PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS SDPB2-TV
College Behind Bars, the riveting four-part documentary film series directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, tells the story of a small group of incarcerated men and women struggling to earn college degrees and turn their lives around in one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in the United States – the Bard Prison Initiative. SDPB2: Sunday, June 14, 8pm (7 MT), Sunday, June 21, 8pm (7 MT) & Sunday, June 28, 8pm (7 MT) Learn. Dream. Grow.
Photo: unsettled.film
The six-part documentary series directed by Ken Burns and co-produced and written with Burns’ longtime colleague, Dayton Duncan, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. SDPB1: Sunday, June 7, 4:30pm (3:30 MT) SDPB2: Sunday, June 13, 2pm (1 MT); Saturday, June 20, 2pm (1 MT)
Photo: QT Luong Photo: Skiff Mountain Films
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Independent Lens ACORN and the Firestorm explores the politically charged battle to take down ACORN, a controversial national communityorganizing group. Working with lower income communities, the group was investigated by undercover journalists, cutting to the heart of the political divide. SDPB2: Wednesday, June 10, 7:30pm (6:30 MT)
Doc World Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America follows the stories of LGBT refugees and asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East as they flee persecution in their countries of origin for better and safer lives in the U.S. SDPB2: Sunday, June 28, 9pm (8 MT)
