MPT National Program Offers
NOLA: ALGF 0000
60 minutes, 2026
Release Date: 2/1/26
Rights: 5 plays through 1/31/28
Allergic to Failure is the powerful story of former NBA player Robert Covington, who defied the odds playing at an HBCU to build a decade-long career rooted in grit, faith, and self-belief. The documentary takes its title from Covington’s personal motto, “Allergic to Failure,” a mindset that propelled him from his underdog beginnings in Chicago to the highest levels of professional basketball.
Covington’s professional journey epitomizes the power of perseverance, as he rose through the G-League ranks to become a breakout star with the Philadelphia 76ers. His relentless work ethic earned him NBA All-Defensive Team honors and one of the league’s biggest contract leaps, proving that dedication and self-belief can overcome any obstacle.
The film also intimately explores Covington’s evolution as a man, particularly his journey into Black fatherhood, which reshaped his perspective on legacy and responsibility. His NBA story traverses the country, from Houston to Minnesota to Portland to L.A. and back to Philly, all while navigating injuries, trades, and the profound experience of raising his daughter with intention and purpose.
Central to Covington’s narrative is his unwavering commitment to giving back, showcasing his mission to uplift the next generation of HBCU athletes, highlighting the importance of community service, and creating pathways for others to follow.
NOLA: FWIN 0000
60 minutes, 2026
Release Date: 6/1/26
Rights: Unlimited through 5/31/28
Facing the Wind follows two women whose lives are irrevocably changed by their husband’s diagnosis with Lewy body dementia (LBD) – a widespread, but littleknown condition.
When Linda Szypula’s husband Jim was diagnosed with LBD, the doctor told her he had five to seven years to live. Struggling to find information about the disease and how to help Jim, Linda meets Curry Wisenhunt, a Texan truck driver living with the disease. Together, they start a podcast to disseminate information. Their efforts grow into a unique online support community—with groups for those living with the disease and for those caring for them.
In the caregiver group, Linda meets Carla Preyer from Sacramento, who has just quit her job to care for her husband, Patrick. The two women bond over their shared challenges and the dark humor they use to cope. As their husbands begin to disappear into dementia, Linda and Carla grow closer. Their friendship and their connection to their caregiver support group help them deal with their grief, rise to the demands of caregiving, and emerge whole on the other side.
NOLA: LRCM 0000
60 minutes, 2026
Release Date: 2/1/26
Rights: Unlimited through 1/31/28
Lithium Rising: The Race for Critical Minerals is a cinematic journey through the global race for critical minerals - the metals powering our green transition. Filmed across five continents, this documentary explores how the drive to decarbonize has sparked fierce geopolitical competition, while also imposing steep costs on vulnerable communities at the frontlines of extraction.
From the salt flats of the Andean highlands to the cobalt pits of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the film meets miners, indigenous leaders, titans of industry, and policymakers navigating the promises and perils of this new resource boom. Whether it’s water scarcity threatening communities in the Atacama or tribal tensions over lithium extraction in Nevada, Lithium Rising reveals how the quest for a greener future risks repeating the extractive injustices of the past.
With intimate access and sweeping visuals, the film asks: who benefits from the green boom—and who gets left behind? This documentary is an urgent, human-centered exploration of the hidden costs of our electric age.
Lithium Rising has been featured at leading policy, academic, and cultural institutions across the world, bringing the story to audiences from Washington to Warsaw and from Brussels to Abu Dhabi.
EDUCATION RESOURCES
NOLA: MABY 0000 60 minutes, 2026
Release Date: 5/1/26
Maryland By Air delivers a soaring aerial tour of the Free State across four seasons, from its picturesque western hills to its bustling metropolitan areas to its thundering shoreline and pastoral farmlands. This breathtaking program, produced by Maryland Public Television and shot entirely from the air, includes an inspiring musical score and is narrated by legendary Marylander Cal Ripken, Jr.
