Season 1 |
| 1 :01x01 - Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small Town Gang (Aug/09/1999) | | The place: Appleton, Wis., filmmaker John Whitehead's home town, where three teens were found dead in May 1995, days after another gang member had been murdered. Whitehead looks for reasons why in interviews with parents of the dead youths, as well as Appleton teachers and police. Also: TV news footage of the incident and excerpts from court sessions. | |
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| 2 :01x02 - Nothing but the Truth (Aug/16/1999) | | “Nothing but the Truth,” filmmaker Mark Steven Shepherd's take on the carnival atmosphere outside the Santa Monica, Cal., courthouse during O.J. Simpson's 1996-97 civil trial. Shepherd also looks at media coverage of the scene (and the trial), and follows tourists as they visit Simpson's Brentwood home and the site of the slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. | |
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| 3 :01x03 - Visas and Virtues; I Am Viet Hung (Aug/23/1999) | | “Visa and Virtues” concerns a Japanese diplomat's dealings with Jewish refugees in Lithuania during WWII. “I Am Viet Hung” profiles an elderly Vietnamese opera singer living in uneasy retirement in the U.S., as younger Vietnamese grow increasingly indifferent to his art and accomplishments. | |
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| 4 :01x04 - The Man Who Drove with Mandela (Aug/30/1999) | | “The Man Who Drove with Mandela” profiles Cecil Williams, a white (and gay) South African theater director and anti-apartheid activist who was arrested with Nelson Mandela in 1962 (the fugitive Mandela was posing as Williams' chauffeur at the time). Corin Redgrave portrays Williams in reenacted “self-reflections.” Directed by Greta Schiller (“Paris Is a Woman”). | |
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| 5 :01x05 - The Jew in the Lotus (Sep/06/1999) | | “The Jew in the Lotus” chronicles a 1990 journey to Dharamsala, India, by author Rodger Kamenetz and eight Jewish leaders to meet with the Dalai Lama and discuss the “spiritual survival” of Jews and Tibetan Buddhists. The hour also chronicles a spiritual journey by Kamenetz, whose book “The Jew in the Lotus” is the inspiration for this film. | |
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| 6 :01x06 - Holy Tortilla/Lock and Key (Sep/13/1999) | | Two dramas: A devout woman sees the face of Jesus in a “Holy Tortilla.” A blind jazz critic forges an unlikely friendship with a locksmith in “Lock and Key.” Margarita: Adelina Anthony. Roberto: Julio Cedillo. Rosa: Cecilia Flores (“Holy Tortilla”). Maxine: Qwendolyn Mulumba. Dexter: E. Patrick Coker (“Lock and Key”). | |
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| 7 :01x07 - Secret People (Oct/04/1999) | | “Secret People,” a 1998 documentary about the Federal Government's hospital for patients with Hansen's disease (better known as leprosy) in Carville, La. The hour recalls the facility's history (when it was founded in 1921, patients were held in quarantine), and includes interviews with patients. | |
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