S18.E1 ∙ Episode #18.1

For the first time in history movie theaters are being forced to switch from film projection over to digital with the goal of the customers not noticing a difference. Most people are surprised to learn that film projection in its basic form has remained unchanged for over one hundred years. So if it hasn't been digital for several years now, how have theaters projected big, bright clear images for so long?

A documentary about the power of family.

Rewriting the U.S. Declaration of Independence as A Declaration of Interdependence, award-winning Director and Founder of the Webby Awards Tiffany Shlain and her team posted a script online and invited the world to participate in a crowdsourced film. Video, art, and translation submissions poured in from around the world, in over 50 languages from English to Swahili to ASL (American Sign Language). A Declaration of Interdependence quickly became an exhilarating montage of user-generated content, a global mash-up demonstrating the vast potential of creative collaboration in the 21st century.

A look into the lives of the people from Jamestown, Tennessee, who in 1987 started what is now the South's biggest yard sale.

The BBC's remit was to inform, educate and entertain. In 1982 and 83, they produced documentaries with this title. This, the more highbrow one on BBC2 examines school programming, while the other on BBC1 focused on ones they enjoy at home.

Raised in America, a Lebanese-born filmmaker reaches out to his aging grandmother in Lebanon to document the stories of his family and country of origin.