John Steinbeck and the American experience
This program is a comprehensive portrait of John Steinbeck and the America he depicted, providing students with an appreciation of one of the 20th century's definitive literary voices. Incorporating historic events ranging in magnitude from the deva...
Fire: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Beginning with a mind-boggling stunt that only science or spirituality can justify—a veritable walk through fire—this program examines humankind’s long, complicated relationship with the ravenous power of combustion. Fire was, for millennia, h...
A Jihad for Love (DVD Bonus Content)
(This title contains the DVD extra content that was made available along with the main title) Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing relig...
Afrique, je te plumerai = Africa, I'm going to fleece you
A compelling and sardonic essay on the history of colonialism in Cameroon, and by extension, on the African continent. Focuses on historical as well as contemporary European cultural domination, particularly in the publishing and media industry.
Troy: Battlefield of Myth and Truth
Longer than Troy’s fabled siege, Professor Manfred Korfmann’s excavation yielded a royal Hittite seal that corroborates the city’s location. But does it prove Homer’s Iliad is no myth? This program traces the course of the modern search for ...
Bankers, Builders, and New Beginnings: Cities & cathedrals
This program illustrates life from the perspective of the medieval merchant: urban, financially sophisticated, and revolving around trade and travel. Demonstrating how the growth of European cities prefaced the end of feudal society and the founding...
Wind: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Often thought of as nature at its most elusive and chaotic, the wind is actually a function of highly regimented patterns—forces within the Earth’s atmosphere that have shaped the destiny of continents and lie at the heart of some of the greates...
Water: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Filmed in magnificent locations in Iceland, India, and the Middle East, this program looks at how control over water has been a central factor in human existence. Viewers take a precarious flight in a motorized paraglider to experience the water cyc...
Tennessee Williams and the American South:
This outstanding program traces the life of Tennessee Williams, revisiting the locations in the southern states that were his inspiration. Scenes from Williams' most memorable works, including The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, evoke ...
Human Planet: How Earth Made Us—The Untold Story of History
Earth, water, wind, and fire…according to tradition, these four pieces make up the complex puzzle of our world. In the spirit of that tradition, is there a fifth component, one so close and disturbingly powerful that we choose to overlook it? This...