We Thought You’d Never Ask: Voices of People with Autism
Six adults with autistic spectrum disorder speak about their experiences and how they perceive other people's expectations of them. This half-hour documentary gives voice to a range of perspectives from adults with autis..
What Customers Love and Hate: Sales and Service Masterclass
In this program, viewers learn to engage customers by focusing on what they love and avoiding what they hate. They are challenged to assess their current methods and style and to apply the principles uncovered by the lat..
What Is the Secret of Life?: A History of Biology and Genetics
This program tells the story of how the secret of life has been pursued through the ages, using the prism of the most complex organism known—the human body. It begins with Galen’s attempts to save the lives of gladia..
What Is the World Made Of?: A History of Chemistry and Physics
Both greed and grand idealism have propelled the quest to discover what makes up the material world. No matter how abstract or elusive the goal, its promise has inspired an unquestionable impact on humanity. By trying to..
What Poor Child Is This? Poverty and America's Children
If poverty is a serpent, child poverty is its venom. And with an estimated 12 million American children suffering from economic hardship, even the wealthiest society on Earth cannot escape the poisonous effects of povert..
Where Do the Children Play?
Where Do the Children Play? is a one-hour documentary for public television that examines how restrictive patterns of sprawl, congestion, and endless suburban development across America are impacting children's mental an..
Who's Afraid of a Big Black Hole?
Black holes are by definition invisible, and there is no scientific theory that can adequately explain them. Nevertheless, researchers are determined to unravel the mysteries of black holes in the hope of answering some ..
Why the hate?: America, from a Muslim point of view
In the aftermath of September 11th, George W. Bush made an ultimatum to the world: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." But for many followers of Islam-a global community that includes more than a bil..
Why we buy
This program places consumers under a microscope to quantify the psychological spectrum of buying, from everyday habits that typically steer Americans through their supermarkets and malls to a clinical disorder in which ..
Women and Alcohol
Binge drinking is traditionally a young man’s “sport,” but now many college-age women are doing their best to keep up. Why? And how does such a staggering level of alcohol consumption affect a woman physically? Thi..