You can always find the best documentaries and musical performances on WTVP. This month is no exception. In May, explore a historic California disaster, people-moving in San Francisco, mental health in America, the indigenous high school experience, babies in China, Cole Porter, Lionel Richie and much more.
Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland to ensure the growth of Los Angeles by bringing water to the city via aqueduct.
Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history.
From unique cable cars that conquered impossible hills to the current wave of ride-sharing companies and autonomous vehicles, San Francisco has been a constant laboratory for how to move people through an urban landscape. Moving San Francisco reveals eye-opening stories that connect the city's transit past to the challenges facing every modern city today.
In Milwaukee, a 15-year-old attempted to carjack law student Claude Motley and shot him in the face. Through multiple surgeries and catastrophic healthcare bills, the effects of gun violence upend Claude's life. Yet he still finds himself torn between punishment for the young man and the injustice of mass incarceration for Black men and boys. Can he find mercy in his heart for his attacker?
After being shot in the face, a law student is torn by the effects of gun violence.
Enjoy this London production of Cole Porter's classic musical led by Sutton Foster who reprises her Tony-winning role as Reno Sweeney. It is directed by Kathleen Marshall with favorite songs like I Get a Kick Out of You and You're the Top.
Three Indigenous students experience the highs and lows of adolescence while attending one of the most remote high schools in the United States. Living in the uniquely beautiful but isolated Diné community within the Navajo Nation reservation, they navigate life as teenagers and dream of a glittering future.
Indigenous teens going to a remote school on Navajo Nation reservation plan their futures.
This May, The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song salutes Lionel Richie.
The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song salutes musician Lionel Richie. Richie is an Alabama-born songwriter with a smooth voice and a deft touch for the romantic ballad. Lionel Richie's outstanding work has shown us that music can bring us together. Even when we face problems and disagree on issues, songs can show us what we have in common.
After the birth of her first child, filmmaker Nanfu Wang returns to China to speak with her family and explore the ripple effect of that country's devastating social experiment, the one-child policy. At its core, One Child Nation is a riveting personal story revealing shocking human rights violations and forces us all to reckon with the consequence of blind obedience.
Filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the devastating impacts of China’s one-child policy.
The stories of people with mental illness are explored with immediacy and urgency.
Shot over five years, Bedlam examines the mental health crisis through intimate stories of those in and out of overwhelmed and under-resourced psych emergency rooms, jails and homeless camps in Los Angeles. Psychiatrist and filmmaker Dr. Ken Rosenberg continues to search for answers to his own late sister's mental illness.
