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S20 "The Africas VS. America" E4: The Commissioner’s Gambit
Season 20 Episode 4
Complaints from neighbours about MOVE’s lifestyle lead to increasingly violent clashes with police. One confrontation turns deadly, and by 1978, rela…
2 years, 10 months ago
S20 "The Africas VS. America" E5: The System on Trial
Season 20 Episode 5
The MOVE 9 are catapulted into the international spotlight, facing more than 900 years between them for the death of Officer James Ramp — a crime for…
2 years, 10 months ago
S20 "The Africas VS. America" E6: Hellfire
Season 20 Episode 6
In 1983, the City of Philadelphia elects its first Black mayor as successor to Frank Rizzo. Woodrow Wilson Goode inherits Rizzo’s fight against MOVE,…
2 years, 10 months ago
S20 "The Africas VS. America" E7: Elegy
Season 20 Episode 7
After a commission finds that city officials and police were negligent in their actions on May 13, 1985, a reeling city looks to heal, and surviving …
2 years, 10 months ago
S20: Why & how Matthew Amha chose to tell the story of MOVE — On stage at Hot Docs
Season 20 Episode 8
In this live discussion from the Hot Docs festival, Africas VS. America host Matthew Amha joins Falen Johnson on stage to speak about the stories jou…
2 years, 10 months ago
S19: "Run, Hide, Repeat" E1: Don't Tell
Season 19 Episode 1
It’s 1971 and Ruth Dakin is going through a messy divorce and fears for the future of her young children, Pauline and Ted. She meets Stan Sears, a Un…
3 years, 1 month ago
S19: "Run, Hide, Repeat" E2: On The Run
Season 19 Episode 2
Now a teenager living in Saint John, the secrecy and unexplained moves wear Pauline down. Eventually she graduates and starts a career in journalism …
3 years, 1 month ago
S19: "Run, Hide, Repeat" E3: The Weird World
Season 19 Episode 3
Based on her mother and Stan’s stunning revelations, Pauline and her brother Ted start sifting through their childhood memories and matching them to …
3 years, 1 month ago
S19: "Run, Hide, Repeat" E4: Saving Mom
Season 19 Episode 4
Pauline is struggling with doubts — the details of her family’s secret seem outrageous. But why would Stan and her mother lie to her? Pauline sets up…
3 years, 1 month ago
S19: "Run, Hide, Repeat" E5: Stan's World
Season 19 Episode 5
Pauline sets out to understand Stan’s mind and motives. She meets up with his son, John, who has some very strange stories of his own. And Pauline fi…
3 years, 1 month ago