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1421: The Year China Discovered America
Subject: World History
1421: THE YEAR CHINA DISCOVERED AMERICA?, investigates a theory that could turn the conventional view of world history on its head: the startling possibility that a daring Chinese admiral, commanding ...

 

Abraham & Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part 1 & 2
Ambition & We Are Elected
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, Government, Politics, & Politicians
Elected President only to see the nation fracture in two, Lincoln led a confused and frightened people through the most terrible war in their history. At the same time, his own household mirrored the ...

 

Abraham & Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part 3 & 4
Shattered & The Dearest of All Things
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, Government, Politics, & Politicians
Elected President only to see the nation fracture in two, Lincoln led a confused and frightened people through the most terrible war in their history. At the same time, his own household mirrored the ...

 

Abraham & Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Part 5 & 6
This Frightful War & Blind With Weeping
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, Government, Politics, & Politicians
Elected President only to see the nation fracture in two, Lincoln led a confused and frightened people through the most terrible war in their history. At the same time, his own household mirrored the ...

 

Across the Delaware & An American in Paris, Episodes 19 & 20
Series: Liberty's Kids
Subject: Kids
ACROSS THE DELAWARE: Sarah and James meet a British spy who turns out to be a double agent. Meanwhile, General Washington crosses the Delaware on Christmas 1776 and finally gets the victory he needs a...

 

African-American Lives, Episodes 1 & 2
Listening to our Past & The Promise of Freedom
Subject: African American Studies, American History
Episode 1: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. begins to piece together the family histories of four of the participants. The episode explores the post-World War I "Great Migration" of African-American families fr...

 

African-American Lives, Episodes 3 & 4
Searching for our Names & Beyond the Middle Passage.
Subject: African American Studies, American History, Science
Episode 3: Gates' research becomes even more difficult as he continues back through the Colonial period of American history. War service records and ways of recording property during slavery's apogee ...

 

Africans in America, Part 1
The Terrible Transformation, 1450-1750
Subject: African American Studies, American History
The years 1450-1750 brought enormous changes to the North American continent. The native Americans, or Indians, as the Europeans came to call them, first encountered European explorers, and before lon...

 

Africans in America, Part 2
Revolution, 1750-1805
Subject: African American Studies, American History
The story of the American Revolution as traditionally recounted is the saga of the thirteen colonies fighting their colonial ruler, Britain, for independence. But an equally compelling part of the sto...

 

Africans in America, Part 3
Brotherly Love, 1791-1831
Subject: African American Studies, American History
During its first 50 years the United States transformed itself from a small republic into an expansive democracy for white Americans. The nation tripled its population, doubled in size, and extended s...

 

Africans in America, Part 4
Judgment Day, 1831-1865
Subject: African American Studies, American History
As westward expansion took hold, the question of whether the United States would be a proslavery or antislavery nation took on new importance. In the North, antislavery forces included abolitionists, ...

 

Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Subject: African American Studies, The Arts
Explore the lives of visual artists who made the Harlem Renaissance one of the 20th century's richest artistic moments. Archival footage, newsreels, and photographs recall the influential force of exh...

 

The Age of AIDS, Part 1
Series: Frontline
Subject: Health & Medicine
THE AGE OF AIDS begins with the medical and scientific mystery that emerged in 1981 when five gay men in Los Angeles were diagnosed with a new disease. The film documents the frantic search by America...

 

The Age of AIDS, Part 2
Series: Frontline
Subject: Health & Medicine
Part 2 begins by exploring the chasm that emerged between rich and poor following the development of the miraculous 'triple cocktail' HIV treatment. In the mid-1990s, when doctors discovered the cockt...

 

Al Qaeda's New Front
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
A filmmaker is murdered in a culture clash between Muslims and Christians in the Netherlands. A series of bombs tear apart four trains in Madrid. Al Qaeda terrorist cells are uncovered in the U.K., Ge...

 

Alexander Hamilton
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, Government, Politics, & Politicians
One of the most controversial men of his age, Alexander Hamilton was a gifted statesman brought down by the fatal flaws of stubbornness, extreme candor and arrogance. His life and career were marked b...

 

Alien Invasion
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Globalization of trade and travel means increasing threats from alien species: plants, animals, insects and diseases that wreak havoc in defenseless regions.

 

Allies At Last & Honor and Compromise, Episodes 25 & 26
Series: Liberty's Kids
Subject: Kids
ALLIES AT LAST: The victory at Saratoga enables Franklin to persuade France to side with the Americans. Meanwhile, Sarah and Henri spend time with British troops in occupied Philadelphia, while James ...

 

Amelia Earhart
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, World History
The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart was America's "Lady Lindy." What the public didn't know was the cost of her courage. The record-breaking flights, races, interviews, spe...

 

America Beyond the Color Line, Episodes 1 & 2
South: The Black Belt & Chicago: Streets of Heaven
Subject: African American Studies
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. travels to four different parts of America - the East Coast, the deep South, inner-city Chicago and Hollywood. He explores this rich and diverse landscape, social as well as geo...

 

America Beyond the Color Line, Episodes 3 & 4
East Coast: Ebony Towers & Los Angeles: Black Hollywood
Subject: African American Studies
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. travels to four different parts of America - the East Coast, the deep South, inner-city Chicago and Hollywood. He explores this rich and diverse landscape, social as well as geo...

 

America's Battlegrounds
Subject: American History, Military History
Tells the stories of some of the countless struggles - in city streets, and courtrooms, as well as on the battlefield -that shaped American history. Contents: Whisky Rebellion, 1794, Dred Scott decisi...

 

The American President, Episodes 1 & 2
Family Ties & Happenstance
Subject: American History, Government, Politics, & Politicians
Episode 1: The last thing that the Founding Fathers envisioned was a hereditary chief executive. Yet power inevitably passes from generation to generation, and several families have returned to the Wh...

 

The American President, Episodes 3 & 4
An Independent Cast of Mind & A Professional Politician
Subject: American History, Government, Politics, & Politicians
Episode 3: 'The American public, from time to time, wishes to see the trustee who looks neither right nor left, but only up to the heavens and down to the work before him,' says presidential scholar R...

 

The American President, Episodes 5 & 6
The American Way & The World Stage
Subject: American History, Government, Politics, & Politicians
Episode 5: It is often observed that American national identity is less a condition than an idea. No one is better positioned to express that idea than the president. The four chronicled here may hav...

 

The American President, Episodes 7 & 8
The Heroic Posture & Compromise Choices
Subject: American History, Government, Politics, & Politicians
Episode 7: From the beginning, the presidential office has beckoned to national heroes renowned for their selfless service to their country. This affinity is especially strong for men of military fame...

