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AMERICAN MASTERS
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#306: RIVERA IN AMERICA (CC)
Considered the greatest Mexican painter of the 20th century, Diego Rivera continues to have a profound effect on the international art world. As a young man, he encountered the works of Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir and Matisse in Paris. But it was the Renaissance frescoes in Italy that fueled his vision of a new art form that could reach and celebrate the working man. He returned to Mexico, and, ultimately, propelled the fusion of fresco with modern art and architecture. The program examines Rivera's personal story -- from his stormy love affair with fellow painter, Frida Kahlo, to his controversial commissions for Henry Ford and the Rockefellers in the States.
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#2004: JOHN JAMES AUDUBON: DRAWN FROM NATURE (CC)
In a dramatic, contradictory story, the man who is synonymous with the American wilderness and conservation movement emerges as the man who probably killed more birds than anyone else in history. Energetic, gifted and vain, Audubon was self-taught and self-made, the illegitimate son of a French sea captain and Haitian servant girl. From the Caribbean and the French countryside, he eventually settled in the American south at age 19 and, after failed business efforts and bankruptcy, pursued his true passion -- finding, shooting and drawing birds -- ultimately realizing his dream of publishing "The Birds of America," the monumental collection of 435 life-size prints, now each fetching more than $100,000 at auction. The National Audubon Society has more than a half-million members today and his legacy is ever relevant.
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10-11 p.m. Tuesday, September 22, #306
2-3 a.m. Wednesday, September 23, #306
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8-9 p.m. Sunday, October 4, #2004
1-2 a.m. Monday, October 5, #2004
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GREAT LODGES OF THE NATIONAL PARKS
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 Episode #103: GLACIER LODGES (CC)
This episode features three lodges and a smaller mountain chalet in Glacier National Park, high in the mountains of northwestern Montana. Glacier Park Lodge, with its massive three-story atrium, is modeled after early Christian basilicas in Rome. Lake McDonald Lodge, smaller and more intimate, is like a rustic hunting lodge nestled on the edge of a deep-blue glacial lake. The most Alpine of the park's lodges, Many Glacier Lodge, is perched in a glacial cirque immediately below three glaciers and two walls of jagged rock. Newly re-opened after years of renovation, the elaborate hiking huts at Sperry Chalet reward horseback riders or hardy trekkers at the end of daylong backcountry hikes.
 Episode #201: DEATH VALLEY, THE NORTHWEST, AND HAWAII (CC)
This two-part program is a fascinating tour of America's national parks and their charming historic lodges. The episodes take viewers to the edge of a volcano in Hawaii, to the Alaskan wilderness, to the rugged mountain peaks and pristine lakes of the Rockies, to Grand Teton, to the Olympic peninsula and to an oasis of hospitality in California's Death Valley. From familiar rustic "parkitecture" to the modern International Style, from a grand Spanish Revival resort to lumbered lake lodges and cabins in the mountains, GREAT LODGES tells the stories behind these national treasures and showcases the many ways to enjoy the awe-inspiring beauty of America's national parks. This episode takes viewers to the surreal desert landscape of Death Valley and the Furnace Creek Inn, a historic four-diamond hotel that rises from the red rock like a shimmering oasis. In the lush Pacific Northwest, Lake Quinault Lodge nestles in the heart of the Olympic National Forest, delighting guests with such old-fashioned pleasures as a hike in the woods or a game of chess by the fire. It's a step back in time at Wallowa Lake Lodge, where every item has been lovingly restored to its original 1920s condition. Finally, visitors can pay their respects to Pele the goddess of fire at the historic Volcano House in Hawaii's thrilling Volcanoes National Park.
 Episode #202: ROUGHING IT IN STYLE IN ALASKA AND THE ROCKIES (CC)
Rocky Mountain National Park is just out your back door at the grand and graceful Stanley Hotel, which may look familiar to fans of Stephen King's The Shining. At Jackson Lake Lodge, enjoy the magnificent views personally selected by John D. and Laurence Rockefeller when they built this modern masterpiece at the foot of Grand Teton. Here you can breakfast like a cowboy on an incredible early morning mountain trail ride. Then it's on to Alaska, where rivers of ice march into the ocean and bear fish from the water's edge at Glacier Bay Lodge, and where North America's highest peak greets you each day in your cozy cabin at the wild and remote Camp Denali.
