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Can we be scared into the sacred? Can we take the trials of extreme historical situations and transform them into a force of awakening? Or will we succumb to groundlessness and fear? The film takes viewers on a journey to the pivotal ground zero sites of some of the darkest moments in human history: places like Bosnia, Wounded Knee, Auschwitz, Hiroshima, New York City, and Afghanistan. Award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper confronts horror and heartbreak...
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In 1936, Mussolini was on top of the world. In 1945, he was on the business end of Partisan machine guns. By what process did the man who aspired to Roman-style supremacy finally pay the piper? This program looks at the latter period of Italian Fascism, from the height of Mussolini's reign to his fall from power and his death. Using colorized historical footage and reenactments, the film addresses Mussolini's attempts to inculcate Fascism through...
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This episode of The Green Interview features Mark Boyle, who defied the odds when he launched an experiment to live for one year without spending any money. Nearly three years later, he remains the "moneyless man," living a subsistence lifestyle in Sussex, England. Boyle's first book, The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living (2010) chronicles his first year living without money. His second book, The Moneyless Manifesto (2012), delves more deeply...
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The infamous 18 are El Salvador's biggest gang. The members battle with the rival MS13 for control of the drug market. They charge rent to local businesses and kill those who don't pay. They are teenagers, the orphans of civil war, born in the heat of battle and unfazed by death. MS13 and the 18 together form the world's biggest multinational gang. Padre, a local priest says, "If Christ had been born here he'd have been high-risk…born poor and with...