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Marcella Hazan revolucionó la cocina casera, llevando los auténticos sabores italianos a millones de personas. Conoce a la apasionada chef detrás de los icónicos libros de cocina.

The story of two Italian immigrant radicals who were executed in 1927 offers insights into present-day issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin headed up a secret film unit that sought to redefine America in the eyes of the world during the darkest days of World War II. The filmmakers created powerful short documentaries that showed America's strength not through images of tanks, but in portraits of farmers, school children and window washers. The "Projections of America" films were brilliant, moving portraits of America that were unlike any films ever made before, but seventy years later they are forgotten, hidden away in government archives. Narrated by John Lithgow, PROJECTIONS OF AMERICA tells the dramatic story of Riskin and his team, and the risks they took to project a profoundly democratic vision of the nation that would soon emerge as the most powerful on earth.

Jewish and Dominican teenagers in New York City's Washington Heights, together with the legendary theater director Liz Swados, put on a musical about the Dominican Republic's rescue of 800 Jews from Hitler's Germany. Award winning filmmakers Peter Miller and Renee Silverman interweave an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of the theater production with this little-known Holocaust story.

THE INTERNATIONALE draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate the relationship between music and social change, and to evaluate the uncertain fate of once thriving movements of the left.

American health care is expensive, inefficient, delivered inequitably, and often ignores the basic needs of patients and families. As our population ages, millions of Americans are living longer with serious illness, but are served by a medical system that prioritizes expensive and often unnecessary procedures, often at the expense of patient quality of life. During the current debate over health care policy, QUALITY OF LIFE: PALLIATIVE CARE AND THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE presents stories of medical practitioners fundamentally rethinking how we can approach health care. Through intimate portraits of doctors and patients in the nascent field of palliative medicine, it offers a vision of care built around supporting the needs and wishes of patients and their families. Combining emotionally engaging personal stories with an intellectually complex discussion of the current crisis in health care, it will help prompt necessary dialogue about the very nature of American medicine.