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The Greek goddess Demeter gave agriculture to mankind. Since then it has shaped and reshaped nature. "Fields of Demeter" is a voyage through the visible and invisible European landscape. With the power of the shamanic eagle two young girls experience its history, diversity, myths and people who sensitively work the land.

Two young Afar girls, Fatuma, 10, and Asya, 13, show us their daily life in two different context of the Afar Region in Ethiopia. Both of them face hard challenges: finding an alternative to the mandatory traditional marriage for Fatuma, and the conflict with the Issa for Asya.

Gordon Buchanan travels to Norway and Austria to search for animals that live in snowy conditions and have adapted to survive in cold weather. He also takes a look at the lives of animals associated with Christmas.

The lives of peasant women from one of the most remote and impoverished parts of Turkey as they follow their dream to learn German.

Volume One begins and ends with an extended look at the contribution of women to the public health of the United States: it tells the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to attend medical school, and of Alice Hamilton, Emily Dunning, and Esther Lovejoy. Abolitionists are a source of women leaders: the Grimke sisters, Harriet Tubman, Lydia Maria Frances Child, and Maryann Shad Carrie. Special attention goes to Anne Hutchinson's trial and then to writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catherine Beecher, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, Hannah Adams, Abigail Adams, and Emily Dickinson. Historians comment throughout; Rita Moreno and Dee Wallace-Stone host.

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Sheetz travels across America once again in 2008 interviewing 150 kids about their views on the most exciting election in US history.