My Reincarnation (#2501)
Filmed over 20 years by documentarian Jennifer Fox, "My Reincarnation" chronicles the story of exiled Tibetan Buddhist master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu and his Western-born son, Yeshi. As Norbu rises as a teacher in the West, Yeshi, recognized from birth as the reincarnation of a famed Buddhist master, breaks away to embrace the modern world. Can the father convince his son to keep the family's spiritual legacy alive? With intimate access to both the family and H. H. The Dalai Lama, Fox distills a decades-long drama into a universal story about love, transformation and destiny.

Racing Dreams (#2415)
This program follows three young racers as they compete in the World Karting Association's National Pavement Series. Clocking speeds of up to 70 mph, these kids chase the National Championship title and take one step closer toward their dream of someday racing in NASCAR.

Where Soldiers Come From (#2414)
From a snowy, small town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan, this film follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who join the National Guard after graduating from high school. As it chronicles the young men's transformation from restless teenagers to soldiers looking for roadside bombs to 23-year-old combat veterans trying to start their lives again, the film offers an intimate look at the young Americans who fight our wars, the families and towns they come from -- and the way one faraway conflict changes everything.

Last Train Home (#2413)
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the Chinese New Year in the world's largest human migration. This film takes viewers on a heart-stopping journey with the Zhangs, a couple who left infant children behind for factory jobs 16 years ago, hoping their wages would lift their children to a better life. They return to a family growing distant and a daughter longing to leave school for unskilled work. As the Zhangs navigate their new world, "Last Train Home" paints a rich, human portrait of China's rush to economic development.

The Learning (#2412)
One hundred years ago, American teachers established the English-speaking public school system of the Philippines. Now, in a striking turnabout, American schools are recruiting Filipino teachers. "The Learning" is the story of four Filipino women who reluctantly leave their families and schools to teach in Baltimore. With their increased salaries, they hope to transform their families' lives back in their impoverished country. But the women also bring idealistic visions of the teacher's craft and of life in America, which soon collide with Baltimore's tough realities.

If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation F (#2411)
This program explores two of America's most pressing issues -- environmentalism and terrorism -- by lifting the veil on a radical environmental group the FBI calls the country's "number one domestic terrorism threat." Daniel McGowan, a former member of the Earth Liberation Front, faces life in prison for two multimillion dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. What turned this working- class kid from Queens into an eco-warrior? Producer Marshall Curry provides a provocative account that is part coming-of-age story, part cautionary tale and part cops- and-robbers thriller.

Better This World (#2410)
The story of Bradley Crowder and David McKay, who were accused of intending to firebomb the 2008 Republican National Convention, is a dramatic tale of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal. "Better This World" follows the radicalization of these boyhood friends from Midland, Texas, under the tutelage of revolutionary activist Brandon Darby. The results: eight homemade bombs, multiple domestic terrorism charges and a high-stakes entrapment defense hinging on the actions of a controversial FBI informant. This film goes to the heart of the war on terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in post-9/11 America.

Armadillo (#2409)
Captured the lives of young Danish soldiers at a combat operations base in southern Afghanistan.

Short Cuts (#2408)
The films "Big Birding Day," "Flawed" and "Tiffany" are showcased.

Steam Of Life (#2407)
A moody, comic and moving study of Finnish men, as framed by the national obsession with the sauna.

Mugabe And The White African (#2406)
Robert Mugabe's "land reform" program uses violence and intimidation to drive whites from Zimbabwe.

Biblioburro, The Donkey Library (#2405)
A look at a Colombian teacher who used two hard-working donkeys to bring books to poor children.

Enemies Of The People (#2404)
Sheds light on the Khmer Rouge slaughter of nearly two million people in the late 1970s in Cambodia.

Sweetgrass (#2403)
The last modern-day cowboys lead their sheep up into the breathtaking mountains of Montana.

My Perestroika (#2402)
An intimate look at the last generation of Soviet children follows five people in today's Moscow.

