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The Bunker Boom: Better Safe Than Sorry

The short films that are sticking with us

Curious about the motivations behind 'bunkering down' in a separate safe house? Director Arianna LaPenne takes you inside the making of her film, The Bunker Boom: Better Safe Than Sorry, with a first-person essay you can read here. While you're at it, read this interview with Charles Todd on what he learned about healing during the making of his short documentary, Lessons From the Water: Diving with a Purpose. 

If you haven't seen all four shorts yet, you can watch 58 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story and Super Reviewers: Rate, Review, Repeat on demand until August 30, as well as The Bunker Boom: Better Safe Than Sorry and Lessons From the Water: Diving with a Purpose on demand until September 6 via your cable provider or CNNgo. 

Coming in 2022

CNN+, a new streaming subscription service, will launch with a deep library of non-fiction, long form programming including past seasons of CNN's award-winning original series and films, including Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, This is Life with Lisa Ling, and United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. Sign up for exclusive updates at CNNPlus.com. 

Celebrating the outsiders 

In the next episode of History of the Sitcom, we get the fresh perspective  of those who may have been considered a fish-out-of-water. It's not just the "geek" you may have known (or been!) in high school - it's also the unheard and the outsiders. These sitcoms, like The Addams Family, The Big Bang Theory, Saved by the Bell, and of course Freaks and Geeks, gave us new insights from the underdogs. Watch it on Sunday, August 15 @ 9 PM ET and catch up on past episodes via CNNgo and your cable provider. 

Speaking of those we want to hear more from, did you see that Jeffersons star Marla Gibbs was recently awarded with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star? Truly well-deserved! The fashionable nonagenarian is best known for playing sassy housekeeper Florence Johnson on the beloved sitcom The Jeffersons, which ran from 1975 to 1985, and Mary Jenkins on 227, which aired from 1985 to 1990.

A personal tour of Jerusalem with Wolf Blitzer

What did Wolf Blitzer learn while reporting from Jerusalem? In this video, the CNN anchor recalls his past reporting trips to the Holy Land, meeting communities he describes as "diverse and resilient". Learn more about what Wolf discovered about his family history while reporting abroad. 

In the fifth episode of the series "The Dogs of War", we move forward in the timeline toward World War II. As the war continues, Palestinian Arabs feel trapped. The British Mandate ends and the state of Israel is declared. War breaks out, ending in Israel's independence, while The Holy City lies divided in a no-man's land of barbed wires. Watch history play out on Sunday, August 15 @ 10 PM ET. If you missed earlier episodes, watch them on demand via your cable provider and CNNgo.