Episodes
2. Refrigerator Mothers
July 16, 2002
60 min
It is America of the 1950s and 1960s, when a woman's most important contribution to society is generally considered to be her ability to raise happy, well-adjusted children. But for the mother whose child is diagnosed with autism, her life's purpose will soon become a twisted nightmare. Looking for help and support, she encounters instead a medical establishment that pins the blame for her child's bizarre behaviors on her supposedly frigid and detached mothering. Along with a heartbreaking label for her child, she receives a devastating label of her own. She is a "refrigerator mother". Refrigerator Mothers paints an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of professionally promoted "mother blame."
3. Fenceline: A Company Town Divided
July 23, 2002
60 min
How black and white populations in Norco, La., have responded to links between a refinery's activities and people's illnesses.
4. Sweet Old Song
July 30, 2002
60 min
Sweet Old Song is a 2002 documentary film directed by Leah Mahan.
6. Senorita Extraviada
August 20, 2002
60 min
Circumstances surrounding the discovery of the remains of more than 200 murdered girls in the desert around Juarez, Mexico.
7. Escuela
August 27, 2002
60 min
A Mexican-American migrant teenager's freshman year in high school and how she handled work, education and family life.
8. Afghanistan 1380
September 10, 2002
60 min
Surgeon Gino Strada and coordinator Kate Rowlands try to provide medical and humanitarian support to civilian victims of war in Afghanistan. (Dari, Italian and English with English subtitles)
11. Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
January 20, 2003
60 min
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin is a 2003 documentary film written by Marc Weiss and directed by Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer.
12. Two Towns of Jasper
January 22, 2023
60 min
Two film crews document the aftermath of the murder of a black man by three white men in 1998 and the trials of the men charged with the crime.
13. Flag Wars
June 17, 2003
A black community in Columbus, Ohio, struggles with cultural and legal conflicts while experiencing urban renewal.
