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Season 19 Episode 5: Al Otro Lado: To the Other Side

32 SeasonsJul 25, 2006NR1h8

Global Recordings Network (GRN),founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages, and aims to record in every language on earth. They distribute the recordings, along with ultra-low-tech hand-wind players, in isolated regions and among displaced migrant workers. The Bible stories played by the missionaries are sometimes the first encounter community members have had with recorded sound, and, even more frequently, the first time they have he...

Season 19 Episodes:

Episode 1 Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball

1. Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball

Aired: Jun 27, 2006

A story of love, revolution and betrayal, No More Tears Sister explores the p...

Episode 2 Tintin and I

2. Tintin and I

Aired: Jul 4, 2006

In Japan, baseball is not a pastime — it's a national obsession. And for many...

Episode 3 The Fall of Fujimori

3. The Fall of Fujimori

Aired: Jul 11, 2006

Why do the comic-strip Adventures of Tintin, about an intrepid boy reporter, ...

Episode 4 The Tailenders

4. The Tailenders

Aired: Jul 18, 2006

Global Recordings Network, a Christian organization, has recorded Bible stori...

Episode 5 Al Otro Lado: To the Other Side

5. Al Otro Lado: To the Other Side

Aired: Jul 25, 2006

Global Recordings Network (GRN),founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced...

Episode 6 Lomax the Songhunter

6. Lomax the Songhunter

Aired: Aug 1, 2006

The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music—captured in the performances of ...

Episode 7 Waging a Living

7. Waging a Living

Aired: Aug 22, 2006

Alan Lomax was "the song hunter." He devoted his life to recording the world'...

Episode 8 The Boys of Baraka

8. The Boys of Baraka

Aired: Aug 29, 2006

The term "working poor" should be an oxymoron. If you work full time, you sho...

Episode 9 Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

9. Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

Aired: Sep 12, 2006

Devon, Montrey, Richard, and Romesh are just at that age — 12 and 13 years ol...

Episode 10 No Bigger Than a Minute

10. No Bigger Than a Minute

Aired: Sep 19, 2006

In the wake of his stepfather’s death, Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journ...

Episode 11 Maquilapolis: City of Factories

11. Maquilapolis: City of Factories

Aired: Oct 3, 2006

"My name is Steven, and I am a dwarf..." So begins No Bigger than a Minute, a...

Episode 12 My Country, My Country

12. My Country, My Country

Aired: Oct 10, 2006

The director follows a Sunni doctor as he prepares to run for the early 2005 ...

Episode 13 Taylor

Aired: Oct 24, 2006

My Country, My Country is a 2006 documentary film about Iraq under U.S. occup...

Episode 14 Rain in a Dry Land

14. Rain in a Dry Land

Aired: Jul 11, 2006

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Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Genres:Documentary