Season 15

Season 15

2002-07-09
13 Episodes

Episodes

Hybrid

1. Hybrid

2002-07-09

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Milford Beeghly discusses his company Beeghly's Best Hybrids.

Refrigerator Mothers

2. Refrigerator Mothers

2002-07-16

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It is America of the 1950s and 1960s, when a woman's most important contribution to society is generally considered to be her ability to raise happy, well-adjusted children. But for the mother whose child is diagnosed with autism, her life's purpose will soon become a twisted nightmare. Looking for help and support, she encounters instead a medical establishment that pins the blame for her child's bizarre behaviors on her supposedly frigid and detached mothering. Along with a heartbreaking label for her child, she receives a devastating label of her own. She is a "refrigerator mother". Refrigerator Mothers paints an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of professionally promoted "mother blame."

Fenceline: A Company Town Divided

3. Fenceline: A Company Town Divided

2002-07-23

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How black and white populations in Norco, La., have responded to links between a refinery's activities and people's illnesses.

Sweet Old Song

4. Sweet Old Song

2002-07-30

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Sweet Old Song is a 2002 documentary film directed by Leah Mahan.

Mai's America

5. Mai's America

2002-08-06

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A high school girl leaves Hanoi and comes to Mississippi.

Senorita Extraviada

6. Senorita Extraviada

2002-08-20

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Circumstances surrounding the discovery of the remains of more than 200 murdered girls in the desert around Juarez, Mexico.

Escuela

7. Escuela

2002-08-27

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A Mexican-American migrant teenager's freshman year in high school and how she handled work, education and family life.

Afghanistan 1380

8. Afghanistan 1380

2002-09-10

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Surgeon Gino Strada and coordinator Kate Rowlands try to provide medical and humanitarian support to civilian victims of war in Afghanistan. (Dari, Italian and English with English subtitles)

Boomtown

9. Boomtown

2002-07-02

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No overview available.

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

11. Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

2003-01-20

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Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin is a 2003 documentary film written by Marc Weiss and directed by Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer.

Two Towns of Jasper

12. Two Towns of Jasper

2023-01-22

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Two film crews document the aftermath of the murder of a black man by three white men in 1998 and the trials of the men charged with the crime.

Flag Wars

13. Flag Wars

2003-06-17

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A black community in Columbus, Ohio, struggles with cultural and legal conflicts while experiencing urban renewal.

Larry v. Lockney

14. Larry v. Lockney

2003-07-01

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A farmer in Lockney, Texas, makes headlines after he refuses the school permission to test his son for drugs during random testing.