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Season 2 Episode 4

About the Episode

The New Public follows the lives of the ambitious educators and lively students of Bed Stuy’s new Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School (BCAM) over the course of the founding year, with the filmmakers returning three years later to again document the senior year of that first graduating class.

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0:56
Como Vivimos (How We Live) | Trailer

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1:25
In Search of Bengali Harlem | Preview

A Harlem playwright unearths the extraordinary pasts of his Bangladeshi immigrant parents.

0:30
Hundreds of Thousands | A Call for Change

Stevie Walker-Webb shares his hopes and fears for incarcerated people with mental illness.

0:54
Liberated Lives

Filmmakers talk about their documentaries and the process of telling these stories.

24:19
Hundreds of Thousands | Solitary Confinement

For 24 hours, Stevie Walker-Webb is in "solitary confinement" to show its inhumanity.

1:04
Hundreds of Thousands | Brothers

Two brothers, one on the inside, share their hopes and dreams after incarceration.

0:58
What These Walls Won't Hold | Healing Power of Filmmaking

Director Adamu Chan opens up about finding filmmaking inside San Quentin State Prison.

0:22
Beyond the Lens: What These Walls Won't Hold | Adamu Chan

A conversation with WHAT THESE WALLS WON'T HOLD's Adamu Chan.

10:26
What These Walls Won't Hold | The Root of Incarceration

Rahsaan Thomas talks about incarceration and why people get involved in crime.

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