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- This 10-part documentary series follows the works of Customs and Border Protection Officers on the 28 international bridges that connect the United States and Mexico.
- Egotistical Buffalo TV host Bill Bittinger bullies crew and guests, driving station manager Karl Shub mad with lawsuits. Only director Jo Jo White stands up to Bill's tantrums as he fails to break into bigger markets.
- The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomami Indians. In the 1960s and '70s, a steady stream of anthropologists filed into the Amazon Basin to observe this "virgin" society untouched by modern life. Thirty years later, the events surrounding this infiltration have become a scandalous tale of academic ethics and infighting.
- This is the modern-day story of a native peoples' remarkable victory over Western Colonial power. A Pacific island rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) - and won despite a military occupation and blockade.
- In a five-part series, Putting The Fun In Fundamental sees presenter Elliott Gerner traveling from Rio to Bombay and Tulsa, Okalahoma as he throws himself into the religious firing line. Take a dip into the strange and dark corners of religions and cults that are off the beaten path, and enjoy exclusive interviews with members of these curious communities.
- Going to the heart of Hamas - their leaders, their supporters, their history. A character-led film about the Islamist Movement Hamas as it starts to run a proto-state in the Gaza Strip.
- About the now en vogue environmental movement of freeganism and follows a group of freegans traveling across the Anglia region of England in a camper van, surviving on discarded food they find along the way. This documentary explores how these freegans manage to survive and examines how freeganism explores aspects of free living, such as working for free and free hugs.
- Drama/Documentary in which Film-maker, Andy Lee, recalls his experience of being sectioned under the mental health act in 1994.
- A young widow decides to have a child using her dead husband's sperm, the support from her family and friends is challenged by the reality of the difficult choice she is about to make.
- A daughter looking after an elderly mother discovers the horrific events in her past through the poems she recites.
- Inside story of a British woman in a downward spiral working in Tokyo's hostessing industry. "You come out - and suddenly all your social barriers and all your personal little morals slip, completely slip. Things just go into warp."
- Lin, 54, is blind and has cerebral palsy. Husband Ralph, 70, is her full time carer, and has Parkinson's disease.
- Documentary filmmaker Adam Giles follows a controversial Gypsy site proposal in West Norfolk. Myths and misconceptions are swept aside as we meet Gypsy activist Cliff Codona and follow Gypsy outreach worker John Day as they attempt to quell the public fear and media negativity.
- A ten minute film that follows a shotgun through three generations of an English family.
- Attracted by tales of wealth and better education for their children, thousands of Chinese from the Mainland are flocking to the glittering island seen as a land of opportunity: Hong Kong. Due to their huge numbers, the migrants and visitors are likened to "locusts" swarming the city, and hate songs and racist speeches are now commonplace in Hong Kong media. In the midst of this rising tension, newly arrived Mainland Chinese women try to carve out a better life, find low-cost housing and navigate expensive Hong Kong. If they run into problems, there are limited options.
- Filmed inside Syria using undercover filmmakers and smuggling out their footage and outside the country with Assad supporters and exiled leaders alike, this piece documents the early bloody days of a country beginning to destroy itself.
- Karl is powerless to deal with his rebellious teenage son, who idolizes Bill. So Junior gets a job at WBFL. Meanwhile, Bill publicly derides a local businessman for selling defective products, and the vendor shows up seeking revenge.
- When a famous psychologist is a guest on Bill's show, Melanie goads the doctor into analyzing her and Bill's relationship during a taping.
- Bill isn't happy when the guests booked to appear on his show are excruciating dull, or when the station manager hires Tamara Brooks to co-host his show.
- During an on-air chat with computer gurus, Bill callously accuses his guests of smuggling American computer technology into Communist countries. During a commercial break, they threaten Bill, and his paranoia skyrockets.
- Actress Lauren Stockton guests on Bill's show and plugs her latest movie, in which Bill wants a part. So he not only wangles an audition for a role, but even suggests a few changes to the script.
