A delightful and inspiring collection of song teaching about Halloween, Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, New Year's Celebrations, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day and Easter, plus a patriotic national birthday song.

The Making of 6 Billion Others takes us behind the scenes of a most intriguing series. The idea of for this series came from Yann Arthus-Bertrand, an award-winning filmmaker who was filming Earth from Above in Mali. One day when the helicopter that he was filming from was out of commission, he tried to draw a portrait of contemporary humankind by asking questions about universal values. What is happiness, love, fear, success, family? What lessons...

This program explores the evolution of social classes from immigrant roots into the six social classes prevalent today. It discusses historical class stratification determinants of wealth, occupation, education, and prestige and presents modern paradigms of the new rich which accelerate social mobility. The program also considers social inequality due to geography, poverty, and lack of opportunity; intergenerational mobility; the government’s effect...

Two years after CNN exposed "Chocolate's Child Slaves," correspondent Richard Quest takes The CNN Freedom Project back to the cocoa plantations of the Ivory Coast. It is a journey that will take him in search of progress in the fight against child labor, which ultimately has its roots embedded in poverty. Following the supply chain, from bean to bar, Quest will examine the collective efforts to reform the cocoa industry—the fundamental socioeconomic...

This program paints a controversial picture of the events of September 11, 2001. It describes how the attacks on the United States have been elevated to a sacred, near-religious level - and that to challenge the orthodox view, regardless of the quality of the contrary arguments, is considered blasphemy and to be rejected.

We often think of modern medicine as only really beginning at the Renaissance - but we're wrong. The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an ancient textbook on surgery that dates back to about 1600 BC. It is full of details on the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of numerous ailments. This film looks into the grisly but brilliant surgeries of the great ancient physicians to witness three procedures common at the time but which would not be attempted...

This film sets out to determine whether our culture is hooked on deliberate ignorance as a strategy for success. From Adam Sandler to George W. Bush, from the IQ test to TV programming to the origin of the word "moron," Stupidity examines the dumbing down of contemporary culture. Featuring opinions and comments from John Cleese, Noam Chomsky, Selma Hayek, and Bill Maher, this documentary reveals that, despite our culture's extensive access to knowledge...

Shana is 13 and lives with her father in an isolated Scw'exmx Nation village. She's been skipping school since her mother's death, burying her sadness in letters to her which she hangs on a tree. When a new teacher comes to the village and discovers Shana's gift for music, Shana is given a way back into life: a violin audition for a music school. But before the entrance exam, Shana's father sells her mother's antique wolf's head violin. In search...

The controversial documentary Sled Dogs claims that dog neglect and abuseare common practices, but many in the dog sledding community say the film is flawed.

In parts of Nepal, there is little paying work available to untouchables. Forced to borrow small sums just to survive, they quickly become debt slaves to higher-caste people-and although the practice is illegal, it all too often represents the only chance Dalits have to obtain food. This program contrasts the lives of Bharat, who seeks emancipation through the assistance of a debt slave-turned-activist, and Ganga, who can picture no other future for...