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Program Picks For May 2013
Unleash the Power of the Female Brain with Dr. Daniel Amen
From one of the world's leading experts on how the brain works, a step-by-step, practical program for women to achieve greater health, energy, and lasting happiness by harnessing the power of the female brain.
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TED Talks: Education
Hear inspiring and forward-looking leaders and thinkers on the topic of learning, including Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth, Bill Gates, Rita F. Pierson, Sir Ken Robinson and Geoffrey Canada, among others.
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Independent Lens: Detropia
Detroit was the birthplace of the middle-class; a great city that came with the guarantee of the American dream. Today, the Motor City is suffering from a bad case of post-industrialism. However, with quintessential American pluck and grit, this city just may rise from the ashes thanks to a dynamic cluster of innovators, entrepreneurs and proud, self-proclaimed "hustlers."
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FRONTLINE
This program explores and illuminates the critical issues of our times - from business and health to social issues, politics and war.
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Birdmen: The Original Dream of Flight
This film is a startling, adrenaline-filled insight into the revolutionary new sport that brings the dream of human flight alive: BASE jumping.
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Movie: Rain Man
A wheeler-dealer (Tom Cruise) meets his brother (Dustin Hoffman), an institutionalized autistic-savant and heir to $3 million. (1988)
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Movie: Witness for the Prosecution
An aging barrister (Charles Laughton) defends a man (Tyrone Power) for murder despite damaging testimony from wife of the accused (Marlene Dietrich). (1982)
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Movie: Hoosiers
A college basketball coach leaves the Navy in 1951 and becomes coach of an underdog Indiana high-school team. (1986)
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Movie: Planet of the Apes
An astronaut (Charlton Heston) goes by time warp to a future planet ruled by smart apes who keep humans as slaves. (1968)
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Healing a Soldier’s Heart
A team of Seattle counselors tries a radical approach to treat veterans with PTSD: loving kindness meditation.
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National Memorial Day Concert
Co-hosted by Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna, this program features an all-star lineup with the National Symphony Orchestra.
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Service: When Women Come Marching Home
This film reveals the lives of women veterans fighting to find homes, demanding services, responding to therapy and gaining their independence. Through interviews in their kitchens, bathrooms, even therapy sessions the film reveals the raw truths of our women warriors fighting in the battlefield called "home."
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Independent Lens: The Invisible War
This documentary investigates one of America's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem -- today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 22,800 violent sex crimes in the military in 2011. Among all active-duty female soldiers, 20 percent are sexually assaulted.
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Independent Lens: Seeking Asian Female
Steven is an aging white man obsessed with marrying an Asian woman, dreaming of a devoted young wife. Sandy is the young, feisty, ambitious Chinese woman he finds online. This engaging documentary follows their tumultuous love story and ultimately concerns facing and unlearning stereotypes and the judgments that stem from them.
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Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words
This film is a vivid portrait of the first Chinese-American Movie star: Anna May Wong. A survey of Wong's career, the film explores the impact Wong has had on images of Asian American women in Hollywood, both then and now.
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Reel NW: One Big Hapa Family
Using a mix of live action and animation, this Reel NW film explores why 95 percent of Japanese-Canadians--more than any other ethnic group--marry interracially and how their mixed children perceive their unique multiracial identities.
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Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings
This film is a compelling portrait of an inspiring and inventive musician whose virtuoso skills on the ukulele have transformed all previous notions of the instrument’s potential.
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You Don’t Know Jack Soo
This film tells the fascinating story of the pioneering American entertainer Jack Soo, an Oakland native who became the first Asian American to be cast in the lead role in a regular television series, Valentine's Day (1963), and later starred in the popular comedy show Barney Miller (1975-1978).
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Extraordinary Women: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
This former first lady of the Republic of China secured huge international support for a war-torn China.
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West Encounters East
This film explores the unique fusion of Eastern and Western artistic traditions in the works of well-known and emerging Japanese-Brazilian artists. The film also examines the lifestyles of these artists, their traditions, culture and art while exploring the themes of immigration, dual identity, alienation and assimilation in their work.
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Pacific Heartbeat Tonga: The Last Place on Earth
Each month, the United States deports ethnic Tongans convicted of murder, gang violence and other serious crimes to the peaceful island kingdom of Tonga, an archipelago of 169 islands in the South Pacific. Forced to leave behind spouses, children, and family in the U.S., the convicts arrive to an unfamiliar homeland and are met by a community wary of their presence.
