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- Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition. A Chinese state-owned mining company is closing in on the ancient site, eager to harvest $100 billion dollars worth of copper buried directly beneath the archaeological ruins. Only 10% of Mes Aynak has been excavated, though, and some believe future discoveries at the site have the potential to redefine the history of Afghanistan and the history of Buddhism itself. Qadir Temori and his fellow Afghan archaeologists face what seems an impossible battle against the Chinese, the Taliban and local politics to save their cultural heritage from likely erasure.
- Most prison documentaries focus on the inmates. This sobering program features guards and prisoners alike, giving the viewer two interpretations of life at Ohio's Warren Correctional Institution. From the smallest detail-how cellmates rig a shabby partition around their toilet-to the cynicism and frontline sociology with which the corrections officers analyze their surroundings, the video clearly elucidates the effects of prolonged monotony and confinement on the human spirit. As one officer puts it, "Eight hours a day, I'm locked up here too."
- Weightlifting in Kabul, Afghanistan as profiled by Brent E. Huffman. This is an episode of Current TV, one of their first pilot shows and also one of the most popular on the channel.
- La Mu lives beyond the strictures of mainstream Chinese society. She is part of the Mosuo, an ethnic minority that has a matriarchal society, one of the last in the world.
- The story of four people from around the globe who are linked by a desire to make their lives better, daring to ask the question, "What if?"
- In newly opened gyms in downtown Kabul, young men are rebuilding Afghanistan one muscle at a time. They are pumping iron and dreaming of Arnold Schwarzenegger. "They don't know much about Arnold the politician," says filmmaker Brent Huffman, "but they do know Arnold the action hero." "When I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger's film I wanted to start this exercise," explains one enthusiastic Afghan bodybuilder as he proudly flexes his bulging biceps.
- In many ways, Sorayya Rezai is a typical teenager - but as a refugee from Afghanistan, she's been through so much more than most girls her age. Now, with help from friends and neighbors, she and her family are eagerly learning how to become Americans.
- A man and a woman try to meet each other on Valentine's Day, each wondering why the other has not shown up.
- Investigates the effort to stop the Chinese government from building 13 dams along the NU River as part of that nation's quest for energy.
- The Colony examines China's aggressive colonization of Africa. The film shows how Chinese are changing the economic landscape of the continent.