 Episode #104: PACIFIC NORTHWEST LODGES (CC)
This episode showcases the spectacular lodges in Washington and Oregon. Located in Mount Rainier National Park, the magnificent Paradise Inn, standing at tree line on a massive white volcanic cone, vies for attention with Mount Rainier itself. Timberline Lodge on Oregon's Mount Hood is perhaps the ultimate expression of 1930s New Deal cultural and artistic idealism. Also featured are the Oregon Caves Chateau at Oregon Caves National Monument and the newly restructured Crater Lake Lodge at Crater Lake National Park.
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1-2 a.m. & 4-5 a.m. Friday, September 18, #103
2-3 a.m. Saturday, September 19, #103
7-8 p.m. Wednesday, September 23, #201
2-3 a.m. Thursday, September 24, #201
3-4 a.m. Friday, September 25, #201
3-4 p.m. Sunday, September 27, #201
8-9 p.m. Wednesday, September 23, #202
1-2 a.m. & 4-5 a.m. Thursday, September 24, #202
4-5 a.m. Friday, September 25, #202
4-5 p.m. Sunday, September 27, #202
1-2 a.m. Friday, September 25, #104
2-3 p.m. Saturday, September 26, #104 |
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HISTORY DETECTIVES
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Episode #609: SHIPWRECK CANNONS/CONNECTICUT FARMHOUSE/KAHLIL GIBRAN PAINTING (CC)
Shipwreck Cannons - Beachcombers on the Oregon Coast spotted what looked like large, rusty rocks sticking out of the sand. The state of Oregon, which has recovered the encrusted objects, believes they house priceless artifacts: cannons from the 1846 shipwreck of the USS Shark.
Connecticut Farmhouse - A resident of rural East Haddam, Connecticut, owns an old house that he believes has a story to tell. Between 1891 and 1906, the farm changed hands six times, and the names of the residents appear to be mostly Eastern European.
Kahlil Gibran Painting - A contributor from Overland Park, Kansas, has an unsigned oil portrait of his grandfather, Najib Musa Diab, which he believes was painted by the Lebanese-American poet Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet.
Episode #701: PSYCHOPHONE/WAR DOG LETTER/PANCHO VILLA VATCH FOB (CC)
PsychoPhone - A couple in Cincinnati acquired a peculiar phonograph at an antiques auction. The machine, labeled "PsychoPhone," included four grooved wax cylinders. The contributors think Thomas Edison invented the PsychoPhone to record messages from the afterlife.
War Dog Letter - A World War II collector from Kansas City, Kansas, has a cryptic letter from a soldier to another military man. The soldier explains that military investigators have questioned him about a man named Prestre - specifically about his character and qualifications as a dog trainer.
Pancho Villa Watch Fob - Just before he died, a man gave his neighbors a most unusual gift: a watch fob commemorating Francisco "Pancho" Villa's murderous raid on the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. The man says he was a boy when the raid occurred in 1916, and he and his parents survived by hiding under a train car.
Episode #707: HINDENBURG ARTIFACT/JOHN ADAMS BOOK/BIRTHPLACE OF HIP HOP (CC)
Hindenburg Artifact - Hoboken, New Jersey, man has a palm-sized, army-green metal box that looks like an instrument panel. Beneath a shattered plastic covering is a sliding, numbered scale; knobs on each end move a lever across the scale. German writing indicates the country of origin. Might this instrument have been recovered from the crash site of the Hindenburg in Lakehurst, New Jersey?
John Adams Book - A woman in Littleton, New Hampshire, inherited her husband's aunt's belongings, which include a curious late-18th-century book titled Trials of Patriots. It contains what appears to be President John Adams' signature in three places, and includes an inscription, "Charles Adams from His Father, 1794."
Birthplace of Hip Hop - A hip-hop enthusiast from New York City has always heard that 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx is the birthplace of hip-hop.
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5-6 p.m. Sunday, September 20, #609
8-9 p.m. Monday, September 21, #701
3-4 a.m. Tuesday, September 22, #701
5-6 p.m. Sunday, September 27, #702 |
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KILLER STRESS: A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL
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 Stress. It's always been there to save our lives. It's what made us run from predators and enabled us to take down prey. But today, humans are turning on that same stress response to deal with 30-year mortgages, difficult bosses, teenagers and traffic jams. Some of us are wallowing in corrosive hormones; for the first time, scientists can reveal just how measurable and dangerous that exposure can be. MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipient and Stanford University neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky and National Geographic search for answers to why stress seems to be killing us. (CC)
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8-9 p.m., Tuesday, September 22
3-4 a.m. Wednesday, September 23 |
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THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA
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#101: THE SCRIPTURE OF NATURE (1851-1890)(CC)
The astonishing beauty of Yosemite Valley and the geyser wonderland of Yellowstone give birth to the radical idea of creating national parks for the enjoyment of everyone; John Muir becomes their eloquent defender.
