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- A comedian who hosts a news satire program decides to run for president, and a computerized voting machine malfunction gets him elected.
- From an Irish working-class family of cops and priests emerged an unlikely poet and Hollywood actor who lived and chronicled the front lines of social change.
- A film about black-owned businesses on U Street, known as "The Black Mecca". Family-owned businesses such as Lee's Flower Shop, family Owned Since 1910, Ben's Chili Bowl, family-owned since 1958, The Industrial Bank.
- A woman discovers a boy's corpse in the woods and begins having nightmares about seeing the murderer at the crime scene. Meanwhile, a reporter and police officer probe the case for physical evidence.
- It started as a Bible study and ended in murder. The Halstead murder case is presented along with other true stories about supernatural beings manifesting as angels from heaven, spirits of the dead, ascended masters and aliens.
- In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy. Critics accused him of recklessness, even murder. Others declared it the beginning of a medical revolution. "Burden of Genius" is the story of an innovator as complex and elusive as the biological secrets he unlocked. It is also a reflection on the price of scientific progress by the man many consider the greatest surgeon of the 20th century and the father of transplantation.
- For Love of a Fish is a story of a love triangle between a soldier, his wife...and her fish. Back from the battlefields in Iraq, Steve, a soldier, is trying to adjust to a life away from the war while also working to win back the woman he loves and her fish.
- October 31st begins like any other day. Adults go to work. Children go to school. But when night falls, the real party begins. That's when a young group of friends get together to tell some of the most twisted and terrifying stories imaginable. But as their stories begin to unfold, an unexpected dark side to their personalities is revealed...
- Based on a Trinidad and Tobago folklore, "Douen" is a horror film short that follows a woman who comes face-to-face with the collision of her dreams and reality, as she and her sister are haunted by the ghostly creatures. In the end, the storyteller teaches her grandchildren a lesson. Don't respond if they call your name.
- Jack J. Blanco, author of the Bible paraphrase The Clear Word, was born to a German immigrant in Chicago. Jack's father abandoned his mother during her pregnancy with Jack. Left to raise Jack on her own, his mother worked multiple jobs. Over the years, she had saved enough to visit family in Germany. After a few weeks, she had to return to the US to work, her father suggested she leave Jack, nearly 10, on the family farm for the summer to work and grow stronger. In 1939 World War II began and Jack was unable to go home as planned. America declared war on Germany in 1941, and Jack was placed in a labor camp. He miraculously escaped, only to be turned away by his grandfather and forced back to the camp. After his second escape, he eventually returned to the United States with hundreds of post-war immigrants. He reunited with his mom, working in his stepfather's café. Jack went back to school and discovered a lifelong love for education. Having turned his back on religion, Jack became a skeptic of anything spiritual. Upon learning that he was to be drafted, he joined the Air Force and was stationed on Guam. While his friends partied, he began reading everything available. At the prompting of a friend, he read the Bible and discovered a Father who cared about him. Jack gave his life to God and through a series of miracles became a professor, missionary and theologian. "I never grew up with a father," Blanco says. "My hope is that this film will tell the story of how my Heavenly Father found me. Sometimes when I pray, I call Him 'Dad.' He's my Dad!" The Jack Blanco Story includes personal interviews from the real-life locations with Dr. Jack Blanco retelling his experience of the intervention of God in his life.
- In this exclusive, original CuriosityStream documentary series, doctors, chefs and nutritionists weigh in on how changes in diet can positively affect health and longevity.
- Max and Harry, as well as Kayla and Velma, are struggling to find ways to pay for their last year in college. At a lecture on Civil War history, Harry and Velma are reminded of their own family's Civil War history. When the lecture notes reaches the end of the war, and discusses the legends of gold buried in the chaos, they latch on finding it as a way to pay for their education. Kayla and Velma keep finding their research being overlapped. They catch Max and Harry in their parallel investigation. After a rocky start, the pairs join forces. Now they have to account for over 150 years of history in order to find the one square foot patch of ground where the treasure may be buried.
- A man's entry into the world of pornographic film soon leads to fame, but also a world of drugs, crime and depravity.
- Documentary history of one of Washington, DC's oldest and most important suburbs, founded by a member of President Andrew Jackson's cabinet, mainline stop on the historic B&O railroad, way station for Presidents and U.S. government officials, hometown of famous journalists, writers, and celebrities, home of one of the first modern shopping centers in U.S. History, and headquarters of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, which played a pivotal role in World War Two weaponry.
- Two cyber criminals, Mosi and Sam, stumble upon a human trafficking operation run by Dr. Akoda who uses an urgent care facility as a front. When Mosi decides to intervene and rescue a victim, they discover a threat far more dangerous than the law enforcement they're always trying to dodge.
- A provocative anthology of the veiled realities of postmodern black America exposing race, culture, and society.
- Renowned financial advisor Ric Edelman, Barron's top financial advisor for 3 consecutive years, guides viewers through the explosive growth in exponential technology, and the impact of that growth on their personal finances. Covering every topic from preparing for the jobs of the future to providing for a secure future even if you live to be 120, Edelman makes the future less scary for viewers and gives them the information they need to make smart choices. A project eight years in the making, this Public TV Pledge special is based on Edelman's NY Times Business bestseller The Truth About Your Future. Edelman has gleaned the most salient information from dozens of high profile thinkers in the worlds of technology, medicine and finance to help viewers navigate the rapidly evolving future, and to make prudent financial decisions now to live the lifestyle they want in the future. In Ric Edelman's The Truth About Your Future, Ric Edelman makes the information accessible to average viewers, and provides a road map for them to achieve their goals. Viewers will be inspired by the rapidly evolving technological changes they face, and will also be inspired to make actionable decisions based on the information they receive.
- Desperate to fit in, Elizabeth will do just about anything to be a part of the coolest clique at school. But when group members Brittany and Lorna devise a mean-spirited Halloween initiation for Elizabeth, they get more than they bargained for.
- In March of 2008, 250 veterans and active duty soldiers marked the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by gathering in Washington, DC to testify from their own experience about the nature of the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Inspired by the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation held by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, they too sought to express their opposition to those wars with their first-hand accounts, bearing witness with voices not generally heard. Our documentary is a portrait of three participants. If follows their lives for 6 weeks leading to the even and afterward; an active duty female soldier, a 9 year National Guard Veteran, and a 3 tour former Marine. This is their story.
- When an after-hours Lyft Driver (Orlando Suazo, Jr.) picks up a mysterious passenger (Melanie Crespo), he finds himself on the wrong end of an unfolding, tragic story.