This documentary follows the lives of nine young people in China over the last 4 years, and how changes in China have affected them. Watch entire episode online here.
The Peabodys were awarded June 16, and PBS and WNET had a number of winners, many of which are viewable in their entirety online. See list and links here…
Bill Moyers Journal analyzes the growing inequality gap on the ground at a workers march in Los Angeles and with historian Steve Fraser on the modern parallels to the first Gilded Age. Watch full episode online.
On the last night of a 4,000-mile voyage across the Atlantic, the Andrea Doria luxury liner was broadsided by the 13,000-ton Stockholm in a freak accident that imperiled more than 1,700 passengers and crew. Watch online.
The New York Times reported yesterday that the The Los Angeles Times has made plans to transfer control of its monthly magazine from its newsroom to its business operations and replace their magazine’s entire editorial staff. And, this past month, the Chicago Tribune joined other major newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial [...]
In 1876, after 8 years of incarceration in Western Australia, 6 Irish political prisoners escaped on board the American whaler Catalpa. Watch the voyage on Secrets of the Dead.
In July 2005, a secret warehouse archive of much-feared National Police was discovered, documenting the 30 years of state-sponsored violence against the country’s indigenous population during the country’s civil war. A California tech company is helping to sift through the papers to see if they will reveal what happened to more than 45,000 Guatemalans detained [...]
Whitman, America’s poet, was born on this day in 1819. See a few programs that have aired on PBS in the past, watchable online.
This particularly good Bill Moyers Essay examines why so many of our public servants in the highest levels of the Bush Administration have resigned or been forced to resign in the last few years. Watch the entire segment or read the transcript here….
Most rock stars don’t sing about sanitation. But, born and raised in Niassa, one of the poorest places on earth, musician Feliciano Dos Santos wrote the hit, “Wash Your Hands,” in order to help people and stop the spread of disease in the region. Read more and see video story….