Kings Of Pastry (#2401)
Chefs whip up gorgeous, delectable, gravity-defying concoctions for a top competition in France.

The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg (#2314)
In 1971, Ellsberg leaked top-secret documents regarding the war in Vietnam to The New York Times.

The Oath (#2313)
The stories of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and a Guantanamo prisoner facing war crimes charges.

In The Matter Of Cha Jung Hee (#2312)
Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, the 8-year-old girl quickly forgot she had ever been anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? "In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee" is the search to find the answers, as filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem (First Person Plural, POV 2000) returns to her native Korea to find her "double," the mysterious girl whose place she took in America.

Off And Running (#2311)
Off and Running is the story of Brooklyn teenager Avery, a track star with a bright future. She is the adopted African-American child of white Jewish lesbians. Her older brother is black and Puerto Rican and her younger brother is Korean. Though it may not look typical, Avery's household is like most American homes -- until Avery writes to her birth mother. The response throws her into crisis. She struggles over her "true" identity, the circumstances of her adoption and her estrangement from black culture. When it seems as if her life is unraveling, Avery decides to pick up the pieces and make sense of her identity, with inspiring results.

Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy (#2310)
What is it like to be torn from your Chinese foster family, put on a plane with strangers and wake up in a new country, family and culture? "Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy" is the story of Fang Sui Yong, an 8-year-old orphan, and the Sadowskys, the Long Island Jewish family that travels to China to adopt her. Sui Yong is one of 70,000 Chinese children now being raised in the United States. Through her eyes, we witness her struggle with a new identity as she transforms from a timid child into someone that no one -- neither her new family nor she -- could have imagined.

The Edge Of Dreaming (#2309)
Amy Hardie investigates the human subconscious after becoming ill, just as a dream predicted.

Salt (#2308)
In his search for "somewhere I could point my camera into pure space, " award-winning photographer Murray Fredericks began making annual solo camping trips to remote Lake Eyre and its salt flats in South Australia. These trips have yielded remarkable photos of a boundless, desolate yet beautiful environment where sky, water and land merge. Made in collaboration with documentary filmmaker Michael Angus, "Salt" is the film extension of Fredericks' work at Lake Eyre, interweaving his photos and video diary with time-lapse sequences to offer viewers the liberating and disorienting experience of being thrown into an infinite dimension of mind and spirit. "Salt" will be accompanied by a selection of shorts: Ellen Frick's "A Healing Art" delves into the world of artificial eye makers as they rekindle hope for victims of tragedy; and animated shorts from the Peabody Award-winning oral-history project StoryCorps These shorts capture the stories of everyday Americans in their own voices.

Presumed Guilty (#2307)
Lawyers struggle to free an innocent man who was picked up off the street and charged with murder.

El General (#2306)
Sheds light on revolutionary general Plutarco Elias Calles, who became Mexico's president in 1924.

Good Fortune (#2305)
International efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may undermine communities they aim to benefit.

Promised Land (#2304)
Though apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, economic injustices between blacks and whites remain unresolved. As revealed in Yoruba Richen's "Promised Land," the most potentially explosive issue is land. The film follows two black communities as they struggle to reclaim land from white owners, some of whom who have lived there for generations. Amid rising tensions and wavering government policies, the land issue remains South Africa's "ticking time bomb," with far-reaching consequences for all sides. The film captures multiple perspectives of citizens struggling to create just solutions.

William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe (#2302)
The life of one of the most beloved and hated lawyers in America is recounted by his two daughters.

Patti Smith: Dream Of Life (#2214)
Shot over 11 years by renowned fashion photographer Steven Sebring, this documentary is an intimate portrait of the legendary rocker, poet and artist. Following Smith's personal reflections over a decade, the film explores her many art forms and the friends and poets who inspired her -- William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Robert Mapplethorpe and Michael Stipe. She emerges as a crucial, contemporary link between the Beats, punks and today's music. Shot in lush, dark tones, featuring rare performance clips and narrated by the artist herself, "Patti Smith: Dream of Life" is an impressionistic journal of a multi-faceted artist that underscores her unique place in American culture.

