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See PBS’ Peabody-Winning Documentaries Online
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

The Peabodys were awarded June 16, and PBS programming and WNET had a number of winners, some of which are viewable in their entirety online. See list and links below…

FRONTLINE: Cheney’s Law
Full episode online.
In a strongly-researched and reported hour that sometimes played like a political thriller, this episode of Frontline traced the Bush Administration’s expansion of Presidental wartime powers to a determined, secretive campaign by the Vice President, stretching back 3 decades.

NOVA Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
Full episode online.
From Peabody site: “The centerpiece of this thoughtful, topical edition of NOVA was the recreation, verbatim, of key testimony and argument from a six-week trial in Pennsylvania that served as a crash course in modern evolutionary theory, the evidence for evolution and the nature of science.”

Design Squad

watch all episodes online.
A design competition tv show for teenage and pre-teenage students.

NATURE: Silence of the Bees
Full episode online here, and a related site contains updates to the story and more about the issue.
“The first in-depth investigation of an alarming, world-wide die-off of honeybees, this documentary underscored the critical role of these pollinators to our food supply and surveyed the forensics that have yet to solve the mystery.”

Craft in America: Memory, Landscape and Community (pic above)
About 40 video segments and craft demonstrations watchable online; also some nice online galleries of the work.
This three-hour documentary about “weaving, quilting, woodworking and other craft art was as carefully wrought and as beautifully shot as its subject matter.”

Art:21 – Art in the 21st Century ‘Protest’ Episode
On this site, click through artists’ names to get to video interviews and segments by/about the four artists featured.

Independent Lens: Billy Strayhorn – Lush Life
See video of Elvis Costello, Hank Jones, others performing Strayhorn.

Independent Lens: Sisters in Law
Viewers are “flies on the wall of a small-town courthouse in Cameroon overseen by two dynamic, wisecracking, larger-than-life sisters – one the court’s president, the other its state prosecutor – who are helping women stand up to abuse.” Very little video online, but read more about the film here.

One Response to “See PBS’ Peabody-Winning Documentaries Online”

  1. Patricia Grimm says:

    Quilting is a huge industry, even now in these tough times. There used to be a quilting show on cable, but the show host stopped doing the show. There is a show called “Fons and Porter” I believe out of Iowa. How about picking up a quilt show for PBS?

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