Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks, is obsessed with the Beatles and has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them. As the daughter reaches age 7, Sam's limitations start to become a problem. When the authorities take his daughter away, Sam shames a high-priced lawyer into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.
Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.
profile of historian Angie Debo. Focuses on her research in the 1930s uncovering a statewide conspiracy that deprived the Oklahoma Indians of their oil-rich lands and the efforts of officials and business interests to suppress her findings.
A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom.
Provides an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008. At a cost of over $20 trillion, it caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, this film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia.
Examination of the late 19th century experiment of indoctrinating young Native Americans so that they would become alienated from their language, religion, history and social customs. The mechanism of indoctrination was the government sponsored Indian Schools of which the Carlisle school was the first. The primary result was a generation of Native Americans incompatible to both the Indian and white cultures.
Originally broadcast as a segment of the television series The American experience.
The dramatized story of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, leaders of the suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. They broke from the mainstream women's rights movement to create a more activist wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920.
"This program is the first in a series of Essays in Justice being presented by the Ethics Institute of Capital University Law and Graduate Center and Trinity Lutheran Seminary."
"This program is the third in a series of Essays in Justice being presented by the Ethics Institute of Capital University Law and Graduate Center and Trinity Lutheran Seminary."
I Am Sam
Iceman - Confessions of a Mafia Hitman, The
Inconvenient Truth, An
Inherit the Wind
Inside Job
In the Name of the Father
Iron Jawed Angels