Frantz Fanon: black skin, white mask
This film biography of Frantz Fanon explores one of the most influential theorists of the anti-colonial movement. It follows Fanon from his birth in 1925 on the French island of Martinique through his medical training in..
Free Speech for Sale: A Bill Moyers Special
When it comes to today’s important public policy issues, the opportunity to be heard depends on whether you can afford it. In this program, Bill Moyers and key legal and public interest advocates examine how industries..
Frida Kahlo: Portrait of a Woman
A unique, powerful, first-rate painter overshadowed by her lionized painter-husband, a bisexual woman torn apart by her obsessive love for her faithless husband, Frida Kahlo lived a life of physical and spiritual torment..
Future of English
Day-to-day use of English has impacted local languages everywhere, spawning the growth of variants such as India's Hinglish and Singlish in Singapore. Do these variations undermine language, or do they enrich it? This pr..
Game Over
Given the wild popularity of violent video games, it has never been more urgent to encourage dialogue about how virtual killing might shape attitudes about real-life violence. Game Over examines the nature and consequen..
Game theory: lost in New York
What if twelve strangers were deposited in separate locations all over New York City and ordered to find each other - without being told where to look? This ABC News program presents an intriguing psychological puzzle in..
Generation M: misogyny in media and culture
For all of the achievements of the women’s movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this important new documentary, Thomas Keith, Professor of Philosophy at Calif..
George Eliot: A Concise Biography
This overview of the life and literature of George Eliot from the Famous Authors series follows Eliot's comfortable childhood through the several phases of her education and religious development, during which she discov..
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
This dramatization of Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts opens with Jakob Engstrand attempting to convince Regina, his daughter and a maid in the Alving household, to come work for him. She refuses, happy with her position in a ..
Girls Like Us
An ethnically diverse group of four working class girls strut, flirt, and testify in this vibrant, affecting portrait of teenage girls' experiences of sexuality. Filmed in South Philadelphia and following its subjects fr..