Video: Collections: FutureStates
What will become of America in five, 25, or even 50 years from today? FUTURESTATES is a series of 11 fictional mini-features exploring possible future scenarios through the lens of today’s global realities. Immerse yourself in the visions of these independent prognosticators as they project a future of their own imagining.
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FutureStates | Next on Future Friday: The Dig | PBS
Can a group of archeologists unearth the secrets to save their own world from ruin? 00:59
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FUTURESTATES | Worker Drone | Trailer | PBS
See what happens when outsourcing is taken to an entirely new level. 00:53
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FUTURESTATES | That Which Once Was | Trailer | PBS
An orphan and an ice carver form an unexpected bond. 00:48
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FUTURESTATES | White | Trailer | PBS
When climate change runs amok, the color of one's skin could become a commodity. 00:48
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FutureStates | The Dig | PBS
Full Program: Can an ancient disaster help avert a world on the verge of environmental collapse? 19:22
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FUTURESTATES | Exposure | Trailer | PBS
Roxanne Green's first job of the day is as a live-body contagion for the government, used to immunize urban populations. Can Roxanne's team of human contagions contain some uninfected workers inside... 00:54
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FUTURESTATES | Digital Antiquities | Trailer | PBS
In 2036, all digital media is permanently stored in "the cloud." Data recovery store employee Cat, and Kai -- a young man with an old compact disc -- discover a secret that will unite them forever. 00:42
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FutureStates | Spring of Sorrow | Trailer | PBS
Two sisters live a nomadic life, displaced by global warming. Trapped in the desert in the midst of a water shortage, Isabelle tells her younger sister Lily a fairytale that explains how this... 01:06
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FutureStates | Asparagus | Trailer | PBS
In a regimented greenhouse laboratory, an isolated agricultural engineer named Dekard learns lessons about life and love from a fertilizer delivery agent and a renegade asparagus. Don't miss this... 00:49
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FutureStates | Remigration | Welcome to the Future ... or Will You Be? | PBS
In a future San Francisco that is entirely upper-class, the city starts a program to bring working-class families back to the city that pushed them out. When one such family returns, it must decide... 01:19
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FUTURESTATES | Beholder | Trailer
Sasha, a resident of the socially conservative gated community Red Estates, makes a discovery about her genetically engineered unborn child that causes her to rethink her allegiances. 00:58
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FutureStates | Get Ready for Future Fridays! | PBS
Get ready for Season Two of FUTURESTATES - beginning Friday, March 18, 2011. Ten independent filmmakers imagine America in the not-too-distant future, when what we do, where we live, and who we... 02:16
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FutureStates | Plastic Bag | PBS
Full Program: A discarded plastic bag ventures through a barren America looking for its maker. 18:32
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FutureStates | Mister Green | PBS
Full Program: A government employee unwittingly becomes the test subject to curb global warming. 15:53
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FutureStates | Play | PBS
Full Program: Has society's obsession with video online gaming gone too far? 19:14
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FutureStates | The Rise | PBS
Full Program: The tough housing market forces an older couple to forego their dreams of retirement. 17:50
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FutureStates | PIA | PBS
Full Program: A woman in mourning encounters a mysterious wandering service android. 20:06
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FutureStates | The Other Side | PBS
Full Program: A struggling family immigrates illegally to a new land of economic opportunity. 18:46
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FutureStates | Tia and Marco | PBS
Full Program: A border patrol agent is forced to question her loyalty to a system of exclusion. 16:11
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FutureStates | Tent City | PBS
Full Program: In a world where housing is granted to the powerful, a father must make a tough decision. 18:36
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