Rights: Unlimited through 4/30/29 The APT Exchange agreement prevents this program from being shown on WETA & WHUT.
NOLA: MGDK 501-513
30 minutes - 13 episodes
Rights: Unlimited plays through 10/22/27
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Season 1 - 13 Episodes
Season 2 - 13 Episodes
Season 3 - 13 Episodes
Season 4 - 13 Episodes
Season 5 - 13 Episodes
Season 5 of My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas is inspired by the universal lessons Diane learned from her ancestral island of Ikaria, a renowned Blue Zone where people are celebrated for their long, healthy lives. Diane believes the core of sustainable living lies in embracing a new paradigm of diet, nutrition, and lifestyle, one based on age-old wisdom, but apt for our modern lives. As people live longer than ever before, the real question becomes: how do we age well?
In Flavors of Longevity, Diane shares simple, affordable, delicious, and healthy recipes that are mostly plant-based, while weaving in illuminating interviews with world-renowned experts in longevity, wellness, and nutrition. Many of the recipes this season are inspired by her latest New ork Times bestseller, The Ikaria Way - a testament to the growing interest in how to cook and eat for a long, vibrant life.
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Season 1 - 12 Episodes
Season 2 - 13 Episodes
Season 3 - 13 Episodes
Season 4 - 13 Episodes
NOLA: SRPF 401- 41
30 minutes - 13 episodes
Rights: Unlimited plays through 04/14/28
Season 4 of Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire was produced in our first ever urban setting and the gateway of midwestern barbecue: St. Louis, Missouri. Shot in Union Station, Season 4 episodes are jam-packed with new content, attractions,and recipes.
While in St. Louis, Steven invited some of the city’s top chefs and pitmasters as guests, from Balkan grill masters Edo and Loryn Nalic to David Sandusky of Beast and Earline Walker of Smoki O’s. Steven is also visited by Diane Kochilas from My Greek Table. Recognizing the growing importance of social media in the world of live fire cooking, Steven also tagged some talented barbecue influencers to stop by and grill with him.
Back again this year, even bigger and better, is the Project Fire Mystery Box, in which Steven receives a mystery ingredient and then spontaneously creates a recipe on the set. Other shows in this year’s lineup focus on Extreme Grilling, Game Day Grilling (our tailgating show), Wagyu Demystified and Sandwiches Hit the Grill. We even have a show on breakfast.
Pull up a seat and experience delicious new meals like: rib “wings,” turkey “ribs,” buffalo brisket burnt ends, and a tasty beef tenderloin grilled in a salt crust and wine-soaked cloth in the embers.
NOLA: SMKE 301- 313
30 minutes - 13 episodes
Rights: Unlimited plays through 05/24/27
From the man who launched a revolution in live-fire cooking comes a third electrifying season of the show that brings the art of smoking and grilling from the competition barbecue circuit to the mainstream American backyard.
Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke goes global with shows on Mexican and Pac-Rim Smoke and Global Tailgating. Hardcore carnivores will delight in the episodes on the BBQ Holy Trinity and the Perfect Hog. Looking for something different? Check out shows on Extreme Smoke, Hot Stuff, and Water Meets Fire.
Filmed at the stunning Alisal Guest Ranch and Resort in California’s historic Santa Ynez Valley, Project Smoke 3 features a sizzling new collection of grills and smokers. Some highlights will include: a wood-burning plancha style grill, an infrared grill, and a smoker cabinet.
Season 3 also offers such new smoking techniques as herb smoking with a blowtorch, and bacon you cure and smoke like pastrami. There is also a renewed emphasis on grilling for fans of Steven’s popular Primal Grill series and those that may not own smokers.
And of course, viewers will also enjoy sensational new recipes, like: Korean pulled pork, cedar-planked king crab, Yankee
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Season 1 - 13 Episodes
Season 2 - 13 Episodes
Season 3 - 13 Episodes
Food is the beginning of every culture. It is the one thing that connects us all despite different races, religions, and beliefs. A shared love of food and conversation transcends any border. Everyone can appreciate a good meal and even better conversation. But the food is just the first course.