 

The American President, Episodes 9 & 10
Expanding Powers & The Balance of Power
Subject: American History, Government, Politics, & Politicians
Episode 9: Though the powers of the presidency have expanded with the growth of the nation, the process has been anything but smooth. The prerogatives of the presidency are uncertain and their asserti...

 

American Valor
Subject: Military History
From Bull Run to Mogadishu, AMERICAN VALOR takes a moving and compelling look at America’s military heroes: those brave soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen whose actions have earned them the count...

 

Andy Warhol: A documentary film, Episode 1
Series: American Experience
Subject: The Arts, Biography
No artist in the second half of the 20th century was more famous, or misunderstood, than Andy Warhol. This film explores his astonishing artistic output from the late 1940s to his untimely death in 19...

 

Andy Warhol: A documentary film, Episode 2
Series: American Experience
Subject: The Arts, Biography
No artist in the second half of the 20th century was more famous, or misunderstood, than Andy Warhol. This film explores his astonishing artistic output from the late 1940s to his untimely death in 19...

 

The Art of Science
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: The Arts, Science
Is art a science? Is science an art? This episode of Frontiers looks at the ways these two fields overlap and influence each other, and how computers are challenging our conventional ideas about art, ...

 

Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2
Place & Spirituality
Subject: The Arts
At the dawn of the 21st century, American artists are taking self-expression and the artistic process into uncharted territory. Today's artists are engaging the world and their audiences in vital and ...

 

Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 1, Episodes 3 & 4
Identity & Consumption
Subject: The Arts
At the dawn of the 21st century, American artists are taking self-expression and the artistic process into uncharted territory. Today's artists are engaging the world and their audiences in vital and ...

 

Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 2, Episodes 1 & 2
Stories & Loss and Desire
Subject: The Arts
Episode 1: How do artists tell stories in their work? How does contemporary art reflect and reveal narrative traditions? How does the art of today record and describe the world around us? Episode 2: H...

 

Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 2, Episodes 3 & 4
Time & Humor
Subject: The Arts
Episode 3: How do artists evoke and transform time in their work? Can a work of contemporary art be timeless? How does contemporary art relate to art of the ancient past, to nature, and to the rhythms...

 

Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 3, Episodes 1 & 2
Power & Memory
Subject: The Arts
Episode 1:From politics to mass media, the theme of power pervades daily life and is reflected in the ideas and concerns of contemporary artists. Episode 2:How does memory function? What is history? H...

 

Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 3, Episodes 3 & 4
Structures & Play
Subject: The Arts
Episode 3: How do we organize life? What are the ways in which we capture knowledge and attempt greater understanding? Episode 4: Spontaneous and joyful, subversive or amusing, play can take many for...

 

The Battle For Korea
Subject: Military History, World History
Takes a fresh look at the Korean conflict, often labeled 'the forgotten war.' Using information declassified at the end of the Cold War, the documentary looks at the military aims of the confrontation...

 

Battle for the Holy Land
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
With Israel and the Palestinians engaged in something close to all-out warfare, and with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell heading to the region in the days ahead, FRONTLINE's BATTLE FOR THE HOLY L...

 

Beneath the Sea
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
New technologies and pioneering scientists have opened up the farthest reaches of the ocean in the last great age of human exploration on Earth.

 

Beyond F.A.T. City
Subject: Education
F.A.T--Frustration, Anxiety, Tension--three all-too-familiar feelings for the families of children with learning disabilities. It is the basis for a 1987 workshop simulating the children's daily exper...

 

Beyond Science?
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
This episode explores topics that go beyond the realm of science; in other words, topics that are hard to explore in a rigorous scientific way. The scientific method gives us a way to evaluate claims ...

 

Bionic Body
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Researchers are uniting biology and technology to give hope to the paralyzed, using the latest science to repair and circumvent spinal cord injuries.

 

Body Building
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Health & Medicine
Studies remarkable advances being made to repair and replace damaged human body parts. In 2001, the first self-contained artificial heart, Abiocor, was implanted into human patients.

 

Born Free and Equal & The Man Who Would Not Be King, Episodes 37 & 38
Series: Liberty's Kids
Subject: Kids
BORN FREE AND EQUAL: A Massachusetts slave sues for her freedom and renames herself Elizabeth Freeman; Massachusetts abolishes slavery. THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT BE KING: The Revolutionary War ends as the...

 

Bostonians & Benedict Arnold, Episodes 31 & 32
Series: Liberty's Kids
Subject: Kids
BOSTONIANS: John Adams returns from France and reunites with wife Abigail. Meanwhile, Sarah is drawn closer to Mrs. Adams; James travels to New York and views the conflicts between colonists and India...

 

A Brilliant Madness
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography
The story of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by a descent into madness. At the age of 30, John Nash, a stunningly original and famously eccentric MIT mathematician, suddenly began cla...

 

Broadway: The American Musical, Episodes 1 & 2
Give My Regards to Broadway & Syncopated City
Subject: The Arts
Chronicles the Broadway musical throughout the 20th century and explores the evolution of this uniquely American art form. Episode 1: Give My Regards to Broadway (1893-1927) & Episode 2: Syncopated Ci...

 

Broadway: The American Musical, Episodes 3 & 4
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' & Oh What a Beautiful Morning
Subject: The Arts
Chronicles the Broadway musical throughout the 20th century and explores the evolution of this uniquely American art form. Episode 3: I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (1929-1942) & Episode 4: Oh What a Beautif...

 

Broadway: The American Musical, Episodes 5 & 6
Tradition & Putting it Together
Subject: The Arts
Chronicles the Broadway musical throughout the 20th century and explores the evolution of this uniquely American art form. Episode 5: Traditions (1957-1979) & Episode 6: Putting it Together (1980-pres...

 

Buffett and Gates Go Back to School
Subject: Business & Investing
Though a generation apart in age, and founders of two very different businesses, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates each has a deep admiration for the other. They share a sense of responsibility to use thei...

 

Building the Alaska Highway
Series: American Experience
Subject: American History: 20th Century
Building the Alaska Highway is the story of nearly eleven thousand Army engineers who battled freezing temperatures, ice and snow, mountains, mud, muskeg, and mosquitoes to blaze a 1500-mile road thro...

 

Bunker Hill & Postmaster General Franklin, Episodes 9 & 10
Series: Liberty's Kids
Subject: Kids
BUNKER HILL: James and Sarah witness the Battle of Bunker Hill (and hear the cry 'Don't fire 'till you see the whites of their eyes!'). The British win the battle, but the Americans win a major moral ...

