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(Farah and the Shah in Aswan, 1979)
Farah Pahlavi is the widow of the Shah of Iran, whose campaign to modernize his country ended when he was overthrown in 1979 by Khomeini’s opposition. The Pahlavis have been in exile ever since. She’s here to look back on her eventful life. Then journalist Jennifer Gonnerman on one woman’s imprisonment and the effects of the Rockefeller drug laws on one New York family. Joseph Rodriguez talks about his photographic study of California’s juvenile court system. (Rodriguez is himself a former inmate.) And filmmaker Rory Kennedy shares her new documentary, "A Boy’s Life," about a troubled child from Mississippi and his emotionally dysfunctional family.
Farah Pahlavi
Farah Pahlavi gives a personal account of the 1979 overthrow of the Shah of Iran in her new memoir. It's called An Enduring Love: My Life With the Shah: A Memoir.
» Visit Farah Pahlavi's website
Music: Marzieh "Tchar-Mezrab Dachti" "Overture"
» Visit Farah Pahlavi's website
Music: Marzieh "Tchar-Mezrab Dachti" "Overture"
Elaine Bartlett
Elaine Bartlett, a first-time drug offender, was sent to Bedford Hills prison for sixteen years. Jennifer Gonnerman tells her story in Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett.
Music: Meet Joe Black soundtrack, "The Question" "Served its Purpose"
Music: Meet Joe Black soundtrack, "The Question" "Served its Purpose"
Joseph Rodriguez
» Read more about it and see some of the photographs
Music: Let Him Have It "Let Him ...
Rory Kennedy
Rory Kennedy's new documentary for HBO is "A Boy’s Life." It premieres on Wednesday, March 24th.
» Read more about the documentary
» Visit the filmmaker's website
Music: Let Him Have It "Chris"
» Read more about the documentary
» Visit the filmmaker's website
Music: Let Him Have It "Chris"
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