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This summer, watch out for these Shorts

Love the idea of a summer film festival, but not the heat, humidity or travel? CNN Films has you covered. Across two weekends in July and August, CNN Films will debut an anthology of short documentaries that put a spotlight on unique communities. 

Created in partnership with Scheme Engine, a minority-owned studio and production company, these short films are “like snapshots into different communities and spaces that we are cognizant of but haven’t had the opportunity to really dig deep into,” CNN Films executive producer Alexandra Hannibal says in Variety. Each of the four, new 25-minute titles will also be introduced by CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Stock up on popcorn and get ready to watch 🍿:

Saturday, July 31 @ 9 PM ET

• 58 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story
  Director Mark Bone reveals the even more surprising, frightening, and complicated story of what happened to ‘Baby Jessica’ during her long wait in that well while also exploring the impact of her ordeal on her community and her rescuers, particularly after the cameras left town. 
• Super Reviewers: Rate, Review, Repeat
  Directors Yu Gu and Arianna LaPenne wade into the subculture of super reviewers who are not only prolific but also emotionally invested and addicted to the competitive nature of producing online reviews.

Saturday, August 7 @ 9 PM ET

• The Bunker Boom: Better Safe Than Sorry
  Director Arianna LaPenne peers into the motivations of middle class families uprooting their lives to live in converted military bunkers in response to society’s collective anxieties. 
• Lessons From the Water: Diving with a Purpose
  Director Charles Todd takes viewers into the intergenerational journey of Black scuba divers who formed the organization Diving With a Purpose, whose goal is to restore the nearly 500 voyages shipwrecked during the slave trade to the historical record.

And, because you’re a member of Keep Watching, you’ll get early access to two members-only conversations with these filmmakers. In the first conversation, available to watch here, CNN senior national correspondent Sara Sidner hosts Mark Bone, director of 58 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story and Yu Gu and Arianna Lapenne, directors of Super Reviewers: Rate, Review, Repeat. The directors discuss the making of their films and the communities that they met during filming. 

Test your sitcom smarts and name that tune! 

"Now this is the story all about how,
My life got flipped-turned upside down,
And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there,
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called ______." 

If you just sang that earworm in your head like our Keep Watching team, you know the town is Bel-Air from the iconic Will Smith sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. If that was too easy for you, take our sitcom theme music quiz and see how many classic intros you have memorized! 

We're halfway through History of the Sitcom and can't wait to watch the next episode on Sunday, August 1 @ 9 PM ET. In the fifth episode "Facing Race", we relive the difficult conversations about race and diversity that, for some, first happened on the sitcom screen. These sitcoms, such as Good Times and The Jeffersons helped pave the way for progress with laughter and relatability.

If you missed the beginning of the series, catch up on demand via CNNgo or your cable provider. 

A timeline for the ages

In a historic place like Jerusalem, the question of "What happened and when?" is easy to misinterpret. Check out this timeline to get a grasp on pivotal events and become more familiar with the Original Series Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury. 

In the third episode, "A Country On Edge", tension reaches a climax during the epic battle between Saladin and Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade. As these two prominent military strategists go to war, the fate of the city hangs in the balance. Watch it on Sunday, August 1 @ 10 PM ET and catch up on previous episodes on demand via your cable provider or CNNgo.