Season 1

E1. Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small Town Gang

Aug 9, 1999 · 60m

E2. Nothing but the Truth

Aug 16, 1999 · 60m

A look at the media circus during the O.J. Simpson civil trial.

E3. Visas and Virtues; I Am Viet Hung

Aug 23, 1999 · 60m

VISAS AND VIRTUE is based on the true story of the man known as Japan's Oskar Schindler. In 1940, against the commands of his country and at the risk of ruining his career, Japan's diplomat to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, wrote almost 2,000 visas that allowed an estimated 4, 000 - 6,000 Jews escape from the Nazi regime. In I AM VIET HUNG, passion for art and cultural legacy lend elegance to the fading memories of a Vietnamese opera singer struggling to keep his art form alive.

E4. The Man Who Drove with Mandela

Aug 30, 1999 · 60m

Juxtaposing dramatic 1st person narrations by Corin Redgrave as Williams with interviews with activists in the anti-apartheid and Communist movements in South Africa, this docu-drama presents the life of Cecil Williams -- freedom fighter, theatre benefactor, gay rights advocate and homosexual. Williams was with Mandela when they were both arrested in 1962 -- an arrest that resulted in Mandela's long-term imprisonment

E5. The Jew in the Lotus

Sep 6, 1999 · 60m

E6. Holy Tortilla/Lock and Key

Sep 13, 1999 · 60m

E7. Secret People

Oct 4, 1999 · 60m

Although it has conjured horrific images of society's most feared outcasts ever since Biblical days, leprosy is in fact a mildly communicable disease that has been treatable since the 1940s. "Secret People" recounts the shocking history of this disease in America through the voices of victims who live in the last remaining leprosy sanatorium, in Carville, Louisiana.

E8. I Can't Believe I Married a Lesbian

Oct 11, 1999 · 60m

Stuart Perkin thought he knew everything about his wife, Sue. After two years of marriage and ten years of friendship, intimacy and life experiences, the couple divorced when Sue announced she was a lesbian. Stuart documents a journey he made from Colorado to San Francisco, a trip that took him into his past and back into the life of his ex-wife. Stuart's interviews with friends, family and Sue explore the reasons why their relationship failed and how Stuart can move forward with his life.