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 America's Heartland Earth Day Special
In celebration of Earth Day, we thought we’d share some of our favorite stories about people we’ve met who are true environmental stewards. For them, it’s more than just good business – it’s what they believe in. View our very special Earth Day webisode here! |
The American Southwest: Are We Running Dry?
Running Dry illuminates the worsening global humanitarian water crisis. Providing a definitive look at how this issue is affecting the American Southwest states, this program educates the public about conservation, water reuse, desalination, population growth, and future water policies. Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Seymour.
KVIE: Saturday, April 3, 10pm-11pm
Global Focus: The New Environmentalists
In Global Focus: The New Environmentalists, you’ll meet the recipients of the 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize. This is a group of fearless grassroots leaders taking on government and corporate interests and working to improve the environment and living conditions for people in their communities. This year's recipients include, among others, a duo from Ecuador who are fighting Chevron to bring justice and environmental recovery to an area devastated by oil pollution.
KVIE2: Saturday, April 17, 10:30pm-11pm
American Experience: Earth Days
Director Robert Stone (Oswald’s Ghost, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst) traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s to its moment of triumph in 1970 with the original Earth Day and to its status as a major political force in America.
KVIE: Monday, April 19, 9pm-11pm
Independent Lens: Dirt! The Movie
DIRT! The Movie explores how dirt recycles our water, gives us food, provides us shelter and can be used as a source of medicine, beauty and culture. This program also shows how people have endanger ed this vital resource. Dirt! The Movie takes you to more than 20 locations around the world, visiting renowned global visionaries who are discovering new ways of thinking as they come together to repair this natural resource with practical, viable solutions.
KVIE: Tuesday, April 20, 10pm-11pm
Desert Reef
Desert Reef reveals the narrative of a changing planet. The fossilized ocean reef in New Mexico's Guadalupe Mountains tells a fascinating story of profound sea-level fluctuation and climate change more than 280 million years ago. Can research on Earth's ancient past help scientists better understand the dire proclamations and controversies surrounding global climate change in the modern world?
KVIE2: Saturday, April 24, 10pm-11pm
National Geographic’s Strange Days on Planet Earth
How many of us truly understand the dire circumstances surrounding our planet’s water? The newest installment in the National Geographic’s Strange Days on Planet Earth series shines the spotlight on both fresh and salt water with the aim of broadening awareness and deepening our understanding of these complex issues, while inspiring us all to learn more and take action. Edward Norton hosts.
KVIE: Sunday, April 25, 1pm-3pm
ViewFinder: California Heat
Unseasonal heat waves, persistent drought, devastating wildfires up and down the state, and water shortages. It’s not an apocalyptic vision of the future. All of these things are current events. While science has yet to establish a particular link between these events and climate change, scientists say these events provide a glimpse of California’s future as the climate warms.
KVIE2: Sunday, April 25, 7pm-7:30pm
The Power of the Sun
The Power of the Sun is a scientific morality tale: how, starting from the most pure and basic science, through stages of applied science and engineering, there emerges one of the most promising technologies to help deal with one of the great challenges of our time: energy. This program explores economically realistic, clean, and safe energy sources that could replace diminishing cheap fossil fuels as energy demands of the developing world continue to grow rapidly.
KVIE2: Wednesday, April 28, 7pm-8pm
Building Alaska
Learn about the people who built Alaska's great engineering projects in the coldest, most remote part of the U.S. It tells how the railroads and highways opened the region up to gold and copper mining and made Alaska habitable; of the Japanese invasion in World War II; and of the biggest earthquake ever in North America, all of which helped shape America's 49th state.
KVIE: Sunday, April 18, 1pm-2:30pm
A Thousand Suns: Food, Ecology, and Religion in the 21 st Century
A Thousand Suns is a film about one of the world’s last bastions of biological and cultural diversity – the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia. Isolated in the African Rift Valley, the area has been densely populated - and sustainable – for 10,000 years. It is sustained by an extra-ordinary agricultural diversity and a social system whose animist orientation has ensured the survival of 54 tribal groups.
KVIE: Sunday, April 18, 2:30pm-3pm
P.O.V.: Food, Inc.
