Name: The Tailenders
Released: 2006-07-25

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S19 · E5 — The Tailenders

S19:E5 · The Tailenders

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14 episodes in this season

No More Tears Sister

60 min

Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball

60 min

Tintin and I

60 min

The Fall of Fujimori

60 min

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Al Otro Lado

60 min

Lomax the Songhunter

60 min

Waging a Living

60 min

The Boys of Baraka

60 min

E10

Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

60 min

E11

No Bigger Than a Minute

60 min

E12

Maquilapolis: City of Factories

60 min

E13

My Country, My Country

60 min

E14

Lawn

60 min

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19881h6.9

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The Tailenders

Season 19 · Episode 5 · Jul 25, 2006

Global Recordings Network (GRN), founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages, and aims to record in every language on earth. They distribute the recordings, along with ultra-low-tech hand-wind players, in isolated regions and among displaced migrant workers. The Bible stories played by the missionaries are sometimes the first encounter community members have had with recorded sound, and, even more frequently, the first time they have heard their own language recorded. GRN calls their target audience "the tailenders" because they are the last to be reached by worldwide evangelism. Filmed in the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India and the United States, The Tailenders focuses on the intersection of missionary activity and global capitalism and raises questions about how meaning, carried by the simple sound of a human voice, changes as it crosses language and culture.

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19881h6.9

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The Tailenders

Season 19 · Episode 5 · Jul 25, 2006

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