The Invisible Enemy: Weaponized Smallpox
Smallpox has officially been eradicated worldwide—but the destruction of lab cultures in government-sponsored biowar facilities was never monitored. A blend of dramatization and documentary, this program considers the weaponization and deployment ...
Transcript: OF LOBSTER AND CRAB. HER COLLEAGUE WILLY WILSON DISCOVERED A VIRUS THAT DOESN'T FIT INTO OUR DISTORTED IMAGE OF SILENT KILLERS AT ALL. IN THE WATER
Raisin in the sun: character studies conversations
Hosted by Eli Wallach, this program dissects Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun through the sharp insights of Joe Morton (Walter Lee Younger); Kim Yancey (Beneatha Younger); Phylicia Rashad (Lena Younger); Ruby Dee, Audra McDonald, Starletta D...
Transcript: ROADMAPS. NO, WILLY! WILLY, DON'T DO IT. MAMA, I AIN'T BEEN TO NO BANK. YOU MEAN, YOUR SISTER'S SCHOOL MONEY, WALTER... YOU USED THAT TOO, WALTER? YES, ALL
The Great Directors: The Making of 21st Century Hollywood - Episode 5: Animation
About this title: Animation is as old as Hollywood itself. Program five traces the evolution of animation from the director of the first animation short, Winsor McCay, to the first animated feature, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to ...
Transcript: the world. Mickey officially debuted in 1928 in the short film, Steamboat Willie... One of the first sound cartoons. With Walt as the voice of Mickey
Hollywood's Greatest Directors - Episode 2: The Coming of Sound
About this title: When Warner Brothers Studios released The Jazz Singer, the first 'talkie', in 1927, it spelled the end of the Silent Era. Program two shows how sound revamped Hollywood, how filmmaking evolved into the 'studio system' and how the f...
Transcript: , Uncle Willie is a... pincher. Upper and lower my eye. "I'll take the lower, thanks." (Narrator) Interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in. Glendale
Alice Walker
"Being black, being a woman, and being a writer is just the most wonderful challenge. It's like having three eyes, three hearts, rather than one," says the author of The Color Purple in this profile, as she relives her journey from an impoverished c...
Transcript: father's death face for the last time, my mother said, without cares, without smiles, without regrets, but with civility, goodnight, Willie Lee. I
Making Sense of Sociological Theory
This multi-section program explains the role of sociological theory, distinguishes between structure and action, and sheds light on three major perspectives in sociology—societies as organic structures, societies as economic structures, and societ...
Transcript: middle class children. And generally, all the education system does is reproduce existing social arrangements. In a famous study, Paul Willis looked at
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
In March of 1931, two white women stepped off a train in Paint Rock, Alabama, and accused nine black teenage passengers of gang rape. So began the Scottsboro case, one of the 20th century’s most fiery legal battles. This episode of American Experi...
Transcript: arrest. Charlie Weems, the oldest, was 19; Eugene Williams, the youngest, 13. Willie Roberson suffered from syphilis so severe he could barely walk
Arthur Miller and The Crucible:
In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy set up the Un-American Activities Committee to combat the growing "threat" of communism in the U.S. Playwright Arthur Miller was one of many writers summoned to testify at this political witch-hunt. Miller, who ...
Transcript: [MUSIC PLAYING] Let the record show that the Chairman has appointed a subcommittee consisting of Representatives Willis, Shearer, Kearney, and
Market failure: externalities
This program looks at the problem of public good associated with a dramatic spillover, and examines the beneficial and detrimental externalities associated with a less extensive spillover. The program also looks at how pollution, a classic example o...
Transcript: REACT. FOR INSTANCE, IN THE FRONTIER WEST, THE COW HERDS WERE PRIVATE PROPERTY. PEOPLE DIDN'T KILL THEIR COWS WILLY-NILLY. THEY ALWAYS KEPT SOME ALIVE TO
The Burning Times
False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake, and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The Burning Times is an in-depth look at the witch hunts that swept through Europe just a few hundred years a...
Transcript: their excessive numbers, do not find husbands. They don't marry and become, willy-nilly, independent. And in a patriarchal society, this is a very, very