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1421: The Year China Discovered America?
This special examines the theories outlined by Gavin Menzies in his best-selling book. An amateur historian and former submarine commander in the...
View This Title PBS Video 040474DV1940s House
One modern family takes on the challenge of domestic life on Britain's home front in this gritty re-creation of a World War II household, 1940s...
View This Title PBS Video 040201DV9 to 5 No Longer
A demographic change is affecting all Americans wherever they work and live: the rise of the flexible workforce. The global economy, increasing...
View This Title PBS Video 041030DVA BRILLANT MADNESS
John Nash was an eccentric American mathematical genius whose youthful plunge into schizophrenia might well have ended in obscurity or tragedy...
View This Title PBS Video 040090DVA CENTURY OF QUILT: America in Cloth
This documentary celebrates the art of quilting by featuring selections from the best 100 American quilts of the 20th century, the stories behind...
View This Title PBS Video 040751DVA COMPANY OF SOLDIERS (UNEDITED): FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE reports from inside the U.S. Army's 8th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Baghdad for an up-close, intimate look at the dangers facing an...
View This Title PBS Video 040658DVA COMPANY OF SOLDIERS: FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE reports from inside the U.S. Army\'s 8th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Baghdad for an up-close, intimate look at the dangers facing an...
View This Title PBS Video 040564DVA Conversation with Bob Newhart - Life (Part 2): Episode 110
LIFE (PART 2) is a smart, daring series on the subject of aging. It's a straight-talking show filled with honesty, integrity and humor. Each week,...
View This Title PBS Video 041000DVA Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
In this intimate interview, Suzanne Malveaux talks with the writer and scholar about growing up in West Virginia, as well as his career in academia...
View This Title PBS Video 041327DVA Dangerous Business Revisited: Frontline
Five years ago, FRONTLINE, The New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation investigated one of America's most dangerous industries - the...
View This Title PBS Video 041079DVA Death in Tehran: Frontline
Following Iran's presidential election this summer, Neda Soltani was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. She became the face of a powerful...
View This Title PBS Video 041196DVA FLEA MARKET DOCUMENTARY
This program from film-maker Rick Sebak (A HOT DOG PROGRAM) is an unabashed celebration of unusual people and enticing things to be found in parking...
View This Title PBS Video 040752DVA Girl's Life with Rachel Simmons
Researcher and author Rachel Simmons examines the challenges facing young women as they surf the waves of 21st century adolescence. Simmons...
View This Title PBS Video 041190DVA Lynching in Marion
It was a hot summer evening in 1930 in Marion, IN, when James Cameron and two friends robbed a white couple. News of this robbery and other real and...
View This Title PBS Video 040088DVA Midwife's Tale: American Experience
Based on her personal diary, this program presents a dramatic exploration of the life of Martha Ballard, a woman who lived through the economic boom...
View This Title PBS Video 040348DVA Place of Our Own: Behavior & Emotions
Kindergarten teachers estimate that one in three children is unprepared for the challenges of school. A PLACE OF OUR OWN responds to this need by...
View This Title PBS Video 041049DVA Place of Our Own: Early Academics
Host Debi Gutierrez leads engaging discussions on early learning areas with parents, caregivers and child care experts. Topics include literacy,...
View This Title PBS Video 041072DVA Place of Our Own: Health and Nutrition
Host Debi Gutierrez leads engaging discussions on health and nutrition with parents, caregivers and child care experts. Topics include exercise,...
View This Title PBS Video 041073DVA Place of Our Own: Special Needs
Did you know that one in three children arrives in kindergarten unprepared for the challenges of school? Unfortunately, children who start behind too...
View This Title PBS Video 041100DVA Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
The little-known story of the last all black, publicly funded, co-educational boarding school North of the Mason-Dixon Line. In a segregated society,...
View This Title PBS Video 041270DVA Ripple of Hope
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and mortally wounded. American cities were engulfed in chaos and fear. Despite the violence...
View This Title PBS Video 041206DVA Wayfarer's Journey: Listening to Mahler
The Wayfarers' Journey is an exploration of the relationship between music and healing. As 1 of 7 surviving in a family with 14 children, composer...
View This Title PBS Video 040881DVAbraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided DVD 3PK: American Experience
From award-winning film-maker David Grubin, this miniseries weaves together the troubled lives of a dirt-farmer's son and a wealthy Southern...
View This Title PBS Video 040372DVAdapting to Change - Episode 103: Life (Part 2)
LIFE (PART 2) is a smart, daring series on the subject of aging. It's a straight-talking show filled with honesty, integrity and humor. Each week,...
View This Title PBS Video 040993DVAdapting to Change - Episode 103: Life (Part 2)
LIFE (PART 2) is a smart, daring series on the subject of aging. It's a straight-talking show filled with honesty, integrity and humor. Each week,...
