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Season 17 · Wattstax

1988★ 6.92004-09-07

Wattstax is a 1973 documentary film by Mel Stuart that focused on the 1972 Wattstax music festival and the African American community of Watts in Los Angeles, California. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Documentary Film in 1974. It was also screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.

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1Farmingville"In the current frigid national climate facing economic migrants, Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini enter the traumatized world of Farmingville, a previously unassuming Long Island suburb that witnessed the beating and attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers. What the filmmakers find is the very dangerous, two-edged sword of a growing national crisis: on the one side, the community's increasing population of undocumented aliens, who are crowding into single-family dwellings and assembling on early morning street corners, hoping to grab a day's wage; on the other, Farmingville's home-owning families, many of whom have lived there for generations and are watching what they envision as a bucolic little village slipping away."22 Haziran 2004
2War Feels Like WarWar Feels Like War is a 2004 British documentary film. It was broadcast in the United States as part of the P.O.V. series. For three months, Spanish filmmaker Esteban Manzanares Uyarra followed five reporters and photographers from Denmark, Norway, Poland, and the United States in Iraq. These journalists circumvented military media control to get access to a different perspective on the Iraq War. As the Coalition of the willing swept into Iraq, some journalists in Kuwait decided to travel in their wake, risking their lives to discover the impact of war on civilians. The journalists include best-selling author P.J. O'Rourke, who was working for ABC Radio, as well as reporters and photographers for news operations ranging from Poland's Radio Zet to Stephanie Sinclair, a photographer for the Chicago Tribune.06 Temmuz 2004
3ThirstGlobal corporations who buy up local water supplies and sell for profit, including a look at tensions in Bolivia, India and Stockton, Calif.13 Temmuz 2004
4Last Man Standing: Politics---Texas StyleWhat is old is often new again. Most funerals today are part of a multimillion-dollar industry run by professionals. This increased reliance on mortuaries has alienated Americans from life's only inevitability — death. A Family Undertaking explores the growing home funeral movement by following several families in their most intimate moments as they reclaim the end of life, forgoing a typical mortuary funeral to care for their loved ones at home. Far from being a radical innovation, keeping funeral rites in the family or among friends is exactly how death was handled for most of pre-20th century America. Prior to the Civil War, caring for and preparing the dead for burial on family farms or in local cemeteries was both a domestic skill and a family responsibility.20 Temmuz 2004
5A Family Undertaking5.0The movement to take the end of life process out of corporate funeral parlours and put it back into the family's hands.03 Ağustos 2004
6Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love StoryA profile of demolition-derby driver Ed "Speedo" Jager.24 Ağustos 2004
7Every Mother's SonThree New York mothers unite to seek justice for police brutality.17 Ağustos 2004
8Freedom MachinesFreedom Machines is a 2004 PBS/P.O.V. documentary that looks at disability in the age of technology, presenting intimate stories of people ages 8-93, whose talents and independence are being unleashed by access to modern, enabling technologies. Nearly twenty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the film reflects on the gaps between its promise and the realities for our largest minority group – 54,000,000 Americans with disabilities. Whether mainstream tools or inventions such as a stair climbing wheelchair, Freedom Machines examines the power of technology to change lives.14 Eylül 2004
9A Panther in AfricaPete O'Neal, a former leader of the Black Panthers, lives in exile in Tanzania.21 Eylül 2004
10Chisholm '72Shirley Chisholm's 1972 presidential bid.07 Şubat 2005
11The Education of Shelby KnoxTeenager Shelby Knox advocates sex education in the high schools of her hometown, Lubbock, Texas.21 Haziran 2005
12Big EnoughPhysical and emotional challenges faced by the dwarfs profiled in the 1982 film "Little People."28 Haziran 2005
13Lost Boys of SudanLost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America.28 Eylül 2004
14WattstaxWattstax is a 1973 documentary film by Mel Stuart that focused on the 1972 Wattstax music festival and the African American community of Watts in Los Angeles, California. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Documentary Film in 1974. It was also screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.07 Eylül 2004
15Episode 158.029 Haziran 2004
16Episode 1621 Eylül 2004

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