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Watch Women, War & Peace Tonight on PBS
October 11, 2011Women, War & Peace — the first installment from the Women and Girls Lead campaign — is a new five-part series challenging the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. The program premieres tonight at 10pm on PBS (check local listings). The vast majority of today’s conflicts are not fought by nation states and their armies, but rather…
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Watch an Exclusive Online Screening of Women, War & Peace on Thursday at 4:30pm PT
September 28, 2011On Thursday, September 29, 4:30pm PT / 6:30pm CT / 7:30pm ET— ITVS Community Cinema, Ladies Home Journal, THIRTEEN, and Fork Films will present an exclusive online preview screening of Women War & Peace on ITVS’s Livestream channel in advance of its television premiere on PBS. The film is the first broadcast in ITVS's Women and Girls Lead…
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Revisiting The Oath and Gitmo, 10 Years After 9/11
September 9, 2011In recognition of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, ITVS and PBS NewsHour will be hosting a live chat with The Oath filmmaker Laura Poitras and others.The Oath, which is streaming free on ITVS Indies Showcase from September 11 to 13, follows the story of Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard, and Salim Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay Prison and the…
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The Unsettling Images of War at Home and Abroad
May 4, 2011Hell And Back Again, which picked up multiple awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, will air next season on Independent Lens. The documentary, by photo-journalist Danfung Dennis, profiles a Marines life during and after his stint in Afghanistan. New Video recently acquired the film for North American distribution, with plans to release it in…
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Director Sedika Mojadidi on Filming Her Father in Motherland Afghanistan
July 9, 2010One in seven Afghan women dies in childbirth. Motherland Afghanistan, airing Sunday, July 11th on Global Voices, introduces the women behind these devastating statistics. Afghan American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi examines her father's work as an OB/GYN as he struggles to make a difference. Beyond the Box spoke with Mojadidi about filming such an…