U.S. agri-business consistently produces more food on less land and at cheaper cost than the farmers of any other nation. What is wrong with that? Sick animals, environmental degradation, tainted and unhealthy food , obesity, diabetes , and other health issues are only the more obvious problems that arise. Filmmaker Robert Kenner marshals mountains of data, footage of meat-packing operations secretly shot by workers, plus testimonies from farmers, workers, consumers’ advocates , and industry representatives.
KVIE: Wednesday, April 21, 10pm-Mid.
Children of the Amazon
Children of the Amazon follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart.
KVIE2: Saturday, April 24, 8pm-9pm
Buffalo Flows
Arkansas ’ Buffalo River, born in the Ozark Mountains, is one of the nation’s remaining free-flowing rivers. It is America’s first national river — a place folks fought to preserve. This program details the “ Battle for the Buffalo” — the efforts of conservation groups to prevent damming — and captures the river’s magnificent beauty over four seasons.
KVIE2: Saturday, April 24, 11pm-Mid.
This year, Easter falls on April 4. Christians celebrate this holiday to honor the resurrection of Jesus after his crucifixion. Please join us as we recognize and celebrate Easter with diverse programming that chronicles the history, culture, and geographic locations that define the holiday.
Vatican City & the Papacy with Burt Wolf
Vatican City & the Papacy with Burt Wolf reveals the rich 2,000-year history of the papal office and its future course. Wolf visits the tomb of St. Peter, enjoys a private tour of St. Peter’s Basilica, and beholds the Sistine Chapel. He also witnesses the spectacle of two million pilgrims bidding farewell to Pope John Paul II, and views the inside process of electing a new pontiff.
KVIE: Friday, April 2, 9pm-10pm
Fifth Gospel: The Land and Sea of Galilee
Fifth Gospel: The Land and Sea of Galilee is a new approach to understanding the events of the Four Gospels of the New Testament by investigating the physical locations around the Sea of Galilee. The documentary explor es Jesus’ homeland, giving you an intimate understanding of what Jesus may have actually said and did there. This one-hour program was shot entirely on location in the Holy Land.
KVIE2: Saturday, April 3, 11pm-Mid.
Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith
Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith explores the common beliefs, traditions, and rituals shared by Judaism and Christianity. It examines how contemporary Jews and Christians perceive each other, confront prejudice and stereotypes , and how they can understand and respect one another despite their differences. The program contains fascinating interviews with an inter-denominational cross-section of leading biblical scholars, historians, and clergy.
KVIE: Sunday, April 4, 1pm-3pm
The Power of Forgiveness
The Power of Forgiveness explores the practice of forgiveness by revealing its complexities, its role in various religions, and its physical and mental benefits. This award-winning documentary highlights the part forgiveness played in alleviating the despair among the Amish in the wake of the school shootings and after September 11, 2001. Interviews include renowned figures from the Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths.
KVIE2: Sunday, April 4, 10pm-11pm
Secrets of the Dead: Tomb of Christ
For centuries, pilgrims to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre believed that a certain spot within the ancient structure was the burial place of Jesus Christ. That claim has been disputed by scholars, leading many to consider the site merely a symbolic representation of a defining tenet of the Christian creed. Secrets of the Dead: Tomb of Christ explores the debate using a decade of rigorous archaeological techniques.
KVIE: Monday, April 5, 9pm-10pm
KVIE2: Tuesday, April 6, 8pm-9pm
World Health Day is on April 7; and this year, the World Health Organization will center its efforts on health and urbanization. KVIE’s programming will show you some of the barriers that are preventing people throughout the world from being healthy.
Roots of Heath
Roots of Health explores the reasons why people stay healthy or fall ill. From early childhood development in England, to microcredit opportunities and the fight for clean water in Ahmedabad, India, to environmental pollution, racism, and green jobs in California, the documentary looks at the effect of social and economic policies on the health of whole populations - for better or for worse.
KVIE: Wednesday, April 14, 11pm-Mid.
Survival: Lives in the Balance
The Struggle to Breathe ( Philippines) : Part 1 of 4
Nineteen-month old Nazario can barely breathe. He has pneumonia, the world’s number one child killer. The build up of fluid in Nazario’s lungs and chest cavity have pushed his windpipe and his heart across his body. His parents have never heard of pneumonia, even though in the Philippines one in every five children under age five suffers from the disease. Now throughout the Philippines, people are armed with training to help parents recognize pneumonia.
KVIE: Thursday, April 8, 11pm-Mid.