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Two Films by Tadashi Nakamura
Pilgrimage tells how an abandoned WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans (Manzanar) was transformed into a symbol of retrospection and solidarity for people of all ages, races and nationalities in our post 9/11 world. A Song for Ourselves shows how Chris Iijima’s music unleashed the contagious energy of the Asian American Movement with an unrelenting passion for social justice and a life well lived.
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Global Voices: Sentenced Home
Raised as Americans in inner city projects near Seattle, three young Cambodian refugees each made a rash decision as a teenager that irrevocably shaped their destiny. Years later, facing deportation back to Cambodia, they find themselves caught between a tragic past and an uncertain future by a system that doesn't offer any second chances.
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Heart Strings: The Story of the Kamaka 'Ukulele
For nearly 100 years from their tiny shop in Honolulu, Kamaka and Sons have crafted the diminutive instrument that has become the gold standard for 'ukuleles worldwide. This program is a Hawaiian story about age-old values of hard work, fortitude, honesty and creativity from a distinctly Hawaiian point of view.
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Pacific Heartbeat Let's Play Music! Slack Key with Cyril Pahinui & Friends
In this intimate backyard performance, master slack key musician Cyril Pahinui (featured in last season's "Waimea 'Ukulele and Slack Key Guitar") jams with some of the most talented musicians in Hawaii.
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Pacific Heartbeat Hula, The Language of the Heart
The Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, a four-day competition and exhibition often referred to as the "Olympics of Hula," showcases the elegance, power and storytelling richness of this ancient art form. The program, which highlights the 2012 festival winners, presents an entertaining yet thought-provoking look at hula's role in the past, present and future of the Hawaiian people.
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Outdoor Idaho: Climbing Idaho
In this episode, climbers both young and old remind us that there's much in life yet to be explored and conquered.
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Oregon Field Guide
Since 1988, this program has been a valuable source of information about outdoor recreation, ecological issues, natural resources and travel destinations.
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Beneath the Surface: An EarthFix Special Report
Learn about the unseen dangers that threaten our area fisheries, marine life and tribal communities.
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Nature
Delivers the best in original natural history films to audiences nationwide. See "Legendary White Stallions" on 5/1, "The Private Life of Deer" on 5/8, "Great Zebra Exodus" on 5/15, "The White Lions" on 5/22 and "The Himalayas" on 5/29.
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NOVA
This program explores innovations and discoveries from the world of science and technology. See Part 4 of 4 of "Australia’s First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures" on 5/1, "Venom: Nature’s Killer" on 5/8, "Decoding Neanderthals" on 5/15 and "Secrets of the Sun" on 5/29.
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BBC World News
The latest global news from the world's largest news broadcaster. The newscasts contain all the most up-to-date news, interviews, analysis, business reports and world sports news.
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BBC World News America
Delivering coverage and analysis of international events and issues with a fresh perspective, connecting the dots between the United States and the world.
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BBC Newsnight
A weekly round-up of news and current affairs including interviews with global opinion formers and documentary features from all over the world.
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Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery
Captain James Cook was an 18th century explorer and navigator whose achievements in mapping the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia radically changed western perceptions of world geography. Expert and best-selling author Vanessa Collingridge searches for the man behind the legend as she traces his story in a four-part miniseries that is part biography, part travelogue -- and completely enthralling.
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Call the Midwife (Series 2)
This moving, intimate, funny and true-to-life series, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, tells colorful stories of midwifery and families in London's East End in the 1950s.
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Masterpiece Classic: Mr. Selfridge
At the unfashionable end of Oxford Street in 1909 London, an American retail tycoon arrives to jettison fusty British tradition and open the biggest and finest department store the world has ever seen: Selfridges.
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The Bletchley Circle
Set in 1952, this mystery-drama focuses on four women, all former codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the UK’s main decryption establishment during WWII.
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Secrets of the Manor House
Exactly 100 years ago, the world of the British manor house was at its height. It was a life of luxury and indolence for a wealthy few supported by the labor of hundreds of servants toiling ceaselessly "below stairs" to make the lives of their lords and ladies run as smoothly as possible. This program looks beyond the fiction to the truth of what life was like in these British manor houses of yesteryear.
