life is like before, during and after action. Pearsall’s own struggles to reconnect with society challenges her fellow veterans to probe deeper into their stories, helping to provide a better appreciation for those who’ve served.
87) White Riot
Description
Britain, late-1970s. Punk is exploding. The country is deeply divided over immigration. The National Front, a far-right and fascist political party, is gaining strength as politicians like Enoch Powell push a xenophobic agenda. Outraged by a racist speech from Eric Clapton, music photographer Red Saunders writes a letter to the music press, calling for rock to be a force against racism. NME, Melody Maker, and Sounds all publish the letter. Flooded...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Dr. Keith Huxen takes you into the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. From the icy front lines of Soviet Russia to the bombing campaigns against Britain to the fall of the Philippines, these 24 engrossing episodes take you into the shoes of soldiers, sailors, pilots, war correspondents, and citizens struggling to survive a war-torn world.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
What was it like to live through the bombing attacks and campaigns in the war? In this episode, look at the US bombing war against Japanese aircraft carriers in the Pacific and against the Nazi's oil refineries in Romania. Then, reflect on civilian life under the bombs at Dresden, Germany.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Explore the roots of the 28-year-old Adam Weishaupt’s secret society, the Order of Perfectibilists, which later became the Order of the Illuminati, or, in German, the Illuminatenordern: The Order of the Enlightened. Discover how Weishaupt envisioned nothing less than “A New World,” which necessitated destruction of Christianity and all other forms of religion.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Travel to a historic empire that stretched from Anatolia to Central Asia as you get to know The Assassins, whose roots reach back at least as far as the beginning of Islam in the 7th century. See how “assassin," our generic term for professional killer, is linked to the asaiyun, who were notably the cause of 200 years of terrorism and murder.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Prior to the war, Americans in the Philippines lived in what one infantryman called a "soldier's paradise." That all changed when the Japanese invaded shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the Bataan Death March to an internment camp in Manila, see what life was like after the fall of the Philippines.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
From the 1920 Wall Street bombing to the events of 9/11, see where secret societies have embraced terrorism as a mind game throughout history. Most secret orders are more or less harmless, but Professor Spence peers inside some which have used violence to further their agendas, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Army Faction, the Weathermen, and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Discover how some politically driven secret societies have far-reaching impact, as Professor Spence dives into a period of time when America was full of Soviet espionage and clandestine communist activity. Through a number of interlinked histories, he demonstrates how the Communist party relied on proven secret-society techniques, such as selective recruitment and fanatical loyalty.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Not only was the war fought around the globe—it was also fought from high in the skies to the depths of the ocean. Venture beneath the unforgiving waters of the Atlantic and Pacific where American submariners conducted a secret, dangerous war. See what life was like in the cramped quarters of these powerful vessels.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
One of the great stories from the Second World War is the American manufacturing dynamo. Although 16 million men and women served in uniform, the nation of 130 million mobilized; garnered an abundance of natural resources; advanced the realm of science; and flooded the world with the production of aircraft, tanks, artillery; and so much more.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Do criminal gangs really qualify as secret societies? Yes: They’re selective in membership, require oaths and initiations, and members usually advance through grades or ranks. From the early 20th-century Thuggees of India to the modern-day mafias that have arisen in cities all over the world, you’ll get to know the seedy underbelly of society like never before.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
To survey the Nazi death camps is to enter a world of slave labor and genocide. Here, you will focus on two high-level German commandants in the system who abetted the atrocities. First, you will see how a businessman profited from the concentration camp system, and then meet a policeman who became the commandant at Treblinka.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Taking an in-depth look at The Order, FEAR (Forever Enduring, Always Ready), the Silver Legion of America (Silver Shirts), and others, Professor Spence demonstrates how so many of these secret societies begot, influenced, or resulted in other ones, keeping the tradition going and suggesting that there are hundreds, if not thousands, more that have remained secret.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
The horrors of Nazi Germany are one hallmark of World War II. How did ordinary German citizens find themselves participating in such heinous events? In this first lesson, go inside the propaganda machine of Hitler's Germany and see how it targeted the youth with messages of strength and pride.
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