Often thought of as the other Mexican muralist, beside his more flamboyant compatriot Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco was a leader of the Mexican Renaissance. His bold, dynamic frescoes had a profound impact on American painters and inspired Franklin Delano Roosevelt to put artists to work during the Great Depression. His most famous U.S. murals - The Table of Universal Brotherhood, The Epic of American Civilization and Prometheus still convey their power in New York, New Hampshire, and California. An iconoclast who survived the loss of his left hand and the destruction of more than half of his early work by border agents, Orozco traveled back and forth across the U.S.-Mexico border. This part of his life story, as told in this film, evokes the larger Mexican migrant-immigrant experience and provides provocative parallels to current times.

Wednesday, 9/19/07 from 9-10 p.m. ET