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British Antiques Roadshow
A lively team of savvy British appraisers and a delightful cross section of local citizenry explore flea market finds, heirlooms and junkyard gems--many with a royal pedigree.
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Prime Suspect
This tense, uncompromising drama created by the distinguished dramatist and novelist Lynda La Plante, has been critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic and has won a total of 14 international awards. Detective Inspector Jane Tennison, a skilled top-class detective, struggles to prove herself in a male-dominated world.
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Foyle’s War (Series 6)
Set along the South Coast of England in the 1940s, Michael Kitchen stars as Christopher Foyle, the straightforward sleuth who fights his own battles on the home front while war rages across Europe -- that is, until now.
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Midsomer Murders (Series 4)
Set in rural England, this deliciously sinister crime series is full of quirky characters and ubiquitous red herrings. Based on the novels of Caroline Graham and starring John Nettles.
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Vera (Series 2)
Chief Investigator Vera Stanhope is an experienced and brilliant murder investigator in the North East England county of Northumberland.
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Krakatoa: Last Days
This BBC Television docudrama is based upon a selection of four eyewitness accounts of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, an active stratovolcano between the islands of Sumatra and Java, present day Indonesia.
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Doc Martin (Series 3)
Martin Clunes plays Dr. Martin Ellingham, a brilliant and successful vascular surgeon who develops a fear of blood and moves to the small Cornish village of Portwenn where he is perceived as cold and abrasive.
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Great Performances at the Met: La Clemenza de Tito
Elina Garanca, Giuseppe Filianoti and Barbara Frittoli star in this production of Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito."
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Great Performances at the Met: Rigoletto
Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi's towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960. Piotr Beczala is the womanizing Duke, Zeljko Lucic is his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto's daughter, Gilda.
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American Masters: Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
The author of Little Women is an almost universally recognized name. Her reputation as a morally upstanding New England spinster, reflecting the conventional propriety of late 19th-century Concord, is firmly established. This program reveals Louisa May Alcott as a free thinker with democratic ideals and progressive values about women.
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American Masters: Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
In 60 years in show business, Mel Brooks has earned more major awards than any other living entertainer. Ironically, this larger-than-life, loud-mouthed little man is very private. He has never authorized a biography and has requested that his friends not talk about him, making his full participation with American Masters a genuine first.
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10 Buildings That Changed America
This program tells the stories of 10 American architectural marvels, including a state capitol building designed by Thomas Jefferson, the original indoor shopping mall, the first airport of the Jet Age and a futuristic concert hall. You may not be familiar with all of these buildings, but they probably have shaped the way you live, work, shop and play.
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Reel NW
The third season of Reel NW features the best in independent film from the Northwest. See Cue the Muse on 5/3, One Big Hapa Family on 5/10, Bone Wind Fire on 5/17, SIFF 2012 Fly Films on 5/24 and Hood to Coast on 5/31.
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SIFF 2012 Fly Films
Given five days to shoot, five days to edit and a handful of creative limitations, four local directors created these shorts for SIFF 2012. With support from KCTS 9/Reel NW, these films were all shot on the Seattle Center campus, in celebration of the Next 50, and the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World's Fair.
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Great Performances: Paul Taylor in Paris
This program presents two of Taylor's enduring masterworks. Brandenburgs, first performed in 1988 to music from Bach's Brandenburg concertos #3 and # 6; and his 2008 ballet Beloved Renegade, inspired by the life and work of poet Walt Whitman, unfolding with various scenes reminiscent of episodes in Whitman's life.
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Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings
This film is a compelling portrait of an inspiring and inventive musician whose virtuoso skills on the ukulele have transformed all previous notions of the instrument’s potential.
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Magic Moments: The Best of 50's Pop
Hosted by Mary Lou Metzker, Phyllis McGuire, Pat Boone, Debbie Reynolds and Patti Page, this program will feature a cavalcade of 1950's pop music recording legends, reuniting and performing their biggest hits live.
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Live From Lincoln Center -- Audra McDonald in Concert
Series host Audra McDonald takes to the stage in her own concert special, singing personal favorites including selections from her new album, "Go Back Home."
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Ellen DeGeneres: The Mark Twain Prize
This special celebrates the work of Ellen DeGeneres, the 15th recipient of The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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Art Zone with Nancy Guppy
Host Nancy Guppy highlights Seattle’s fabulous creative scene with interviews from local artists and performers, reviews and previews of current offerings and lots of surprises.