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#102: THE LAST REFUGE (1890-1915) (CC)
A young president, Theodore Roosevelt, becomes one of the national parks' greatest champions; in Yellowstone, a magnificent species is rescued from extinction; and in Yosemite, John Muir fights the battle of his life to save a beautiful valley.
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#103: THE EMPIRE OF GRANDEUR (1915-1919) (CC)
In John Muir's absence, a new leader steps forward on behalf of America's remaining pristine places; a new federal agency is created to protect the parks; and in Arizona, a fight breaks out over the fate of the grandest canyon on earth.
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#104: GOING HOME (1920-1933) (CC)
As America embraces the automobile, a Nebraska housewife searches for peace and inspiration in park after park, while a honeymoon couple seeks fame and adventure in the Grand Canyon; and the future of the Great Smoky Mountains becomes caught in a race with the lumbermen's saws.
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#105: GREAT NATURE (1933-1945) (CC)
In the midst of an economic catastrophe and then a world war, the national parks provide a source of much-needed jobs and then much-needed peace; the park idea changes to include new places and new ways of thinking; and in Wyoming, battle lines are drawn along the front of the Teton Range.
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#106: GOING HOME (1920-1933) (CC)
As America embraces the automobile, a Nebraska housewife searches for peace and inspiration in park after park, while a honeymoon couple seeks fame and adventure in the Grand Canyon; and the future of the Great Smoky Mountains becomes caught in a race with the lumbermen's saws.
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7-9 p.m. & 9-11 p.m. Sunday, September 27, #101
1-3 a.m. & 3-5 a.m. Monday, September 28, #101
2-4 p.m. Sunday, October 4, #101
7-9:30 p.m. & 9:30- midnidght, Monday, September 28, #102
12:30-3 a.m. & 3-5:30 a.m. Tuesday, September 29, #102
2-4:30 p.m. Sunday, October 11, #102
7-9 p.m. & 9-11 p.m. Tuesday, September 29, #103
1-3 a.m. & 3-5 a.m Wednesday, September 30, #103
2-4 p.m. Sunday, October 18, #103
7-9 p.m. & 9-11 p.m. Wednesday, September 30, #104
1-3 a.m. & 3-5 a.m. Thursday, October 1, #104
2-4 p.m. Sunday, October 25, #104
7-9 p.m. & 9-11 p.m. Thursday, October 1, #105
1-3 a.m. & 3-5 a.m. Friday, October 2, #105
2-4 p.m. Sunday, November 1, #105
7-9 p.m. & 9-11 p.m. Friday, October 2, #106
1-3 a.m. & 3-5 a.m. Saturday, October 3, #106
2-4 p.m. Sunday, November 8, #106
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NATURE
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NATURE Online, the award-winning Web companion to PBS' broadcast series is now offering educators more than 40 free downloadable video segments that can be shared with students and colleagues in any kind of free, educational presentation. NATURE's video segments, ranging in length from approximately 30 seconds to 5 minutes, are incorporated into standards based lesson plans. The segments can be downloaded to personal computers or compatible viewing devices; usage is restricted to the United States only. In addition to video segments, there are hundreds of still images that are shareable, printable and saveable.
For more information, including accompanying NATURE's teachers' guides, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/
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#2203: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE GRIZZLY (CC) [content flag]
Once on the edge of extinction, grizzlies have made a remarkable recovery. But this fierce predator is no longer content foraging in the back country. Today, bears are everywhere. And everyone has something to say about it. This program documents the return of the grizzly as a conservation success story that comes with a price.
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#2204: VIOLENT HAWAII (CC) [content flag]
Hawaii's breathtaking beauty was forged in fire, created by the awesome power of volcanoes on land and in the sea, by earthquakes, and tsunamis, natural wonders that continue to shape the islands today. Shot in high definition by a team of award-winning filmmakers who live on the islands, this spectacular film features volcanic eruptions, rivers of molten lava, monster waves, humpback whales, and perhaps most surprising of all, snow.
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#2406: SUPERSIZE CROCS (CC) [content flag]
Tall tales of giant man-eating crocodiles inhabit a world between fact and fiction. The truth is that some crocodile species have been known to exceed 20 feet, such as Nile crocs, American crocs and the Asian-Pacific saltwater croc, which has been reported up to even 23 feet. Hosted by world-renowned herpetologist Romulus Whitaker, the program attempts to discover the last of these leviathans.
