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AFTER THE FALL Premieres June 22, 2008 on PBS WORLD Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, AFTER THE FALL searches for traces of this monolith within the people who lived in its shadow. Learn more >> |
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GREAT WALL ACROSS THE YANGTZE Premieres June 29, 2008 on PBS WORLD In the heart of China engineers are constructing the world's largest dam across the legendary Yangtze River. Critics fear the dam will be a social and environmental disaster. Learn more >> |
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DISCOVERING DOMINGA Premieres July 6, 2008 on PBS WORLD A young mother living in Iowa discovers she is a survivor of one of the most egregious massacres in Guatemala's 36-year civil war, forcing her to confront her identity and the truth about her past. Learn more >> |
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LOVE INVENTORY Premieres July 13, 2008 on PBS WORLD Enlisting his four reluctant siblings, an Israeli filmmaker goes looking for a missing person from their past, uncovering a secret that changes their family forever. Learn more >> |
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ABC COLOMBIA Premieres July 20, 2008 on PBS WORLD Through the eyes of children, ABC COLOMBIA explores the realities that nurture and perpetuate violence in a rural community controlled by paramilitary forces. Learn more >> |
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DAUGHTER FROM DANANG Premieres July 27, 2008 on PBS WORLD A Vietnamese mother and her Amerasian daughter are joyously reunited after 22 years, but their illusions are quickly shattered when the reality of cultural differences and years of separation sets in. Learn more >> |
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GREENER GRASS: Cuba, Baseball and the United States Premieres August 3, 2008 on PBS WORLD Set against the backdrop of the choppy history of U.S.-Cuban relations, GREENER GRASS documents how baseball has operated as both bridge and barrier between the two lands. Learn more >> |
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A LION'S TRAIL Premieres August 10, 2008 on PBS WORLD A LION'S TRAIL celebrates the timeless power of Africa's most famous song, "Mbube" — inspiration for the pop classic "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" — written by an illiterate Zulu musician who barely received pennies for his efforts. Learn more >> |
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THE FLUTE PLAYER Premieres August 17, 2008 on PBS WORLD After surviving Cambodia's Killing Fields as a boy musician who entertained his captors, Arn Chorn Pond strives to heal the deep scars of his past by reviving Cambodia's traditional music. Learn more >> |
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OVERBOOKED Premieres August 24, 2008 on PBS WORLD A polite Italian travel agent and an authoritarian Moroccan immigrant, two very different men from two different cultures, try to manage a diverse group of people traveling from Italy to Morocco. Learn more >> |
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A PANTHER IN AFRICA Premieres August 31, 2008 on PBS WORLD Before leaving America for Tanzania, where he has lived in exile for over 30 years and struggled to reconcile his past with his future, Pete O'Neal founded the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panthers. Learn more >> |
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FATHER ROY: Inside the School of Assassins Premieres September 7, 2008 on PBS WORLD Torture training at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security and Cooperation (formerly the U.S. Army School of the Americas) and the extraordinary life of Father Roy Bourgeois, the daring activist leading the campaign to close down the School. Learn more >> |
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MAI'S AMERICA Premieres September 14, 2008 on PBS WORLD When a spunky, mini-skirted daughter of Ho Chi Minh's revolution leaves cosmopolitan Hanoi for a high school exchange program in rural Mississippi, her ideas about freedom, America, Vietnam and herself are thrown into question. Learn more >> |
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IMELDA Premieres September 21, 2008 on PBS WORLD Clips, interviews, home movies and more reveal how the former first lady of the Philippines courted, coddled, used and abused power for nearly four decades. Learn more >> |
