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Part One: Nobody Ever Taught Me Any Of That

Item #: 195840

Part Two: I’m Trying To Get Home To My Family, Too

Item #: 195841

Part Three: Every Single Word Matters

Item #: 195842

Part Four: Home Is A Work In Progress

Item #: 195843

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Ken Burns Presents: College Behind Bars - A Film by Lynn Novick

The Series Includes : Part One: Nobody Ever Taught Me Any Of That | Part Two: I’m Trying To Get Home To My Family, Too | Part Three: Every Single Word Matters | Part Four: Home Is A Work In Progress

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This four-part series tells the story of a small group of incarcerated men and women struggling to earn college degrees and turn their lives around in one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in the United States - the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). Shot over four years in maximum and medium security prisons in New York State, the programs take viewers on a stark and intimate journey into one of the most pressing issues of our time - our failure to provide meaningful rehabilitation for the over two million Americans living behind bars. Through the personal stories of the students and their families, the film reveals the transformative power of higher education and puts a human face on America's criminal justice crisis. It raises questions we urgently need to address: What is prison for? Who has access to educational opportunity? Who among us is capable of academic excellence? How can we have justice without redemption?

Length: 220 minutes

Item#: FPT195839