Survival: Lives in the Balance
Distant Places, Forgotten Lives ( Niger) : Part 2 of 4
Tropical diseases threaten a billion people – most of whom live in countries that do not have the resources to combat these diseases. In a striking move, a group of pharmaceutical companies pledged to donate enough drugs to target five tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. Locals received training to distribute the medicines. This plan only buys time until better sanitation and housing allow these people to live healthier lives.
KVIE: Thursday, April 15, 11pm-Mid.
Survival: Lives in the Balance
The Plant That Cures Malaria ( Uganda) : Part 3 of 4
Malaria threatens half of the world’s population – and killed Clovis’s daughter. Clovis learned too late that a three-day course of drugs – expensive ones – easily cures malaria. The drug’s main ingredient is Arteminisin, a chemical extracted from the Artemisia plant. Clovis now grow s Artemisia and has created a community of small farmers that sell it to a processing company. A new company policy however, may stand in the way of income for this cooperative of farmers.
KVIE: Thursday, April 22, 11pm-Mid.
Survival: Lives in the Balance
Fit for Life ( Bangladesh ) : Part 4 of 4
A young woman – just a girl, really – is in labor in rural Bangladesh. She’s going to have her baby at home, like most mothers in Bangladesh. A woman with no medical training assists her using a razor blade and a string to tie off the umbilical cord. In a different village, another young woman gives birth in a clinic with trained medical professionals. This child and her mother have much better first-year survival rates.
KVIE: Thursday, April 29, 11pm-Mid.
Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton
Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton takes you into the life of a modern monk, a life filled with conflicts, controversies, and love. Merton, a convert to Catholicism and author of The Seven Storey Mountain, is considered one of the most influential spiritual voices of the 20th century. He examined spirituality (of the East and West), the Cold War, civil rights, and the plight of the individual in the post-modern world.
KVIE2: Sunday, April 4, 11pm-Mid.
Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
Filmed at a large teaching hospital, this documentary tells the stories of patients whose lives have been dramatically changed by the incorporation of poetry into their recovery process. At a time when Americans have grown cynical about impersonal treatment and the intrusion of corporate self-interest in the doctor-patient relationship, this film affirms that poetry and art can build understanding and compassion between doctor and patient and help facilitate healing among the most critically ill.
KVIE2: Sunday, April 18, 10pm-11pm
Mondays at Skimmilk: 30 Years of Writers at Work
Skimmilk Farm, a once-abandoned colonial-era dairy farm in southern New Hampshire, served as the summer home of the late poet Jean Pedrick Kefferstan (1923-2006) and her family in the 1950s. It also became a mecca for poets and writers, many of them women, for over 30 years. This program celebrates writers, and the creative writing process, through the wit and wisdom of noted New England poets and authors.
KVIE2:Sunday, April 25, 11pm-11:30pm
Passover is the commemoration of Jewish ancestors’ deliverance from slavery in Egypt. KVIE presents programming that honors this holiday and encourages learning about its major themes. Please join us for a celebration of Passover, which occurs between March 30 and April 5.
Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith
Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith explores the common beliefs, traditions and rituals shared by Judaism and Christianity. It examines how contemporary Jews and Christians perceive each other, confront prejudice and stereotypes , and how they can understand and respect one another despite their differences. The program contains fascinating interviews with an inter-denominational cross-section of leading biblical scholars, historians, and clergy.
KVIE:Sunday, April 4, 1pm-3pm
KVIE recognizes how imperative it is to remember the atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust, as well as explore the history of its events further. It is with somber remembrance that we present programming that pushes forward with new questions about the Holocaust.
Masterpiece Classic: The Diary of Anne Frank
The most accurate-ever adaptation of Anne Frank’s moving account of life hiding from the Nazis stars newcomer Ellie Kendrick (An Education movie) as a maturing teenager who undergoes an extraordinary ordeal. Anne, her family, and four others hide for two years in the back rooms of an Amsterdam business, while Anne records their tense daily life in one of history’s most remarkable memoirs.
KVIE: Sunday, April 11, 9pm-11pm
Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust in Arab Lands
Did any Arabs save Jews during the Holocaust? Seeking a response to the plague of Holocaust denial in the Arab world, Robert Satloff, head of a respected Washington Policy Center, sought to find an Arab hero whose story would change the way Arabs view Jews and themselves. Satloff found not only the Arab heroes whom he sought, but a vast, lost history of the half-million Jews of the Arab lands under fascist rule.
