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- This first person series uses humor and empathy to subvert stereotypes and reveal the truth about American Muslims: fascinating careers, unexpected talents, and inspiring accomplishments.
- We join celebrity chef and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich on an eye-opening culinary journey, joined by special guests Stanley Tucci, Mo Rocca, Ruth Riechl and Mario Cantone. Lidia explores how other immigrants have preserved their unique culinary traditions for generations, weaving their culture into the fabric of the diverse melting pot of America. Lidia will live, breathe and experience the country's diversity through the lens of culture, tradition and mouth-watering food.
- It's the Hard-Knock Life is a feature length documentary that provides an insider's look at the Tony-nominated revival of the musical Annie. The film documents the production through the lens of three acclaimed theater professionals: Tony Award-winning choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, Tony Award-winning costume designer Susan Hilferty, and Drama Desk Award-winning set designer David Korins, each tasked with re-imagining the classic song, "It's the Hard-Knock Life." Tension mounts as they work to prepare a cast of young actors for Opening Night.
- Each episode explores the fascinating "secrets" of one scientist or engineer, like the micro-biologist who moonlights as a professional wrestler or the bio-chemist who is also a beauty queen. Subjects include renowned scientists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, Judy Lee, Colin Angle, Mark Siddall, Gavin Schmidt, and Nate Ball. These intimate and funny videos engage viewers with cutting-edge research and fantastic experiments, while also answering questions like "Can string theory explain Brian Boitono?" and "Could you beat Bill Nye in an arm wrestling match?"
- Photographer Phil Toledano has become obsessed with his future. Using DNA tests, fortune tellers, and a prosthetic makeup artist, he begins photographing the many dark possibilities that might await him -- despite his wife's pleas to abandon the project. Over three years, Toledano's obsession alters him and his family forever.
- Two Latina cousins -- a good girl and a seductress -- take ESL classes as their Grandfather's dying wish. An inheritance creates tension and jeopardizes lives.
- When Tom Scholz first heard his chart-topping song More Than A Feeling on the radio, he was at Polaroid working as a product engineer. In this rare, on-camera interview, this rock star is telling the inside story of his journey from engineer to international, record-breaking icon.
- THE HOME TEAM follows the biggest night of the year in tight-knit, all-American Murray, Kentucky - it's the last home game of the season for the Murray State Racers. Murray is a town so small its entire population fits into its basketball stadium, fans bake cakes for the players' birthdays and the head coach is engaged to the town's middle school teacher. In a state where college basketball is religion and the Racers are the underdog, how do they keep winning? On the biggest night of the year, the team's NBA-bound star player does something surprising that reveals the secret of Murray's success.
- This series looks at the future of science, technology and medicine in a smart and fast-paced way. Hosted by Faith Salie of NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, this episode of Future Files features innovative new ways to battle influenza, from a micro-needle patch to a universal vaccine.
- In her latest documentary special A Heartland Holiday Feast, Lidia Bastianich takes viewers on a cross-country journey. She explores how Americans representing diverse heritages are both preserving their own culinary traditions and transforming local cuisine. The people she meets in these small rural towns provide inspiration for a magnificent celebratory meal.
- From PBS: Celebrity chef, author and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich celebrates culture through food. Join her for an Italian Christmas Eve Feast of the Seven Fishes with actors Mo Rocca and Stanley Tucci; a Mexican-American Christmas Day with four generations of the Cortez family in San Antonio, Texas; a Chinese New Year feast and celebration with the Fong-Torres family; and a Jewish-American Passover seder with the Russ family of the famed specialty shop Russ and Daughters and food author Ruth Reichl.
- 2011– 56mTV-GTV EpisodeFrom PBS: The second in a series of four PBS specials with celebrity chef and culinary author Lidia Bastianich continues the celebration of culture through food with a focus on the traditions surrounding weddings. The first story features an African-American wedding in New Orleans, complete with marching brass band and traditional regional cuisine that includes jambalaya, crawfish and pralines. An Indian-American wedding features actor Mario Cantone, well-known for his role as a wedding planner on TV's "Sex and the City," and Indian actress and food writer Madhur Jaffrey, who will teach Lidia and the audience about classic Indian wedding dishes, including tandoori specials, seafood kebabs and a variety of Indian breads. The third wedding features a Korean-American wedding with celebrity fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, who creates a special outfit for Lidia to wear to the wedding. "Survivor" winner and host of AMERICA REVEALED, Yul Kwon, adds commentary and perspective on Korean culture. The final wedding in the program examines the marriage of two cultures -- Irish-American and Italian-American, with music and food from each represented.
- From PBS: Join host and chef Lidia Bastianich as she celebrates independence and freedom with different cultures across America. The celebrity cast includes actress Anna Deavere Smith, opera singer Renée Fleming, singer Martha Wainwright, chef Jacques Pepin, actor Alec Mapa and former Olympic athlete Nadia Comaneci.
- From PBS: Host Lidia Bastianich celebrates important milestones with a diverse group of Americans: a baptism with a Greek Orthodox family; a Navajo house blessing in Utah; college graduation seen through the eyes of a Brazilian-American Boston University student; and a sweet 16 birthday party for a young French-Cajun woman ready to make her debut as a Nashville country music star. Soprano Renee Fleming sings "You'll Never Walk Alone."
- Renowned Chef Lidia Bastianich invites six celebrity guests of different ethnic backgrounds to her holiday table: Christopher Walken, award winning actor and childhood friend; Rita Moreno, award winning actress; Ann Curry, television journalist; model and television host Padma Lakshmi; celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson; and Carlo Ponti, Jr., conductor. Home for the Holidays begins in the kitchen and ends at the dinner table in Lidia's home in Queens, New York. Lidia shares her own culinary customs with the diverse and varied special dishes of her invited celebrity dinner companions.
- For most, the holiday season is a time of celebration, spending time with family and friends, observing age-old traditions and enjoying favorite foods. For members of the military, the holidays can be particularly emotional, especially when they are stationed thousands of miles away from home or are overcoming injuries from their service. In the emotional and uplifting film, Lidia Celebrates America: Holiday for Heroes, Lidia meets with seven veterans who reflect on their service. Each discusses their longing to be reunited with family during holidays, the challenges and sacrifices of their work, and the pride they take in having defended our country. Together, they create a distinct image of the diversity of the United States military.
- In Homegrown Heroes, Chef Lidia Bastianich looks at veterans who return home and find farming to be a path back to civilian life. Seven poignant veterans' stories take Lidia from the heart of Appalachia in Loom, W.Va. to Richmond, KY and Anaheim, CA, and prove that farming, beekeeping, and raising livestock can help individuals reconnect in a meaningful way to the community.