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- Soundbreaking explores the history of recorded music. Featuring more than 150 original interviews, the series charts a century's worth of innovation and experimentation, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the birth of brand new sounds.
- Now known internationally as the world's first "gay hometown," San Francisco's Castro District was a quiet, working-class neighborhood of European immigrants only a few decades ago. In this documentary, the story of the Castro's transformation is told by those who lived it, young and old, straight and gay. It's a tale of social upheaval, exuberant street culture, political assassination, and the inspiring coming-of-age of an entire community an ongoing saga even today.
- One of the most extraordinary civic buildings in America, San Francisco's City Hall rose from the rubble of the 1906 earthquake to become both the symbol of a resilient citizenry and the epicenter of a city in constant change. "The People's Palace" commemorates this remarkable piece of architecture and the dramatic events that have taken place under its dome: labor strife, political assassinations, civil rights struggles, and celebrations that have forged the character of contemporary San Francisco. Featuring interviews with mayors, journalists, scholars, and everyday citizens who have witnessed history within its walls.
- Relive the dazzling show stopping songs, dances and production numbers from some of your favorite Broadway musicals. Great Broadway Musical Moments from The Ed Sullivan Show brings you legendary musical entertainment performed by a galaxy of great Broadway stars like Ethel Merman in "Annie Get Your Gun," John Raitt in "Oklahoma!," Julie Andrews in "Camelot," and more! This exciting event includes exclusive interviews with legends Shirley Jones, Joel Grey, and Rex Reed.
- After graduating high school in 1990 and working a series of unfulfilling jobs, Monica Ortiz felt that she needed to do something purposeful with her life so she enlisted in the United States Navy. Following in her grandfather's footsteps, Ortiz learned the importance of teamwork and what it means to reach outside of one's comfort zone which helped her achieve status as a 3.8 sailor (or a "must promote").
- Thousands of tourists flock through its streets every day; its curio shops, all-night restaurants and crowded alleys have been celebrated from Broadway to Hollywood. But few people know the human drama and history that are hidden in the streets and faces of San Francisco's Chinatown. This one-hour documentary tells the neighborhood's story from the point of view of those who have lived their lives there, from the first immigrants who came to "Gold Mountain" in search of work and wealth, through the pain of a century of isolation and racism, to the recent arrivals who even today are revitalizing America's gateway.
- The story of San Francisco's oldest neighborhood, from Native American village, to Spanish Mission, to Gold Rush boomtown, to the dynamic changes of the 1990's. The documentary follows the neighborhood's many incarnations as a landing place for new immigrants, including its important role in the Irish and labor history of the city, through its emergence after World War II as one of the country's most vibrant centers of Latino culture and identity.
- J-Setting: From Southern HBCUs to the Clubs of Atlanta. J-Sette dancers bring energy, precision and stunts to the floor, and the Dance Champz of Atlanta are trying to take this underground LGBTQ+ art form to the next level.
- Since Korean-born performance artist Dohee Lee's arrival to the Bay Area in 2002, she's been a force on the traditional and contemporary performing arts scenes - from her work with the Korean Youth Cultural Center to collaborating with experimental dance pioneer Anna Halprin and performing with Kronos Quartet. The 42-year-old native of South Korea's Jeju Island has also been a vital connector for other struggling immigrant and refugee communities. "Even though we are all different people from different countries, coming here to build new home and community, and everything as a human being, is the same," says Lee. In Korea, Lee studied traditional dance and music rooted in ancient Shamanistic ritual. When Lee toured the Bay Area as a guest performer in 2000, she was captivated by the freedom and spirit of experimentation she felt here, and two years later decided to emigrate here. Today her work often incorporates improvised movement, electronic music and video projections, creating an amalgam of old and new. "I'm reaching for an unknown place, while respecting my history," says Lee. For Ara Ritual II: Time Weaves, staged at Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland earlier this year, Lee partnered with the Bay Area Bhutanese Youth group and the immigrant and refugee artists collective CoRazOn. In a series of workshops Lee organized and led, participants explored through movement, drawing and singing how home connects to the physical body, land and ocean. "My experience working with Dohee has been very empowering and a deep healing process," says Robin Gurung, a refugee from Bhutan. "It has helped me find my voice."
- Nijla Mu'min didn't grow up with much media that reflected her experience as an African-American Muslim woman, so she created her own. Her semi-autobiographical film, Jinn, follows a teen girl named Summer as she navigates friendship, love, sexuality-and all the confusing territory that comes with being a teenager-while adjusting to her mom's newfound Islamic faith. "I love the African-American Muslim community I was born into, but just like many teenage girls and teenagers, I began to question a lot as I got older," says Mu'min, who was born and raised in the East Bay and attended masjid in East Oakland. After Summer's mom converts to Islam, her expectations of her daughter clash with Summer's lived reality as a high schooler in Los Angeles, where Mu'min shot the film. Questions of family and belonging, faith and community arise as Summer attempts to balance her religion and the pressures of being a teen-something Mu'min went through as a young girl in Hayward, though she says her parents weren't quite as strict. Mu'min, whose directorial credits include Oprah's hit series Queen Sugar, addresses these threads of inquiry with skill; her characters don't have all the answers, and the messy ways they respond to their complex circumstances makes them feel all the more human.
- Marv Tuttle is a Vietnam War veteran who served in the army. When Marv was hospitalized for paraplegia, he was introduced to Canine Companions for Independence, a company that provides service dogs to disabled persons. Yara, Marv's current service dog helps him with day-to-day life, he says, and "is probably the main reason I am here today." By the time dogs from Canine Companions graduate, they will have been taught over forty commands. These skills and the match-making process the company provides have helped to lessen the hardships veterans with physical disabilities face; such is the case with Marv.
- J-Setting: From Southern HBCUs to the Clubs of Atlanta. J-Sette dancers bring energy, precision and stunts to the floor, and the Dance Champz of Atlanta are trying to take this underground LGBTQ+ art form to the next level.
- Marv Tuttle is a Vietnam War veteran who served in the army. When Marv was hospitalized for paraplegia, he was introduced to Canine Companions for Independence, a company that provides service dogs to disabled persons. Yara, Marv's current service dog helps him with day-to-day life, he says, and "is probably the main reason I am here today." By the time dogs from Canine Companions graduate, they will have been taught over forty commands. These skills and the match-making process the company provides have helped to lessen the hardships veterans with physical disabilities face; such is the case with Marv.