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Celtic Thunder Mythology
From the Helix Theater in Dublin, this musical odyssey tells the story of Irish ancestors, their legends and their stories.
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Dave Matthews Band, Weekend on the Rocks: A Soundstage Special Event
Currently one of the most popular bands in the country, this appearance marks Dave Matthews Band's return to the site of their milestone Live at Red Rocks CD that confirmed their status as one of the nation's premier live acts.
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Heart Strings: The Story of the Kamaka 'Ukulele
For nearly 100 years from their tiny shop in Honolulu, Kamaka and Sons have crafted the diminutive instrument that has become the gold standard for 'ukuleles worldwide. This program is a Hawaiian story about age-old values of hard work, fortitude, honesty and creativity from a distinctly Hawaiian point of view.
Read more
Pacific Heartbeat Let's Play Music! Slack Key with Cyril Pahinui & Friends
In this intimate backyard performance, master slack key musician Cyril Pahinui (featured in last season's "Waimea 'Ukulele and Slack Key Guitar") jams with some of the most talented musicians in Hawaii.
Read more
Pacific Heartbeat Hula, The Language of the Heart
The Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, a four-day competition and exhibition often referred to as the "Olympics of Hula," showcases the elegance, power and storytelling richness of this ancient art form. The program, which highlights the 2012 festival winners, presents an entertaining yet thought-provoking look at hula's role in the past, present and future of the Hawaiian people.
Read more
Antiques Roadshow: Seattle
Part adventure, part history lesson, and part treasure hunt, the ten-time Emmy® Award-nominated show visits the Emerald City.
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Beneath the Surface: An EarthFix Special
A host of concerns threatens our treasured Northwest waters. In this program, dive beneath the surface to learn about the unseen dangers and their impacts on area fisheries, marine life and tribal communities.
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PIE: art. culture. ideas.
Sweet, savory and sometimes flaky--our new weekly series reflects and responds to life and culture in the Pacific Northwest.
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Reel NW: Cue the Muse
Follow filmmaker Jodie Martison on her journey to rediscover the uninhibited creativity she had as a child. Master painter and AIDS activist Tiko Kerr, ballet dancer Alexis Fletcher, luthier Nicole Alosinac, and rock vocalist Colleen Rennison of No Sinner reveal what it takes to prosper, and live, creatively every day.
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Reel NW: One Big Hapa Family
Using a mix of live action and animation, this Reel NW film explores why 95 percent of Japanese-Canadians—more than any other ethnic group--marry interracially and how their mixed children perceive their unique multiracial identities.
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Reel NW: Bone Wind Fire
This film is an intimate and evocative journey into the hearts, minds and eyes of Georgia O'Keeffe, Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo--three of the 20th century's most remarkable artists.
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SIFF 2012 Fly Films
Given five days to shoot, five days to edit and a handful of creative limitations, four local directors created these shorts for SIFF 2012. With support from KCTS 9/Reel NW, these films were all filmed on the Seattle Center campus, in celebration of The Next 50, and the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World's Fair.
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Reel NW: Hood to Coast
This film follows four unlikely teams on their epic journey to conquer the world's largest relay race. From a 67-year-old heart attack survivor determined to conquer the race that almost killed her, to a rookie team of animators who are utterly unprepared for the 197 mile long adventure, this character-driven documentary takes a celebratory look at personal motivation and attempting the extraordinary.
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Art Zone with Nancy Guppy
Host Nancy Guppy highlights Seattle’s fabulous creative scene with interviews from local artists and performers, reviews and previews of current offerings and lots of surprises.
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KCTS 9 Cooks: Kitchen Classics
This program is dedicated to great home cooking, and the best cooks we know -- our viewers! Join hosts Mark Christopher and Chef Carol Dearth of Sizzleworks Cooking School with our guest cooks, preparing their favorite recipes.
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Global Voices:Sentenced Home
Raised as Americans in inner city projects near Seattle, three young Cambodian refugees each made a rash decision as a teenager that irrevocably shaped their destiny. Years later, facing deportation back to Cambodia, they find themselves caught between a tragic past and an uncertain future by a system that doesn't offer any second chances.
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Canyon War: The Untold Story
This documentary uncovers the tumultuous events of 1858 in British Columbia and a war swept under the carpet for 150 years.
