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- If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a 'better' life for indigenous children. But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture's way of learning and understanding the world with our own? SCHOOLING THE WORLD takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the world's last sustainable indigenous cultures.
- A close-up look at renowned photographers Tony and Santi, and their long-standing connections on both a personal and professional level.
- Nick Broomfield takes a distinctly personal look at his relationships with his humanist-pacifist father, Maurice Broomfield, a factory worker turned photographer of vivid images of postwar England.
- The untold story of a wild rocker whose debauchery nearly prevented his meteoric rise to become one of the greatest television composers of all time.
- Borealis is a unique cinematic documentary that goes deep into Canada's iconic snow forest to understand how black spruce and birch experience life, talk to each other and decide when the time is right to burn themselves down.
- Journalist Aran Tori travels across Britain tracking down the nation's Far Right Extremists. The combination of BREXIT and Donald Trump presidency has empowered the Ultra Nationalist cause, leaving communities more divided than ever. Aran enters the world of White Nationalism with a friendly curiosity and open approach, reflecting on his own beliefs of British identity.
- Amidst some of the most tumultuous times in our nation's history, Rev. Theodore Hesburgh finds himself in the eye of the storm as he works to advance the causes of peace and equal rights.
- Mary, the mother of Jesus, is recognized by two major religions as the holiest woman ever. She has captivated the imaginations of artists and composers all over the world for centuries. Nevertheless, a question remains. After the Pentecost, she disappears from the Bible. What happened to Mary after the death and resurrection of Jesus? Filmed on location in Turkey, in a place once known as Ephesus, this documentary will give you a look into the home which is widely believed to be where Mary found refuge and lived out her final days.
- In the Gilded Age artist Anders Zorn (1860 - 1920) became the society painter of Swedish royalty and American presidents. While his modern portraits filled his coffers it was Zorn's deeply felt and excellently executed oil paintings of everyday Swedish life along with his studies of female nudes in nature that would win him a lasting international reputation as Sweden's premier painter.
- America's paid-leave crisis and the cost of doing nothing.
- In 1951, the undefeated University of San Francisco football team declines an invitation to play in the Orange Bowl after being told they would only be invited if they played without their two African-American stars: Ollie Matson and Burl Toler.
- There is a mystery behind that masked grey visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.
- Helping to save, protect and nurture the monarch butterflies migration to North America, the program explores Toyota's 17 pollinator gardens throughout its North American operations.
- Documentary about the ravages of war in the eastern Congo, involving such disparate groups as the Lords Resistance Army, the M23 militia, the Congolese Army and various militia groups, and how the fighting over the past 20+ years has brought misery and destruction to the local residents.
- While millions around the globe watched on television, thousands of people stood for hours waiting to catch just a brief glimpse of George H.W. Bush's funeral train and pay their last respects. Led by the George Bush 4141 locomotive, the 13-car train made the 2.5 hour, 70-mile journey from Spring to College Station, Texas, where the former president was laid to rest after a final funeral in Houston. This special train served as a tangible connection between the people and their former president. "Uniting America: The President's Final Journey" will show never-before-seen footage, and go behind the scenes with the Union Pacific employees who were instrumental in executing the long-planned and first presidential funeral train since Dwight Eisenhower's in 1969. While millions around the globe watched on television, thousands of people stood for hours waiting to catch just a brief glimpse of the funeral train and pay their last respects. Led by the George Bush 4141 locomotive, the 13-car train made the 2.5 hour, 70-mile journey from Spring to College Station, Texas, where the former president was laid to rest after a final funeral in Houston. This special train served as a tangible connection between the people and their former president. "When you are an American company that was created by Abraham Lincoln's pen, well, patriotism and presidents run deep," said Scott Moore, Union Pacific senior vice president and chief administrative officer. "We have flags on the sides of our locomotives and nearly 20 percent of our workforce is military veterans. It was our privilege to honor President Bush in a way that gave Americans from all walks of life the opportunity to do the same."
- Artist Ryan Gander explores Japan's highly sophisticated visual culture, expressed through images and symbols. He makes unexpected connections between everything from geisha to tattoo art.
- Meet the millionaires, mechanics and motors behind some of the world's most remarkable multi million-dollar car collections in the exotic Kingdom of Bahrain.
- Warriors of Ashongman traditional people from one of their forests in Accra have hunted and killed a leopard, and skinned it. Before or after they bury their deceased warriors who've been chiefs, they always hunt for wild animals in the forest.
- Welcome to Crash Course Organic Chemistry hosted by Deboki Chakravarti. We'll be tackling the notoriously complicated subject of organic chemistry, and hopefully having some fun along the way.