 

Burden of Innocence
Series: Frontline
Subject: Social & Legal Issues
In BURDEN OF INNOCENCE, acclaimed FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel -- whose unparalleled work on America's criminal justice system has helped exonerate 11 individuals and has won numerous awards, tracks ...

 

By the People
Subject: Government, Politics, & Politicians
BY THE PEOPLE is an insider’s look at who and what it takes to put on an American election. Set in Indianapolis, Indiana – a blue city inside a longtime red state – as events unfold over the 11 ...

 

Can You Afford To Retire?
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
Baby boomers are heading for a shock as they hit retirement: vanishing pensions and inadequate 401(k) savings. What can be done?

 

Captain Molly & American Crisis, Episodes 17 & 18
Series: Liberty's Kids
Subject: Kids
CAPTAIN MOLLY: Sarah meets Captain Molly, who fights in the place of her fallen husband. But Gen. Washington is losing battle after battle. Meanwhile, Moses teaches Henri to read. AMERICAN CRISIS: It...

 

Changing Your Mind
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Alda meets two young women whose brains have remodeled themselves -- one temporarily in response to a week of being blindfolded, the other permanently after a devastating brain injury before birth. Th...

 

Chasing the Sleeper Cell
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
What was the real story behind a group U.S. intelligence called America's 'most dangerous terrorist cell'? FRONTLINE and The New York Times investigated the domestic battle against terrorism in CHASIN...

 

China in the Red
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues, World History
Filmed over the course of three turbulent years, CHINA IN THE READ is a documentary that tells the stories of 10 Chinese individuals -- factory workers, rural villagers, and a millionaire entrepreneur...

 

Class Divided
Series: Frontline
Subject: Education, Social & Legal Issues
One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is th...

 

Coming Into America
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: American History, Science
Who were the first Americans? New discoveries and techniques for dating them have archaeologists rethinking what we know - and rewriting history.

 

A Company of Soliders
Series: Frontline
Subject: Military History
In November 2004, a FRONTLINE production team embedded with the soldiers of the 1-8 Cavalry's Dog Company in south Baghdad to document the day-to-day realities of a life-and-death military mission tha...

 

Conflict in the South & Deborah Samson: Soldier of the Revolution, Episodes 33 & 34
Series: Liberty's Kids
Subject: Kids
CONFLICT IN THE SOUTH: Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson is forced to abandon his home; Sarah's upset that Jefferson owns slaves. DEBORAH SAMSON: Deborah Samson poses as a man to enlist in the Contin...

 

The Conquistadors, Episodes 1 & 2
The Fall Of the Aztecs & The Conquest of the Incas
Subject: World History
Episode 1: Cortez left Cuba in 1519 seeking riches in he islands to the west. Instead, he discovered, and ultimately destroyed, a hitherto unknown civilization. Michael Wood retraces this fateful ex...

 

The Conquistadors, Episodes 3 & 4
The Search for El Dorado & All the World is Human
Subject: World History
Episode 3: Gold was the ultimate goal for the Spanish Conquistadors of the 1500s. The myth of an entire city of gold, ruled by a king who covered his body with a layer of pure gold dust and bathed eac...

 

A Crime of Insanity
Series: Frontline
Subject: Social & Legal Issues
In 1994, Ralph Tortorici, a 26-year-old New York psychology student, took a college class hostage. A paranoid schizophrenic convinced the government had planted tracking devices in his body, he was ch...

 

Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War
Subject: American History, Military History
Teddy Roosevelt charging up the San Juan Heights, the Rough Riders and the sinking of the battleship, the U.S.S. Maine---these are what people commonly know about the United States' war with Spain in ...

 

Cyber War!
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
How real is the threat of war in cyberspace, and what does the White House knows that the rest of us don't? FRONTLINE investigates a new war using embedded malicious code, probes and pings, and other ...

 

Cyberchase, Algebra: Algebraic Variables & Codes
Find Those Gleamers & Codename: Icky
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Algebra: Equations & Patterns
A Battle of Equals & The Poddleville Case
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Algebra: Scale and Size & Timekeeping
Size Me Up & Clock Like an Egyptian
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Angle Measurement
All the Right Angles
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Counter Examples
True Colors
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Data Analysis & Probability: Combinations & Probability
A Day at the Spa & R-Fair City
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Data Analysis & Probability: Using Data & Line Graphs
Castleblanca & Return to Sensible Flats
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Data Clusters
Hugs & Witches
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Equivalence
Harriet Hippo & The Mean Green
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Geometry:Two- and Three-Dimensional Geometry & Point of View
Eureka & The Guilty Party
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Inverse Operations
The Eye of Rom
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Linear Measurement
Fortress of Altitude
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker (C...

 

Cyberchase, Measurement: Area & Liquid Volume
Sensible Flats & Cool It
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Measurement: Elapsed Time & Body Math
A Time to Cook & EcoHaven CSE
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Multiplication & Monetary Systems
Send in the Clones & Trading Places
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Navigation
Lost My Marbles
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Number & Operations: Zero & Number Sense
A World Without Zero & They Counted Happily Ever After
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Patterns in Music
Out of Sync
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Perimeter/Area Relationship
Totally Rad
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Process Standards: Estimation & Fractions
Snow Day to be Exact & Zeus on the Loose
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker (...

 

Cyberchase, Process Standards: Logic & Problem Solving
Of All the Luck & Problem Solving in Shangri-La
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Process Standards: Negative Numbers & Decimals
Less Than Zero & Mother's Day
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Symmetry
The Secrets of Symmetria
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker ...

 

Cyberchase, Using Models
Model Behavior
Series: Cyberchase
Subject: Kids
Math rules in the animated adventure series CYBERCHASE. CYBERCHASE sends the message that math is fun - it's about problem solving and, boy, does it come in handy. When the dastardly villain Hacker (C...

 

D-Day: Down to Earth - Return of the 507th
Subject: American History: 20th Century, Military History
This film recounts the history of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment through battles in World War II and the culmination of its story 60 years later. Men from the 507th dropped into Normandy on D-D...

 

Dark Side of the Universe
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
New discoveries about Dark Matter and Dark Energy have astronomers wondering if ours is but one of an infinity of universes.

 

Daughter From Danang
Series: American Experience
Subject: American History: 20th Century
Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi is the proverbial 'all-American girl', hailing from small tow...

 

Dead Men's Tales
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
In this program, Alda meets scientists reconstructing mysterious past events from the evidence of excavated remains. Stories in the episode include the unexplained loss of the Confederate submarine Hu...

 

Declining By Degrees: Higher Education at Risk
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Education
At a time when a college education is vital to an individual's future and our nation's economic standing in the world, this documentary explores the simple yet significant question: What happens betwe...

