Category: Season #4 (1999 – 2000)

The arid beauty of the Southwest forms the backdrop for the collective’s encounters with unusual and unforgettable characters who share their histories and perspectives. Interwoven with bizarre scenes from the Titan missile museum, the Mexican-American border, and the San Xavier Mission in Arizona, Termite TV evokes a larger picture of America. Coordinating Producer – Carl…

https://youtu.be/fW74jyrFj5kPhilly natives and newcomers tell their life stories in five minutes while riding to work on the train, tailgating at the stadium and looking for books in the library. Five minutes to share passions, poems and philosophies. 29 minutes, ©2001 Watch all the Philadelphia Life Stories on-line

https://youtu.be/MD0FCqjTX10 Amidst ocean waves and fern forests, Big Island residents share their lives, triumphs and dreams. A Vietnamese woman reveals the passion and beauty hidden in the simple chronology of her life. A man who has just learned to read describes the new world that has opened up for him – making grocery lists, writing…

https://youtu.be/xR0dTQwgsuE “At the rate of progress since 1800, every American who lived in the year 2000 would know how to control unlimited powers.” – Henry Adams, 1907 When did the clock start ticking and the calendar begin? After 5 months circling the USA in the video bus, Termite TV returns to Philadelphia just in time…

https://youtu.be/WfnRuR7Axyw The nature of violence and violent action is explored as Termite TV travels West through the Badlands of South Dakota. War tax resistors demonstrate in Media, PA. Views on gun control are heard in Toronto, Canada, Madison, Wisconsin and finally, in cowboy country – Cody, Wyoming. Frustrations surface and Inner rage erupts. How many…

https://youtu.be/twpRJdoGfSo Native Alaskans and Alaskan immigrants tell the story of their life in five minutes in the Sitka public library. A seventeen year old girl remembers her dream where she turned into a flower; a member of the Tlinget tribe teaches his audience words in his native tongue; a librarian talks about how she survived…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHKpV6D64s8 Is Money good or evil? In this inaugural Living Documentary show, Termite TV travels from Philadelphia, to Buffalo, NY and finally to Minneapolis to find answers to this very basic question. What is the value of E-bay bargains, Super-8 Titanic, child labor and food stamps? Tax day festivities question how our tax dollars are…