Media Edge

"The Humor Times Presents Will Durst" (19 minutes)
Media Edge presents excerpts from political comedian Will Durst’s new one-man show -- “BoomeRaging: From LSD to OMG” -- recorded at the 24th Street Theatre in Sacramento on August 23, 2013. According to Durst, the show is about the travails of being “chronologically gifted,” or “what happens when acid flashbacks meet dementia.”

"Over Troubled Waters" (45 minutes)
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas, is a national treasure being squandered by greed. In this visually rich documentary, Ed Begley, Jr. narrates the story of the battle being fought by the people of the Delta to protect the region they love and encourage saner water policies for all of the people of California.

"When Abortion Was Illegal" (28 minutes)
This Academy Award-nominated film features compelling first person accounts which reveal the physical, legal, and emotional consequences during the era when abortion was a criminal act.

"It Takes a Village" (22 minutes)
After being devastated by a cyclone in 1991, the community of Chakaria in Bangladesh tries a new approach to community health care.

Details
Episode Number: 
445
Duration: 
1 hour 58 min
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Category: 
DCTV - Sponsored Programs
Disposition: 
DCTV Digital Library
Format: 
MPEG2 - MP4