 

Destination America, Episodes 1 & 2
The Golden Door & The Art of Departure
Subject: Contemporary Issues
Episode 1: The Golden Door: America is a country founded and built by immigrants. From the beginning, most have come looking for a better life for themselves and their families. Episode 2: The Art of...

 

Destination America, Episodes 3 & 4
The Earth is the Lord's & Breaking Free: A Women's Journey
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Women's Studies
Episode 3: Ever since the Mayflower pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, immigrants have come to America to escape religious persecution. The idea of America as a haven for those seeking freedom to worsh...

 

Diet Wars
Series: Frontline
Subject: Health & Medicine
Americans spend $40 billion a year on books, products, and programs designed to do one thing: help us lose weight. From Atkins to Ornish and Weight Watchers to South Beach, today's dieters have a dizz...

 

A Different Way to Heal
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Health & Medicine
Alternative medicines are a growing multi-billion dollar industry. But do they hold up under scientific scrutiny?

 

Discounted Dreams
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Education
Community colleges are the fastest growing segment of American higher education – and some say the most vital to America’s future – offering a staggering array of classes and job training progra...

 

Don't Forget
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Health & Medicine
Scientists attempt to unravel the mysteries of memory-- how we make memories, where they come from and why some slip away.

 

Dragon Science
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Alan Alda journeys across China, from dry western deserts and the world's most dramatic mummy find--well-preserved individuals from 4,000 years ago--to the steamy Yangtze River Valley, where scientist...

 

e2: Design, Season 1, Episode 1
The Green Apple
Subject: Science
The first episode begins in New York, a city that is leading the charge to green its industrial skyline with several groundbreaking projects. New York combats the urban myth of the bustling city as a ...

 

e2: Design, Season 1, Episode 2
Green for All
Subject: Science
Follows architect and activist Sergio Palleroni as he continues his mission to provide architectural and design solutions to regions in social and humanitarian crisis. Palleroni already has four globa...

 

e2: Design, Season 1, Episode 3
The Green Machine
Subject: Science
Mayor Richard Daley takes viewers on a tour through Chicago, and showcases his mission to make it 'the greenest city in America.' Chicago already demonstrates a remarkable commitment to green design a...

 

e2: Design, Season 1, Episode 4
Gray to Green
Subject: Science
'Gray to Green' takes the notion of the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) to grand proportions by looking at Boston's "Big Dig" and the massive amount of waste created by the $15 billion public works...

 

e2: Design, Season 1, Episode 5
China: From Red to Green
Subject: Science
The series moves to China, whose soaring population and rapid industrialization have created a boom in urbanization that is unprecedented in human history. This episode explores green design solutions...

 

e2: Design, Season 1, Episode 6
Deeper Shades of Green
Subject: Science
The first season of e2 Design concludes with a look to the future, focusing on remarkable thinkers and designers of our time: Ken Yang, Werner Sober and William McDonough. Nothing short of geniuses, t...

 

Egypt's Golden Empire
The Warrior Pharaohs & Pharaohs of the Sun
Series: Empires
Subject: Social & Legal Issues
Episode 1: In 1560 BC, Egypt was divided into two. Its very existence was threatened from both north and south. But one family was determined to restore Egypt to its former glory by destroying the Hyk...

 

Egypt's Golden Empire
The Last Great Pharaoh
Series: Empires
Subject: World History
Episode 3: The reign of Ramesses the Great marked the high point of the New Kingdom and the high point of Egyptian culture. But like any highpoint, it was all downhill as the New Kingdom gradually fel...

 

Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular
Subject: Biography, World History
The film Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular is about one man's passionate resolve to bear witness for the millions of people who suffered and perished in the Holocaust. He has been sustained by his fa...

 

Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, Parts 1 & 2
Clinton (1999-2001) & Arafat (2001-2002)
Subject: Contemporary Issues, World History
Presents President Clinton, Yasser Arafat, the Israeli Prime Ministers, their generals and advisers, and those behind the suicide bombs and assassinations discussing what happened behind closed doors ...

 

Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, Part 3
Sharon (2002-2005)
Subject: Contemporary Issues, World History
Presents President Clinton, Yasser Arafat, the Israeli Prime Ministers, their generals and advisers, and those behind the suicide bombs and assassinations discussing what happened behind closed doors ...

 

Endgame: Ethics and Values in America
Subject: Social & Legal Issues
This groundbreaking special enables viewers to enter the lives of fictional characters forced to make critical decisions with profound moral, ethical or social implications.

 

Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
Series: American Masters
Subject: The Arts, Biography
More than 40 years after his death, Hemingway is one of the most widely read and written about American authors. It is the art of Hemingway's story telling that forms the heart of this film, the point...

 

Exploring Space: The Quest for Life
Subject: Science
How did life begin? Are we the only intelligent life in the universe? The key to unraveling the mysteries about the origins of life may just exist in space. Every day, new discoveries inch us closer t...

 

Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
It has been almost a year since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. For many Americans, those images called more into question than just their own physical safety. For many people,...

 

Fat and Happy?
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Health & Medicine, Science
Alan Alda visits with Dr. George Blackburn of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to explore society's obsession with diets that promise quick, painless results. Alda also visits Arizona's P...

 

Feeding and Fueling the World: Healthier Alternatives for Planet Earth
Subject: Business & Investing, Contemporary Issues
Meet two resourceful CEOs who are revolutionizing the way we think about food and energy around the globe. After decades in the oil industry, Patricia Woertz has brought renewed energy to Archer Danie...

 

Fidel Castro
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, World History
Castro's face with its trademark beard, has become an iconic image worldwide, yet the man himself remains an enigma to all but a few. Through interviews with relatives, childhood friends, fellow rebel...

 

The Fight
Series: American Experience
Subject: African American Studies, American History: 20th Century
The rematch between the African American heavyweight Joe Louis and his German opponent Max Schmeling was riveting -- 'one hundred and twenty-four seconds of murder,' as one newspaper put it. But for m...

 

The First Measured Century, Part 1
Subject: American History: 20th Century
THE FIRST MEASURED CENTURY (1883-1940) tells the story of America by the numbers through the eyes of those who did the measuring and the interpreting, often in highly controversial and unusual circum...

 

The First Measured Century, Part 2
Subject: American History: 20th Century
THE FIRST MEASURED CENTURY (1883-1940) tells the story of America by the numbers through the eyes of those who did the measuring and the interpreting, often in highly controversial and unusual circum...

 

Flying High
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Scientists look to birds for the secrets of flight, work on a sun-powered wing that may one day fly forever, and design flying robots with minds of their own.

 

Food for the Ancestors
Subject: World History
FOOD FOR ANCESTORS is a culinary-history exploration of Days of the Dead, Mexican traditions and ancient ways of life that still exist there. All of these seen through Mexican cuisine. The program is ...

