Undivide Us
America is at a crossroads where politicians, traditional media, and social media fan the flames of toxic partisanship that have led many Americans to question whether they can trust their fellow citizens. Through the intimate lens of six focus groups across three American cities, "Undivide Us" explores the twisted landscape of toxic polarization.
Episodes
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Undivide Us
57m 59s
America is at a crossroads where politicians, traditional media, and social media fan the flames of toxic partisanship that have led many Americans to question whether they can trust their fellow citizens. Through the intimate lens of six focus groups across three American cities, "Undivide Us" explores the twisted landscape of toxic polarization.
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The Hoy Boys
1h 12m
Working class twin brothers Tom and Frank Hoy hustled up copyboy jobs in 1953 and eventually become White House News Photographers for two major DC newspapers. Frank shot pictures for The Washington Post, and Tom did the same for The Evening Star. Their story is the story of American journalism when it mattered most.
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Searching for Shaniqua
55m 32s
"Searching for Shaniqua" examines the impact that unique, cultural and so-called “ghetto” names have on people’s lives. Working from the question, “What’s in a name?, six African-American women who have all faced stereotyping because of their names, tell their personal stories.
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Teilhard: Visionary Scientist
1h 57m
The life of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French priest-paleontologist-visionary, suppressed by his Jesuit order for advocating evolution is revealed in a drama of personal awakening, a search for meaning, scientific adventure, unresolved conflict with authority, and human love.
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Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace
27m 16s
In 1975, only 30 years after the United States and Japan have been at war, Japan gave 53 priceless bonsai trees to the United States in celebration of the U.S. Bicentennial. Some bonsai were several hundred years old. One had remarkably survived the bombing of Hiroshima. “Bicentennial Bonsai: Emissaries of Peace” chronicles this historic gift, with rare interviews and archival footage.
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MSG: Mysterious Savory Grains
12m 42s
Chef Tim Ma shares his Chinese culture through his food and debunks the negative and unsavory stigma around MSG, better known as monsodium glutamate.
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LIFT - Connecting Humanity
1h 27m
LIFT – Connecting Humanity is a documentary celebrating the simple goodness of humankind. Shot in locations across the world, including Malawi, Syria, Afghanistan, Scotland, Cambodia, India, the Philippines, Greece, Nepal, Ghana and the United States, LIFT explores the history of modern philanthropy and profiles stories of people who have devoted their lives to lifting the lives of others.
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The SixTripleEight
1h 12m
In February 1945, the U.S. Army sent the Six Triple Eight, 855 women from the Women's Army Corps (WACs), to England and France to clear the backlog of mail in the European Theater of Operations. They were the only predominantly-Black female battalion to serve in Europe during WWII, and were confronted with racism and sexism from their own leadership and troops.
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Beyond the Bridge
14m 53s
Beyond the Bridge is the story of two community leaders who turned a practical conversation about light bulbs and safety into an international public art festival in Mexico. Considered an act of Creative Placemaking, the Akumal Arts Festival united all sectors of the community to collaborate with artists and strengthen the local web of life.
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The Tower Road Bus
58m 37s
In the 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of busing children to achieve racial integration in schools. One African-American teacher and principal, Dotson Burns, Jr, navigates the frustration among students and teachers at an elementary school in Prince George's County, Maryland.
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The Hello Girls
56m 21s
In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France as telephone operators to help win the Great War. They were intrepid, united in a common cause and like Joan of Arc before them, they wanted to save France. Told through 100-year-old letters, photos, rare archival footage, and interviews with family and historians, this documentary brings to life a story that was almost entirely unknown.
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Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
1h 56m
Learn how an astrophysicist, preacher, philosopher and artisanal mortician grapple with universal questions of mortality. Weaving science, cryonics, near-death stories and green burials, this film invites us to rethink our place in the universe.
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