Welcome back to What’s On Weekly, a new blog series from Prairie Public that gives you the inside scoop on each week’s program highlights. New posts publish weekly on Mondays.
This week, a documentary about Caregiving, the second season of Human Footprint, and American Masters takes a look into the life of one of the most influential political writers of modern times.
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Caregiving
From the filmmakers executive producer Bradley Cooper, Caregiving personalizes this urgent, nonpartisan, national issue through the stories of caregivers themselves, as well as through the voices of those working to address the care crisis.
Through intimate footage and interviews, the documentary follows a diverse group of caregivers, sharing their personal stories of challenge and triumph. Individuals like Jacquelyn Joyce Revere, a writer who was the full-time caregiver for both her mother and grandmother who had dementia concurrently, and Carlos Olivas Jr., a Latino male caregiver for his veteran father.
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Tune in Tuesday, June 24, at 8pm.
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Human Footprint: Season 2
Earth has never experienced anything like us: a single species dominating and transforming the planet. Biologist Shane Campbell-Staton travels the globe to explore our Human Footprint and to discover how the things we do reveal who we truly are.
In Season 2 of Human Footprint, follow Shane as he travels the globe and gives audiences a firsthand look at how people have transformed the planet and the millions of species around us. Along the way, Shane meets farmers, scientists, journalists and business owners, and discovers that the ways and reasons that we've reshaped the world.
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Tune in Wednesdays, beginning June 25, at 8pm.
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American Masters: Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny from American Masters takes a closer look at one of the most fearless political writers of modern times.
Hannah Arendt came of age in Germany as Hitler rose to power, before escaping to the United States as a Jewish refugee. Through her unflinching capacity to demand attention to facts and reality, Arendt’s time as a political prisoner, refugee and survivor in Europe informed her groundbreaking insights into the human condition, the refugee crisis and totalitarianism.
Her major works, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958), Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), On Revolution (1963) and Crises of the Republic (1972) remain among the most important and most-read treatises on the development and impact of totalitarianism and the fault lines in American democracy. Arendt’s reports on the trial of Adolph Eichmann also caused a firestorm of controversy, and its impact is still felt today.
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Tune in Friday, June 27, at 8pm.