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2-3 a.m. Sunday, September 20, #2203
7-8 p.m. Sunday, September 20, #2204
2-3 a.m. Monday, September 21, #2204
2-3 a.m. Sunday, September 27, #2204
7-8 p.m. Sunday, October 4, #2406
2-3 a.m. Monday, October 5, #2406
2-3 a.m. Sunday, October 11, #2406 |
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NOVA
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#3511: ARCTIC DINOSAURS (CC)
How is it that dinosaurs managed to survive and even thrive in the gloom of the dark and frigid polar regions? This is one of today's most intriguing, little-known enigmas in paleontology. Now, a unique field expedition, covered exclusively by NOVA, will set out for Alaska's North Slope to defrost a jackpot of new fossil clues. With the help of stunning CGI, NOVA will breathe life into the polar dinosaurs' lives and environment in vivid detail. The team of researchers will combine extreme engineering and perilous fossil hunting, including digging a tunnel into the permafrost in order to collect the dinosaur bones. With Alaska's spectacular wilderness as a backdrop, this program will reveal a prehistoric lost world for the first time on television.
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#3413: THE GHOST IN YOUR GENES (CC)
In a provocative report from the frontiers of biology, NOVA explores new findings that call into question the long-held belief that all inherited traits are passed on by our genes. The fast-growing field of epigenetics investigates hidden influences that could affect not only our health today but that of our descendants far into the future. It now seems that our environment makes small chemical changes to our DNA without affecting the gene's overall makeup. To put it another way, epigenetics adds to our DNA another layer that acts as a control system of "switches." Experiential factors such as nutrition or stress may trigger these switches and turn genes on or off. These subtle changes can then be "remembered" and passed on from generation to generation, altering inherited traits. This means the lives of our grandparents - the air they breathed, the food they ate, even the things they saw - could have directly affected us, and that what we do could, in turn, affect our grandchildren. NOVA explores this fascinating new idea, interviewing top scientists in the field and following what could be a paradigm shift in the way we think about inheritance and genes.
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#3415: SPUTNIK DECLASSIFIED (CC)
The world changed on October 4, 1957, when the U.S. public heard the shocking news that the Soviet Union had successfully launched the first satellite, Sputnik I. Why didn't the U.S. beat the Soviets in this first crucial round of the space race? NOVA reveals an astonishing behind-the-scenes story of the politics and personalities that collided over the earliest efforts to get America into space long before the founding of NASA. Anticommunist witch-hunts drove some of the nation's most talented rocketry pioneers out of the country even as we welcomed Wernher von Braun and his former Nazi colleagues. With help from Walt Disney, von Braun's vision of future space travel swiftly captivated U.S. TV watchers. But even as he became the first media star of the space age, von Braun's attempts to build space probes were hobbled by inter-service rivalries. NOVA details the previously untold story of the technological and political missteps that made the U.S. lose out to the Soviets' bleeping electronic basketball.
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7-8 p.m. Tuesday, September 15, #3511
4-5 a.m. Thursday, September 17, #3511
3-4 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. Sunday, September 20, #3511
7-8 p.m. Tuesday, September 22, #3413
1-2 & 4-5 a.m. Wednesday, September 23, #3413
6-7 p.m. Sunday, September 27, #3413
6-7 p.m. Sunday, October 4, #3415 |
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PBS SPECIAL REPORT ON HEALTH CARE REFORM
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 "PBS Special Report on Health Care Reform" is an unprecedented collaboration among PBS public affairs producers. Anchors, reporters and producers from "NOW on PBS," "Tavis Smiley" and "Nightly Business Report" will work together to provide a seamless 90-minute show that examines the urgent topic of health care reform. Correspondents and producers from all shows will collaborate to provide analysis, discussion, insight and engagement with the proposal to provide universal health care in the U.S. The program will open with the latest on the issue -- what's happening in Congress and the state of play between supporters and opponents of reform. But the bulk of the show will look in-depth at issues critical to success or failure of the initiative. "NOW on PBS" will look at the issue of how reform may change the way we live. We'll take a close look at how portability of health care coverage might change the job sphere. And how would life change for the "sandwich" generation -- boomers who may have their own health care coverage, but are also responsible for aging parents and for grown children? "Nightly Business Report" will examine the costs and controversies of employer-provided healthcare and the new coverage requirements many companies are adopting as a means of controlling health care. "Tavis Smiley" will investigate the issue of childhood obesity, particularly within communities of color. This reporting would frame the debate between the current "sickness" model of care and the proposed "wellness" model, with new incentives for families, caregivers and the medical profession to keep people healthy. How would this work, and it is possible to change the behavior of hundreds of millions of Americans -- to eat healthier food, exercise more and live healthier lives? (CC)
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8-9:30 p.m. Thursday, September 24
3-4:30 a.m. & 1-2:30 p.m. Sunday, September 27
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P.O.V.
