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12 Episodes 1990 - 1990
Episode 1
Tue, Jun 26, 1990 90 mins
A provocative documentary about three female convicts who served time in an underground prison in Kentucky. The three prisoners were convicted of politically motivated "nonviolent" crimes, and charge they were subjected to inhumane conditions. Susan Sarandon narrates.
Episode 2
Tue, Jul 3, 1990 60 mins
"Metamorphosis: Man into Woman," filmed over a three-year period, chronicles the transformation of an artist who believes "he is a woman, trapped in a man's body." Before he can be accepted for "sex reassignment" surgery, he must demonstrate that he can live as a woman for at least one year.
Episode 3
Tue, Jul 10, 1990 60 mins
1. "On Ice" offers an irreverent look at cryonics---the practice of freezing a dead body for possible future resuscitation. 2. "Larry Wright" profiles a self-taught teen drummer. Filmmakers: Grover Babcock, Andrew Takeuchi ("On Ice"); Ari Marcopoulus, Maja Zrnic ("Larry Wright").
Episode 4
Tue, Jul 17, 1990 60 mins
"Letter to the Next Generation" looks at college life at Ohio's Kent State 20 years after four students were killed by National Guardsmen during an antiwar demonstration. Included: comments by teachers and students.
Episode 5
Tue, Jul 24, 1990 90 mins
Episode 6
Tue, Jul 31, 1990 60 mins
A study of three "Police Chiefs" in Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Houston and their daily job pressures. Included: drug busts, police-citizen confrontations and SWAT raids. A 1989 film by Alan and Susan Raymond ("Police Tapes").
Episode 7
Tue, Aug 7, 1990 60 mins
In Ahmedabad, India, Kamala and Raji are two women fighting for equal rights and trying to persuade other workers to unionize. They believe that a better future is possible "if we get rid of the fear [of men] in our own minds."
Episode 8
Tue, Aug 14, 1990 90 mins
"Golub" and "Days of Waiting" depict two American artists: Leon Golub; and Estelle Peck Ishigo (1899-1990), whose drawings capture life in a World War II U.S. internment camp, where she lived with her Japanese-American husband.
Episode 9
Tue, Aug 21, 1990 90 mins
"Going Up," "Green Streets" and "Hugo and the Blue Whale" reveal the rhythms of urban life, including a time-lapse view of a skyscraper's construction; a look at New York community gardens; and a wry portrait of the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles.
Episode 10
Tue, Aug 28, 1990 90 mins
Christian Blackwood's "Motel" profiles "people in motels," including three divorcées who run one in Santa Fe (N.M.); three guests at a motel near the Arizona State Prison; and a couple who took over a ghost-town hotel.
Episode 11
Tue, Sep 4, 1990 90 mins
"Teatro!" about a Honduran theater company; and "Ossian: American Boy/Tibetan Monk" profiling a 12-year-old at a Nepal monastery, which he entered at age 4.
Episode 12
Tue, Sep 11, 1990 60 mins
Ilan Ziv's "People Power," about nonviolent opposition to governments in Chile, on the West Bank and in the Philippines, focusing on "ordinary individuals who choose to fight their oppressors with resistance, instead of guns."