History finally gets rewritten as descendants of the largest slave-trading family in early America face their past, and present, as they explore their violent heritage across oceans and continents.
Aired: Jun 19, 2007How do you measure the distance from an African village to an American city? ...
2. The Chances of the World Changing
Aired: Jun 26, 2007If the refugee is today’s tragic icon of a war-torn world, then Sierra Leone’...
Aired: Jul 3, 2007What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? In April 200...
Aired: Jul 10, 2007Revolution ’67 is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to fo...
Aired: Jul 17, 2007A decade ago, after an epiphany at a New York restaurant, Richard Ogust began...
Aired: Jul 24, 2007In the 1990s, at the height of the prison-building boom, a prison opened in r...
Aired: Jul 31, 2007Thirty years after making a celebrated student short about a four-year-old ch...
Aired: Aug 21, 2007In Arctic Son, the clash of tradition and modernity puts a Native father and...
Aired: Aug 28, 2007Nestled below the rugged peaks of the Northern Rockies in Montana—as iconic a...
Aired: Sep 4, 2007In 1964, to explore the adage "Give me a child until he is seven and I will g...
11. Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Aired: Sep 11, 2007How far would you go to stop a war? The Camden 28 recalls a 1971 raid on a Ca...
12. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Aired: Sep 18, 2007History finally gets rewritten as descendants of the largest slave-trading fa...
Aired: Oct 9, 2007In one of documentary cinema’s more remarkable enterprises, 49 Up makes its ...
14. Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Aired: Dec 12, 2007Tony Kushner, whose epochal Angels in America won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony ...
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