The Way We Get By (#2213)
An intimate look at senior citizens who've greeted nearly 800,000 American troops at a tiny airport.

Bronx Princess (#2212)
Rocky Otoo is the Bronx-bred teenage daughter of Ghanaian parents, and she's no pushover. She is a sassy high- achiever bound for college. With freedom in sight, Rocky rebels against her mother's rules. When their relationship reaches a breaking point, Rocky flees to her father, a chief in Ghana. What follows is captured in this tumultuous coming-of-age story set in a homeland both familiar and strange. Her precocious -- and very American ideas of a successful, independent life conflict with her father's traditional African values. Reconciling her dual legacies becomes an unexpected chapter in this unforgettable young woman's education. "Bronx Princess" will be shown with two short films about family and identity. In "Jennifer," filmmaker Stewart Copeland explores his relationship with his late mother and the distant spaces between memory and history, longing and loss. Annie P. Waldman's "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away" looks at three high-school students who have returned to New Orleans on their own after Hurricane Katrina in order to graduate with their friends.

The Principal Story (#2211)
The experiences of two principals in Illinois shed light on challenges facing our public schools.

The English Surgeon (#2210)
British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh travels to Ukraine to treat patients who have been left to die.

Ella Es El Matador (She Is The Matador) (#2209)
A look at the history of women in Spanish bullfighting also profiles two current female matadors.

This Way Up (#2208)
The security wall constructed by Israel on the West Bank has divided families and communities.

P.o.v. Shorts Program (#2207)
"Utopia, Part 3" looks at the world's largest shopping mall in China, which is now almost empty.

Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (#2206)
The daily dramas at Oxford's Mulberry Bush School for emotionally disturbed children are revealed.

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) (#2205)
Filmed over 23 years, The Betrayal is the Academy Award®-nominated directorial debut of renowned cinematographer Ellen Kuras in a unique collaboration with the film's subject and co-director, Thavisouk ("Thavi") Phrasavath. After the U.S. government waged a secret war in Laos during the Vietnam War, Thavi's father and thousands of other Laotians who had fought alongside American forces were abandoned and left to face imprisonment or execution. Hoping to find safety, Thavi's family made a harrowing escape to America, where they discovered a different kind of war. Weaving ancient prophecy with personal testimony and stunning imagery, The Betrayal is a story of survival and the resilient bonds of family.

The Reckoning: The Battle For The International Cr (#2204)
An International Criminal Court Prosecutor puts powerful perpetrators on trial for war crimes.

Life. Support. Music. (#2203)
The astonishing journey of a musician who suffered a near-fatal brain hemorrhage and his family.

Beyond Hatred (#2202)
A gay man's family struggles to seek justice after he is beaten and killed by skinheads in France.

New Muslim Cool (#2201)
Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Perez pulled himself out of drug dealing and street life 12 years ago and became a Muslim. Now he's moved to Pittsburgh's tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family and take his message of faith to other young people through hard-hitting hip-hop music. But when the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post-9/11 world, and himself. This program takes viewers on Hamza's ride through streets, slums and jail cells -- following his spiritual journey to some surprising places in an America that never stops changing.

Campaign (#2106)
This is democracy -- Japanese style. This program provides a startling insider's view of Japanese electoral politics in this portrait of a man plucked from obscurity by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to run for a critical seat on a suburban city council. Kazuhiko "Yama-san" Yamauchi's LDP handlers are unconcerned that he has zero political experience, no charisma, no supporters and no time to prepare. What he does have is the institutional power of Japan's modern version of Tammany Hall pushing him forward. Yama-san allows his life to be turned upside down as he pursues the rituals of Japanese electioneering -- with both tragic and comic results.