S24.E37 ∙ Episode #24.37

Are utopias doomed to failure? Are Thoreau and his children Eugene V. Debs, the 60s and B.F. Skinner nothing more then the stuff of textbooks barely read in undergraduate seminars? 'The Idiocratic Life' is a stylishly shot look at the counter-culture today that attempts to answer this question by capturing the faces, stories, and inner struggles of members of communes across America. Throughout the process the film shines a light upon a part of America rarely seen in film or anywhere else and proves that far from medias spotlight there are great social experiments from Egalitarianism to Anarchy continuing to percolate and sometimes thrive.

Fifteen years ago, Indian Sadhu Swami Shivananda had a metaphysical experience. He claims to have received instructions from God. His orders were to take up the gauntlet of Eco activism to protect the world's most sacred river - the Ganges. Clearly, this is no ordinary environmental protest. 'Satyagraha' tells the story of a group of humble Sadhus who have taken on a corrupt government, a paid off police force, and a powerful mining mafia to protect the holiness of the Ganges River. They have been threatened, beaten, jailed and bribed. Two have died. Both were murdered, or so they believe. Satyagraha follows the hunger strike of Swami Shivanand as he fights the mafia and attempts to find justice for his murdered disciple.

Dr. Carla Ceratto is an OBGYN doctor who works in a public hospital in Managua, Nicaragua and who struggles with Nicaragua law about terminating pregnancy.

In the Shadow of a Doubt is a documentary film about what happens when people try to find a crime for the accused instead of looking for the accused for a crime.

Jeremy is moving into a new apartment with his girlfriend the following day, but receives a phone call telling him he has to go to Haiti to cover the earthquake. His dream of covering a life-changing story has come, but when he arrives at his office, his editor has changed his mind and tells Jeremy to hold back one day. In the meantime, Jeremy is assigned to cover a story of a missing boy. Jeremy goes to the missing child's house. Back at the television station, he is told that he's not going to Haiti. Disillusioned, on the train back home, Jeremy sees a young boy sitting alone across from him, but he gets up at his stop. The child was Camilo, the missing boy.

This is a remarkable story about the Cape Fur Seal and Francois Hugo "Seal Man" the full time, self styled seal guardian and protector, living on the Southern tip of Africa, trying to save a threatened species, which is under attack on many fronts, by any means possible.