HUMAN NATURE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 @ 9:00PM

With an extraordinary new technology called CRISPR, we can now edit DNA—including human DNA. But how far should we go? Gene-editing promises to eliminate certain genetic disorders like sickle cell disease. But the applications quickly raise ethical questions. Is it wrong to engineer soldiers to feel no pain, or to resurrect an extinct species? (2 Hours)

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LIVING ON AUTO-PILOT

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM

See how politicians, social media companies and corporate marketers use big data to hack your autopilot decision making system, and learn how to defend yourself.

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FROM THE HOLOCAUST

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM

Harbor from the Holocaust is the story of nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, to the Chinese port city of Shanghai. Explore the extraordinary relationship of these Jews and their adopted city of Shanghai, even through the bitter years of Japanese occupation 1937-1945 and the Chinese civil war that followed.

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GROWING UP POOR IN AMERICA

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 @ 11:00PM

The experience of childhood poverty against the backdrop of a pandemic and a national reckoning with racism. Set in Ohio, the film follows children and their families navigating issues of poverty, homelessness, race and new challenges due to COVID-19.

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PORTRAITS AND DREAMS

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 @ 8:00PM & 12:00AM

Portraits and Dreams revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where the photos were made. The film is about the students, their work as visionary photographers and the lives they have led since then, as well as the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time. A POV co-production with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

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