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NATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
PROGRAMMING AND CONTENT
A Town Called Victoria
From award-winning 昀椀lmmaker Li Lu, A Town Called Victoria follows the stories of Ajrami, Rachid
and Hashmi as they reckon with a hate crime against a local mosque in Victoria, Texas. The
昀椀lm’s subjects seek to restore their sacred space while re昀氀ecting on the journeys they took to
昀椀nd acceptance as Muslim Americans in a conservative Christian small town.
Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution
This three-part documentary explores the origin of the global music phenomenon born among
gay and Black communities in 1970s New York. Dance 昀氀oors in apartments and basement bars
became a platform for their battle for visibility and inclusion. The 昀椀lm introduces audiences to
the geniuses who created this monumental music and reveals remarkable footage from this
powerful era.
Gospel Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
GOSPEL is a captivating two-part documentary that explores the evolution of America’s most
in昀氀uential music genre. Presented by scholar and historian Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the show
guides viewers through the series along with a host of historians, singers and preachers.
Series guests include singer Dionne Warwick, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, the Rev. Otis Moss III,
Professor Michael Eric Dyson and more.
The American Buffalo
Ken Burns’ The American Buffalo is a two-part, four-hour series that takes viewers on a journey
through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s
most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, its signi昀椀cance to Indigenous people and
the landscape of the Great Plains. The series is anchored by stories of Native nations, including
the Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne of the Southern Plains and others.
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