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- FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity-more compelling than fiction, it's the real story behind America's longest war. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marc Levin (SLAM, Mr. Untouchable, Brick City) exposes how the infiltration of crack cocaine destroyed inner-city neighborhoods across the country. At the center of it all is the rise, fall and redemption of Freeway Rick Ross, a street hustler who became the King of Crack, and journalist Gary Webb, who broke the story of the CIA's complicity in the drug war. Featuring exclusive interviews with Freeway Rick Ross, not to be confused with the rapper who took his name Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb, his source Coral Baca, and wife Susan Webb former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Roberto Juarez drug trafficker Julio Zavala and many more. The real Rick Ross is not a rapper. He's an urban legend in South Central LA, a black godfather figure whom most people have never seen, but know by name and reputation. He's 'Freeway' Rick Ross, the man who stood at the center of the crack epidemic, and whose name has been inextricably linked to the CIA-Contra-Cocaine connection. His story defies all odds and stereotypes and proves that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
- Six average Americans are confronted with the realities of illegal immigration while retracing the footsteps of dead border runners.
- Hard Earned, a six-part documentary series for Al Jazeera America, follows five families around the country to find out what it takes to get by on 8, 10, or even 17 dollars an hour.
- With the rapid emergence of digital devices, an unstoppable, invisible force is changing human lives in ways from the microscopic to the gargantuan: Big Data, a word that was barely used a few years ago but now governs the day for many of us from the moment we awaken to the extinguishing of the final late-evening light bulb. This massive gathering and analyzing of data in real time is allowing us to not only address some of humanity biggest challenges but is also helping create a new kind of planetary nervous system. Yet as Edward Snowden and the release of the Prism documents have shown, the accessibility of all these data comes at a steep price. The Human Face of Big Data captures the promise and peril of this extraordinary knowledge revolution.
- 200650mNot Rated6.3 (115)VideoA look at America's contemporary predilection for superficial patriotic symbolism via consumerism.
- In this groundbreaking new series airing on Al Jazeera America, The System with Joe Berlinger, award-winning documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger explores the state of our justice system. Berlinger personally guides us through a suspenseful journey as he doggedly searches for the truth where others have not found it or didn't care to look. Every episode explores one of the most pressing issues of the criminal justice system - flawed forensics, faulty eyewitness testimony, juvenile justice, prosecutorial misconduct, mandatory sentencing, among others - through the lens of controversial and dramatic cases that both distill the issues and speak to their larger implications for the system and society itself.
- Through unique access to the President, his inner circle and his political rivals this four-part series tells the story of how Barack Obama tried to reshape the United States and the cost to himself, his party and the nation.
- Daisy Gomez is a family counselor in South L.A. married to Max, a gang interventionist. They have a baby daughter, Sarah. They are doing what they can to reduce violence in their troubled neighborhood. But one night, Max is arrested in an FBI and LAPD raid. He faces an extended prison term. County social services take charge of the child. How can Daisy prove her innocence and regain custody of her baby?
- A documentary showing the events and preparation of Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia.
- Is it worth it? Three unique stories look at the work and sacrifice that goes into pursuing athletic dreams in America.
- One of the few remaining authentic american cowboys stuggles to live a traditional lifestyle in a modernizing world.
- During the final year of an unprecedented national effort to end military veteran homelessness, two-time Academy Award winning director Barbara Kopple intimately documents the on-the-ground work of the veteran-founded community-based service organization, Veterans Resource Center, in Northern California. Sharing the struggles of those they seek to pull out of a life lived on the streets, "Shelter" tells a story of vets saving vets, delving into the psychological trauma created by military service, the effects that remain long after active duty, and the difficult road back to a normal life for these women and men.
- At a morgue near the Mexico border, a frontier medical examiner tasks six Americans with retracing the footsteps of three migrants who died trying to cross the border.
- This documentary looks into the reasons why women are the fastest-growing group in the US prison system, with more than 200,000 women behind bars--many of them serving long sentences for non-violent crimes such as drug possession--and speaks with current and former inmates and prison and corrections officials.
- A high school senior in Ohio awaits a message from God about whether to become a missionary or go to college in the fall. A talented young dancer struggles with body image as she dreams of getting into a competitive college dance program. A gay teen in New Jersey thrives at school but longs for his conservative, Dominican father to accept him at home.
