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To response to acts of delinquency and criminal offenses the US states of Texas, Tennessee, and Missouri have resorted to public humiliation in lew of jail time. The basic idea in quite simple, once they have been arrested, the offenders must choose between jail or public humiliation. The public humiliation can take the form of walking with a sign explaining the reason why you were arrested or having your picture broadcasted on the local television. The supporters site a decrease in the...

Wade Davis: The Explorer follows Davis from a river trip with his family on the Stikine in Alaska and Northern B.C. to the Incan ruins of the high Peruvian Andes. He is able to slip off the map for awhile, to live with the voodoo priests in Haiti, the Penan in Borneo or the Quechuen of Chinchero.

U.S. oil interests threaten to destroy a traditional way of life in Canada's north. For the Vuntut Gwitch'in people of Old Crow in the Yukon, much depends on the caribou migration. Now new oil drilling in Alaska could bring an end to the caribou and an end to this ancient culture

Super Star Celine Dion and others are featured in this look at the driving passion of all artists to reach their performance peak and rise to the top of their stardom. Celine Dion sings several songs and discusses how her intense passion for performing fueled her incredible personal rise from a unknown French Canadian schoolgirl to World singing sensation.

Set in Miami, Florida, veteran Detective Matthews (Hans Hernke) gained his reputation by solving cases from his office, but when an aggressive sadistic serial killer threatens his city, he is forced to leave the confines of his precinct to hunt for him and a helpless kidnapped victim. As time is running out, his personal life and career begins to unravel and crumble around him in this crime/thriller story that tests the very limits of the human psyche!

When Detective Seamus Kilpatrick is killed in the line of duty, he is brought back to bring his killer and who ever is involved to justice.

Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the Jewish cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal immigrant. Shore is a dynamic, handsome, and brilliant young man who also happens to be homeless. After almost hitting Cassandra in his dilapidated VW bus, he becomes fascinated by the gothic cemetery waif and attempts to befriend her. A sequence of events results in Cass getting lost. Jorge and Shore flee the cemetery in a...

THICK is a tale about a burgeoning apartment complex magnate, THERESA JAMES, who runs illegal businesses in her neighborhoods for added financial gain. Feeling the aftermath of the Recession, Theresa tries to regain a foot hold in her underworld, professional and private life as her employees start to undermine her by looking for a way out of her fledgling criminal empire.

Set in South Philadelphia, A Rose on Ninth Street, deals with police corruption, crime, loyalty, drugs, romance, love, forgiveness, and redemption. Bob O'Conner is faced with the biggest decision of his life when he falls in love with the beautiful daughter of his boss's enemy. While Bob's father struggles with alcoholism, and his mother is dying from cancer, Bob's crime boss sets out to kill him, and his world is crumbling around him.

Fed up with society's unbalanced behavior by the privileged, Evan sets out to convince his friends, Heath and Greg, to join him in becoming vigilantes and punishing criminals for their crimes, big or small. Even if it requires them to take the law into their own hands. With some resistance between the friends, Heath joins Evan in serving justice their way, completely ignoring Greg's fore warnings about the consequences of their actions. Their mission is closely tracked by Detective Romano,...

Pioneer Quest: A Year In The Real West, is a nine Episode television series that follows two couples as they assume the lives of early settlers to the West. In June they will arrive by horse-drawn cart at an empty piece of prairie. Within the year, using only the resources and tools of the 1870s, they will build a house, raise livestock, hunt, fish and grow crops. No running water. No electricity. No toilet paper or other modern conveniences. They must feed themselves, build shelter and endure...

The deeply personal values of a gay minister who is planning to enter into his own same sex marriage and a religious-right activist fervently against same sex marriage collide when they agree to exchange lives to debate same-sex marriage in a fascinating social experiment. From conservative rural beef country, to the heart of the urban gay community; these men move into each others homes and lives and attempt to hang on to their belief systems while facing off with the opposing social...