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- Corporations, billionaires and free-market ideologues see dollar signs when they look at American public schools. Dark money contributors are funding free-market reformers to take over local school boards and transform American public education into a business. As a result, billions of tax dollars are being diverted away from public school children under the banner of "school choice." Education Inc. uncovers the money trail while parents, teachers and students across the country fight back.
- A professional company of actors with disabilities defies expectations by taking center stage in Chicago the musical.
- Beyond Standing Rock is a timely new documentary that shines a spotlight on the conflict surrounding the Dakota Access pipeline and the struggle for Native American rights against the backdrop of a new Trump administration. Over the course of this past fall thousands of tribal and non-Indian protesters traveled from all corners of the country and the globe to push back against the pipeline project. Dramatic confrontations between Native American protesters and riot-clad law enforcement became an international symbol for Native Americans' fight for sovereignty and self-determination over its own lands.
- The deadly siege at the US Capitol is rooted in an ocean of anger and baseless conspiracy theories. And the vanishing of more than 2,000 newspapers across the country has led to vacuum of trusted information and an epidemic of misinformation. News Matters explores the roots of dangerous misinformation, complicated by the slow destruction of the Fourth Estate. News Matters follows the desperate attempt by Colorado journalists to save the 125-year-old Denver Post from certain death by vulture investor/owner Alden Global Capital, while trying to cut through the noise of social media and opinion news outlets. Chuck Plunkett captures national attention when he leads a revolt against The Denver Post's hedge fund owners, all while the newspaper industry crumbles and while journalists are being called the enemy of the people. The Denver Post is in crisis. Colorado's 125-year-old newspaper is being slowly killed off, not by the internet and the onslaught of free information. The Post is being killed off by its owners. Alden Global Capital, a New York City based hedge fund owns a majority share in the company that operates the Denver Post. Instead of reinvesting profits, Alden is siphoning those profits away from the newspaper, forcing layoffs on the newsroom. Now, the paper is in its death throws, struggling to operate under a skeleton crew. News Matters is a new documentary film that chronicles the dramatic events in trying to save The Denver Post and protect journalism in American democracy. A courageous group of journalists are now banding together to try and save The Denver Post in a hail Mary pass. The Paper's own editorial editor, Chuck Plunkett, ignited a rebellion after publishing an editorial calling out The Post's owners as "vulture capitalists," and urging them to sell the newspaper to someone who cares about news. That editorial ended up on the front page of the New York Times editorial page. Since then, journalists, community leaders and local investors have been gathering in a bold attempt to convince Alden to sell The Denver Post, while publicly criticizing and even protesting. Journalists became activists, walking out of the Post marching and carrying signs. Some even traveled to Alden's headquarters in New York City to protest. News Matters follows Chuck Plunkett and a band of journalists through their paces as they fight to keep their The Post alive in an era of fake news and biased media. The film will take a close look at how newspapers have reinvented themselves over past decade to profitably compete on the internet. And the film will investigate the dangerous trend in hedge fund ownership of newspapers and how that ownership often spells death for the papers all-across the country. The film paints a national picture by looking at several other newspapers that have already folded under what's been described as "cigar butt investing." News Matters includes commentary from national news leaders like Washington Post Editor in Chief, Marty Baron. The film will look at success stories like The Washington Post and how it is thriving. The film will also look a "tale of twin cities," a dramatic example in contrast where The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is prosperous and profitable, while its once rival St. Paul Pioneer Press (Alden-owned) is in its death throws, just like The Denver Post. News Matters traces the history of how so many newspapers have gotten to this vulnerable state, pointing to publishers making unrealistic promises to Wall Street investors 30 years ago. Finally, News Matters reminds viewers of the critical importance of newspapers and solid journalism in an open and free democracy. "When newspapers go down, corruption goes up," says Ken Paulson, the CEO of the Freedom Forum Institute. Following a generation of deregulation that have allowed mega-corporations to merge and consolidate newspapers, radio and television stations, there are fewer independent and trusted voices to deliver the important news and issues to communities around the country. And with far less local ownership of these news outlets, meaningful community engagement often wanes, replaced by slick marketing and profit. News Matters presents a cautionary tale and candid reflection of the state of America's Fourth Estate.
- Mike Bauer was born to be fast and chased his dreams - from acting and singing to motor sports - until a tragic motorcycle accident left him paralyzed and on the verge of suicide. When he meets Dr. Scott Falci, a rehabilitative neurosurgeon and an amateur racing enthusiast who recognizes Mike's potential as a driver, they venture into the uncharted territory of designing a race car with adaptive controls designed for the paraplegic driver. Will climbing behind the wheel of this new race car be enough to bring mike back from the brink?
- For the first time, survivors of America's most serious nuclear weapons accidents speak publicly about their experiences.
- An examination of the current state of political polarization in the United States of the America.
- Sam Schmidt lived out his boyhood dream as an IndyCar racer, winning races and earning the title of IndyCar "Rookie of the Year" along the way. That dream came to an abrupt end when Sam crashed into a wall at 200 miles per hour, leaving him a quadriplegic. Reengineering SAM pulls the curtain back and shows up close the serious implications of a life of paralysis on Sam and everyone around him. Sam's accident rendered him physically helpless, never being able to brush his teeth, much less drive again, until a dedicated group of some of the brightest minds today stepped up to build him a car that he could drive, using only his head. Through groundbreaking adaptive technologies, Reengineering SAM chronicles Sam Schmidt's inspirational road back to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and shows the promise of freedom and mobility for almost anyone confined to a wheelchair.
- 1998–201150mUnratedTV EpisodeThe Black Legion was a secret organization of the 1930s, responsible for hate crimes that terrorized the Midwest. Its demise was dramatized in the 1937 motion picture "The Black Legion" starring Humphrey Bogart.