 

Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 1 & 2
Independence & Revolution
Subject: American History
Episode 1: The episode begins by examining how the terrorist attack of September 11th sparked a renewed focus on freedom. The program then takes us back to the summer of 1776. Episode 2: Colonial...

 

Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 3 & 4
Liberty for All? & Wake Up America
Subject: American History
Episode 3: Liberty for All?: While America was founded as a free land in which people could live out their own destinies, it came at a terrible cost to Native Americans.The nation's population migrate...

 

Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 5 & 6
A Fatal Contridiction & A War to End Slavery
Subject: American History
Episode 5: A Fatal Contradiction: The Declaration of Independence stated 'all men are created equal,' but the nation's slaves were a glaring exception. This episode explores the role of Frederick Doug...

 

Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 7 & 8
What is Freedom? & Whose Land is This?
Subject: American History
Episode 7: What is Freedom?: In the aftermath of the Civil War, Reconstruction begins as a time of great hope for the devastated South. In the Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, 'separate b...

 

Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 9 & 10
Working for Freedom & Yearning to Breathe Free
Subject: American History
Episode 9: Working for Freedom: As industrial progress continues and the gap between the rich and poor widens, a new labor movement emerges to advocate for workers' rights. Episode 10: Yearning to Bre...

 

Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 11 & 12
Safe for Democracy & Depression and War
Subject: American History
Episode 11: Safe for Democracy: With help from the Wright brothers' introduction of the airplane, the country begins to soar. Woodrow Wilson and America reluctantly join the fight in World War I, whil...

 

Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 13 & 14
Democracy & Strugges & Let Freedom Ring
Subject: African American Studies, American History
Episode 13: Democracy and Struggles: In the postwar free world, America becomes the acknowledged leader, striving to rebuild democracies abroad. At the same time, the U.S. finally faces up to racial s...

 

Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 15 & 16
Marching to Freedom Land & Becoming Free
Subject: American History
Episode 15: Marching to Freedom Land: The 1960s bring new progress in the quest for freedom, but this is also an explosive decade that threatens to tear apart the fabric of society. Episode 16: Becomi...

 

Gene Hunters
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Alan Alda meets some of the brightest and most charismatic scientists hunting genes. Their work could unlock the mysteries of human disease.

 

Ghosts of Rwanda
Subject: Contemporary Issues, World History
Documentary marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide -- a state-sponsored massacre in which some 800,000 Rwandans were methodically hunted down and murdered by Hutu extremists as the U.S. an...

 

Global Warming
The Signs and the Science
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Science
Profiles people who are living with the grave consequences of a changing climate, as well as the individuals, communities and scientists inventing new approaches to safeguard our children's future.

 

Going Home & "We the People", Episodes 39 & 40
Series: Liberty's Kids
Subject: Kids
GOING HOME: Ben Franklin returns from Europe; those loyal to the English king are forced to leave America; Lafayette invites Henri to live in France. WE THE PEOPLE: George Washington becomes the first...

 

The Greeks, Crucible of Civilization, Parts 1 & 2
Revolution & The Golden Age
Series: Empires
Subject: World History
THE GREEKS: CRUCIBLE OF CIVILIZATION tells the story of Greek democracy from its first stirrings in 500 B.C. through to the cataclysmic wars that virtually destroyed the empire. It concludes with a fa...

 

The Greeks, Crucible of Civilization, Part 3
Empire of the Mind
Series: Empires
Subject: World History
THE GREEKS: CRUCIBLE OF CIVILIZATION tells the story of Greek democracy from its first stirrings in 500 B.C. through to the cataclysmic wars that virtually destroyed the empire. It concludes with a fa...

 

Green Mountain Boys & The Second Continental Congress, Episodes 7 & 8
Series: Liberty's Kids
Subject: Kids
In THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS, Sarah befriends Benedict Arnold (voice of Dustin Hoffman) when his militia takes New York's Fort Ticonderoga from the British in May 1775. Arnold is a brilliant soldier but...

 

Growing Up Different
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Health & Medicine
Alda meets several kids who are growing up different and the doctors and researchers who are trying to mitigate the difficulties they face. Cochlear implants restore some hearing to a profoundly deaf ...

 

The Hidden Child
Subject: World History
Of the 1.6 million Jewish children who lived in Europe before WWII, only 100,000 survived the Holocaust. Most were hidden children, shuttered away in attics, cellars, convents or farms. This is Maud ...

 

Holy Warriors
Series: Empires
Subject: World History
The epic legend of King Richard the Lionhearted and his struggle to save Christendom's holiest city, Jerusalem, from its Muslim conqueror Saladin is explored in this drama-documentary using original M...

 

Hot Planet—Cold Comfort
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Science
So you think global warming won't affect you? Wait until the great Atlantic Conveyor shuts down. And find out what's already happening in Alaska.

 

Hot Times in Alaska
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Science
Alaska is warming up. It's now a few degrees warmer than it was a century and a half ago, and the trend seems to be accelerating. Already the landscape is changing dramatically -- permafrost is thawin...

 

How Difficult Can This Be?--'F.A.T. City: A Learning Disabilities Workshop
Subject: Education
This unique program lets viewers experience the frustration, anxiety, and tension faced by children with learning disabilities. Workshop facilitator Richard Lavoie presents a series of striking simula...

 

Hydrogen Hopes
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Hydrogen may be the fuel of the future, but what will it take to safely and efficiently make the transition from today's fossil fuels?

 

In Remembrance of Martin
Subject: African American Studies, Biography
Personal comments from family, friends, and advisors fill this remarkable documentary honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Coretta Scott King joins the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Julian Bond, Jimmy Car...

 

In Search of Al Qaeda
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
FRONTLINE investigates what has become of Al Qaeda in the months since the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. Martin Smith and cameraman Scott Anger set out on a two-month journey that took them from London...

 

In Search of Bin Laden
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
n August 1998, two cars exploded simultaneously at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 268 and injuring 5,000. CIA and FBI investigators soon identified suspects, including accused mastermin...

 

In Search of Myths and Heroes, Parts 1 & 2
The Queen of Sheba & Arthur: The Once & Future King
Subject: World History
Part 1: Michael Wood begins his quest with an exotic and mysterious woman of power — the Queen of Sheba. Immortalized in the Hebrew Bible, the Muslim Koran and in many Christian traditions, the tale...

 

In Search of Myths and Heroes, Parts 3 & 4
The Search For Shangri-La & Jason and the Golden Fleece
Subject: World History
Part 3: Wood's search for Shangri-La takes him on a thrilling trek through India, Nepal and Tibet. The tale of the magical hidden valley of Shangri-La was popularized in the 1930s by James Hilton in h...

