John Lee was a teenage runaway who never went to school and who spent years working in a factory before becoming one of the most prolific Blues artists of all times. An inside look to the life and times of this Blues legend and the music that influenced a rising generation of rockers.

When future filmmaker Rosie, age twelve, decides to make a documentary about the miracles in her town in hopes of connecting with the father she never knew, she discovers what true magic is. Includes recipes.

What secrets have been passed down to each United States president? The fascinating truths behind some of the most confidential secrets in American history. Interviews with former intelligence operatives, renowned historians and archivists show how classified information is treated in the highest circles of political power, how it's preserved throughout history, and who ensures continuity when a new leader is elected.

Features the paintings, drawings, and sculptures of ballet dancers created by Edgar Degas.

The Copts, the native Christian community of Egypt, have a culture, a language, and a church with ancient roots. Having survived Roman persecution and Byzantine rule, they have co-existed with Islam for fourteen centuries. The program visits two of the oldest desert monasteries in Egypt to observe religious practices and a way of life that have changed remarkably little since the beginnings of Coptic Christianity. It also explores the religion's iconography...

Filmed in 1968, was the first and only film produced about The Doors by The Doors. It offers a cinematic look at The Doors on the road during their summer '68 tour. Concert performances are intercut with fly-on-the-wall footage of the group in their natural habitat, sometimes playful, sensitive, chaotic and touching.

Over half a million people are homeless in the United States; 25% of whom are in California. Amid public outcry over the ballooning homeless population in Los Angeles, nearly 54,000 people on any given night three advocates with three different organizations show what the lost ideal of 'care in the community' looks like amid a changing policy landscape. Intensely human and humanizing, the film provides a sweeping look at the historic and current causes...

Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progresses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.

A series of strange coincidences seem to indicate that the mysterious apparitions of Fatima have changed the course of history of the last 100 years... If so, could the message of Fatima give us clues about our future? This is one of the key questions dealt with in the new documentary "Fatima: The Ultimate Mystery". Based on real data and opinions from top experts, the film reveals previously ignored events and offers an exciting global vision.

As employers struggle to compete in the global economy, the debates regarding unemployment, debt ceilings, and the trade deficit rage on in our nation's capital. To many Americans, it feels like there is no one fighting for American jobs, especially the jobs in manufacturing. Fortunately, people are making a difference by doing their part in their local communities.