Episode list

The year is 1985, Eddie Joe Lloyd is led out of a Wayne County courtroom in shackles sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of 16 year old Michelle Jackson. Mr. Lloyd did not commit the crime though. The only crime he was guilty of was being unable to afford adequate defense and being assigned an underpaid and overworked public defender. Publicly Defended takes one to the heart of the matter. From the people who protect the innocent to those trying to create change this film compels every Michigan resident to demand reform. It is a chilling and heart breaking look at what happens when money and politics in the Michigan justice system become more important than the lives it seeks to protect.

Renowned academic and author Noam Chomsky elucidates 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power that have led to unprecedented inequality and the hollowing out of the American middle class.

A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems and native communities across the planet.

Stories of civil resistance in Scampia, the notorious suburban district of Naples also described in Roberto Saviano's novel: Gomorrah.

They are a symbol of hate from the Deep South's trouble past. Burning crosses conjure up images of lynchings, beatings and Klansman in white sheets during the struggle for black civil rights in America. But many white Nova Scotians probably didn't see a connection between their province and that painful chapter in U.S. history. Until February 21, 2010. Shortly after midnight, a burning cross was found outside the home of Shayne Howe and Michelle Lyon, a biracial couple in Poplar Grove, Hants County. It didn't take long for a Central Canadian newspaper to connect the dots of history. Nova Scotia, a province where racial tensions had often boiled over, was labeled the Mississippi of the North. For many black Nova Scotians, it was no surprise.

Bitcoin is the most disruptive invention since the Internet, and now an ideological battle is underway between fringe utopists and mainstream capitalism. The film shows the players who are defining how this technology will shape our lives.