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Judy Garland: By Myself

One of the most photographed faces ever to come out of Hollywood. Watch American Masters Friday, June 22, 2012 at 9pm.

Judy Garland had one of the most photographed faces ever to come out of Hollywood. She also had one of the most frequently recorded voices of the last century. She is as iconic as she is misunderstood. There were her problems, to be sure, but the proof is in the performances, from The Wizard of Oz to the Palladium, from the Oscars to the Grammies. With singular entrée to the MGM library, including vaulted screen tests and rehearsal footage, this film is wrapped in Garland’s voice, telling her story in her own words. So many outsiders have tried to tell this story and so many friends and family have weighed in — now Judy gets center stage, all to herself. This is her ultimate comeback.

Watch American Masters Friday, June 22, 2012 at 9pm.

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My Reincarnation

Witness the 20-year epic story of exiled Tibetan Buddhist master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. Watch P.O.V. Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 9:30pm.

Filmed over 20 years by acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox, “My Reincarnation” chronicles the epic story of exiled Tibetan Buddhist master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and his Western-born son, Yeshi. As Norbu rises as a teacher in the West, Yeshi, recognized from birth as the reincarnation of a famed Buddhist master, breaks away to embrace the modern world. Can the father convince his son to keep the family’s spiritual legacy alive? With intimate access to both the family and the Dalai Lama, Fox distills a decades-long drama into a universal story about love, transformation and destiny.

Watch P.O.V. Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 9:30pm.

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Putting Down Roots

Watch an encore broadcast of this extraordinary documentary Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 8:30pm.

“Putting Down Roots: Roxy Paine’s Ferment” shows public television viewers the amazing process which brought Kansas City its first dendroid. That’s the term Paine uses to describe his monumental metal tree‐like sculptures, which now populate the grounds of top tier museums and galleries around the world.

KCPT’s Randy Mason followed Paine’s progress, first at his snowy upstate New York studio, and a few months later, onto the Nelson’s front yard—to witness what Friedman calls an exciting piece of “outdoor theatre.” In just six days, Roxy and his crew rolled in with trucks, cranes, lifts, and torches and left behind “a chunk” of the artist’s soul.

Watch an encore broadcast of this extraordinary documentary Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 8:30pm.

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FRONTLINE: Digital Nation

Watch an encore presentation Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 9pm.

Over a single generation, the web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn, and connect in ways that we’re only beginning to understand. FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin (“Growing Up Online”) teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital age, Douglas Rushkoff (“The Persuaders,” “Merchants of Cool”), to continue to explore life on the virtual frontier. The film is the product of a unique collaboration with visitors to the “Digital Nation” website, who for a year were able to react to the work in progress and post their own stories online. Dretzin and her team report from the front lines of digital culture — from love affairs blossoming in virtual worlds to the thoroughly wired classrooms of the future to military bases where the Air Force is fighting a new form of digital warfare. Along the way, they begin to map the critical ways that technology is transforming us, and what we may be learning about ourselves in the process.

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