You May Call Her Madam Secretary
This film is about conscience and politics. If history teaches values, then in Frances Perkins' life, we learn of a time when, as she said, "People cared to change the way things were."
This is the story of a woman whose anguish over the misery of ...
Las Marthas (Abridged Version)
Unlike any other, the annual debutante ball in Laredo, Texas is part of a lucrative month-long festival honoring George Washington's birthday. Las Marthas follows two young women as they prepare for this elaborate rite of passage: Laurita, a 13th-ge...
Great Speeches, Volume 26: Zach Wahls, Julia Gillard, Robert Gates, Barack Obama, and John F. Kennedy
This program features five pivotal speeches: Zach Wahls' defense of gay marriage; Julia Gillard's (Australian prime minister) speech on natural disasters; Robert Gates's 2011 Notre Dame commencement address; Barack Obama's "Bin Laden Is Dead" speech...
Voices of the People: Party Affiliation in Europe and the United States
Europeans tend to have a stronger attachment to their political parties, in part because they are sharply divided along social class or religious lines. Many European countries have labor or social democratic parties specifically aimed at the less a...
Pressures from Within: Aftermath of War of 1812
In the aftermath of the war of 1812, a sense of pride and determination seems to dominate the American scene--pride that the nation had survived yet another war with Great Britain and determination to avoid the mistakes that had weakened the country...
The Unafraid
The Unafraid is a feature length documentary that follows the lives of three DACA students in Georgia, a state that has banned them from attending its top public universities, and from qualifying for in-state tuition at any other public college. Usi...
Don't Tell Anyone
Since the age of 4, Angy Rivera has lived in the United States with a secret that threatens to upend her life: She is undocumented. Angy arrived with her mother, fleeing violence, poverty, and civil war in their native Colombia. For 20 years they li...
1920s...Beyond the Glitter, The: New Economy, The
The United States becomes the world's creditor nation in the 1920s. It's prosperity and economic standing enhanced by Europe's weakened industrial base at the end of World War I. Technological breakthroughs energize economic growth and the stock mar...
Jane Fonda In Five Acts
Girl next door, sex kitten, fitness tycoon, high-profile activist, Oscar-winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life marked by controversy, tragedy and transformation, and she's done it all in the public eye. This exclusive HBO documentary, directed and pro...
Changing the World: Makers: Women Who Make America
The Women’s Movement begins to break out of the campuses and urban centers where it originated to affect nearly every man, woman and child in America. In the early 1970s, feminism became a force that reshaped the relationships between men and wome...