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- A group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to it.
- When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.
- In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.
- While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
- Renowned cult film director John Waters narrates this quirky exploration of the Salton Sea, the massive Southern California lake that was created by accident a century ago, became a popular desert resort and has since developed into a refuge for a community of oddballs.
- A fantasy from Ibsen's verse drama. Ne'er-do-well and braggart Peer Gynt has many adventures in varied countries, making and losing money, gaining fortune at others' expense, until he finds salvation in the love of Solveig.
- "The Witch of Portobello" tells the story of the mysterious Athena and her quest for truth, love, and spirituality. In her single-minded pursuit for enlightenment and escapism, Athena sets out on a journey with her son in search of Nabil Alaihi. Through Nabill she hopes to find a more inclusive and harmonious understanding of her spiritual longing.
- America's harshest climate is home to the nation's breadbasket. The desert valleys of Yuma, Imperial, and Coachella produce 90% of the winter vegetables consumed in the US. Agriculture in this region depends on Colorado River water delivered from the All-American Canal. Yet it's a system on the brink of catastrophe. The effects of climate change and a twenty-year drought have brought its reservoirs nearly to dead-pool. States battle for their fair share of precious river water amidst constant cries for cutbacks. In the face of unprecedented scarcity, these desert valleys are in a race to conserve and innovate. Can this agricultural linchpin find a way to survive? The food security of an entire country hangs in the balance.
- Part travelogue, part séance, Death Valley Superstar is an elegy for Mark Frechette, a non-actor whose actions in life mirror a film role. He remains suspended between stardom and oblivion, a Hollywood oddity framed forever at the age of 21.
- Kaala the descendant of the Gelflings sets off to find the legendary Crystal of Truth that was hidden deep in the desert by her family.
- Gudrun works in the American wheat country as a hired girl to Mrs. Hawes. Charley Holt, the son of a rich family, takes the Swedish girl to a dance where she is snubbed by his mother and sister. Furious by his elitist relatives, Charley marries Gudrun and gets a menial job as a mill worker. A child is born, but Gudrun's life is unhappy because Charley becomes an alcoholic. After five years of marriage Charley dies in a saloon fight. Gudrun then buys a small farm and works the wheat fields. When tramp Martin O'Neill comes to the farm, Mary feeds him and he works for her. Martin later saves Gudrun and her child from a burning barn but is suspected of starting the fire himself and narrowly escapes a lynching. Finally, it is disclosed that the fire was actually started by Heine, a jealous rival, and Gudrun and Martin are married.
- A 24 year old runs for office to save the future of his county; decades of ignoring the Salton Sea's ecosystem and transferring water away from the community has forced JB Hamby to get involved and run for water director.
- A show about friends who build a bond around Skateboarding but find themselves distanced by the harsh reality of life and what it throws at them.
- A travelogue of Southern California that shows the present day appearance of the country traversed by the friars of the old missions.
- This Traveltalks tour concentrates on Southern California and visits locations that resemble the geography, architecture, and culture of various spots around the globe.
- International border crossing as a daily constant is an unusual life habit. Particularly when Mexican urban dwellers do so to work as agricultural laborers in the United States. In a time when drug trafficking has debilitated U.S. - Mexico relations and foreign migration has taken the political center stage in America, 'El Field' contributes to the discussion by providing a portrait in motion of the migrant workers and the industry that employs them. The antithesis of the urban decadent and lawless border imagery dispensed in recent years by the media, 'El Field' excels as a vital piece of historic information that exemplifies bilateral border relationship as a stunning, complex, and many times chaotic symbiosis. One worthy to be observed, understood, but above all, cherished.
- A documentary exposing the harsh working and living conditions of migrant farmworkers in the fruit fields of California's Imperial Valley.
- John spies his girlfriend embracing his brother. Stunned, John deposits the family's money and leaves the country. Years later he returns to find his brother dead, the plantation in ruins, and that he is suspected of stealing the money.
- In a one-hour special episode, Huell looks back at previous visits to two unusual desert locales near the Salton Sea: geothermal mud pots and Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain. He then revisits Leonard to see how his mountain has grown.
- Huell spends a couple days with the US Navy Blue Angels at their winter training facility in El Centro. He watches the current team train, meets veteran pilots, talks to proud local citizens, and gets the flight of a lifetime in an F/A-18.
- Huell travels to the Imperial Wildlife Area near the Salton Sea, one of only three areas in the US where geothermal mud pots and mud volcanoes occur. Photographer Jack Hobart shares some amazing still and video images of these phenomena.
- Huell goes to the Algodones Dunes where portions of a wooden plank road, which stretched from Imperial County to Yuma, AZ, have been preserved. At Camp Lockett in Campo he attends a reunion of members of the last mounted unit in the Army.
- Outside the Imperial Valley town of Niland, Huell goes to folk artist Leonard Knight's "Salvation Mountain" and an unofficial RV park known as "Slab City" on the site of an abandoned Marine Base.
- Huell goes to the two ends of the state. He enjoys the Tulelake Horseradish Festival and National Wildlife Refuge near the Oregon border. Then he learns how the All-American Canal makes Imperial Valley farming possible and visits Calexico.
- Huell heads south of the Salton Sea to the small town of Heber for a stop at Ormat Technologies. He learns how they harness the area's hot geothermal water in the ground and use it to generate electricity in a clean and renewable way.