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Experience the personal stories behind the headlines. Devoted to telling stories that humanize complex issues, WORLD shares the best of public media in news, documentaries, and informational programming that helps us understand conflicts, movements and cultures. WORLD's focus is on its original content, offering a national platform to makers examining issues too often ignored by mainstream media.

The Conversation Remix: For Our Girls

10m 25s

FOR OUR GIRLS, a love letter from mothers to daughters, explores the stigmas Black girls face as they grow up within and outside their community. Through interviews, mothers share concerns with how they are shaping and impacting their daughters' independence. The film acknowledges the sacred, and at times, tense relationship that parent and child share as they face challenges and accept flaws.

Episodes

  • The Conversation Remix: Learning to Breathe: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Conversation Remix: Learning to Breathe

    9m 44s

    LEARNING TO BREATHE is the sequel to the 2015 New York Times Op-Doc 'A Conversation About Growing Up Black' where Black boys, teens, and young men shared their thoughts about race in America. Five years later, the young men return to compare and contrast how their relationships with racial justice, systemic racism, and social inequity & inequality have changed following the death of George Floyd.

  • The Conversation Remix: For Our Girls: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Conversation Remix: For Our Girls

    10m 25s

    FOR OUR GIRLS, a love letter from mothers to daughters, explores the stigmas Black girls face as they grow up within and outside their community. Through interviews, mothers share concerns with how they are shaping and impacting their daughters' independence. The film acknowledges the sacred, and at times, tense relationship that parent and child share as they face challenges and accept flaws.

  • The Conversation Remix: Good White People: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Conversation Remix: Good White People

    11m 26s

    Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, a family in the mostly homogeneously white Adirondacks community in New York shares their views on race and anti-racism. GOOD WHITE PEOPLE examines the current state of white identity, how it's changed from five years ago, and where it is headed. Can white people truly commit to what is required of them to create a more equitable anti-racist future?

  • Inventing Tomorrow: Air: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Inventing Tomorrow: Air

    17m 57s

    In one of Mexico’s most polluted cities, high school students Jesús Martinez, José Elizalde and Fernando Sanchez invent a paint that can remove pollutants from the air, which takes them all the way to the world-famous ISEF science fair.

  • Inventing Tomorrow: Water: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Inventing Tomorrow: Water

    15m 41s

    As the lakes in her hometown of Bangalore, India fill with clouds of chemical foam that drift through the streets, student Sahithi Pingali creates a “citizen science” project that lets anyone measure and share water quality data, propelling her to the renowned ISEF science fair in Los Angeles.

  • We the Young People: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    We the Young People

    26m 45s

    Highlighting the impact of young voters and exploring the change they want to see from the new U.S. presidential administration. The special features teen voices and leading journalists covering topics such as youth activism, civics, and misinformation. WE THE YOUNG PEOPLE is designed to connect with new audiences and deepen conversations about the most pressing issues in the country.

  • Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

    1h 56m

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs of addiction, poverty and incarceration plaguing America, from the inner city to small towns like Yamhill, Oregon. While pockets of empathy and aid exist, are they enough to rescue the thousands of Americans in despair, for whom the American Dream of self-reliance is impossibly out of reach?

  • Battleground: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Battleground

    55m 38s

    An exploration of the state of our democracy as seen through the eyes of opposing grassroots political activists in Lehigh Valley, PA - a pivotal county that voted for Obama twice and then flipped to Trump. Tom Carroll is a Trump delegate and Greg Edwards is a leader supported by Bernie Sanders. When their paths collide, Tom and Greg realize they have much more in common than meets the eye.

  • #MyAPALife: A Filmmaker Conversation: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    #MyAPALife: A Filmmaker Conversation

    35m 49s

    "Why is it important for Asian Pacific American stories to be told?" caamedia.org's Exec. Dir. Stephen Gong explores this question and more with filmmakers James Q. Chan, Leo Chiang, Grace Lee and Keoni Lee in a conversation on their documentary work, representing Asian Pacific Americans & their stories with authenticity, and the drive & passion that it takes to being a filmmaker in today's world.

  • Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now

    26m 46s

    A re-examination of the series, EYES ON THE PRIZE, from the filmmakers’ perspective, and viewpoint of civil rights activists then and now. This intergenerational dialogue takes the civil rights movement and places it under a microscope – revisiting, reframing and re-asking key questions while contextualizing those issues in a contemporary way.

Extras + Features

  • Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - Bree Newsome: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - Bree Newsome

    3m

    Young men & women of the Civil Rights Movement became leaders by creating their own brand of protest from nonviolent sit-ins to the Freedom Summer of voter registration. Bree Newsome, who has been compared with Rosa Parks, speaks about the impact of youth activism, and how Trayvon Martin's death inspired her to become an activist. From the WORLD Channel special, "Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now."

  • WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Bridge to Freedom: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Bridge to Freedom

    30s

    A decade of lessons is applied in the peaceful-turned-climactic and bloody march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery. "Blood Sunday" leads to two additional marches, one symbolic and one full-scale, and a major victory: the Voting Rights Act is passed in 1965. But civil rights leaders know they have new challenges ahead. From the award-winning documentary series "Eyes on the Prize."

  • WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Miss.: Is This America?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Miss.: Is This America?

    30s

    Mississippi's grassroots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters; three activists - two white students and one black local - are murdered. The inclusive Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention. From the award-winning documentary series "Eyes on the Prize."

  • WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - No Easy Walk: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - No Easy Walk

    30s

    The civil rights movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations with success and failure. Under the leadership of the very visible Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the triumphant March on Washington, D.C. in 1963 shows a mounting national support for civil rights. And President John F. Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Act. From the award-winning documentary series "Eyes on the Prize."

  • WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize-Ain't Scared of Your Jails: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize-Ain't Scared of Your Jails

    30s

    Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement; the lunch counter sit-in movement starts in Greensboro, North Carolina and spreads to 69 cities in the South. "Freedom Riders" try to desegregate interstate travel, which the Supreme has banned twice, but are brutally attacked as they travel through Alabama & Mississippi. From the award-winning series "Eyes on the Prize."

  • WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Fighting Back: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Fighting Back

    30s

    States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide over integration and segregation; Arkansas' Central High School in 1957 (Little Rock Nine), and the University of Mississippi in 1962 (James Meredith). Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts...and integration is carried out. From the award-winning documentary series "Eyes on the Prize."

  • WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - Trailer: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - Trailer

    1m

    A re-examination of the series, Eyes on the Prize, from the filmmakers’ perspective, and viewpoint of civil rights activists then and now. This intergenerational dialogue takes the civil rights movement and places it under a microscope – revisiting, reframing and re-asking key questions while contextualizing those issues in a contemporary way. Narrated by Aloe Blacc.

  • WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Preview

    30s

    "Eyes on the Prize" is the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Narrated by political leader and civil rights activist Julian Bond (1940-2015).

  • WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - Preview

    30s

    A re-examination of the series, Eyes on the Prize, from the filmmakers’ perspective, and viewpoint of civil rights activists then and now. This intergenerational dialogue takes the civil rights movement and places it under a microscope – revisiting, reframing and re-asking key questions while contextualizing those issues in a contemporary way. Narrated by Aloe Blacc.

  • WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Trailer: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    WORLD Channel: Eyes on the Prize - Trailer

    1m 10s

    "Eyes on the Prize" is the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Narrated by political leader and civil rights activist Julian Bond (1940-2015).

  • Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - John Lewis: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now - John Lewis

    4m 28s

    Student activist Jonathan Butler and Congressman John Lewis discuss the award-winning documentary series "Eyes on the Prize," and the Civil Rights Movement then and now, including Congressman Lewis's own experiences. He also offers advice to the activists of the movement today. From the WORLD Channel special, "Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now."

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