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Jimmy James came to the Esperanza Community after googling “Texas homeless camps.” He had been living on the streets of Houston for about three years, and he arrived in Austin to find an encampment of roughly 150 people living in tents and temporary shelters on a sprawling, flat slab of asphalt off U.S. 183.

Follow Stacy Tecot as she studies how Red Bellied Lemurs look after their babies as a community to survive in the unpredictable secondary forests of Madagascar at the time of climate change.

High in the Andes mountains, an age-old generational craft is on the verge of extinction; this is the story of Ecuador’s forgotten guitar road.

Despite dwindling interest and a two-decade-long losing record, a determined coach and group of young athletes fight to keep their football program alive. An exploration in overcoming loss, the film follows the personal triumphs and hardships of the players and their families, and how football serves as a symbol of hope, unity, and resilience for the people of Red Lake.

While on assignment filming orphaned street kids in Mongolia, NYC-based cinematographer Martina Radwan feels drawn to help three of the kids escape their dead-end situations. Naive, idealistic and thoroughly unprepared she dives in to fix things - is this is a Westerner’s savior complex, or something more?

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Deep in the blistering 120-degree desert of Southern California, you'll find the Salton Sea. The unique body of water is California's largest lake -- and also California's largest environmental disaster. In its heyday, the waters were coveted, a fabulous playground of Old Hollywood with stars like Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys partying at the massive lake. Today, the Salton Sea resembles an apocalyptic wasteland. The lake is shrinking at a rapid pace, with massive wildlife die-offs and subsequent toxic dust spreading the area.

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Award-winning fine art photographer Artem Shestakov attempts to photograph the most remote locations on the planet affected by the climate crisis.

After surviving a rare cougar attack on a ride outside of Seattle in early 2018, Izzy was hospitalized with severe facial trauma while hateful anti-trans rhetoric filled comment sections of news articles that he had little to no control over. In the years since, he has struggled to overcome his anxiety of being alone in the woods and the self-doubt brought on by strangers after the attack.

Follow Pussy Noir’s historic fellowship at the Kennedy Center as she blends history, queerness, and couture into a queer fashion show. Can she make her ideas sing on the catwalk?

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As master conservator Naoko Fukumaru demonstrates kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery using gold, she recalls how learning the practice has taught her to embrace her own imperfections as it’s mended her own life.

A startup TikTok ad agency's outrageous co-founders rent a house in the Hollywood Hills for 30 days in a fleeting attempt to make their business viable.

Prince Philip longs to be with a prince of his own, must decide to follow the traditional tale expected of him or forge his own happily ever after.

A Ghanaian maintenance worker at a Virginia retirement community dreams of becoming an American citizen to provide a better life for his family. With their future at stake, he enlists the help of two elderly residents to prepare for the biggest test of his life: the US Citizenship exam.

Willie Nelson's songs have played an important role people's lives as evidenced in this tribute: "The Don't Make 'Em Like Willie Anymore."

The first black woman of motorcycling never let obstacles stop her from achieving her dreams. From being abandoned as a child to riding across the segregated United States in 1930 -- six years before The Green Book was published.

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Full Title: To Myself, With Love: The Bessie Stringfield Story

KESQ anchor Angela Chen explores the impact on the Coachella Valley and our dependence on the water. In the “Troubled Waters: Colorado River Crisis” series, our team travels to Colorado and tracks the path of the river back to California, talking to water experts, environmentalists, farmers and more along the way to understand the impact of the Colorado River on the west and why we need to do something about the chronic overuse before it’s too late.

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