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Healing a Soldier’s Heart
A team of Seattle counselors tries a radical approach to treat veterans with PTSD: loving kindness meditation.
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Service: When Women Come Marching Home
This film reveals the lives of women veterans fighting to find homes, demanding services, responding to therapy and gaining their independence. Through interviews in their kitchens, bathrooms, even therapy sessions the film reveals the raw truths of our women warriors fighting in the battlefield called "home."
Read more
Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery
Captain James Cook was an 18th century explorer and navigator whose achievements in mapping the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia radically changed western perceptions of world geography. Expert and best-selling author Vanessa Collingridge searches for the man behind the legend as she traces his story in a four-part miniseries that is part biography, part travelogue -- and completely enthralling.
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Extraordinary Women: Wallis Simpson
Branded a frivolous socialite, a gold digger and even a Nazi-sympathiser, Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American caused an international scandal with her third marriage. With Prince Edward's accession to the throne, the British government and the Church of England were adamant the King could not marry a divorcee. And so, in a move that shocked the nation, Edward VIII abdicated - to marry the woman he loved: Wallis Simpson.
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Extraordinary Women: Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker was a black entertainer who took the world by storm. Determined to escape a life of deprivation and racial prejudice, she danced her way to New York and then Paris. Famed for her 'Banana Dance', performed at the famous Folies-Bergere, by the end of the 1920s, Josephine was making more money than any other entertainer in Europe.
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Jesse James: American Experience
The story of Jesse James is one of America's most familiar myths -- and one of its most wrong-headed. James, so the legend goes, was a Western outlaw, but in reality, he never went west. Less heroic than brutal, this is the true story of an outlaw who has captured the imagination of generations of Americans
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Annie Oakley: American Experience
Over time Annie Oakley became an American legend -- the loud, brassy, cocksure shooter celebrated in the musical "Annie Get Your Gun." But that legend has little to do with the real Annie Oakley. This film is the story of a five-foot-tall sharpshooter who pulled herself out of the depths of poverty to become known the world over as a symbol of the Wild West.
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Ghost Army
This program tells the true story of American G.I.s -- many of whom would go on to have illustrious careers in art, design and fashion -- who tricked the enemy with rubber tanks, sound effects and visual illusions during the World War II.
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Constitution USA with Peter Sagal
In this exciting series, Sagal, host of NPR’s Wait, Wait. . . Don’t Tell Me, travels cross-country on a red, white and blue Harley-Davidson to find out where the Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn’t, how it unites America as a nation, and how it has nearly torn the country apart.
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Secrets of the Dead
Part detective story, part true-life drama, this program explores some of the most iconic moments in history to debunk myths and shed new light on past events. Using the latest investigative techniques, forensic science and historical examination to unearth new evidence, the series shatters accepted wisdom and ultimately rewrites history.
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1962 World’s Fair: When Seattle Invented the Future
The 1962 World's Fair, a six-month celebration of science and technology, featured an exciting mix of culture, cuisine and celebrity, drawing more than 10 million visitors from around the world to the then relatively unknown mill town of Seattle. Through historical photographs and archival footage, this program brings to life the textures and sounds of Seattle in the late 1950s and early '60s.
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Rebel: Voces Special Presentation
This film chronicles the story of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a Cuban-born teenager from New Orleans who fought disguised as a man during the American Civil War. Considered a hoax for over 100 years, contemporary historians have found evidence of her existence.
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Canyon War: The Untold Story
This documentary uncovers the tumultuous events of 1858 in British Columbia and a war swept under the carpet for 150 years.
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Hitler on Trial
In the summer of 1931, a young lawyer called Hans Litten put rising political star, Adolf Hitler, in the witness box of a Berlin court. He wanted to expose Hitler's hypocrisy and secret commitment to violence and shatter the Nazi party's political respectability. He lost. This documentary explores the consequences of Litten's heroism both for himself and for those closest to him, tracking his tragic journey from court room to suicide.
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Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust
The previously untold story of how the five Frieder brothers, Cincinnati businessmen making two-for-a-nickel cigars in pre-WWII Manila, together with the charismatic first president of the Philippines, the US High Commissioner, and an ambitious Army Colonel named Dwight Eisenhower helped 1,200 Jews escape the Nazis and immigrate to the Philippines.
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