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Can one person really make a difference? In December 1997, Julia Hill climbed a thousand-year-old redwood tree vowing to not come down until it was saved from being clear-cut. She lived 180 feet off the ground for more than two years, galvanizing an already intense dispute over the fate of Northern...
Air date: 06/30/2000
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It is one man's obsessive pursuit of justice and dignity that led Jasmine Dellal into the Gypsies' hidden thousand-year-old culture. Charming and outspoken, Spokane resident Jimmy Marks defies widely held stereotypes-and his own people's code of secrecy-to unlock a Romani world in America and tell...
Air date: 08/29/2000
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Welcome to the American Midwest: land of corn, and visionary farmers like Milford Beeghly. Beginning in the 1930s, his company "Beeghly's Best Hybrids" worked to develop genetically enhanced corn. Beeghly's grandson, filmmaker Monteith McCollum, combines interviews, archival footage and animation...
Air date: 07/09/2002
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In the darkness outside of our cities, there are lights that we have forgotten how to see. Alice laments the loss of her view of the universe, one of her initial reasons for living in the country. The change in her environment is the result of "security lighting" for a large corporate storage...
Air date: 08/21/2007
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Enter into the obsessive and fascinating world of anagrams with Cory Calhoun, who took the first three lines of Hamlet's "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy and made them into what's been called the "world's greatest anagram." This film received a 2009 Emmy nomination for New Approaches to News...
Air date: 02/29/2008
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