"The story of the mass exodus of Jews out of Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century and the titans of industry who made it possible"--

"Based on the true story of America's only leper colony, the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century. For Mirielle West, a 1920's socialite married to a silent film star, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home is an unimaginable fall from her intoxicatingly chic life of bootlegged champagne...

"More than 400 years before Columbus set sail in his three small ships to "discover" the New World, someone already had. In 985/6, a young Icelander named Bjarni Herjolfsson was sailing to Eirik the Red's newly founded colony in Greenland across the Denmark Strait. Contrary winds blew his merchant vessel wide of its destination, toward a land that was flat and covered with woods. Thus Did Europeans first sight a piece of North America. The irony is...

This series inspires children to think about the world: from the Bolivian Rain Forest Orchestra, a children's court in India, a monkey orphanage in the Amazon jungle, to mine clearing rats in Africa. These short programs will entertain and teach kids about the world in which they live. Mother of the Bonobos: Twelve years ago Claudine André founded the "Lola ya Bonobo" the "Paradise of the Bonobos." In this paradise Claudine and her staff raise orphan...

"Ana and her husband, Lucho, along with their two young children, have fled the financial and political upheaval facing Peru in the twilight of the twentieth century, seeking a chance at a new life in New York City. When Lucho loses his job, his cousin proposes a tenuous offer of hospitality to the family. Despite the setback, Ana is intent on putting down roots, but she soon finds that her undocumented status significantly curtails her family's opportunities....