The Great Directors: The Making of 21st Century Hollywood - Episode 2: The Independent Auteur
About this title: While one half of Hollywood is the big budget action film, the other half is the socially and psychologically conscious Indie. From John Cassavetes to the Coen brothers, program two focuses on the independent auteur, the director a...
The Great Directors: The Making of 21st Century Hollywood - Episode 3: Immigrant Filmakers
About this title: Hollywood has always attracted foreign directors with unique outsider perspective and filmmaking traditions, including film masters such as Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock and Ang Lee. Program three presents the impa...
Railroads in U.S. history (1830-2010): the second great railroad boom (1871-2010)
The Gilded Age, an era of great wealth and vast power, was driven by the railroad industry. It was also a period when the Federal government finally decided to step off the sidelines and help direct the nation's economy by controlling the railroads....
Great African American Authors - Program 6: 1968 - 1982
About this title: African American Literature expands and diversifies into a wide array of styles and genres, but still takes on the growing cultural and economic divide between Whites and Blacks.
About the Series: One of the amazing American sagas...
Great African American Authors - Program 5: 1954 - 1967
About this title: With the Civil Rights Movement in full swing, racial tensions escalate in America. In response African American writers give rise to a new literary expression - Black Power.
About the Series: One of the amazing American sagas is ...
Hollywood's Greatest Directors - Episode 1: The Silent Era
About this title: The art of making motion pictures arose in the Silent Era from 1895 - 1927. Program one examines the Silent Era's most outstanding directors who created Hollywood and laid the foundation for the great American cinematic tradition.
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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 ...
Glaciers and ice caps: the melting
The change from a solid state - snow and ice - to a liquid state - water - makes the Arctic sensitive to climate change. The shrinking of glaciers and ice caps and the melting of permafrost introduces many dangerous positive feedback loops that can...
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - The Ever Changing Planet
About this title: Our planet is ever-changing. Earth's landforms are constantly being created and destroyed on timescales ranging from days to tens of millions of years. In this program Alec Murphy walks you through the forces shaping and destroying...
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - Portraying the Earth
About this title: Alec Murphy focuses on the history of portraying the Earth and the earliest maps of ancient Greece, the 21st century computer-based GIS, Geographical Information Systems. The program includes a visit to the U.S. Geological Survey, ...