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Storycorp: Miss Devine

Storycorp: Miss Devine

POV

StoryCorps will bring its Peabody Award-winning storytelling back to POV.

4 min.

I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful

I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful

POV

"I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful."

90 min.

Up Heartbreak Hill

Up Heartbreak Hill

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"Up Heartbreak Hill" follows Navajo high-school seniors.

60 min.

Guilty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasures

POV

Real life begins where romance novels end.

My Reincarnation: Dreams and Nightmares (Deleted Scene)

My Reincarnation: Dreams and Nightmares (Deleted Scene)

POV

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu dreams of his daughter giving birth, and remembers his brother.

My Reincarnation: I Was a Terrible Child (Deleted Scene)

My Reincarnation: I Was a Terrible Child (Deleted Scene)

POV

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu talks to a student about what he was like as a child.


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Filmmakers Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine talk about their film, which focuses on two stories of international aid in Kenya where good intentions go wrong. Van Soest and Levine explain how they came to make the film, why the two characters they focused on are emblematic of their respective communities and talk about the paternalism with which the West deals with developing nations.

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