A Timeshift documentary recalling the British obsession with boats in the 1960s. New materials made sailing dinghies easily affordable, producing a new generation of weekend sailors. Yachtsmen such as Francis Chichester and Robin Knox-Johnson became national heroes, but there was also the tragedy of Donald Crowhurst, the lone sailor who faked his round-the-world voyage and paid for it with his life.

A Timeshift documentary recalling the British obsession with boats in the 1960s. New materials made sailing dinghies easily affordable, producing a new generation of weekend sailors. Yachtsmen such as Francis Chichester and Robin Knox-Johnson became national heroes, but there was also the tragedy of Donald Crowhurst, the lone sailor who faked his round-the-world voyage and paid for it with his life.

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department economist. They lived in the carriage house of the famed Marjorie Merriweather Post estate. But when her husband brought home a list of questions from an FBI file with Judith's name on the front, Nies soon realized that her life was about to take a radical turn. Shocked to find herself the focus of an FBI investigation into her political activities, Nies began to reevaluate her role as grateful employee and dutiful wife. In The Girl I Left Behind, she chronicles the experiences of those women who, like herself, reinvented their lives in the midst of a wildly shifting social and political landscape.