Spanning nearly nine decades from the 1930s to the present, THE ROAD TO MOTHER is a sweeping yet personal epic that follows several generations of a Kazakh family that is determined to stay united through war, famine, collectivization, and separation. Focusing on a young man who is torn away from his mother by upheaval of war, he is forced to endure harrowing experiences from childhood into adulthood without her to protect him. Kazakhstan’s official...

Cole Baird appears to have everything, but behind the façade he’s trapped by his surroundings and falling behind in pursuit of his life’s dream. He now has a choice: continue a life to which he never aspired or follow the path to fulfillment.

The road to Brown tells the story of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling as the culmination of a brilliant legal assault on segregation that launched the Civil Rights movement. It is also a moving and long overdue tribute to a visionary but little known black lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, "the man who killed Jim Crow." The road to Brown plunges us into the nightmare world of Jim Crow that robbed former slaves of the rights granted by the 14th...

A unique tour through the South reveals the power of place-based learning in understand the Civil Rights Movement. Does the arc of history truly bend towards justice? And what does justice mean, when the problems of our past are only a grandparent away? How can we heal as a nation without honestly engaging with our history? THE ROAD TO JUSTICE follows two groups on a civil rights tour through the American South as they reckon with the country’s...

Although the war in Ukraine continues to dominate all the headlines, many have forgotten that a war had already been raging in Donbas for the past eight years. UKRAINE: THE ROAD TO WAR traces that geopolitical history of the Ukrainian conflict from 2014 onward, uncovering its roots in history. Mingling geopolitical and intimate narratives, this documentary brings to new light the origins of this war at Europe's gates. With access to top officials...

This 2-hour special, narrated by Deon Cole, gives a fresh perspective of the black movement in America, from Emancipation to the Civil Rights era.

"Let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away." - Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mount Rushmore. Towering above the Black Hills of South Dakota stands America's most treasured monument...a crowning testament to the great leaders who symbolize...

Hard problems documents the formation of the 2006 U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) team, showing how high school students are selected, train, and then compete with students from 90 countries in the 2006 IMO. Produced in association with the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), with support from Ellington Management Group, LLC, The Penn Oberlander Family Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.

Journey through some of the best-known styles and voices of Japanese poetry. You'll start with the oldest surviving Japanese poems and follow the development of tanka, the classical five-line form, and renga, a single poem written by multiple poets. We conclude with the master poet Basho and the emergence of haiku, now Japan's most famous and popular form of poetry.

First, follow the rise of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda during the final decades of the 20th century and the dawn of the terrorist organization’s war with the United States. Then, Professor Wilford addresses the provocative question of why the CIA failed to predict (or disrupt) the terrorist attacks of September 11.