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Futurestates

Season 4 2013

  • 2013-04-24T04:00:00Z on PBS
  • 19m
  • 2h 4m (7 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
What will become of America in five, 25, or even 50 years from today? This series of independent mini-features explores possible future scenarios through the prism of today’s global realities. Immerse yourself in the visions of these independent prognosticators as they inhabit a future of their own imagining.

7 episodes

Season Premiere

2013-04-24T04:00:00Z

4x01 Elliot King is Third

Season Premiere

4x01 Elliot King is Third

  • 2013-04-24T04:00:00Z19m

In 2024, gender is identified by microchip implant, and trans people like Elliot are classified "third." But can he change his identity in an attempt to build a safer life?

Directed by Rose Troche

2013-05-01T04:00:00Z

4x02 Refuge

4x02 Refuge

  • 2013-05-01T04:00:00Z19m

A cyber attack on the United States Immigration database puts Sonia at risk of being deported back to Iran. But remaining in the U.S. may come at a greater price than she's willing to pay.

Directed by Mohammad Gorjestani

2013-05-08T04:00:00Z

4x03 Promised Land

4x03 Promised Land

  • 2013-05-08T04:00:00Z17m

Refugees from the dystopian future are immigrating to the past, and citizen watch groups have formed to stop them. On his first "border patrol", teenage Jackson must choose between his father's principles and his own sense of humanity.

Directed by Joe Turner Lin & Justin Marshall

2013-05-15T04:00:00Z

4x04 Return to Elektra Springs

4x04 Return to Elektra Springs

  • 2013-05-15T04:00:00Z12m

Retired inventor Will Friedrich and his son are forced to evacuate their home during a tsunami. As they make their way east, they encounter a pioneering community that leads Will to consider returning to his work in free energy.

Directed by Christopher Munch

2013-05-22T04:00:00Z

4x05 The Living

4x05 The Living

  • 2013-05-22T04:00:00Z19m

Organ Harvesting Initiative surgeon Isaac North visits a Colorado refugee town where quadriplegic Luther Hillman has signed up to be euthanized in return for his wife's medical care, his organs harvested for more "productive" citizens.

Directed by Julian Breece

2013-05-29T04:00:00Z

4x06 Hollow

4x06 Hollow

  • 2013-05-29T04:00:00Z19m

The web is no longer secure, but NeuroLock™ can encrypt data using the human brain. Iris struggles to choose between unemployment and a job as a "neuro-messenger," a career with unwanted side effects.

Directed by Lisa Robinson

4x07 Children of the Northern Lights

  • 2013-06-05T04:00:00Z19m

Two astronauts on a prospecting mission to find a new supply of energy crash land on a distant planet, where alien beings offer a chance at a survival -- but at a great cost.

Directed by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean

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