S1.E2 ∙ Lifting the Veil

Growing up in times of conflict - 13-year old Palestinian girls Wafaa and Raneen from two different Westbank villages are faced with the option of going on a one-day trip to the beach in Israel. Although they live only a few kilometers away, they have both never been to the sea. Israeli peace activists organize a day at the beach in Tel Aviv for Palestinian women and children, to let them exchange the view on the Wall against the horizon. One summer morning, Wafaa is preparing for the journey and imagining pretty people in Israel, while Raneen is playing freedom fighter with her friends. Her village is in constant conflict with the Israeli soldiers and for her and her parents it is out of the question to spend a beach day with the "others". Is the day by the sea a one-day utopia? Or a possible future?

RETURN TO HONOR explores the life, trials and triumphs of the wounded soldier who returns from the battlefield and the Warrior's Weekend organization's efforts to honor them. Follow the wounded soldiers from across the country as they travel to south Texas to participate in a one day fishing tournament. What the soldiers don't expect, is the overwhelming welcome they receive from the surrounding communities. Riding along with the soldiers, we hear candid discussion on the battles they face, as they fight their new battle of returning to 'normal' life. Through their journey, we gain a greater understanding into the post-deployment life of the wounded veteran and see how a community united can plant the seeds for healing.

In the early 1990's, as the Soviet Empire disintegrated, two former Soviet Republics, Armenia and Azerbaijan, squared off against each other over the fate of the 170,000 Armenians living in the small mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The war eventually claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced close to a million people. By the time of the tenuous cease-fire, most of the enclave was in the hands of its longtime Armenian inhabitants. Dark Forest in the Mountains was shot on location in Nagorno-Karabakh and uses a mix of digital animation, live footage and expert interviews to tell the story of that region of the world, and the events that led up to the conflict. It also focuses on N.K.'s northernmost territory, Shahumian, and the partisans who manned its treacherous Gulistan Front.

Sudanese refugees battle in weekly wrestling matches, as they also fight for survival at the Yida Refugee Camp in South Sudan.

Peremyshl (now Przemysl), the city in Poland, which in 1939 was literally divided between Germany and the Soviet Union, became again the center of the Wehrmacht attacks in 1941, when World War II was unleashed. In fact, it was the first Soviet city captured by the Wehrmacht. It happened on June 23, 1941 - on the second day of the war. Polish historians and a few extant witnesses tell about the first battles of the war. With the help of local residents film crew managed to make some discoveries associated with the first battles at the border - the facts, which were new not only to the crew, but to professional historians as well.

War home movies.