- Angela Lee is auditioning for competitive college dance programs with the hope of someday becoming a professional dancer. After receiving a letter from the University of Arizona dance program, she learns that she has not been accepted. Though her confidence is shaken, she eagerly anticipates an acceptance letter from her dream school, SUNY Purchase. Christina McVay lives in rural Barbourville, Kentucky, a town where poverty and drug addiction have gripped a large portion of the community. At just 17, she is five months pregnant and lives with the baby's father Les and his mother. Though Christina has been separated from her own mother due to drug addiction and lost her father in the Iraq War, she considers herself lucky because Les has a decent job and they plan to get married. She hopes to go to college but her new baby may put that plan on hold. Maurice Massonburg lives on the south side of Chicago, which is often called "Chi-raq" due to the wave of gun violence sweeping across the city. Despite the distractions and bad influences in his neighborhood, Maurice attends a charter school committed to helping underprivileged students go to college. This doesn't reduce the mounting pressure he feels to become the first in his family to graduate from high school and attend college.
- Maurice Massonburg, once a promising student, has all but abandoned his college dreams, resigning himself to the hard knocks of life on the west side of Chicago. Despite impassioned pleas from both his guidance counselor and mother, Maurice remains fixed to his downward spiral of smoking weed and slacking off at school. Rachel Lemmons is a straight "A" student who prides herself on defying the stereotype of being a "dumb blond." Having been bullied at her previous school, Rachel works every day to rebuild her life - making new friends, getting past her depression, working to get into the college of her dreams, but an unexpected pregnancy and continued to bullying may be too much for her to handle. Brandton Stokely lives with his grandparents in the rural town of Mosca, Colorado, where he tends to the family alligator farm. Although he's at the top of his senior class (albeit one with only nineteen students), but the lack of school guidance and absent parents leads him to only applying to two top universities - a pretty big gamble in the current admissions environment. Brandton longs to escape his small town and to live somewhere he can be "himself".
- Brandton Stokely is rejected from his dream school, Chapman University. He then eagerly awaits a letter from Colorado College, the only other school where he's applied. Though Brandton wants nothing more than to go to college, he worries constantly about his estranged mother and decides that if she wants him to stay in Mosca, he is willing to give up his dream. Vasthy Lamadrid is a good student, who dreams of going to college, but her family is poor and her undocumented status limits her financial aid opportunities, which may prevent Vasthy from attending her preferred schools. She is surprised to learn from her guidance counselor that out-of-state schools award private scholarships for which she might be eligible. For the first time in her life, Vasthy considers leaving Arizona. "Brick" Howze chose to be homeschooled so he could pursue a career in entertainment. Brick is so involved in his work that he elected to be homeschooled instead of "wasting time" in high school and that college is not a necessity. Brick struggles to maintain a balance between school work, his girlfriend, and his career but his decisions to focus on his relationship may ultimately threaten his entrepreneurial dream.
- Vasthy Lamadrid struggling with pursuing her dreams of attending an out of state college and fulfilling her parents' desires to keep her close to home. She discovers that even though she's a good student with over 600 hours of community service, her scholarship options in Arizona are extremely limited due to her undocumented status. The only college willing to accept her is a brand new school that seems extremely limited academically. Hanoy Urtarte thought his father was on the road to accepting that he is gay, but when Hanoy tells his father that he may be taking a boy to prom, his dad puts his foot down. While considering the idea of attending a local community college, Hanoy begins to wonder whether he and his father will ever be able to reconcile or if he'll begin the next phase of his life without his father's support. Stephen Boyer is a young, promising filmmaker who attends a private Catholic school. He has won more student film festivals than any other high school student in the country, but when he applies to the top film schools, he has difficulty getting accepted. He's left wondering whether he should go to college or just pursue a professional career, considering he is beginning to be approached by industry professionals who are considering him for jobs as a screenwriter.
- Brandon McCauley is deciding whether to attend the University of Cincinnati or pursue ministry full-time after high school. He decides to ask his principal if he can deliver a graduation speech about Jesus, but knowing that the school has not always been receptive to his religious activities in the past, Brandon worries that he may miss his last opportunity to preach the word of God to his senior class. Marianna Sann is a motivated student at a magnet school in Philadelphia. When budget cuts start to impact her education, Marianna begins to realize that education may be the only way out of her dangerous South Philly neighborhood. As graduation nears, Marianna begins to wonder whether it is time to extend an olive branch to her mother to whom she hasn't spoken since her parents' divorce. Harold McCoo is the highest-ranking student and Battalion Commander at the Fishburne Military Academy boarding school. Many of Harold's friends will enlist in the military immediately after high school, while Harold must reflect on his concerns for them and his own feelings about war. After five years of being at the top of his game, Harold dreams of leaving Fishburne and pursuing a normal student life at Princeton, but he's under pressure from his peers to attend the Naval Academy or West Point after graduation.