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  • Feb 3, 2020

Summary Celebrate independent films with this Emmy award-winning PBS series. Each week spotlights new documentaries, dramas, shorts and other cinematic artistry by different filmmaking visionaries.

Directed By: Judith Helfand

  • PBS
  • Feb 3, 2020
  • PBS
  • Feb 3, 2020
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S21 • Episode 8
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Air Date: Feb 3, 2020
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Summary Celebrate independent films with this Emmy award-winning PBS series. Each week spotlights new documentaries, dramas, shorts and other cinematic artistry by different filmmaking visionaries.

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Episode 1 • Oct 28, 2019
Made in Boise
Four surrogates and the parents-to-be navigate pregnancy and the mixed emotions of their families who worry about the potential physical and emotional complications of carrying babies for someone else.
Episode 2 • Nov 4, 2019
Decade of Fire
Community leaders unite to save their neighborhoods after an epidemic of fires rage through the South Bronx in the 1970s.
Episode 3 • Nov 11, 2019
The Interpreters
Thousands of local interpreters who helped U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan seek safety in the aftermath of war.
Episode 4 • Nov 18, 2019
Conscience Point; Jewel's Hunt
Episode 5 • Dec 16, 2019
Attla
Episode 6 • Jan 20, 2020
Accept the Call
Episode 7 • Jan 27, 2020
The First Rainbow Coalition
Episode 8 • Feb 3, 2020
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
The July 1995 heat wave in Chicago claimed 739 lives in a single week, and became the most traumatic heat wave in U.S. history..
Episode 9 • Feb 10, 2020
Leftover Women
Episode 10 • Feb 17, 2020
We Believe in Dinosaurs
Episode 11 • Feb 24, 2020 • 1 h 26 m
Always in Season
Episode 12 • Mar 30, 2020
One Child Nation
Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang investigates the untold history of China's one-child policy, including its impact on generations of mothers and children.
Episode 13 • Apr 13, 2020
Bedlam
Psychiatrist Kenneth Rosenberg visits emergency rooms, jails, and homeless camps, to investigate the national health crisis of mental illness.
Episode 14 • Apr 20, 2020
The Hottest August
Anxieties, distractions, and survival strategies of New York residents during August 2017, a month intensified by the tension of a new president, rising rent, marching white nationalists, and stories of wildfires and hurricanes.
Episode 15 • Apr 27, 2020
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Immunologist Jim Allison discovers a new way to use the immune system to help defeat cancer.
Episode 16 • May 11, 2020
Rewind
Episode 17 • May 25, 2020
Eating Up Easter
Episode 18 • Jun 15, 2020
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Episode 19 • Jun 22, 2020
Pipe Dreams
Episode 20 • Aug 31, 2020
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Filmmaker Morgan Neville examines the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of the popular children's TV show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."
Episode 21 • Sep 21, 2020
Driver Radio: Jamaica
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