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Summer Pasture: Education is a Priority

6m 26s / TV-PG
In this update with the subjects of the Independent Lens documentary, Summer Pasture, we see Locho and Yama's daughter Tsering Tsomo -- now 5 years old -- and her 3 year old sister, Drolkar Lhamo. Both parents agree that sending their girls to school is a high priority for the family, so that they will have greater opportunities and an appreciation for their Tibetan heritage.
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Tibetan Nomads Negotiate the Crossroads Between Tradition...

1m 54s / TV-PG
Locho and Yama are nomadic herders in Tibet's high grasslands, who carve their existence from the land as their ancestors have for generations. As traditional nomadic life confronts rapid modernization, Summer Pasture captures a family at a crossroads, ultimately revealing the profound sacrifice they will make to ensure their daughter's future.
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Summer Pasture: Connected by Karma, Two Tibetan Nomads Becom

2m 49s / TV-PG
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary, Summer Pasture, Tibetan herder, Locho, describes how he met his wife, Yama. While womanizing and carousing may not be entirely behind him, these two have started a family together and share the hardships and pleasures of nomadic life as two connected by karma.
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Circo: For One Filmmaker, the Sideshow Became the Main Event

4m 5s / TV-PG
In this video companion to the Independent Lens documentary, Circo, filmmaker Aaron Schock describes how he accidentally stumbled upon the subjects of his film while making a completely different documentary in Mexico. He also realized after commencing the project, that the film would be the story not just of a struggling family business, but of also of a troubled marriage.
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Circo: Making the Music with Celexico

11m 15s / TV-PG
In this video companion to the Independent Lens documentary, Circo, members of the band Calexico, Joey Burns and John Convertino, describe the creative process behind scoring the film, including finding a musical voice for each personality onscreen. Also featured in the video is a performance at the Tucson premiere of the film.
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Meet the Ponce Family Circus!

2m 13s / TV-PG
For generations the Ponce family has run one of Mexico's traditional family circuses. Ringmaster Tino struggles to keep the family business alive as life on the road and mounting debts threaten to pull his marriage apart.
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Circo: From the Big Top to the Silver Screen

7m 52s / TV-PG
In this video update to the Independent Lens documentary, Circo, we learn that Ivonne agreed to return to the family circus on one condition: that they break away from her husband Tino's parents and form their own circus. Here, the Ponce family attends the premiere of the film at the Morelia International Film Festival.
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Circo: Remembering the Ringmaster Who Started It All

5m 7s / TV-PG
For the Ponces, circuses literally run in the family from generation to generation. In this scene from the Independent Lens documentary, Circo, we follow Tino and his family to a Day of the Dead reunion at his grandmother's home and pay tribute to the late grandfather, his family's original ringmaster.
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Facing the Storm: Remembering Big Medicine and the Big Bison

4m 44s / TV-PG
In 1933, a white buffalo was born on the National Bison Range in Montana. He was named "Big Medicine" by the Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Valley. White buffalo are sacred to many Native American tribes. In the companion video to the documentary "Facing the Storm," we see a special ceremony held in 2006 commemorating this earlier appearance.
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Facing the Storm: Nearing Extinction, the Buffalo Was Hunted

2m 26s / TV-PG
By the early 1880s, buffalo were on the verge of extinction. Ironically, one man, William T. Hornaday, decided that hunting down and stuffing them was the best way to preserve these majestic animals. During one hunting expedition, Native Americans decorated the body of one of fallen buffalo, revealing their reverence for the buffalo.
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It's Baaaaack!

1m 44s / TV-PG
In 2006, thousands of new electric cars were purposely destroyed by the same auto companies that built them. Today, fewer than six years later, the electric car is back ... with a vengeance.
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Revenge of the Electric Car: Pimping Yesterday's Jalopies In

1m 7s / TV-PG
Greg "Gadget" Abbott and wife Charlotte Jackson are fighting the good fight in electric car conversion ... one vehicle at a time. They're amping up the jalopies of yesteryear into the dream rides of tomorrow. But can they compete with industry giants and angel investor-backed startups?
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