Poor Us: The Animated History of Poverty (#525) Duration: 53:34 STEREO

Do we know what poverty is? The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty. You go to sleep, you dream, you become poor through the ages. And when you awake, what can you say about poverty now? There are still very poor people, to be sure, but the new poverty has more to do with inequality?

Mai's America/Someday Flowers Bloom (#125) Duration: 1:23:28 STEREO TVPG-S

A spunky Vietnamese teenager named Mai gets the chance of a lifetime -- to study in the United States. She lands in rural Mississippi, a crazy quilt of self-proclaimed rednecks, cliquish teenagers, South Vietnamese exiles and transvestite soulmates. From cosmopolitan Hanoi to the heart of the Deep South, Mai's unforgettable journey offers an outsider's glimpse inside America.
Someday Flowers Bloom - explores Chiyoko Lewis' life as she copes with the challenges she faces in Japan and in the United States. After meeting a country musician in Kumamoto, Japan, she learns that love can overcome cultural and physical obstacles.

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Where Heaven Meets Hell (#601) Duration: 56:46 STEREO

Four sulfur miners working at an active volcano in Indonesia search for meaning in their daily struggles and triumphs. This intimate portrait chronicles their attempts to escape the social ills that haunt their community.

Garbage Dreams (#602) Duration: 56:46 STEREO

The world's largest garbage village is just outside Cairo. The "Zabaleen" (Arabic for "garbage people") recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect, but now multinational corporations threaten their livelihood.

When Hari Got Married (#603) Duration: 56:46 STEREO

Hari, a 30-year-old taxi driver in the Indian Himalayas, is getting married to a girl he has never met but has fallen in love with over the mobile phone.

Lakshmi and Me (#503) Duration: 55:04 STEREO

Have you ever dreamed of being waited on hand and foot? For the past six years, Lakshmi has been working for Nishtha as a part-time maid in Mumbai. Against the backdrop of a culture where "servants" are often treated as social inferiors, Nishtha begins making a film with Lakshmi. In a deeply personal portrait, the film takes a hard look at the caste system and how Lakshmi manages to flourish despite such social boundaries.

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Unmistaken Child (#604) Duration: 1:26:46 STEREO

When one of Tibet's greatest monks passes away, his shy, gifted disciple must complete a monumental task assigned by the Dalai Lama: to find the child who is the reincarnation of his master.

Ninos De La Memoria (#605) Duration: 56:46 STEREO

Hundreds - possibly thousands - of children disappeared from El Salvador in the midst of that country's civil war in the 1980s. Ninos de la Memoria follows three of those children as they return to their native country in search of identity and answers.