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#2211: THE PRINCIPAL STORY (CC)
This program tells two stories, painting a dramatic portrait of the challenges facing America's public schools and of the great difference a dedicated principal can make. Tresa Dunbar is a second-year principal at Chicago's Nash Elementary, where 98% of students come from low- income families; in Springfield, Illinois, Kerry Purcell has led Harvard Park Elementary, with similar demographics, for six years. The producers followed both women over the course of a school year, discovering each one's unique style yet similar passions. "The Principal Story" takes viewers along for an emotional ride that reveals what effective educational leadership looks like in the 21st century.
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#2212: BRONX PRINCESS (CC)
Rocky Otoo is the Bronx-bred teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents, and she's no pushover. She is a sassy high- achiever bound for college. With freedom in sight, Rocky rebels against her mother's rules. When their relationship reaches a breaking point, Rocky flees to her father, a chief in Ghana. What follows is captured in this tumultuous coming-of-age story set in a homeland both familiar and strange. Her precocious -- and very American ideas of a successful, independent life conflict with her father's traditional African values. Reconciling her dual legacies becomes an unexpected chapter in this unforgettable young woman's education. "Bronx Princess" will be shown with two short films about family and identity. In "Jennifer," filmmaker Stewart Copeland explores his relationship with his late mother and the distant spaces between memory and history, longing and loss. Annie P. Waldman's "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away" looks at three high-school students who have returned to New Orleans on their own after Hurricane Katrina in order to graduate with their friends.
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#2107: JOHNNY CASH: THE MAN, HIS WORLD, HIS MUSIC (CC)
In this classic 1969 documentary, Johnny Cash is captured at his peak -- the first of many in a looming roller-coaster career. Fresh on the heels of his Folsom Prison album, Cash reveals the dark intensity and raw talent that made him a country music star and cultural icon. Director Robert Elfstrom got closer than any other filmmaker to Cash, who is seen performing with his new bride June Carter Cash, in a rare duet with Bob Dylan, and behind the scenes with friends, family and aspiring young musicians. "Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music" paints a portrait that endures beyond the singer's 2003 death.
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4-5 a.m. Tuesday, September 20, #2211
9-10 p.m. Tuesday, September 22, #2212
11 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Saturday, October 3, #2107
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WIDE ANGLE
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#808: TIME FOR SCHOOL 3 - PART 2 (CC)
WIDE ANGLE's unprecedented, award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School, returns in 2009 with visits to seven classrooms in seven countries to offer a glimpse into the lives of seven extraordinary children who are struggling to get what nearly all American kids take for granted: a basic education. We started filming in 2002, watching as kids first entered school in Afghanistan, Benin, Brazil, India, Japan, Kenya and Romania, many despite great odds. Several years later, in 2006, we returned to film an update-and now, three years later, we travel to check in on our young teenagers who are making the precarious transition to middle school. Among the highlights: in Afghanistan we reunite with 16-year-old Shugufa, who resolutely remains in school despite the Taliban's recent acid attacks on young women her age. "If they continue attacking schools, our country won't progress. Without an education you can't get anywhere," says Shufuga, whose own education was delayed when her family lived in a refugee camp in Pakistan during years when the Taliban ruled her country. We also visit the biggest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, where 15-year-old Joab's mother has died and his father has abandoned the family. We watch as, incredibly, Joab manages to stay at the top of his class while also raising and feeding his two younger siblings. And in the blazing desert of Rajasthan, India, we encounter Neeraj, 15, only to learn that she has been unable to realize her dream of making it to 10th grade: since our last visit her night school has closed, and she now helps support her family by grazing the livestock full-time while her brothers continue their education. These children's stories put a human face on the shocking fact that more than a hundred million children are currently out of school; of these, two thirds are girls. One in four children in developing countries does not complete five years of basic education, and there are nearly one billion illiterate adults - one-sixth of the world's people. WIDE ANGLE plans to continue revisiting all the children, and their peers and families, through 2015, the year they should graduate - and, not coincidentally, the UN's target date for achieving universal education, a Millennium Development goal endorsed by all 191 members of the United Nations. While each child in Time for School 3 has a unique story, taken together their lives tell an epic tale, shedding light on one of the most urgent and under-reported stories of our time.
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9-10 p.m. Wednesday, September 9, #808
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