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Link Voices
"Link Voices" is a unique collection of documentaries that showcase a range of perspectives, untold stories, and regional flavors. These films tackle topics including LGBT rights, homelessness, racism, and poverty through the eyes of the people closest to these issues. Enter the worlds of revolutionary artists, musicians, environmental activists, disabled individuals, and powerless communities.
Funding for the series is provided by grants from Millicent Bell, Alec Rhodes, and other KCETLink donors.
Full Episodes
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Link Voices
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Laila at the Bridge
Former child bride and self-proclaimed badass Laila works tirelessly inviting opium addicts in Afghanistan to the detox clinics she runs with her brother, himself a recovered addict.
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Link Voices
Herman's House
"Herman's House" is a moving account of the remarkable expression Herman Wallace's struggle found in an unusual project proposed by artist Jackie Sumell.
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Link Voices
Crude
Filmmaker Richard Smith consults the leading international scientific experts to connect the dots between geology and economy and provide the big-picture view of oil.
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Link Voices
Remand
"Remand" tells the firsthand story of how two men met and worked together to inspire justice reform for an entire country.
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Link Voices
Seeds of Time
A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food.
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Clips & Segments
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Today, the music and musicians of Mali are in grave danger.
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"Herman's House" is a moving account of the remarkable expression his struggle found in an unusual project proposed by artist Jackie Sumell.
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Members of Rwanda's only women's drumming troupe form a partnership with two American entrepreneurs to open Rwanda's first ice cream shop.
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Sepideh is a young Iranian woman who dreams of becoming an astronaut.
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Laila at the Bridge
Under a dank bridge in Kabul, Afghanistan — the country with the world’s highest rate of opium production and addiction — a squalid group of drug addicts is getting high or fiending for their next fix. Former child bride and self-proclaimed badass Laila offers salvation by inviting these lost souls to the detox clinics she runs with her brother, himself a recovered addict. Fearless and relentless in the face of a corrupt and chaotic society, Laila brings love, hope and the Narcotics Anonymous program to these victims of the global addiction epidemic.
Big Sonia
Sonia Warshawski, a Holocaust survivor, is served an eviction notice for her tailor shop, which has thrived for 35 years. She must choose between setting up a new shop or retiring.
Mother of the Earth
Wall
"Wall" follows British playwright David Hare on a trip to the Middle East to examine the impact the wall separating Israel and Palestine has had on the people of the region. The feature-length film is an animated take on real-life events.
Who Is Dayani Cristal?
Every year tens of thousands of people are driven by grinding poverty and conflict to leave their homes in Central and South America and journey through Mexico towards the U.S. They brave one of the world’s most dangerous journeys, traveling along a stretch of desert called the “corridor of death,” for the chance of a better, more secure life for themselves and their families.
Articles
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Deportations, Assassinations, and Dictator Nations: A Timeline of U.S. Intervention in Latin America
A timeline of major events in history that have impacted the Latino presence in the U.S.
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After sitting in juvenile prison for two years, waiting for Uganda’s painfully slow criminal justice system to try him for murders he did not commit, Henry inspired criminal justice reform in Uganda.
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When Pepperdine law professor Jim Gash boarded a plane to Uganda, he never expected to become friends with a young prisoner who helped form an international collaboration for freedom.
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Why are only a small fraction of America’s 18,000 police agencies seriously committed to police reform?
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The nonprofit organization Justice for Murdered Children guides families through the next steps following the murder of their loved ones.
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Being a patrol officer was never enough for Detective Sal LaBarbera, who recently retired after 28 years at the LAPD South Bureau's homicide division. He knew he wanted to work homicide because "you have the chance to speak for the voiceless."
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Poet Mohamed uses his creative expression to confront his mental health demons, while bravely opening up to his family.
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Former child bride and self-proclaimed badass Laila works tirelessly inviting opium addicts in Afghanistan to the detox clinics she runs with her brother, himself a recovered addict.
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard shoots down an American drone; The U.S. Senate votes to block the President from selling arms sales to Saudi Arabia; and protestors try to storm Georgia’s parliament.
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