 

In Search of Shakespeare, Episodes 1 & 2
A Time of Revolution & The Lost Years
Subject: The Arts, World History
Mixing travel, adventure, interviews and specially shot sequences with the Royal Shakespeare Company on the road, the series sets the life of Shakespeare in the turbulent times in which he lived--a ti...

 

In Search of Shakespeare, Episodes 3 & 4
The Duty of Poets & For All Time
Subject: The Arts, World History
Mixing travel, adventure, interviews and specially shot sequences with the Royal Shakespeare Company on the road, the series sets the life of Shakespeare in the turbulent times in which he lived--a ti...

 

Influenza 1918
Series: American Experience
Subject: American History: 20th Century, Health & Medicine
In September of 1918, soldiers at an army base near Boston suddenly began to die. The cause of death was identified as influenza, but it was unlike any strain ever seen. It was the worst epidemic in A...

 

Inside Hamas
Includes Chopin's Heart & The Play Pump
Series: Frontline
Subject: World History
Kate Seelye travels across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to investigate Hamas, the militant Islamist group responsible for scores of suicide bombings and missile attacks on Israel -- and the surpri...

 

The Intimate Machine
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Scientists blend technology with sociology to make our machines more fun to use.

 

The Invasion of Iraq
Series: Frontline
Subject: Military History
FRONTLINE presents a special two-hour documentary investigation examining the key strategies, battles, and turning points of the war as seen from both sides of the battlefield. In THE INVASION OF IRA...

 

Inventing the Future
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
At MIT's famed media lab, scientists work on virtual dogs, smart cars and even a cyborg Alan.

 

Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
FRONTLINE explores the relationship between U.S. job losses and the American consumer's insatiable desire for bargains in IS WAL-MART GOOD FOR AMERICA? Through interviews with retail executives, produ...

 

James Armistead & Yorktown, Episodes 35 & 36
Series: Liberty's Kids
Subject: Kids
JAMES ARMISTEAD: Virginia slave James Armistead offers to spy on Benedict Arnold; Sarah and Henri go from camp to camp with Lafayette. YORKTOWN: The climactic battle of the Revolution is fought at Yor...

 

Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire, Episode 1
The Way of the Samurai
Series: Empires
Subject: World History
Tokugawa Ieyasu unifies Japan and establishes a dynasty that will rule Japan for over 250 years.

 

Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire, Episodes 2 & 3
The Will of the Shogun & The Return of the Barbarians
Series: Empires
Subject: World History
Episode 2: The Will of the Shogun: The grandson of Ieyasu, Tokugawa Iemitsu, tightens control over Japan's warlords and expels all foreigners. Episode 3: The Return of the Barbarians: Isolated from th...

 

A Jew Among the Germans
Series: Frontline
Subject: World History
In A JEW AMONG THE GERMANS, FRONTLINE presents Marian Marzynski's moving and provocative search for a Germany that he -- and his children -- can live with. Over several years of filming, Marzynski en...

 

John & Abigail Adams
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography
Relying heavily on the extraordinary correspondence between the second president and his wife, this joint biography sheds light not only on the characters of two remarkable people, but also on the tum...

 

Journey of Man
Subject: Science
How did the human race populate the world? A group of geneticists have worked on the question for a decade, arriving at a startling conclusion: the global family tree can be traced to one African man ...

 

Journey to Mars
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Scientists work to overcome the challenges of exploring the red planet.

 

Karl Rove - The Architect
Series: Frontline
Subject: Biography, Government, Politics, & Politicians
After surviving one of the roughest presidential elections in modern times, President George W. Bush singled out one member of his team in particular, calling Karl Rove the campaign's 'architect.' But...

 

The Kennedys, Episode 1
The Father
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, Government, Politics, & Politicians
The first episode of The Kennedys tells the remarkable story of patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy and his creation of a dynasty that would enable him to realize, through his sons, his own failed ambitions t...

 

The Kennedys, Episode 2
The Sons
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, Government, Politics, & Politicians
The conclusion of The Kennedys follows the Kennedy story from the glamorous imagery of Jack and Jackie Kennedy's White House to the dark days of Edward Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick and his uns...

 

The Killer at Thurston High
Series: Frontline
Subject: Social & Legal Issues
In the late 1990s Americans witnessed a startling new terror: kids killing other kids in school. FRONTLINE takes a measure of this national dilemma through a detailed, intimate journey into the life o...

 

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites, Episodes 1 & 2
By the Rivers of Babylon & The Book and the Sword
Series: Empires
Subject: World History
Tells the epic story of the Jews and the creation of the world's first and most profoundly influential monotheistic religion. The stories of the patriarch Abraham, the liberator Moses, the poet-king D...

 

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites, Episodes 3 & 4
The End of Days & The Gifts of the Jews
Series: Empires
Subject: World History
Tells the epic story of the Jews and the creation of the world's first and most profoundly influential monotheistic religion. The stories of the patriarch Abraham, the liberator Moses, the poet-king D...

 

The Last Abortion Clinic
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
In the summer of 2005 -- more than 30 years after Roe v. Wade established that access to abortion services is a fundamental right -- a FRONTLINE documentary team spent two months traveling across the ...

 

Last One Picked, First One Picked On
Subject: Social & Legal Issues
Playing with friends is a happy ritual for most children. But kids with learning disabilities are often isolated and rejected, lacking the social skills to make and keep friends. Richard Lavoie shows ...

 

LBJ, Parts 1 & 2
Beautiful Texas & My Fellow Americans
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, Government, Politics, & Politicians
LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Texan, Democrat, political virtuoso -- rises up out of the 1960s like a Colossus. He is admired and he is detested. But the real measure of a leader is what he gets done...

 

LBJ, Parts 3 & 4
We Shall Overcome & The Last Believer
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, Government, Politics, & Politicians
LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Texan, Democrat, political virtuoso -- rises up out of the 1960s like a Colossus. He is admired and he is detested. But the real measure of a leader is what he gets done,...

 

Life's Greatest Miracle
Subject: Science
A sequel to the most popular NOVA of all time, 'Miracle of Life,' the program once again uses the extraordinary microimagery of Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson to track human development from emb...

 

Life's Really Big Questions
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
How did life arise on Earth? What separates humans from apes? Will machines one day invent themselves? Alan Alda meets the scientists looking for answers.

 

Living Old
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
For the first time in American history, the 'old' old -- those over 85 -- are now the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population. Medical advances have enabled an unprecedented number of Americans...

 

Looking for Answers
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were history's most devastating terrorist assault and the worst failure of U.S. intelligence in 60 years. FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman and The ...

