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  • Follow Robin Charboneau as she struggles to raise two young children while coping with the wounds of abuse.
    Kind Hearted Woman

    Follow Robin Charboneau as she struggles to raise two young children while coping with the wounds of abuse.

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  • A landmark digital and broadcast initiative from AOL and PBS showcasing compelling stories from women of today and tomorrow.
    MAKERS: Women Who Make America

    A landmark digital and broadcast initiative from AOL and PBS showcasing compelling stories from women of today and tomorrow.

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  • The sky is the limit for the female solar engineering students at India's Barefoot College.
    Solar Mamas

    The sky is the limit for the female solar engineering students at India's Barefoot College.

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  • Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor?
    Welcome to the World

    Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor?

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  • When women take their place at the peace table they often tip the balance.
    Women, War & Peace

    When women take their place at the peace table they often tip the balance.

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Films

Wonder Women

by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan & Kelcey Edwards

Follow the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, Wonder Women! looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society's anxieties about women's liberation.

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Kind Hearted Woman

by David Sutherland

In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota’s Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin over three years as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child.

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MAKERS: Women Who Make America

by Dyllan McGee

More than 1000 interviews chronicle the unforgettable women who have shaped America in the fields of arts, politics, business, sports and science over the last 50 years. Learn more

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Solar Mamas

by Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim

Jordanian wife and mother Rafea is leaving home for the first time — to attend a college in India that is training rural women to become solar energy engineers. Learn more

Part of Why Poverty?

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Welcome to the World

by Brian Hill

Welcome to the World asks: Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor? This film looks at child and maternal mortality as indicators of poverty in the U.S., Cambodia, and Sierra Leone.Learn more

Part of Why Poverty?

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Women, War & Peace

by Abigail Disney, Gini Reticker, and Pamela Hogan

Women, War & Peace, a five-part PBS mini-series, is a global media initiative on the roles of women in peace and conflict.Learn more

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