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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.

Recovery City

1h 26m

An unflinching look at addiction and recovery as seen through the eyes of four women. Christine fights to regain custody of her children. Janis and Rebecca navigate the city’s toughest corners trying to save lives, while Bridget’s daily meetings uplift those still struggling. Recovery City highlights the resilience & camaraderie of a community rallying around the belief that recovery is possible.

Episodes

  • YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Susan Taylor: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Susan Taylor

    4m 8s

    Susan Taylor, born and raised in Harlem, began her career as a freelance fashion and beauty expert for Essence, the year the magazine was founded in 1970. She rose through the ranks to become editor-in-chief and then publications director. Named "the most influential black woman in journalism" by American Libraries in 1994, Taylor is the founder and CEO of The National CARES Mentoring Movement.

  • YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Maria Hinojosa: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY: Maria Hinojosa

    3m 47s

    Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning Maria Hinojosa is a journalist, who began as a radio host at Barnard College. Rising through the media ranks for her work reporting on immigration and Latino issues at CBS, CNN, and NPR, she's been named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics. The founder of The Futuro Media Group was also the first Latina to anchor a Frontline report (Lost in Detention).

Extras + Features

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • A Place in the Middle - Trailer: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    A Place in the Middle - Trailer

    1m 22s

    Eleven-year-old Ho'onani dreams of leading the hula troupe at her inner-city Honolulu school. The only trouble is that the group is just for boys. She's fortunate that her teacher understands first-hand what it's like to be “in the middle” - the Hawaiian tradition of embracing both male and female spirit. Together they set out to prove that what matters most is what's in your heart.

  • America By The Numbers | Promo: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    America By The Numbers | Promo

    1m 7s

    America By The Numbers with Maria Hinojosa is a new and innovative documentary series which will be available to public TV stations and viewers beginning in October 2014. America By The Numbers will reveal how dramatic changes in the country’s demographics are playing out in mainstream USA. Each half-hour program will focus on human stories from every corner of the nation.

  • WORLD Channel Promo Reel: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    WORLD Channel Promo Reel

    3m 5s

    WORLD Channel seeks to provide an alternative view of public media content in a new digital age.

  • State of Re: Union: Pilot - Tease : asset-mezzanine-16x9

    State of Re: Union: Pilot - Tease

    54s

    In the wake of the Gabriel Giffords shooting and Arizona’s legislative attempts to cleanse the state of undocumented immigrants, it would be easy to think Tucson is a community that’s lost its balance, that’s grown hard, insulated and frightened. But as we’ll see Tucson is a community that’s facing issues that are forging new alliances while severing others.

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