Victim of Two Cultures: Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez, the son of Mexican immigrants, calls himself "a comic victim of two cultures." He started out speaking nothing but Spanish, and now argues for education in nothing but English. A Fulbright scholar with..
Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." So spoke Virginia Woolf in 1929 as she discussed the problems of the writer and of women in general. Woolf’s talk represents perhaps the most ..
Warren Buffett: The Billionaire Next Door—Going Global
CNBC’s Becky Quick travels with iconic billionaire Warren Buffett during a business trip to China and South Korea. Warren Buffett: The Billionaire Next Door—Going Global provides an inside look at the whirlwind tour,..
Warrior Marks
Warrior Marks is a poetic and political film about female genital mutilation. Female genital mutilation affects one hundred million of the world’s women and this remarkable film unlocks some of the cultural and politic..
Welcome to My World: Teens Explore Diversity
Operation Breaking Stereotypes is a high school exchange program that allows inner-city students to attend school in Maine, and students from rural Maine to attend school in New York City. The goal is to promote mutual u..
What Makes a Genius?
Can modern genetics, psychology, and neuroscience actually identify the qualities that make up human creativity and brilliance? This program follows innovative research which may help determine what makes a person a geni..
When the World Breaks: Actors and Artists Recall the Great Depression
“The world breaks every one,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in A Farewell to Arms, “and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” This program applies those sentiments to the Great Depression and what it taught m..
White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America
White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ide..
Who Plays God? Medicine, Money, and Ethics in American Health Care
This program explores a variety of life-and-death situations to illustrate the spectrum of highly controversial ethical decisions made on a daily basis in modern American medicine. Hosted by ABC News medical corresponden..
Who’s Buying Up Britain? A Study of Sovereign Wealth Funds
With an international credit crunch hamstringing many Western entrepreneurs, a new wave of investment is flooding the U.K., largely from the Middle East and Asia. This program focuses on sovereign wealth funds and their ..