courtesy of sfgate.com Link here's the lineup and broadcast dates and times.

Premiering Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST on Sundance and at 10 p.m. on Court TV:

* "Fox v. Franken" revels in Fox News Channel's quixotic crusade to bar publication of Al Franken's book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right." Directed by Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob ("The War Room"), this film investigates, in aptly cheeky style, the First Amendment implications of cribbing a trademarked phrase (Fox's "Fair and Balanced" slogan) for the purpose of parody.

Despite Fox host Bill O'Reilly's ire that his photo was on the book cover (and Fox's legal complaint that Franken was "deranged") the First Amendment stood firm against the Fox lawsuit -- while, fueled by the publicity, Franken's book shot to the top of the best-seller list.

* Right after that, "Poetic License" recalls the clash between New Jersey's poet laureate Amiri Baraka and his government patron, which in 2003 stripped him of his funding and title after a poem about the events of 9/11 triggered charges of anti-Semitism.

Directed by actor-filmmaker Mario Van Peebles ("Baadasssss!"), this film interlaces Baraka's reading of his prickly poem with numerous viewpoints on the sometimes conditional nature of government arts money, and whether this amounts to government censorship.

Airing Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 9 p.m. on Sundance and 10 p.m. on Court TV:

* "Some Assembly Required" travels back to the Republican National Convention in Manhattan, where the need for security collided with the First Amendment rights of protesters to assemble peaceably -- and where the First Amendment took some serious hits.

"Every tyrant knows that if you can eliminate spaces where people assemble, you can protect yourself really well," says one speaker in noting how freedom of assembly is an innate part of the First Amendment.

The film, by John Walter ("How to Draw a Bunny"), follows a couple of rather ordinary Americans as they, with some half-million others, exercise their right to dissent. The resistance they encounter is captured in footage you probably didn't see on TV news.

* Then in "No Joking," actor-filmmaker Bob Balaban ("Strangers with Candy") takes a fractured look at what is actually protected as free speech -- and what isn't (hint: CBS firing the outspokenly satiric Smothers Brothers in 1970 wasn't, in constitutional terms, censorship).

This film, which features Eric Bogosian and Richard Dreyfuss, unearths fascinating footage of First Amendment poster boy Lenny Bruce, as well as other standards-flouting comedians such as Richard Pryor and George Carlin, who marvels at the variable power of language: "No one has ever gone to jail for screaming 'pneumonia' or `topography.' But there are SOME words you can go to jail for!"