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The Education Channel's Documentary Showcase

The Education Channel's Documentary Showcase presents programs from throughout the world. The showcase opens windows on a wide variety of topics such as different civilizations, architecture, arts, engineering, freedom, natural disasters, landmarks, the beauty of nature, NASA, human rights, and the disappearing wilderness. A new documentary airs every Monday at 10 PM and replays every Wednesday at 9 PM.

Documentary: Two Men, Twelve Drawings

Monday, August 30, 10:00 PM (replays: 9/1- 9 PM)

This film tells the story of the reaction and response to the publication, by Danish newspaper, jyllands-Posten, of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed. The story focuses on The "democratic Muslim" Naser Khader and spokesman for 27 Muslim organisations, Ahmed Akkari. Danish flags were in flames all over the world, while one stormed forward in the opinion polls, and the other was one of the most unpopular men in the country. But what took place behind news stories and TV spots?

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Documentary: Why Do these Kids Love School?

Monday, September 6, 10:00 PM (replays 9/8 - 9:00 PM)

This award-winning film features nine unique schools, both public and private, California to East Harlem. In these unique schools relationship, creative thinking, and direct experience are valued above memorization of facts. As we struggle with issues of how to provide a quality education for all children, we might look to these successful schools where teachers, students, parents and administrators are involved in creating supportive educational environments.

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Film: Chinese School: Year of the Golden Pig

Monday, September 13, 10:00 PM (replays: 9/15- 9:00 PM)

There are 350 million children enrolled in further education across China, but Chinese School takes as its subject one small town in rural Anhui, and focuses on the lives of a group of families, teachers and children during the course of a single academic year. They are schools like many thousands of others across this vast nation, but through the individual stories of hardship, joy and success, an extraordinary portrait emerges of a Nation, a town and a group of children in the midst of enormous change.

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Documentary: Intimidad

Monday, September 20, 10:00 PM (replays: 9/22- 9 PM)

Cecy and Camilo – ages 21 – recently migrated to Reynosa, Mexico from Santa Maria, Puebla with a dream to buy land and build a home. One year later they return to Puebla during Christmas vacation to reunite with their daughter. The goal for the two to get their daughter back to them emotionally and physically becomes the most gut wrenching journey as they face the plan of earning the money for the land may take decades while their daughter is slowly growing away from them and may not want to go back home with them at all, when all is said and done. “Intimidad” is a very barebones and gentle story about trying to find some sense of accomplishment in a world that asks so much and gives little in returns. The ultimate pay off is brilliantly poetic and gentle in its way leaving the audience with a definite message that sometimes all we need is family and even the biggest dreams can sometimes come true, even if they’re not how we originally planned.

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Documentary: A Little Salsa on the Prairie

Monday, September 27, 10:00 PM (replays: 9/29- 9 PM)

A Little Salsa on the Prairie: The Changing Character of Perry, Iowa explores the significant change that began in Perry in the early 1990s when the complexion of a once predominantly white community shifted dramatically. An influx of Latino workers and their families came from as far away as Texas, California, Mexico and Central America to work at the local meat packing plant. Perry's Latino population increased from 47 in 1990 to 1,873 in 2000, accounting for 24.5 percent of the total population.

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