A History of Great Playwrights - Program 4: The Theater Responds to Modernism
About this title: Program four examines how the epicenter of the theater and playwriting shifted to the United States, and how the musical became a major part of the theater. About the Series: From the beginnings of wes..
A History of Great Playwrights - Program 5: The Great Resurgence of the Theater
About this title: At the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st, change engulfed the world from social issues to the transmission of information. In Program five we'll see how playwrights dealt with the ps..
A history of American Indian achievement: American Indian renaissance
This eighth and final program covers the years 1969-2007. With their survival assured, American Indians finally had the opportunity to fully express their creativity. This program presents extraordinary men and women and..
A history of American Indian achievement: American Indians populate the North American continent
This first program covers the years 12,000 B.C. - 2000 B.C. During the first ten thousand years of occupying North America, American Indians were the most accomplished Stone Age hunters, worked metal into tools and weapo..
A history of American Indian achievement: Plains Indians war
This is the sixth program in the series. From 1853 to 1890, the Plains Indians horse culture engaged the United States military in its longest conflict. This original, eight-part series of half-hour shows documents the h..
A history of American Indian achievement: resistance and acceptance
This fourth program covers the years 1675-1805. In this program are the heroic stories of Indian tribes who attempted to protect their lands from European invasion ... And stories of how other American Indians found ways..
A history of American Indian achievement: the emergence of the American Indian hero
This seventh program covers the years 1883-1942. The first half of the 20th-century was the worst of times for American Indians. They were a vanishing race. Then something remarkable happened: four American Indian women ..
A history of American Indian achievement: the golden age of ancient American Indians
This second program covers the years 1700 B.C. - 1000 A.D. During the classic golden age of American Indians, they built some of the world's greatest cities and adopted agriculture and the bow and arrow. This original, e..
A history of American Indian achievement: the great transition
This third program covers the years 1100-1621. At the closing of the classic golden age of American Indians, the Anasazi built their spectacular cliff cities ... The Iroquois League wrote a remarkable constitution that w..
A history of American Indian achievement: the new Indian leaders
This fifth program covers the years 1811-1850. American Indian leaders with great vision make a valiant attempt to retain their culture and continue to live on their ancestral lands west of the Appalachians. Without thes..