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Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard

Airing Monday, August 1st at 9pm on MPT2/Create; Sunday, August 7th at 6pm on MPT-HD

A collection of surprisingly joyful drawings created by school children living among the ruins of Hiroshima in 1947 becomes the heart and soul of this true, inspiring story about an exchange of gifts between Americans and Japanese after a devastating war. This powerful documentary about reconciliation and the power of gift, introduces the children artists (now in their late 70s) who reflect on their early lives amidst the rubble of their destroyed city and the hope they shared through their art. In 2010, the newly restored drawings, buried for decades deep inside All Souls Church in Washington DC, were taken back to Japan where they were reunited with the artists and exhibited in the very building where they were created.

Walter P. Carter: Champion of Change

Airing Sunday, August 7th at 3:30pm on MPT-HD

Walter P. Carter, Champion for Change is a documentary on the extraordinary contributions made by one man to the civil rights history of Baltimore. As chairman of C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality), he led highly organized non-violent demonstrations credited for inspiring an end to segregation in Baltimore in the 1950s and 60s. Award-winning filmmakers Susan  Hadary and John Anglim tell the story of this peaceful leader through chilling flashback footage and poignant interviews with his colleagues and family members.

David Susskind: MLK Interview 1963

Airing Sunday, August 7th @ 4pm on MPT-HD

David Susskind's historical, long and intimate interview with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Originally aired on June 9, 1963 by WPIX-TV New York.  Among the subjects discussed were the current state of the American Civil Rights Movement and the recent (at that time) events in Birmingham, Alabama.  Recently restored by the Paley Center.

Cold-Stunned

Airing Sunday, August 7th at 5:45pm

Every year, when cold weather starts to hit the East Coast, hundreds of endangered, cold-stunned sea turtles wash ashore in Cape Cod Bay. The National Aquarium in Baltimore works with conservation partners on a lengthy, challenging, and rewarding journey to rescue, treat, rehabilitate and ultimately return home these stranded turtles.