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A roundup of all streaming video online from PBS and Thirteen programs that aired last week. See the list of all full episodes and full segments.
Endangered species protections were removed from the Yellowstone grizzly bear population in April 2007. Read an update on the plight of the bears, including the damage that delisting the bears has done. You can also watch the full episode online.
Ken Tadashi Oshima, assistant professor of architecture at the U. of Washington, speaks on the potentials of prefab in Japan; Rasmus Waern, Swedish architect and architectural historian, speaks on prefab as a model of society in the Nordic countries. Watch lectures and panel discussion.
History Detectives
“Birth of a Surgeon” travels to Mozambique where midwives are being trained in advanced life-saving surgery. With an acute shortage of doctors, Mozambique has launched initiatives that have cut the maternal death rate in half. The film aired July 15th, watch it online now.
From “The Gates” in Central Park to “Tribute in Light” at the World Trade Center site, public art has provoked a variety of intense reactions from New Yorkers and brought millions of visitors to the city. Watch the documentary about public art in NYC, including Olafur Eliasson’s “The Waterfalls.”
Correspondent Rick Karr travels to the neighborhood hit harder by mortgage foreclosures than any other in the nation, in Cleveland, Ohio. Then, veteran journalist William Greider on the current financial crisis and what he calls “the great deflation of Wall Street.”
Neil Young’s one-of-a-kind voice and outspoken political opinions made him a music legend. Last week, he sat down with Charlie Rose to discuss his recent tour with CSNY, his despair about the war in Iraq, and his dedication to, as he puts it, his “boss” — inspiration.
Shot in 1959, “Broadway Express” is a portrait of New York City’s diverse population, as captured in the city’s subways during the evening rush hour and late at night. Watch this film, and others, at REEL NY online. Reel NY also airs Fridays at 12:30am on Thirteen.
