A history of Hispanic achievement in America: Hispanics become United States citizens
Hispanic Achievement and Latino Achievement are presented in this fifth program on Hispanic Heroes and Colonial History spanning 1848-1897. In this series, eight half-hour shows chronicle the story of Hispanic Americans and their culture, their ach...
Transcript: newspaper that campaigned for better treatment of Hispanics. After a series of lynchings of Mexican Americans by Anglo mobs, Ramirez published scathing
Nutrition and Exercise
When diabetes forced Yvonne to take her health seriously, she enlisted the help of a registered dietician and started exercising. By looking at Yvonne and others, this program details how the right foods combined with an adequate amount of exercise ...
Transcript: cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, stroke or obesity. Yvonne Lynch knows all about the risks associated with the wrong type of diet. She has diabetes. My
Prejudice: More Than Black and White
Muslims, blacks, gays, people with disabilities, and immigrants of every ethnicity and color: they and many other groups have stood in the spotlight glare of intolerance, easy targets for every sort of discrimination and violence. What makes people ...
Transcript: JAIL CELL. AND OF COURSE NO GROUP ENDURED MORE HATRED THAN BLACK AMERICANS, WHO WERE SEGREGATED, SHUNNED, EVEN LYNCHED. THROUGHOUT HISTORY, NOT ONLY
Surrealist Film
Surrealist cinema sought to break with the conventional linear narrative style in favor of chance events and a world of the subconscious. This penetrating program featuring Alan Williams, author of Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking,...
Transcript: FILMMAKERS WHO COULD BE SAID, I THINK, TO HAVE SOME FORM OF SURREALIST IMPULSE. ONE OF THEM WOULD BE DAVID LYNCH, FOR EXAMPLE, WHO'S OFTEN CITED THAT WAY, AND
The Good Soldier
“War is about one thing only: it’s about killing. You either learn to kill somebody else or you get killed or wounded yourself.” This film examines how soldiers grapple simultaneously with their duty and their own humanity as it tracks the per...
Transcript: BECAUSE OF THE ANGER I HAD GROWING UP. I NEEDED TO GET OUT OF MISSISSIPPI OR I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN LYNCHED. I CAME UP TO BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN TO
Who’s Buying Up Britain? A Study of Sovereign Wealth Funds
With an international credit crunch hamstringing many Western entrepreneurs, a new wave of investment is flooding the U.K., largely from the Middle East and Asia. This program focuses on sovereign wealth funds and their role in what many see as a fi...
Transcript: INTO CITIGROUP. THE SINGAPOREANS AND KUWAITIS WERE ALSO THE MAIN PLAYERS IN A 12.8 BILLION DOLLAR DEAL WITH MERRILL LYNCH. SAUDI ARABIA AND SINGAPORE
Mathematics in the Business World
An introduction to the world of business math, rationale for studying the subject and an important look at the value of strong math skills.
Transcript: UNDERSTANDING OF THE TOPIC, THAT MIGHT BE CLOSE TO A FULL TIME JOB. NO, ACTUALLY, WINONA IS A SENIOR FINANCIAL CONSULTANT WITH THE MERRILL LYNCH BROKERAGE FIRM, A
Power of art: David
If the French Revolution had an official painter, it was Jacques-Louis David - although "official propagandist" is a much more accurate term. This program follows David's career from his early ambitions as a Prix de Rome scholar to the actions that ...
Transcript: years of the revolution swung wildly from mass euphoria to paranoia, orgies of public hugging, spasms of vindictive lynching. Why the anger♪ Because
Default : The Student Loan Documentary
Just a few years after the sub-prime mortgage crisis, there are ominous signs that the student loan market is on the verge of collapsing, yet another casualty of predatory lending practices. This video brings this perilous situation into sharp relie...
Transcript: . On January 29th, 2009, I was watching the news and I believe that was the day that news broe about the CEO of Merrill Lynch and his exorbitant, Marie
A Trial in Prague
Chronicles an infamous political show trial that took place in Czechoslovakia at the height of the Cold War. In 1952 fourteen leading Communists, including Rudolf Slansky, the second most powerful man in the country, were tried on charges of high tr...
Transcript: , because we came to a prison filled with anti-Communists of various kinds. And we were constantly in danger of being lynched, because they considered us to