The Apology - Give Us Strength
Clip: Season 31 Episode 16 | 3m 45s
1.5 million signatures are delivered to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Aired: 10/22/18
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Clip: Season 31 Episode 16 | 3m 45s
1.5 million signatures are delivered to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Aired: 10/22/18
Rating: NR
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Season 31 Episode 16
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The Apology - Meeting Grandma Cao
In Grandma Cao’s village in China, we hear from villagers and author Zhang Shaun Bing.
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The Apology - The Power of Story, Part 2
Grandma Gil tells her story in more detail to a group of Chinese women at a conference.
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The Apology - Meeting Grandma Gil
We meet Grandma Gil.
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The Apology - Meeting Grandma Adela
We meet a community of fellow survivors from the war who get together for companionship.
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The Apology - The Power of Story, Part 1
We learn more about Grandma Gil's activism.
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The Apology - Asking the World to Participate
Grandma Gil and hundreds of others stage their 1,119th protest at the Japanese Embassy.
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Three former "comfort women" forced into sexual slavery during World War II speak out.
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This film tells the story of the first image captured of the Earth from space in 1968.
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Two short documentaries explore the history and memory of African-American communities.
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POV Shorts: Hindsight is 20/20
Three short documentaries ruminate on America’s past.
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Two short documentaries about cities and money.
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Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown.
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Three former "comfort women" forced into sexual slavery during World War II speak out.
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A reporter in Montana exposes the shadowy world of anonymous campaign contributions.
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Survivors presents an intimate portrait of Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak.
S31 Ep14 | 1h 23m 26s
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S31 Ep14 | 1h 23m 26s
Hasidic women shatter the glass ceiling by creating Brooklyn's first all-female EMS corps.
S31 Ep13 | 1h 23m 18s
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A rural poet becomes a sudden star in China, whose writings ponder life, love and pain.
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A portrait of Beatrice Vio, a Paralympic fencing champion.
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Despite Taliban threats, a Pakistani woman becomes one of the top female squash players.
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Press Release
In a Hasidic enclave in Brooklyn, there are seemingly endless services tailored for the community—stores in Yiddish, school buses and even a dedicated EMS. Yet the corps is made up entirely of men, and one group of women wants to change that. On a mission to start the city's first all-female volunteer EMS corps.