{"id":6855,"date":"2011-10-07T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2022-10-11T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:57:32","slug":"catch-these-documentaries-about-two-new-nobel-laureates","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/catch-these-documentaries-about-two-new-nobel-laureates\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch These Documentaries About Two New Nobel Laureates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and\u00a0Leymah Gbowee of Liberia (along with\u00a0Tawakkul Karman of Yemen) were <a title=\"nobel prize winners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/08\/world\/nobel-peace-prize-johnson-sirleaf-gbowee-karman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced as winners<\/a> of this year&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize today.\u00a0As you likely know, Independent Lens is a proud partner of the <strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itvs.org\/women-and-girls-lead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women and Girls Lead<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0public media campaign, and it so happens two films we&#8217;re associated with that profile Sirleaf and Gbowee will be broadcasting in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>First up, the PBS series <em><a title=\"women war &amp; peace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/women-war-and-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women War &amp; Peace<\/a><\/em> will air on most PBS member stations beginning October 11 at 10 pm (<a title=\"pbs tv listings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/tv_schedules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check local listings<\/a>). The episode entitled <em><a title=\"pray the devil back to hell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/women-war-and-peace\/features\/pray-the-devil-back-to-hell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pray the Devil Back to Hell<\/a><\/em> (airing October 18) recounts Gbowee&#8217;s peaceful women&#8217;s movement to overthrow the dictatorial regime of Charles Taylor.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Then on October 23 (again, <a title=\"iron ladies of liberia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itvs.org\/television?film=iron-ladies-of-liberia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check your listings<\/a>) on the WORLD Channel, watch <em><a title=\"iron ladies of liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/ironladies\/\">Iron Ladies of Liberia<\/a><\/em>, about\u00a0Africa&#8217;s first freely elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia. The film explores the challenges facing the new president and the extraordinary women surrounding her.<\/p>\n<p><em>(NOTE: Independent Lens has produced a Community Classroom module for educators and NGOs from the documentary Iron Ladies of Liberia that comes with two lesson plans. You can find the module and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itvs.org\/educators\/collections\/vote-democracy\/lesson-plans\/women-and-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download the lesson plans here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese three extraordinary women inspire all of us who care about these issues,\u201d said Pat Harrison, CEO and President of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re proud to celebrate their triumph and help bring their stories to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and\u00a0Leymah Gbowee of Liberia (along with\u00a0Tawakkul Karman of Yemen) were announced as winners of this year&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize today.\u00a0As you likely know, Independent Lens is a proud partner of the \u00a0Women and Girls Lead\u00a0public media campaign, and it so happens two films we&#8217;re associated with that profile Sirleaf and Gbowee will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1237],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-6855","blog","type-blog","status-publish","hentry","tag-awards"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Catch These Documentaries About Two New Nobel Laureates! 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