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POV: Armadillo

Follows the lives of the young soldiers fighting the Taliban. Watch Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 9pm.

In 2009, Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree accompanied a platoon of Danish soldiers to Armadillo, a combat operations base in southern Afghanistan. For six months, often while under fire, they captured the lives of the young soldiers fighting the Taliban in a hostile and confusing environment, where official rhetoric about helping civilians too often met the unforgiving reality of being a foreign occupier. Winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prix at Cannes, “Armadillo” is one of the most dramatic and candid accounts of combat to come out of Afghanistan.

POV: Armadillo
Watch Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 9pm.

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Earth: The Operators’ Manual

The interconnected stories of humans and fossil fuels. Watch Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 9pm.

An operators’ manual helps keep your car or computer running at peak performance. Earth science can do the same for the planet. In EARTH: THE OPERATORS’ MANUAL join geologist Richard Alley as he travels the world, from New Zealand to China, Brazil, Spain and Morocco with stops in New Orleans, Texas and military bases in California. This accurate, understandable and upbeat report on the interconnected stories of humans and fossil fuels, Earth’s climate history and our future energy options will leave you amazed at the beauty and bounty of the planet, inspired by human ingenuity, and optimistic about the future.

Watch Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 9pm.

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Eden at the End of the World

The last great wilderness of its kind. Watch Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 7pm.

It is the last great wilderness of its kind, a rare and precious haven for some of Earth’s most indestructible creatures. Covering more than half-a-million square miles of Chile and Argentina, this wild place is known as Patagonia. At its crown tip is a grand island, Tierra del Fuego, a land as harsh as it is beautiful. This film tracks several species that call this extreme environment home. But the guanaco, condor and Magellanic penguin who share this spectacular place with orcas, parrots and elephant seals are facing increasing pressure from humans. The program details how new conservation models may save them and preserve the wildness at the bottom of the world. Jeremy Irons narrates.

Eden at the End of the World
Watch Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 7pm.

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Imagine KC: Connected Corridors

Strategies to connect our region's most vibrant places along key arterial streets and corridors. Watch Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 7:30pm.

The August 18 episode of Imagine KC will look at strategies to connect our region’s most vibrant places along key arterial streets and corridors. A regional corridor strategy is in the works that will increase transportation choices to allow residents, workers and shoppers to more easily travel around the region by foot, bike and transit. Stories in this episode will look at plans and work underway to connect priority corridors to form the backbone of a regional system and how some of our region’s most valued places will benefit from improvements and revitalization along these routes.

It might be hard for some to “imagine” what all these changes will look like in local communities, so for this episode we traveled to another region for an up-close look at how implementing similar corridor strategies actually transformed communities into more vibrant places. Viewers will also get a guided “tour” of the six corridors in the Kansas City region that will soon experience their own transformations.

Learn more: imaginekc.org

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