To Dine For with Kate Sullivan is a series of conversations with people who have reached “uncommon success” at their favorite restaurant, where we experience the atmosphere, the location, the ambience, and the food that inspires them. Since all the guests have created “something out of nothing,” the ideas and lessons they have learned in achieving the American dream, through sweat, ingenuity and innovation, and how they are extending that vision beyond themselves, will be the main entree and, hopefully, will leave viewers more equipped to bring their own modern American dreams to fruition.
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Season 1 - 10 Episodes
Season 2 - 10 Episodes
Season 3 - 10 Episodes
Season 4 - 10 Episodes
Season 5 - 10 Episodes
Season 6 - 10 Episodes
Season 7 - 10 Episodes
NOLA: TDKS 701-710
30 minutes - 10 episodes
Rights: Unlimited plays through 04/30/27
NOLA: FDEM 0000
60 minutes, 2024
Rights: unlimited plays through 9/1/26
A riveting story about a student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public university located right in the heart of Harlem. They presented the administration with five demands for educational equity and increased diversity on campus.
Although the late 1960s are known as an era of student activism, this momentous event has been overlooked and forgotten. Far more attention has been paid to white middle-class students in opposition to the Vietnam War, yet it’s likely that this protest had the greater impact: the CCNY strikers were the vanguard of a national Black student movement that transformed the culture, the mission, and the curriculum of American higher education.
CCNY’s strike was homegrown in Harlem, the most famous Black neighborhood in America. The Harlem community rallied around the students and for many it was the first time they ever stepped foot on the stunning neo-Gothic campus on a hill overlooking their neighborhood. National television news covered the strike, but within a few years this heroic struggle for educational equity was swept under the proverbial rug.
Through archival footage and modern-day interviews, the film follows the students’ struggle against the institutional racism that, for over a century, had shut out people of color from this and other public universities. The Five Demands uncovers the untold story of this explosive student takeover and proves that a handful of ordinary citizens can band together to take action and effect meaningful change.
NOLA: GOGO 0000
60 minutes, 2023
Rights: unlimited plays through 10/12/27
For decades, Washington, DC has been a beacon for Black culture and community. Now, a wave of economic and cultural gentrification occurring at breakneck speed threatens to erase this history.
Go-Go City: Displacement & Protest in Washington, DC dives into this rich and colorful tapestry and the forces behind the gentrification that stand to mute it. The film interweaves scenes of protest as displaced communities take to the streets to rally around the city’s beloved Go-Go music.
Featuring interviews with legends of Go-Go such as Big Tony of Trouble Funk, Sugar Bear, and Anwan “Big G” Glover, as well as business leaders such as Richard “Dickie” Shannon of Horace and Dickie’s and Virginia Ali of Ben’s Chili Bowl, the film offers an historical overview of the cultural and economic forces that made Washington, DC “Chocolate City”.
The film documents a poetic moment in which the long-term citizens of Washington, DC – the communities most impacted by rampant gentrification – rally around the unique music to retake the streets and make their voices heard.
Keeper of the Flame presents the life and work of human rights activist Jack Healey. Working for a decade at the forefront of human rights as the director of Amnesty International USA, Healey played a major role in bringing human rights to a televised national and international public, through the fusing of popular music and activism, collaborating with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Sting, U2, and Wynton Marsalis.
Tracking Healey’s activism back to the Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements, the film lays the groundwork for his lifelong commitment to human rights work. Learning from and working with the likes of Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Father James Groppi and John Lewis, Healey organized national walk-a-thons with high school and college students across the US, and oversaw Dick Gregory’s World Hunger Run, before working with anti-apartheid leaders as director of Lesotho’s Peace Corp. Healey went on to bring Amnesty International and their work with political prisoners to the global stage through the national and international concert tours, Conspiracy of Hope and Human Rights Now! Healey remains a steady touchpoint for activists to this day, running his own small organization, the Human Rights Action Center.
