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- Women speak candidly and amusingly about their sex lives.
- A sprawling look at the class system in the United States, ranging from WASP elegance to trailer-park desperation, with lots of other stuff in between.
- How the Japanese process American pop culture and make it their own -- a mind-bending odyssey through cultural mixing.
- The glories of American accents come alive in this hilarious film about what it means to speak the way you do.
- 'Getting Back To Abnormal' is an intimate look at race, politics and culture in post-Katrina New Orleans. Five years after the storm, New Orleans has changed. It is less black and less poor, and one polarizing white politician has become a lightning rod for all things racial. Councilperson Stacy Head, a self-styled corruption fighter, takes her sometimes jaw-droppingly politically incorrect style into the tribal world of New Orleans politics as she fights to maintain her seat in a black majority district. Weaved into the narrative are stories about housing, and commentary from only-in-New Orleans armchair philosophers.
- Postcards from the Great Divide is a series of nine short documentaries produced by leading American independent filmmakers that are being released in a digital partnership between PBS' Election 2016 initiative and The Washington Post. The series travels to locations across the U.S. to examine the nation's partisan divide. Stories are told from the viewpoint of voters and activists. Different episodes explore how changing demographics and political self-sorting will continue to have a profound effect on American politics for years to come.
- A documentary on California's Aptos All-Stars little league team, following them through their season and ending up with a spot on the Little League World Series.
- 'You Gotta Swing' is a jaunty and spirited portrait of Swing Central, a high school band competition and workshop sponsored by the Savannah Music Festival. Swing Central brings together an all-star lineup of jazz masters who mentor kids in all things jazz and help to hone their skills. The film follows a talented band from a Florida high school as they successfully navigate their way through the competitive minefield. Along the way, we hear from the jazz artists who emotionally describe their lives as musicians and deconstruct the mysteries of making jazz.
- An entertaining and provocative look at what Europeans think of American culture and politics, focusing on France, the UK, and Poland.
- Mothers from all walks of life speak amusingly and movingly, without sentimentality, about what it's like to have kids.
- The saga of the Perez family and how its political wheeling and dealing has affected Plaquemines Parish. Included are interviews with Judge Leander Perez, whose total control of the parish verged on the legendary. Clips of Leander Perez, Jr. and Chalin Perez are also presented, as are interviews with voters and prominent residents of the parish. The documentary, which reveals how poverty existed alongside wealth in a state stricken with political tyranny, describes what happened to a forgotten parish rocked by the discovery of oil in 1933.
- 2007– 56mTV EpisodeA look at the conflicting attitudes Europeans have towards American politics and culture.
- Democrats used to be competitive in both cities and the countryside, but partisanship has changed things. It's now getting harder and harder to find Democrats in rural areas across the US, but especially in the South. Are the partisans of Western Kentucky the last of this dying breed? We travel to the politically raucous annual Fancy Farm Picnic to find out.
- Nebraska is one of the reddest of red states. It hasn't voted statewide for a Democrat for President in over fifty years. So how can the minority party rise from the mat and become relevant in state politics?
- Pundits seem convinced that a purple Texas is just around the corner due to its burgeoning Latino population, yet the state gets redder and redder. One factor is that Latino turnout remains low.
- 201612mTV EpisodeOnce the poster child for bipartisan practical politics, the Badger State has become an ideological battleground in recent years. What happened to the middle?
- n 2008 and '12 African-Americans in Florida turned out in record numbers even when voting hours and registration rules were tightened. What are the challenges with the black electorate that Hillary Clinton faced in this must-win state?
- In the fight to win control at the state level, Republicans have reached an historic high, capturing thirty-one legislatures in the past several years. Now the Republicans are looking for more, even in a left-leaning state like Washington.
- Nevada used to be a deep red state, but things have changed. Thousands of Latinos have moved in, many to work in the gaming industry, and the state is turning purple. What can the state GOP do in the year of Trump to get more Latino votes?