 

A Lynching in Marion
Subject: African American Studies, Social & Legal Issues
In August, 1930, a 16 year-old African American named James Cameron survived a lynching in Marion, Indiana. Now, 65 years later, Cameron tells his compelling story in vivid detail.

 

Make Up Your Mind
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Scientists look to the brain's frontal lobe as the seat of personality.

 

The Man Behind Hitler
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, World History
A symbol of Nazi cruelty and a master of cynical propaganda, Joseph Goebbels was the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's disturbing success.

 

The Man Who Knew
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
When the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, among the thousands killed was the one man who may have known more about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda than any other person in America: John O'Neill. The f...

 

Marie Antoinette
Subject: Biography
Her name has become synonymous with the French monarchy and all its excesses, but there is more to the story of Marie Antoinette than the simplistic tale of how a frivolous sovereign helped provoke th...

 

Matters of Race, Episodes 1 & 2
The Divide & Race Is/Race Ain't
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Social & Legal Issues
Part 1: Ten years ago, Siler City, North Carolina, was a black and white town of segregated communities with a shared geography and an unsettled history. This quiet, rural southern town is a 'laborato...

 

Matters of Race, Episodes 3 & 4
We're Still Here & Tomorrow's America
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Social & Legal Issues
Episode 3: This program a contemporary look at two communities often overlooked in the race dialogue: American Indians and Native Hawaiians.Through the stories of three families the film considers the...

 

Medicating Kids
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Health & Medicine
FRONTLINE examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior-modifying drugs for children. Are these medications really necessary--and safe--for young children, or merely a harried nation'...

 

Mill Times
Subject: American History
This animated program centers on a small New England community similar to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where Samuel Slater established America's first textile mill. Live action hosted by David Macaulay, t...

 

Mysteries of the Deep
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Scientists unlock secrets from the last frontier on Earth--the ocean's depths, where explorer Bob Ballard is changing science, history, and the future. 'The Uncivilized Engine of War' traces the world...

 

Mystery of Love
Subject: Contemporary Issues
The Mystery of Love examines the many faces of love through in-depth stories of marriage, family, friendship, divine love, altruistic love, brotherly love, the love between parents and children, and l...

 

Natural Born Robots
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Nature still trounces humans in designing machines able to live comfortably in the world around them. Taking hints, engineers are increasingly turning to living creatures for robotic inspiration.

 

Never Say Die
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Health & Medicine
Is the ancient dream of eternal life becoming a reality? In the last few years, many barriers to understanding the aging process have come down.

 

New Orleans
Series: American Experience
Subject: American History
New Orleans: the utterly original American city that lies at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi and at the beating heart of the great American experiment. Walled in on almost all sides by water, pres...

 

The Nuremburg Trial
Series: American Experience
Subject: World History
On November 20, 1945, the twenty-two surviving representatives of the Nazi elite stood before an international military tribunal at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany; they were charged with ...

 

Ocean Adventures: America's Underwater Treasures
Subject: Science
Jean-Michel Cousteau, his son, Fabien, daughter, Céline, and his team of expert divers set out to investigate, for the first time, all 13 of our National Marine Sanctuaries and the Northwestern Hawai...

 

On the Ball
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Today's technology can give athletes the edge, aid officials and enhance the spectator's experience of the game.

 

The Persuaders
Series: Frontline
Subject: Business & Investing, Contemporary Issues
This film explores how the cultures of marketing and advertising have come to influence not only what Americans buy, but also how they view themselves and the world around them.

 

Pieces of Mind
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Aiming for insights into his own brain, Alan Alda visits scientists studying how the brain dreams, stores memories, and sorts language. Weighing just a few pounds, the most complex organ in the human ...

 

The Pill
Series: American Experience
Subject: Health & Medicine, Women's Studies
In May 1960, the FDA approved the sale of a pill that arguably would have a greater impact on American culture than any other drug in the nation's history.

 

Postville: When Cultures Collide
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Social & Legal Issues
n 1988, Aaron Rubashkin, a New York entrepreneur and Hasidic Jew, bought an abandoned meatpacking plant in Postville, IA and reopened it as a kosher slaughterhouse. Trained rabbis were hired to overse...

 

RFK
Series: American Experience
Subject: Biography, Government, Politics, & Politicians
Robert Francis Kennedy would almost certainly have been president if his violent death hadn't intervened. This probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of the third ...

 

Road to 9/11: A Brief History of Conflict in the Middle East
Subject: Contemporary Issues, World History
The Road to 9/11 is a detailed look at the forces that have shaped the Middle East to give an understanding of the current crisis. Viewers are taken on a journey through a chronicle of steadily worsen...

 

Roman Empire In the First Century, Episodes 1 & 2
Order from Chaos & Years of Trial
Series: Empires
Subject: World History
Episode 1: Against all odds, Augustus ruled as Emperor for over 40 years, surviving plots, rebellions and mutinies. When he died, he was declared to be a god. His rule created the image of Imperial Ro...

 

Roman Empire In the First Century, Episodes 3 & 4
Winds of Change & Years of Eruptions
Series: Empires
Subject: World History
Episode 3: Claudius was Rome’s unlikely emperor. Despite his much-ridiculed appearance, he had become a good ruler, passing visionary laws and conquering Britain. After being murdered by his wife, h...

 

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Series: American Experience
Subject: African American Studies, Social & Legal Issues
The Scottsboro boys In 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the ...

 

Secret Life of the Brain, Episode 1
The Baby's Brain
Subject: Science
Less than a month after conception, human brain cells are developing at the rate of 500,000 per minute. Billions of cells linked by trillions of connections form the brain, but how does it organize it...

 

Secret Life of the Brain, Episode 2
The Child's Brain
Subject: Science
The explosion of language in young children provides a dramatic illustration of the young brain at work. How do we learn to talk? How do we learn to read? Unlike adults, in whose brains most linguisti...

 

Secret Life of the Brain, Episode 3
The Teenage Brain
Subject: Science
Parents who believe teenagers are different from other humans may be comforted to learn that it is literally true. During puberty the brain is a work in progress, teeming with hormones; areas that dir...

 

Secret Life of the Brain, Episode 4
The Adult Brain
Subject: Science
The brain is the seat of both intellect and emotion, and this episode chronicles the critical balance between these processes and explores what happens when the balance is lost. Scientists draw insigh...

 

Secret Life of the Brain, Episode 5
The Aging Brain
Subject: Science
For years, science has suggested that we lose vast numbers of brain cells as we grow older; now it turns out that this is not true -- in fact, healthy brains continue to produce new neurons well into ...

