Episode list

FIRST FRIDAY is a documentary that follows a diverse group of residents and community leaders, in the aftermath of a tragedy, as they work to preserve the event that symbolizes Oakland's recent renaissance.

'Jean Luc Godard meets 'The Hills' in New Orleans 5 years after Hurricane Katrina'. A New Orleanian filmmaker (Jonathan Isaac Jackson) explores the city through his friends. Through conversations involving race, politics, hope, despair, careers, and the film industry, the story of post-Katrina, by pre and post-Katrina residents of New Orleans, is explored.

RWANDA & JULIET is a feature-length documentary that follows ivy league professor emeritus Andrew Garrod to Kigali, Rwanda, where he mounts Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet with Rwandan college students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Twenty years have passed since the 1994 Genocide that left 1,000,000 Tutsis dead. Predominantly orphans, the cast of young Rwandans, led by a stunning, strong headed Juliet, tackle their country's past and their own future as hopes, expectations, pasts, personalities and cultures collide as opening night approaches.

Seven lives come together amid the stench of beer and tobacco smoke in an apartment block where single rooms are for rent and the bathroom is in the hall. Only friendship, mutual aid and a healthy sense of humor allow these men, scarred by self-destruction and addiction, to face the harsh reality of their lives.

A gripping look into the difficulties facing of the women of India and what is being done to counteract generations of oppression against them.

After a mine explosion kills her brother, a pro-coal activist joins forces with a tree-hugging grandmother to take down the most dangerous coal company in the United States.