The Romantics
The Romantic movement—a reaction against the orderliness of 18th-century classicism and 19th-century industrialization—strove above all for self-expression. The Romantics composed for themselves and the new bourgeois..
The Selling Game: A New Era in Advertising
The Internet and low-cost digital production methods have given marketers powerful new tools. This program explores the results: a new wave of advertising that relies increasingly on consumer-generated content and reject..
The Taming of the Shrew
This comic confrontation between the sexes is one of the most frequently-staged plays. Its sparkling wit and rich characterization are matched with an outstanding cast. John Cleese of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers gives..
The Tree Workers’ Case: Human Trafficking in the European Union
Shedding light on one of the most brazen criminal enterprises to be uncovered in the E.U. in the past two decades, this film tells the story of approximately 2,000 workers—mostly from Southeast Asia, but also from Roma..
The War on Kids
The stories are nearly unbelievable: a middle schooler suspended for bringing a Tweety Bird keychain to class (because all chains are classified as weapons); another, for pretending a fast-food chicken strip was a gun; a..
The Women’s Bank of Bangladesh
More than 100 million people live below poverty level in Bangladesh—many of them women. Thanks to the Grameen Bank and the small-business loans it makes to women only, many of them and their families are beginning to p..
The battle for Islam
A far-reaching exploration of Islam after 9/11, this program follows renowned scholar Ziauddin Sardar on an eye-opening journey through Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Sardar interviews Muslims with w..
The bottom line in education: 1980 to the present
In 1983, the Reagan Administration's report, A Nation at Risk, shattered public confidence in America's school system and sparked a new wave of education reform. This program explores the impact of the "free market" expe..
The business of America
Studies the effects on steelworkers and their families of the United States Steel Corporation’s shutdown of its plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Examines the decline of the American steel industry as a result of its r..
The conquest of Mexico:
This program provides a portrait of Cortez and his world - the real world and the imaginary one painted by theologians, mystics, imaginative travelers, poets, and liars; of the New World as seen by a small number of Span..