S1.E4 ∙ Sixpence Worth of Heaven

These are the personal stories that were left in shadow of grief for Soviet crimes and euphoria for the fight for freedom. In these testimonies everything counts, not only words, but also silences. Can we recognize it as our common memory?

A middle-aged woman living in Los Angeles, saddled with a stressful job, a long-term relationship rapidly unraveling, coping with a drug-addicted daughter facing criminal charges and now facing raising 4 grandchildren, all under the age of 6 years, alone, takes a leap of faith. She sells her California home and heads to Austin, Texas. No family, no friends, no job, no medical insurance. Within days of arriving in Austin, a group of women at a drumming session encourage her to join them on a trip to Peru. What she believes to be an impromptu and much-needed vacation morphs into a spiritual journey of discovery, one that literally transforms her life and directly affects her life and that of the family she left behind.

The first Brazilian on death row.

On the 18th September 1970 rock superstar Jimi Hendrix died in London. The coroner's report declared an open verdict on the cause of his death, it could be suicide, it could be murder. Hendrix and The Spook discovers with exclusive interviews and unseen archive footage who may have benefitted from his death, most notably his manager and British spy Mike Jeffrey and his girlfriend Monika Dannemann.

A documentary which reenacts the lives and events of the midwives and nurses who setup and ran a clinic to help the people living in the Kentucky Appalachian Mountains.

On March 17, 2004, an explosive device was activated at the Piloto Public Library in Medellin, a place that preserves much of the photographic archive of Colombian history. A photograph is the only evidence of such barbarism...