A roundup of all streaming, full-length videos online from PBS and Thirteen programs that aired last week. See the list below for all full episodes and links.
Auctioneer and appraiser Wes Cowan (left) talks to Michael Kudravetz in a scene from History Detectives
News and Public Affairs: Nightly Programs:
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: The reports, segmented by story, per day.
Nightly Business Report: The reports stream online.
NJN News: The reports stream online for one week (see archives M-Tu-W-Th-F).
Worldfocus:The nightly news show streams online for 15 days; signature stories are online forever.
Charlie Rose:
June 29: A discussion about Bernard Madoff with New York Times journalist Diana Henriques, and Dominic Ambrosino and Ronnie Sue Ambrosino, two of Madoff’s financial victims; former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.
June 30: Former Senator Tom Daschle; New York Times columnist Paul Krugman; NBC News correspondent Richard Engle.
July 1: A talk about cyberwarfare with former Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent David Sanger and CSIS Director, Technology and Public Policy Program James Lewis; a discussion on the play Mary Stuart with actresses Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter.
July 2: Author Richard Wolffe; film director Guillermo del Toro.
July 3: Founder of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation Peter Peterson.
Tavis Smiley:
June 29: Motown Records founder Berry Gordy.
June 30: Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West; Georgetown University professor Dr. Michael Eric Dyson.
July 1: New York Times journalist Roger Cohen; actress Shohreh Aghdashloo.
July 2: Actor Bill Pullman; director of litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) Debo Adegbile.
July 3: New Yorker writer Jane Mayer; author Malina Saval.
News and Public Affairs: Weekly Programs:
Washington Week: U.S. combat troops pull out of Iraq; Democratic majorities and President Obama; Al Franken becomes Minnesota’s U.S. Senator; the Supreme Court ruling on firefighters.
NOW on PBS: The issues and questions surrounding a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border used to impede illegal immigration.
Bill Moyers Journal: A conversation about faith and social justice with Cornell West, Gary Dorrien and Serene Jones; hunger in America.
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly:
- Faith Communities and Disability: This segment explores the issues surrounding the inclusion of people with disabilities in faith communities.
- Aravind Eye Hospital: A profile of a eye care hospital in India who services poor patients.
- Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton: An interview with the senior minister of New York’s Riverside Church.
- Rev. Francisco Marrero Gutierrez: The head of the Presbyterian Reformed Church in Cuba calls for the lifting of the U.S. trade embargo on his country.
Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack: A conversation with Bill Gross, founder and co-CIO of PIMCO, who runs the largest bond fund.
Caucus New Jersey: Breaking Down Barriers. This program deals with how loved ones and friends deal with the challenges and struggles when a child has special needs. Part two.
New York Now: An interview with Paul Elisha, former executive director of Common Cause, on reform legislation. Online for one week only.
News and Public Affairs:
Wide Angle: Crossing Heaven’s Border. This documentary tells the stories of North Korean defectors who made the arduous journey to China for freedom.
Science and Nature:
NOVA: Musical Minds. Neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks explores the brain’s power to recognize music, and how music is being used as a form of therapy for patients with neurological disorders. Available for online viewing through July 7.
NOVAscienceNOW: Diamond factory; anthrax investigation; auto-tune; a profile of Luis von Ahn.
History:
Antiques Roadshow: Tampa, FL-Hour Three
History Detectives: Manhattan Project patent; galleon shipwreck; Creole poems.
Arts and Culture:
Masterpiece Mystery!: Miss Marple Series IV: A Pocketful of Rye. Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie) investigates the death of businessman Rex Fortescue, with the only clue being a grain of rye found on him. Part one of four. Available for online viewing through July 19.
Masterpiece Mystery!: Poirot: Mrs. McGinty’s Dead. Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is on the case to save a man from execution for murder. Available for online viewing through July 12.
D.I.Y.:
Jacques Pepin:More Fast Food My Way: Seafood Tricks. Eggs and anchovies; baked clams madison; cod in olive-tomato crust; skilled broccoli bits; mango with nutella sauce.