NOLA: KFLM 0000
90 minutes, 2023
Rights: unlimited plays through 11/7/27
NOLA: TLRS 0000
60 minutes, 2024
Rights: unlimited plays through 1/31/28
Truth Tellers chronicles the lives of courageous Americans fighting for peace, racial equity, environmental justice and indigenous rights through the eyes and work of Robert Shetterly, a long-time activist and artist. The film explores the intersection of these issues, stressing the urgency of coming together to confront them and galvanizing our resolve to uphold our country’s founding ideals.
For more than 20 years, artist and activist Robert Shetterly has painted a collection of over 250 portraits entitled “Americans Who Tell the Truth.“ From contemporary activists for racial justice such as Zyahna Bryant, Maulian Dana, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, to climate activists Bill McKibben, Kelsey Juliana, and Bill Bigelow, to great civil rights leaders like John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer and Bayard Rustin, Shetterly has captured great Americans and etched their inspiring quotes into the backgrounds of his paintings. From the fight to remove symbols of hate to sustainability and climate activism, from whistleblowing to the rights of indigenous people, Shetterly uses his art to explore these activists’ response to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
The “Americans Who Tell the Truth” exhibit has been traveling around the country since 2003. The portraits have given Shetterly an opportunity to speak with children and adults all over this country about the necessity of dissent in a democracy, the obligations of citizenship, sustainability, US history, and how democracy cannot function if politicians don’t tell the truth, if the media don’t report it, and if the people don’t demand it.
NOLA: ACRN 0000
60 minutes, 2017
Rights: unlimited plays through 4/1/27
Although he may be best remembered today as the author of the famed “Serenity Prayer,” Reinhold Niebuhr — an outspoken American-born pastor, writer, and political activist — remains one of the most influential public theologians of our time. Presidents from Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter have credited his impact on their thinking, as well as John McCain, countless historians, theologians, political thinkers, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who cited Niebuhr in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Niebuhr’s career spanned some of the most tumultuous decades in American history, from World War I through Vietnam, from the Great Depression through the Civil Rights Movement. An early pacifist and socialist, he was closely monitored by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI throughout his life, but would later serve as a consultant to the State Department during the Cold War.
Niebuhr rose from a small Midwest church pulpit to become the nation’s moral voice — an American conscience — during some of the most defining moments in recent history. His books, Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), The Nature and Destiny of Man (1941–43) and The Irony of American History (1952), continue to influence theological and political thinking. An American original, his unique insights into human nature and its relationship to political movements and social justice propelled him to speak openly, and often critically, to an America consumed by moral certainty. For Niebuhr the priority was always justice, his guiding principle was hope in a redeemer God, and his weapon was an extraordinary gift for clarity of thought that made him a leading voice of conscience for his time.
NOLA: CHLN 0000
2 x 60 minutes, 2015
Rights: unlimited plays through 10/31/27
CHAPLAINS goes inside the dynamic and inspiring world of chaplains. These men and women represent their own particular faith tradition, but are trained to be of comfort and support to people of all faiths, nationalities and whether or not they are religious.
With a tradition dating back centuries, chaplains today are on the front lines, often in the midst of life and death situations, where the questions are the deepest and the need for spiritual and pastoral care the greatest. From the war zone to the workplace, chaplains serve as pastor, social worker, counselor, bridge builder and “lean into the painful places,” says prison chaplain Karuna Thompson.
While there have been chaplains on the battlefield for centuries, today’s battlefields can be anywhere people feel danger or despair, or where they simply need a spiritual connection. Structured as a series of story profiles, CHAPLAINS follows a unique group of dedicated men and women into a multitude of arenas where they offer help and support: the battlefields in Afghanistan, a motion picture retirement home in Hollywood, a poultry processing plant in Tennessee, a state penitentiary in Oregon, the U.S. Congress, at the hospital bedside, and at the NASCAR racetrack.
