This documentary explores Haiti’s complex past and present through the music of the country’s oldest and best-known band and the memories of its founder and leader, Ulric Pierre-Louis. As Haiti disintegrates around them, the three generations of musicians who make up Septentrional struggle to persevere and prevent this national treasure from being lost forever.
Watch Independent Lens Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 10pm.
THE LORD IS NOT ON TRIAL HERE TODAY tells the compelling personal story behind one of the most important First Amendment cases in U.S. Supreme Court history, the case that set the foundation for the separation of church and state in public schools. The film recounts what Vashti McCollum later described as “three years of headlines, headaches and hatred,” but which eventually led to a decision that still resonates in the church-state conflicts of today, 60-plus years after the original decision in McCollum vs. Board of Education. David Ogden Stiers narrates.
Watch Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 9pm.
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AMERICA REVEALED takes viewers on a four-hour journey high above the American landscape to reveal the country as never seen before.
Technology expert and communications attorney Yul Kwon (winner of “Survivor: Cook Islands”) hosts this exciting new PBS series that travels through time, space and systems to reveal a nation of interdependent and intricately interwoven networks that feed and power the nation, produce millions of goods, transport people great distances and still come together to make America work. These networks all rely on vast, complex and precisely calibrated systems, yet most Americans have never had the chance to observe or understand them. Until now.
On This Episode:
Over the past century an American industrial revolution has given rise to the biggest, most productive food machine the world has ever known. Join host Yul Kwon to learn how this machine feeds nearly 300 million Americans every day. Discover engineering marvels created by putting nature to work, and consider the toll our insatiable appetites take on our health and environment. Embark with Kwon on a trip that begins with a pizza delivery route in New York City, then goes across the country to California’s Central Valley, where nearly 50 percent of America’s fruits, nuts and vegetables are grown, and into the heartland for an aerial look at our farmlands. Meet the men and women who keep us fed — everyone from industrial to urban farmers, crop-dusting pilots to long-distance bee truckers, modern-day cowboys to the pizza deliveryman.
This one-hour film focuses on individuals who decided to start life all over again in middle-age – re-shaping their work, their sense of purpose, their relationships, even their personality. Why and how did they take this step? In the final story, a personal decision helps to re-define the future of the Chickasaw Nation.
Watch Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 2 & 8pm on KCPT2.
