Season 10 |
| 179 :10x01 - Chicago 10 (Oct/22/2008) | | The troubles surrounding the Democratic National Convention in 1968 is documented in Chicago 10, which lead to the trial of the Chicago 7 who were charged with inciting a riot and conspiracy. This episode uses archival footage and animation to depict the scenes, along with the talents of Hank Azaria, Roy Scheider, Jeffery Wright, Mark Ruffalo, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte and Liev Schreiber. | |
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| 180 :10x02 - Dinner With the President: A Nation's Journey (Oct/28/2008) | | Highlights of an interview with Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf which looks at the challenges which his country faces, with clashes between fundamentalists and secularism threatens the nation's future. Also, a chat with some Pakistani citizens to gauge their sentiments, including North-West Frontier Province tribal chiefs and resort beach-goers. | |
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| 181 :10x03 - Lioness (Nov/13/2008) | | A first account look at "Team Lioness," a group of female soldiers who participated in house raids and patrols to interact with the Iraqi women. In the process, they had become active in the direct combat with the enemy, including in Ramadi in 2004. Also included is a feature on their acclimation back to civilian life. | |
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| 182 :10x04 - Match Point (Nov/18/2008) | | A document by three teens from the Swinomish Reservation in Northwest Washington, about how the two nearby oil refineries are impacting their tribal community. | |
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| 183 :10x05 - Atom Smashers (Nov/25/2008) | | The Higgs boson, a theoretical particle believed to be responsible for mass, is uncovered while searching the work at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, through use of the Tevatron, a 4-mile long particle accelerator in Illinois, is examined. | |
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| 184 :10x06 - Doc (Dec/09/2008) | | A film by Immy Humes which profiles her father, Harold L. Humes (1926-92), co-founder of the Paris Review and author of two acclaimed novels in the 1950's, manager of Norman Mailer's 1961 mayoral bid in NYC and drifted into mental illness in 1965 after taking LSD. | |
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| 185 :10x07 - Wonders Are Many: The Making of "Doctor Atomic" (Dec/16/2008) | | A look at the opera Doctor Atomic, which is about a physicist and so-called "father of the atomic bomb" J. Robert Oppenheimer, in a run-up to the first atomic bomb testing in 1945, weaved in with the creation of nuclear weaponry. | |
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| 186 :10x08 - Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway (Dec/23/2008) | | Learn how the Maysles Brothers' cult classic Grey Gardens, about a mother and daughter ("Big" and "Little" Edie Beale) [aunt and cousin to Jackie Onassis] lived their lives in a debilitated mansion in the Hamptons, had their story turned into a Broadway musical. | |
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| 187 :10x09 - Operation Filmmaker (Dec/30/2008) | | Liev Schreiber finds that nothing goes as planned when he recruits Muthana Mohmed, an Iraqi film student from a 2003 MTV Special, to work on a film starring Elijah Wood, called "Everything Is Illuminated." | |
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| 188 :10x10 - Helvetica (Jan/06/2009) | | An exploration of the font known as Helveica and it's Swiss typeface creator, Max Miedinger in 1959. Also, how it effected the world of graphic design, detailing how different fonts have an affect on the way people process words and information imparted to them. | |
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| 189 :10x11 - Adjust You Color: The Truth of Petey Greene (Feb/03/2009) | | Influential radio and TV personality Petey Greene, who was portrayed by Don Cheadle in a 2007 film, "Talk To Me," in a profile narrated by Don. Greene's rise to the top was difficult, thanks to his brashness and personal demons, including drugs and alcohol, which led him to a stint in prison. | |
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| 190 :10x12 - Tulia, Texas (Feb/10/2009) | | An examination of the 46 arrests which were made in Tulia, TX. back in 1999 during a drug sting on a farming community. The case drew controversy when 39 0f the arrests were made of blacks, and for the uncorraborated testimony which was given by undercover officer Thomas Coleman. Texas governor Rick Perry eventually pardoned all of the convicted. | |
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| 191 :10x13 - The Order of Myths/Bi-Racial Hair (Feb/24/2009) | | "The Order of Myths" looks at race relations in Mobile, AL, where their annual Mardi Gras festivals include divided celebrations while crowning both a black and white king and queen, along with separate masquerade balls and parades. Then, in "Bi-Racial Hair" a teen poet has written a satirical piece on what it is like being from a mixed background. | |
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| 192 :10x14 - Arusi Persian Wedding (Mar/17/2009) | | A look at the history of American-Iran relations is examined as an Iranian-American Alex Tehrani and his wife to be Heather, head to Iran to have a traditional Persian wedding. His sister Marjan, the director of this documentary, and his father Reza accompany them. | |
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| 193 :10x15 - Lakshmi and Me (Mar/24/2009) | | Mumbai filmmaker Nishtha Jain explores the relationship between herself and her maid, who is an uneducated 21 year old woman who works seven days each week Jain and others luxurious homes in India, where caste and class play a role. This documentary explores the difficulties in which Lakshmi struggles with, including the sharing of a tiny shanty with her family and developing tuberculosis, before teaming up with other maids to demand better working conditions, benefits and pensions. | |
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| 194 :10x16 - Recycle (Mar/31/2009) | | Zarqa is a city in Jordan, which is considered a hot bed of Islamic extremists. Abu Ammar is a veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who struggles with his 2 wives and 8 children to get by selling cardboard to a recycle plant. This documentary was shot over a 2 1/2 year period and tracks his falling fortunes; and also sheds the light on Zarqa's most infamous son, the notorious terrorist Abu Musab al-Zaqawi. | |
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| 198 :10x20 - At Home in Utopia (Apr/28/2009) | | A history of the United Workers Cooperative Colony, an apartment complex run by tenants and built by Jewish garment workers during the 1920's in the Bronx. The "Coops" residents, many of whom were political activists (some even Communists) stood against mortgage foreclosures during the Great Depression, and integrated their complex during the 1930s. | |
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| 199 :10x21 - Wings of Defeat (May/05/2009) | | A recollection of Japan's WWII-era kamikaze pilots, includes interviews with the former pilots who survived their missions and the US sailors who's ships were their targets. | |
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| 200 :10x22 - Crips & Bloods: Made in America (May/12/2009) | | An interview with both current and former gang members from the infamous South Central L.A. gangs, Crips and Bloods. This documentary explores the two gang's history, social context for their formation and continued existence and their long feud, which has lasted decades to date. | |
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| 201 :10x23 - Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors (May/19/2009) | | In 1972 a plane full of 45 passengers and crew crashed on top of the Andes mountains, in which they were stranded for 72 days on a snowy peak after the search was called off. In an effort to stave off starvation, they survivors did the unthinkable and became cannibals by eating those who perished. 16 survivors recall their experience. | |
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| 202 :10x24 - Steal a Pencil for Me (May/26/2009) | | The true story of a Jewish Dutch accountant, his wife and his lover, who all became imprisoned together during World War II at the barracks of a concentration camp. | |
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| 203 :10x25 - Ask Not (Jun/16/2009) | | An exploration into the "don't ask, don't tell" policy the U.S. military implemented in 1993, which caused the discharge of over 12,500 gays and lesbians in the years since then. This documentary will explore the cultural and political milieu which led to the creating the policy and details the societal shift concerning gays in the military that has occurred since. | |
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