View This Title PBS Video 040998DVAdapting to Change - Episode 103: Life (Part 2)
LIFE (PART 2) is a smart, daring series on the subject of aging. It's a straight-talking show filled with honesty, integrity and humor. Each week,...
View This Title PBS Video 040999DVAfghanistan: The Forgotten War (NOW on PBS: 7/18/2008)
Can we defeat a resurgent Taliban? A compelling report from NOW Correspondent Bill Gentile, who spent nearly three weeks embedded with the Marines in...
View This Title PBS Video 041122DVAfrican American Lives
An unprecedented four-part series, AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES uncovers a new level personal discovery. Using genealogy, oral history, family stories, and...
View This Title PBS Video 040734DVAfrican American Lives 2
The first AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES revealed the power in discovering one's family history. Now, Henry Louis Gates Jr. will guide a new group to...
View This Title PBS Video 041028DVAfter Newtown: Guns in America
In April 1775, it took the Minuteman roughly fifteen seconds to load, aim, and fire each musket at the advancing British Redcoats in Lexington,...
View This Title PBS Video 041643DVAfter The Wall - A World United
AFTER THE WALL - A WORLD UNITED completes a two-part special about the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany after 40 years...
View This Title PBS Video 041380DVAGAINST THE ODDS: ARTISTS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Explore the lives of visual artists who made the Harlem Renaissance one of the 20th century's richest artistic moments. Archival footage, newsreels,...
View This Title PBS Video 040344DVAging And Fear - Life (Part 2): Episode 105
LIFE (PART 2) is a smart, daring series on the subject of aging. It's a straight-talking show filled with honesty, integrity and humor. Each week,...
View This Title PBS Video 040995DVAging And The Sexes - Life (Part 2): Episode 107
LIFE (PART 2) is a smart, daring series on the subject of aging. It's a straight-talking show filled with honesty, integrity and humor. Each week,...
View This Title PBS Video 040997DVAIR GROUP 16: WE CAME TO REMEMBER
This documentary tells the story of Air Group 16 - the pilots, radiomen and gunners who served on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington in World War...
View This Title PBS Video 040910DVAL QAEDA'S NEW FRONT: FRONTLINE
A filmmaker is murdered in a culture clash between Muslims and Christians in the Netherlands. A series of bombs tear apart four trains in Madrid. Al...
View This Title PBS Video 040556DVAlan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Voyage to the Galapagos
Alan Alda follows in Charles Darwin's footsteps, meeting the animals and birds that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution. Alda joins scientists who...
View This Title PBS Video 040407DVALASKA PIPELINE: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
After a decade-long search for oil in Alaska's wilderness, gas burst up out of an exploratory well on the North Slope. It was soon calculated that as...
View This Title PBS Video 040760DVAMAZON WARRIOR WOMEN: SECRETS OF THE DEAD
Stories of beautiful, bloodthirsty female warrior women thundering across arid battlefields have been told, re-told and speculated over for thousands...
View This Title PBS Video 040472DVAmerica and the Civil War
America and the Civil War – What began as a bitter dispute over states\' rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in...
View This Title PBS Video 041574DVAmerica and the Holocaust
This program paints a troubling picture of the United States during a period beset by anti-Semitism and a government that not only delayed action but...
View This Title PBS Video 041263DVAmerica at a Crossroads Series
America At A Crossroads, hosted by journalist Robert MacNeil, explores the challenges confronting the world post 9/11 including the war on terrorism;...
View This Title PBS Video 040876DVAmerica At A Crossroads: Kansas to Kandahar
This documentary explores the response of the U.S. military in the war on terror, examining the service of army reservists as they are called for an...
View This Title PBS Video 040947DVAmerica Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The evolution of African American society has split into two distinct communities, according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - the privileged and the...
View This Title PBS Video 040380DVAmerica Goes to War
Journalist Eric Sevareid relives the war-torn years on the American home front during World War II. Initially unprepared for war, America amazed the...
View This Title PBS Video 041485DVAmerica in Primetime
The new Golden Age of television is now. In the expansive world of modern television, more groundbreaking shows are being created today than ever...
View This Title PBS Video 041460DVAMERICA REBUILDS
With exclusive access to the site of the World Trade Center disaster, this film takes an up-close look at the recovery work at Ground Zero. For...
View This Title PBS Video 040699DVAMERICA REBUILDS II: Return to Ground Zero
After recapping the recovery since 9/11 in the first America Rebuilds, A Year at Ground Zero, the second program, Return to Ground Zero, explores how...
View This Title PBS Video 040781DVAmerican Experience: A Class Apart
Built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, the film interweaves the stories of its central characters with a broader story of the...
View This Title PBS Video 041471DVAmerican Experience: Billy the Kid
On April 28, 1881, just days from being hanged for murder, 21-year-old Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, outfoxed his jailors and electrified the...
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