SDPB-TV World February Highlights

Power to Heal: Medicare & the Civil Rights Revolution

This documentary chronicles the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that racially desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country, all in a matter of months in 1966.

SDPB2: Thursday, February 14, 8pm (7 MT)

Independent Lens: People’s Republic of Desire

Meet a generation of young people in China who have come of age online, where virtual relationships are replacing real-life connections. Both the wealthy and the poor gather in online showrooms to worship idols who sing karaoke or host talk shows.

SDPB2: Wednesday, February 27, 6:30 & 11pm (5:30 & 10 MT)

On Story: Deconstructing Jane Austen

The filmmakers behind Sense and Sensibility, The Jane Austen Book Club, and the Lizzie Bennet Diaries discuss the timelessness and relateability of Jane Austen’s characters, from the jealousies, the romances, the desire to improve one’s status, and, of course, Mr. Darcy.

SDPB2: Monday, February 18, 5:30pm (4:30 MT)

America ReFramed: 70 Acres in Chicago

Explore the effects of Chicago’s 1.5 billion dollar Plan for Transformation, an order requiring the demolition of the city’s public housing high rises, and the building of mixed-income condominiums. The film chronicles the demolitions at the Cabrini Green Homes, a development erected from 1942- 1961 as a housing solution from the working poor.

SDPB2: Tuesday, February 5, 7 & 11pm (6 & 10 MT)