Page 5 - People & Culture 2020/2021

When America celebrates, it does so with some of the most strange, bizarre and wondrous festivals imaginable. Events include a redneck belly flop contest, launching homemade rockets, Alaska’s Hairy Chest, Legs and Beard contest, and Sturgis, the world’s largest (and craziest!) biker festival. It’s wild, it’s wacky and it’s very American.
Big Fish Entertainment/Smithsonian Networks
In 1970, 1,500 hippies founded a commune in rural Tennessee. Members grew their own food, delivered babies at home and built a self-sufficient society. Raised by a Jewish mother from Beverly Hills and a Puerto Rican father from the Bronx, sisters Rena and Nadine return for the first time since 1985. American Commune finds that, perhaps surprisingly, communal values are alive and well in the next generation.
Mundo Films
This powerful and insightful documentary focuses on the deeply entrenched social stigma attached to addiction. Breaking down those walls are those brave enough to come forward and tell their stories. These people are members of the community, leaders, volunteers, corporate executives, public figures, and celebrities; laying their addiction on the line to save the lives of others just like them.
From the Washington Monument to the Vietnam War Memorial, this programme highlights America’s most prominent and magnificent national monuments. This film is full of new insights and quirky facts; a wonderful window into America’s history.
Lynn Kessler for Smithsonian Networks
What do the flying aces of World War I, the stunt pilot who filmed ‘Top Gun’ and thousands of other explorers of the sky have in common? They all chose animals as their co-pilots! See the amazing stories of Gilmore the flying lion, Ham the space chimp and Kiddo, who was the first cat to cross the Atlantic by airship.
Gail Flannigan/Smithsonian Networks
We explore the soaring voices of South Africa’s newest singing stars - how young black people are embracing an art form that was once the exclusive preserve of whites. They’re not only wowing audiences in the country’s top opera houses but also appearing on stages around the world to critical acclaim. This is their story.
America Wild And Wacky
6 x 60’, 2007, HD
American Commune
1 x 60’ or 1 x 90’, 2013, HD
Animals Aloft
1 x 60’, 2007, HD
The Anonymous People
1 x 60’, 2014, HD
4th Dimension Productions
Factuals: Biography and History Unit
America’s Greatest Monuments
1 x 60’, 2007, HD
Aria del Africa
1 x 60’, 2009, HD
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