Through these diverse stories, CHAPLAINS offers an engrossing and thought-provoking look at brave men and women on the frontiers of faith, whose work crosses denominational differences and provides compassion to a broad cross-section of people eager for help and comfort.
FROZEN OBSESSION
NOLA: LRCM 0000
60 minutes, 2026
Rights: Unlimited plays through 1/31/28
Lithium Rising: The Race for Critical Minerals is a cinematic journey through the global race for critical minerals - the metals powering our green transition. Filmed across five continents, this documentary explores how the drive to decarbonize has sparked fierce geopolitical competition, while also imposing steep costs on vulnerable communities at the frontlines of extraction.
From the salt flats of the Andean highlands to the cobalt pits of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the film meets miners, indigenous leaders, titans of industry, and policymakers navigating the promises and perils of this new resource boom. Whether it’s water scarcity threatening communities in the Atacama or tribal tensions over lithium extraction in Nevada, Lithium Rising reveals how the quest for a greener future risks repeating the extractive injustices of the past.
With intimate access and sweeping visuals, the film asks: who benefits from the green boom—and who gets left behind? This documentary is an urgent, human-centered exploration of the hidden costs of our electric age.
Lithium Rising has been featured at leading policy, academic, and cultural institutions across the world, bringing the story to audiences from Washington to Warsaw and from Brussels to Abu Dhabi.
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NOLA: POTO 0000
60 minutes, 2015
Rights: unlimited plays through 2/13/28
Streaming rights limited to Passport
It’s names number more than sixty, from The Elizabeth to The Cheneoow and even the Turkey Buzzard. It has been written about by historians, pondered by philosophers, and cherished by those whose hearts it has won. It has been stolen by states, invaded by foreign navies, traversed by hostile armies and fought over by warring natives, all while serving as a silent witness to manmade history. The Potomac River is the nation’s river.
Explore the river’s natural and man-made history in Potomac by Air: Our Nation’s River. As a follow-up to the criticallyacclaimed program Chesapeake Bay by Air, this film tells the stories of the river - tales that bring alive the history of the Potomac and our country.
Beginning at the Potomac’s north branch at Fairfax Stone, West Virginia, the film captures the river’s rapid descent through the steep, rocky gorges of the Appalachian Mountains into the Piedmont region of Maryland, exploring the natural and man-made history along the way. The program follows the meandering, widening river south, past the Great Falls, and into the modern power center we know as “D.C.” There, the film captures beautifully shot High-Definition pictures of the nation’s collection of monuments and memorials, from the Washington Monument, to The U.S. Capitol, the White House, Jefferson Memorial, the National Cathedral, and many more.
Flying further south, we explore the serene natural duality of the river’s life and flow, from non-tidal freshwater to brackish and tidal. Finally, emerging into the Chesapeake Bay. The program captures, as no other film, the stories of this uniquely American jewel.
UNITING FOR WATER JUSTICE
NOLA: UPDO 0000
60 minutes, 2025
Rights: unlimited plays through 4/1/27
The 1972 Clean Water Act introduced landmark regulations significantly reducing water pollution in America. However, it did not serve many disadvantaged communities, especially those most vulnerable to our climate crisis. From toxic runoff to open waste water, over half of the waterways in the U.S. today are still too polluted to drink, fish, swim, or for aquatic life.
Upstream, Downriver – Uniting for Water Justice highlights community activists across America on the frontlines of the fight for water justice and equity, and provides an understanding of how community action can influence water policy and result in innovative solutions that advance water equity.
These powerful stories are interwoven with historical context about the successes and failures of the Clean Water Act. Viewers journey into the heart of their inspiring stories as they come together from communities across the country - from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, from Lowndes County, Alabama to New Orleans to the Navajo Nation - to unite in the fight for water justice.
