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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 Alec Rhodes and other KCETLink donors.
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Link Voices
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Mother of the Earth
"Mother of the Earth" takes a look at Hayedeh Shirzadi and her husband's attempts to put an end to the dumping and burial of urban garbage in their city.
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A documentary exploring Denmark's secret to happiness. “Hygge" has exploded in popularity amidst growing division and distrust around the world, but the Danish word and its definition are complicated.
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Filmed in a Palestinian refugee camp south of Beirut, where Mariam has lived her whole life, the film follows her struggle in uniting the female community with a business venture — a food truck and catering service.
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The untold story of Oliver Tambo, the man behind the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid in South Africa.
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Three residents in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas find their lives upended by plans to build a US-Mexico border wall.
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Soufra
Filmed in a Palestinian refugee camp south of Beirut, where Mariam has lived her whole life, the film follows her struggle in uniting the female community with a business venture — a food truck and catering service.
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2020-05-30T16:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2020-06-01T18:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
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2020-06-03T13:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
Finding Hygge
A documentary exploring Denmark's secret to happiness. “Hygge" has exploded in popularity amidst growing division and distrust around the world, but the Danish word and its definition are complicated. For those who seek happiness, this film explores the true meaning of "hygge” and how to find it.
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2020-06-06T16:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2020-06-08T18:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
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2020-06-10T13:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
Dugout
An epic journey through the Amazon in a traditional dugout canoe comes with a surprisingly immersive glimpse into the lives of the rainforest’s indigenous inhabitants, where the filmmakers live as their hosts do – from banana broth breakfasts to basket weaving sessions – while crafting their canoe out of a large tree entirely by hand.
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2020-06-13T16:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2020-06-15T18:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
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2020-06-17T13:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
Delay, Deny, Hope You Die
After returning home from battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, American soldiers are developing serious illnesses as a result of past exposure to open-air burn pits on their own military bases.
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2020-06-20T16:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2020-06-22T18:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
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2020-06-24T13:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
What Walaa Wants
Walaa has her sights set on becoming one of the few women to join the Palestinian Security Forces. She has to fight to survive police training boot camp with her wildly rebellious spirit intact.
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2020-06-27T16:00:00-07:00KCET-HD
Articles
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Link Voices
In Link Voices’ “Finding Hygge,” 20 production crew members embark on a journey to explore the multilayered meaning of Denmark’s secret to happiness, "hygge," pronounced “hoo-ga.”
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In the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 95 percent of butterfly habitat has disappeared, and one of its few places left to call home is at the mercy of the concrete U.S.-Mexico border wall.
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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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