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Pacific Heartbeat
Running the gamut from enlightening documentaries to musical showcases, the anthology series PACIFIC HEARTBEAT draws viewers into the heart, mind and soul of Pacific Island culture. Episodes: "Na Mele: Jerry Santos", "Splinters", "Road to the Globe" and "Na Loea: The Masters."
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Pacific Heartbeat
Pacific Heartbeat
Cyril Pahinui: Let's Play Music - In Memoriam
Master slack key musician Cyril Pahinui jams with some of the most revered and talented musicians in Hawai‘i in intimate kanikapila-style backyard performances.
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Pacific Heartbeat
Pacific Heartbeat
Corridor Four
Isaac Ho'opi'i saved numerous people from the Pentagon during the September 11 terrorist attacks. This documentary illustrates Isaac's story in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Pacific Heartbeat
Pacific Heartbeat
Te Kuhane O Te Tupuna (The Spirit of the Ancestors)
This documentary film is a journey from Easter Island to London, in search of the lost Moai Hoa Haka Nanaia, a statue of significant cultural importance.
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Pacific Heartbeat
Pacific Heartbeat
Leitis In Waiting
"Leitis in Waiting" tells the story of Tonga's evolving approach to gender fluidity through a character-driven portrait of the most prominent leiti (transgender) in the Kingdom, Joey Mataele.
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Pacific Heartbeat
Pacific Heartbeat
Prison Songs
The people imprisoned in a Darwin jail are shown in a unique and completely new light in Australia's first ever documentary musical.
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Prison Songs
The people imprisoned in a Darwin jail are shown in a unique and completely new light in Australia's first ever documentary musical. Incarcerated in tropical Northern Territory, over 800 inmates squeeze into the overcrowded spaces of Berrimah Prison. In an Australian first, the inmates share their feelings, faults and experiences in the most extraordinary way - through song.
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2019-10-06T09:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
Leitis In Waiting
"Leitis in Waiting" tells the story of Tonga's evolving approach to gender fluidity through a character-driven portrait of the most prominent leiti (transgender) in the Kingdom, Joey Mataele, a devout Catholic of royal descent. Over the course of an eventful year, Joey organizes a beauty pageant, mentors a young leiti who is rejected by her family, and attempts to work with fundamentalist Christians regarding Tonga's anti-sodomy and cross-dressing laws.
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2019-10-13T09:00:00-07:00KCETLINK
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