KVIE: Monday, April 12, 10pm-11pm
KVIE2: Sunday, April 18, 11pm-Mid.
Desperate Hours
Desperate Hours shares the little-known Holocaust stories of small groups of Turkish Muslims, Jews, and Christians who worked together to save lives during a time when millions were murdered before the eyes of an indifferent world. The film, based on authoritative scholarship and interviews with survivors, former diplomats and clergy, explores how diplomats risked their own lives by rescuing Jews of Turkish origin.
KVIE2:Saturday, April 17, 11pm-Mid.
Secrets of the Dead: Escape from Auschwitz
The truth about the Auschwitz death camp was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Third Reich. Very few ever made it out alive. Escape From Auschwitz tells the story of two young Slovak Jews, Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, who managed to escape by hiding in a woodpile for three days, then fleeing across enemy territory, determined to tell the world about the atrocities being committed by the Nazis at the camp.
KVIE: Tuesday, April 13, 11pm-Mid.
ViewFinder: Music of Hope
In May 2005, Michael Neumann, conductor of the Sacramento Youth Symphony, presented a concert (at the Mondavi Center) commemorating the 60 th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps in WWII. Segments of the concert are interwoven with interviews with Neumann, musicians, and survivors from the camps. This episode is supported by Mansour’s Oriental Rug Gallery.
KVIE2: Sunday, April 18, 5pm-30:30pm
House of Life: The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague
Prague ’s Old Jewish Cemetery has endured wars and pogroms, floods and fires, assimilation and an urban clearing project that destroyed most of the ancient Jewish Quarter it once served. Miraculously, it even survived the Nazi occupation and 40 years of communist neglect. House of Life tells the story of the vibrant Prague Jewish community of the past and of today’s small Jewish community for whom the cemetery still serves as a spiritual center.
KVIE: Tuesday, April 27, 11pm-Mid.
Autism is a social and communicative disability that affects the way children behave, learn and interact in everyday situations. Some current reports indicate as many as 1 out of 150 children are somewhere on the autism spectrum. Join KVIE as we introduce you to those affected by autism, and what is being done to understand it.
Children and Autism: Time is Brain
Children and Autism: Time is Brain is a portrait of two families faced with the challenge of raising an autistic child. Autistic children typically have social interaction and communication deficits. Scientists remain mystified about the causes of autism, while experts claim that early diagnosis and appropriate intervention can help autistic children reach their potential. Therapists and a behavior analyst discuss diagnosis, early intervention, and the treatment of autism.
KVIE: Sunday, April 18, 10:30pm-11pm
Beautiful Son
In Beautiful Son, two parents take us on their journey through the landscape of this debilitating neurological disorder of autism as they attempt to recover their son from it. This program documents the grass roots movement of parents and doctors who believe that environmental factors may cause some forms of autism and demanding research be done to help their children.
KVIE: Saturday, April 30, 9pm-11pm
Cancer has devastating consequences for those who are afflicted by it, but it also brings out the tenacity of the human spirit to fight for survival. KVIE recognizes all those who are affected by cancer and hopes to increase understanding of the disease and the struggle to overcome it through our programming.
My Girlfriends Quilt
The music special My Girlfriends Quilt celebrates special relationships between friends, mothers, daughters, sisters and cancer survivors, and pays tribute to friendship and the healing power of women. In this intimate gathering, they share their life-affirming experiences and honor the women who have made a difference in their lives. My Girlfriends Quilt also spotlights women from the nonprofit activity-based cancer support organization, Pen and Palette, who reveal their quilt, titled Women Healing Into Wholeness.
KVIE:Monday, April 19, 11pm-Mid.
A Sense of Wonder
A Sense of Wonder is a documentary-style film depicting pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson, author of controversial book Silent Spring, in the final year of her life. Struggling with cancer, Carson recounts with both humor and anger the attacks by the chemical industry, the government and the press as she focuses her limited energy to get her message to Congress and the American people.
KVIE: Tuesday, April 20, 11pm-Mid.
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Easter 
World Health Day 
National Poetry Month 
Passover 
Holocaust Remembrance Month 
Autism Awareness Month 
Cancer Control Month