 

Secrets of the Dead: Death at Jamestown
Subject: American History
SECRETS OF THE DEAD: DEATH AT JAMESTOWN explores the settlement of Jamestown as the men and boys onboard the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery sail from London to the distant shores of A...

 

Secrets of the Dead: Killer Flu
Subject: Health & Medicine
Over the centuries, humans have endured many influenza pandemics. Descriptions of the disease in Europe date back to 1100 A.D., and sporadic, isolated outbreaks have likely been occurring for many tho...

 

The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
Subject: American History
Ken Burns portrays 200 years of Shaker life in America, guided by recollections of three surviving members and archival material. Explore every aspect of a strange, noble sect that produced some of th...

 

Silent Epidemic
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Health & Medicine
A silent epidemic is ravaging the nation and killing our kids. In the last 30 years, the suicide rate among teenagers has tripled. A recent survey indicated that 60% of high school students have thoug...

 

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped the Generation
Subject: American History: 20th Century
Traces the events of one of the most turbulent and influential periods of political and cultural change in the 20th century and the powerful impact forced on an entire generation.

 

So Much, So Fast
Series: Frontline
Subject: Health & Medicine
What would you do if you were 29 years old and found out that you only had a few years to live? Stephen Heywood chose to get married, have a child and rebuild two houses while he was slowly losing con...

 

Son of Al Qaeda
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
Growing up in the 1990s, Abdurahman Khadr's playmates were the children of his father's longtime friend, Osama bin Laden. Khadr was raised to be an al Qaeda terrorist, but he ultimately found himself ...

 

Spying on the Home Front
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues
9/11 has indelibly altered America in ways that people are now starting to earnestly question: not only perpetual orange alerts, barricades and body frisks at the airport, but greater government scrut...

 

Stephen Hawking's Universe, Episodes 1 & 2
Seeing is Believing & The Big Bang
Subject: Science
Episode 1: Where did we come from? The history of cosmology from flat earth to Big Bang: Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edwin Hubble. Episode 2: Did the universe have...

 

Stephen Hawking's Universe, Episodes 3 & 4
Cosmic Alchemy & On the Dark Side
Subject: Science
Episode 3: What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars. Episode 4: What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHO...

 

Stephen Hawking's Universe, Episodes 5 & 6
Black Holes and Beyond & An Answer to Everything
Subject: Science
Episode 5: Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities. Episode 6: Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe?...

 

The Storm
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Government, Politics, & Politicians
Examines how and why government at every level -- local, state and federal -- was unprepared, uncoordinated and overwhelmed in dealing with the Hurricane Katrina disaster that devastated the Gulf Coas...

 

The Tank Man
Series: Frontline
Subject: World History
One day after the Chinese army's deadly crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace....

 

Teach Me Different! with Sally L. Smith
The Nature of the Condition & Effective Teaching Methods
Subject: Education
Part 1: Who is the child with learning disabilities and ADHD? This program shows the abilities and disabilities of these children. The abilities include originality, imagination, talent in the arts, l...

 

Teach Me Different! with Sally L. Smith
Prizing Diversity & Problem-solving and Self-advocacy
Subject: Education
Part 3: By prizing diversity, a school embraces differences in students' abilities and learning approaches as well as race, gender, religion, culture, nationality, etc. Teaching styles must also be di...

 

Terry Sanford & The New South
Subject: American History: 20th Century
By February of 1960, Terry Sanford had been working for the better part of a decade to win the governorship of North Carolina. But when four young black men sat down at a Woolworth counter in the city...

 

Time of Fear
Subject: American History: 20th Century, Social & Legal Issues
In World War II, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into relocation camps across the US. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people who were sent to two camps in southeast Arkansas,...

 

The Torture Question
Series: Frontline
Subject: Contemporary Issues, Government, Politics, & Politicians
A FRONTLINE documentary crew made the journey to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Entering the 280-acre compound in the middle of the night, escorted by helicopters and a convoy of armed Humvees, the cr...

 

Truth, War, and Consequences
Series: Frontline
Subject: American History: 20th Century, Military History
Did America rush into a war in Iraq for which it was unprepared? Could the current volatility in Iraq have been prevented? And was the White House's rationale for war based on faulty and exaggerated i...

 

Two Days in October
Series: American Experience
Subject: American History: 20th Century
In October 1967, history turned a corner. In a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion, prompting some in power to question whether the war might be unwinnable. On...

 

Unearthing Secret America
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: American History, Science
Archeologists shed new light on life in colonial America.

 

Victory in the Pacific
Series: American Experience
Subject: Military History, World History
In this provocative, thorough examination of the final months of the war, American Experience looks at the escalation of bloodletting from the vantage points of both the Japanese and the Americans. As...

 

Voyage to the Galapagos
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Science
Alan Alda follows in Charles Darwin's footsteps, meeting the animals and birds that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution. Alda joins scientists who witness the daily struggle for survival that has sh...

 

The War that Made America, Episodes 1 & 2
A Country Between & Unlikely allies
Subject: American History, Military History
Covers an important but often misunderstood period of American history - a period that set in motion forces that would culminate in the American Revolution. It tells the story of the French and Indian...

 

The War that Made America, Episodes 3 & 4
Turning the Tide & Unintended Consequences
Subject: American History, Military History
Covers an important but often misunderstood period of American history - a period that set in motion forces that would culminate in the American Revolution. It tells the story of the French and Indian...

 

Watergate Plus 30
Subject: American History: 20th Century, Government, Politics, & Politicians
What lessons has America learned from Watergate? Three decades after an infamous break-in helped topple President Richard Nixon, all the facts are still not in. But as this documentary shows, Watergat...

 

The Way West, Episode 1
Westward, the Course of Empire Takes its Way
Series: American Experience
Subject: American History
How the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West was settled, subdued, exploited and incorporat...

 

The Way West, Episode 2
The Approach of Civilization
Series: American Experience
Subject: American History
How the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West was settled, subdued, exploited and incorporat...

 

The Way West, Episode 3
The War for the Black Hills
Series: American Experience
Subject: American History
How the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West was settled, subdued, exploited and incorpora...

 

The Way West, Episode 4
Ghost Dance
Series: American Experience
Subject: American History
How the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West was settled, subdued, exploited and incorporat...

 

Willa Cather: The Road is All
Series: American Masters
Subject: The Arts, Biography
In 1883, the young Cather was plucked from her luxurious home in Virginia and dropped into the tall grass prairies of Nebraska, an experience that exhilarated her and became the force behind all of he...

 

Worried Sick
Series: Scientific American Frontiers
Subject: Health & Medicine
The 'fight or flight' response to stress once helped us evade predators, but its long term effects can get us into an different kind of trouble - ill health.