Filmmaker Daniel Junge on his latest documentary: about Sister Dorothy Stang, a Catholic nun who was killed on a muddy road in the Brazilian Amazon she worked tirelessly to save. Watch story.
Described by Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant producer Charles Hobson as one of the program’s “most-requested pieces”, this video features the Leroi Jones Young Spirit House Movers and Players delivering a jaw-droppingly powerful spoken-word performance. Watch now.
Soul! was a spectacular NET production that aired from 1968-1973. We’ll be putting up as many episodes as we can from the program–we’re up to six episodes so far. Watch Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Tito Puente, Ashford & Simpson, Earth, Wind & Fire, and many more on the show.
A hip-hop enthusiast from New York City had always heard that 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx is the birthplace of hip-hop. History Detectives investigates! Watch now.
My American Girls poignantly documents a year of the lives of the Ortiz family, first-generation immigrants from the Dominican Republic. The hard-working parents pursue the American Dream, and their American-born daughters hold a different set of values. Watch online through April 2, 2009. (originally aired: 2002)
91-year-old Howie ‘Louie Bluie’ Armstrong has two great loves: his music and artist Barbara Ward. Watch “Sweet Old Song”, about these two creative forces’ collaboration–their lives. The film, which aired on P.O.V. in 2002, will be streaming in its entirety from March 2, 2009 to May 2, 2009.
The documentary film American Aloha is a celebration of Hawaiian culture symbolized by the hula dance, centering on three master hula teachers in the Hawaiian communities of California. Watch online through March 7, 2009. (originally aired: 2003)
Students of New York’s literary history ought to be familiar with our latest location, the Fulton Ferry Hotel. Joseph Mitchell, author, immortalized the building in his 1952 New Yorker story, “Up in the Old Hotel.” Much of the hotel remains as Mitchell found it. Watch now.
Starting in 1968, Detroit public TV station WTVS produced an African-American news/public affairs show called Colored People’s Time (CPT). The show’s mission was to build more community involvement among Detroit’s largely African-American urban population. Watch segments from the show….
Forty years ago, 400,000 people made their home within Bedford-Stuyvesant’s three square miles. But Bed-Stuy became synonymous with crime and poverty when the mainstream media focused on urban unrest during the ’60s. One television show decided to change all that. Read more….
