Episode list

When the largest sports development in the country takes over Detroit, one place is built, another erased.

'First Stop, Iowa' discovers why a small mid-western state has such a large say in who is elected President. It's a story that begins with the death of Dr King and Bobby Kennedy in 1968 and ends with the election of Barack Obama 40 years later. Along the way you'll meet many of the candidates, the campaign managers and, most importantly, the campaign volunteers and ordinary people who made such a change possible.

Black and White and Dead All Over is an in-depth look at the newspaper industry as it struggles to remain financially viable and to keep the presses rolling. Through the voices of prominent journalists including Bob Woodward of the Washington Post and David Carr of the New York Times, we reveal an industry in the midst of a financial death spiral, as readers abandon print for on-line news sources. We see publishers and editors desperately trying to create a sustainable business model for their dying papers. If the American newspaper dies, who will conduct investigative journalism, who will hold public officials accountable?

In the shade of some trees at the campus of the university of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Congolese popular painter suspends his canvas. On the basis of some pictures gleaned amidst former leaders, the artist retraces the history of a forgotten students revolt which has been violently repressed by the end of the 60's, under Mobutu's rule. This setting provokes a public and collective remembrance among today's students and puts forward the topic of uncompleted mourning. As the painting progresses, the predicament of the current students reveals itself through talk that gradually throws off its shackles.

The inspiring story of America's first solar town, how it has shaped the alternative energy ideas and policies of today, and how it can lead us to a more sustainable future.