- After injuring his hand during an on-air martial-arts stunt, Bill accuses his next guest, a Roman Catholic priest who is raising funds for a youth center, of sexual misconduct, and the audience sees Bill's true colors.
- Karl has news for everyone: Mr. Wilkinson has sold the station to Hayden Stone, Bill's former boss, who fired him from a previous job after catching him sleeping with Mrs. Stone. Hayden has neither forgiven nor forgotten.
- Bill complains of dull guests on his show while Jo Jo tries to get him to commit to her in their personal life. His estranged, divorced daughter Melanie Wayne visits and makes his world even more uncomfortable.
- Author Dr. Solomon Sigourney appears on the show to discuss his book on toxic waste, but Bill ridicules him, which crushes Wendy, who booked the doctor on the show. When she confides in Carl, he encourages her to reprimand Bill.
- 1983–198430m7.2 (19)TV EpisodeBill refuses to wear a Santa Claus outfit on the Christmas Day segment of his show, until the Brazilian actress who is guesting changes his mind by offering him a one-night stand if he wears it. Is this Bill's lucky day?
- Newdell pans a recent segment of the show. Bill pulls rank on him and wants him fired, so he quits. But there's concern that he might sue, in which case Bill needs to pay him big money to settle the possible lawsuit.
- While Jerry Lewis impersonators overrun the studio, Karl is depressed at not being able to stand up to Bill--until he discovers and implements a method of exacting revenge. Then things really get hot in the studio.
- Finding out that the staff knows about Jo Jo's problem only adds to her frustration. Bill seems happy about the news, then goes on the air and delivers a preachy lecture about the dangers of promiscuity.
- Competitors for the Miss WBFL beauty contest include Wendy, Melanie, and local baton twirling champ Sherry Posnick. Tony steps up to the plate when Jo Jo refuses to direct the segment and even circulates a petition against it.
- Bill suggests to Jo Jo that they take another stab at a relationship, then sleeps with her and changes his mind.
- Bill's best friend Pete Killian, an Emmy-winning anchorman on 60 MINUTES, has died, so Bill applies for Pete's job while the network personnel look for ways to make him stay at WBFL.
- Everyone is pleased with the current shows. But when ratings drop, Bill thinks the show is going under, so he calls a late-afternoon meeting for the staffers to berate themselves publicly.
- The staffers plan a surprise birthday party for Bill, who is targeted by Clara, an obsessed fan who telephones him repeatedly claiming to be the mother of his unborn child and wanting to kill him. Karl notices Bill's erratic behavior.
- During a cold winter, Karl's wife kicks him out for bringing his work problems home with him. Compasssionate Jo Jo consoles him by fixing him a fancy home-cooked meal. Romantic sparks fly. Then Bill finds out.
- TV news reporter LeeAnne Cook goads the staffers into sharing their true feelings about Bill, who fumes that she is late interviewing him. Bill then invites the staff over to watch the completed interview on television.
- Bill wants to book the Alexandria Brothers Tap Dancers on the show, but two of them have died. Lone survivor Tom appears on the show, tap dances, and expires during his big finish. Bill is upset enough to rant about the evils of television.
- Bill sees a picture of an attractive young flautist named Angela, falls in love with her instantly, and fanatically prods the staff to help him locate her. Meanwhile, Karl is annoyed that Bill doesn't respect his authority.
- Unseen station manager Wilkinson devastates Bill and the entire crew by suddenly announcing, through Karl Shub, that he is canceling the program and replacing it with reruns of "M*A*S*H."
- Bill goes too far in upbraiding Woody to the point of hurting his feelings and prompting him to quit his job, so makeup man Newdell jumps in and takes the job with no training.
- Despite strenuous objections from Bill, Karl, and Jo Jo, Wendy prepares an hourlong segment covering the nuclear-freeze initiative, and Newdell encourages her to use her feminine wiles to make the planned segment come to fruition.