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The Way We Get By

by Aron Gaudet

Premiere: November 11, 2009

Over the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting over 900,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine.

The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández

by Kieran Fitzgerald

Premiere: July 8, 2008

In 1997, U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas-Mexico border as part of the War on Drugs shot and killed Esequiel Hernández Jr.

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(Available now through October 30, 2009)

The Women Outside

by J.T.Orinne Takagi, Hye Jung Park

Premiere: July 16, 1996

A provocative, emotional journey into the lives of women who work in the brothels, bars and nightclubs around U.S. military bases in South Korea.

The Good Fight

by Noel Buckner, Mary Dore and Sam Sills

Premiere: August 9, 1988

Five years before the United States entered World War II, 3,200 Americans went off to Europe to fight the spread of fascism. At 18, 19 and 20 years old, they volunteered to risk their lives defending a democratically elected government in the Spanish Civil War. Fifty years later, in their own words, the survivors recount a vivid story of those years — and what's happened to them since.

Las Madres

by Susana Munoz, Lourdes Portillo

Premiere: August 2, 1988

During the late 1970s, tens of thousands of men, women and even children were abducted by the right-wing military government in Argentina. While most of the population was terrorized by these actions, a small group of mothers of the disappeared began staging weekly demonstrations to demand that their children be released and the kidnappers be brought to justice.