In search of memory: the neuroscientist Eric Kandel, winner of the Nobel Prize
The life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel. A compelling blend of autobiography and history that recounts the life of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th centu...
The market mechanism
Supply and demand is the basic relationship that fundamentally shapes any market-based economy. Module one of this program shows how S&D sets the price of a rose at the Aalsmeer flower auction in the Netherlands; module two reveals how Germany's Fle...
William Kentridge: art from the ashes
In this program, artist, filmmaker, and dramatist William Kentridge demonstrates his remarkable filmmaking technique - stop-action animation using photos of charcoal drawings in which he has erased and redrawn scenes in different arrangements - as h...
Death in Memphis: the mysterious assassination of Martin Luther King
In April, 1968, Rev. Martin Luther King was at the height of his public popularity. But J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, had an obsessional hatred of King and was determined to silence him. On April 4th, King was assassinated with one perfect s...
Bloody Monday: Lord Mountbatten and the IRA
Discover how Lord Louis Mountbatten - celebrated navel hero, last Viceroy of India, supporter of Mahatma Ghandi, and cousin to the Queen of England - became part of what is now known as Bloody Monday when his motor boat was blown to pieces by an IRA...
Death of a pharaoh: Anwar Al Sadat and the holy warriors
Anwar al Sadat's historic peace efforts with Israel cost him his life. The President of Egypt's settlement was halted in dramatic style during a military parade on the morning of October 6, 1981. This program traces the events leading up to his assa...
The assassination of God's banker: Roberto Calvi and the Vatican
Roberto Calvi was the Vatican front man in a secret operation to transfer money to Poland supporting the Solidarity Trade Union in its anti-communist uprising. But suddenly a tax inspection revealed a huge hole in Calvi's accounts. Before he told hi...
Night flight to death: the violent end of Dag Hammarskjöld
During the Cold War, the power blocks of the East and West vied to control the vast mineral resources of the former Belgian colony, The Congo. The Swedish Secretary General of the United Nations sent in UN troops as a mediating, independent force. B...
Death colonial style: the execution of Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, was a hero to his fellow Africans but a communist threat to the West. Within months of becoming Prime Minister in 1960, Lumumba was ousted in a military coup and killed shortl...
Death in Rome: the case of Aldo Moro
The President of the leading Italian Christian Democratic Party, Aldo Moro, was working on a historic compromise that would allow communists in a coalition government. On May 9, 1978, police discovered his body in the trunk of a car with eleven shot...