The 29th Annual Emmy Awards for News & Documentary were announced July 15, 2008. Among the nominees, many productions from WNET/Thirteen and PBS. Watch some of the nominees online.

Story Nominees (different types), with Online Full-Length Video:

Bill Moyers Journal:
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
With the noose and the lynching tree entering the national discussion in the wake of recent news events, Bill Moyers interviews theologian James Cone about how these powerful images relate to the symbol of the cross and how they signify both tragedy and triumph.
Buying the War
Four years ago on May 1, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln and delivered a speech in front of a giant “Mission Accomplished” banner. Despite profound questions and the increasing violence in Baghdad, many in the press confirmed the White House’s claim that the war was won. How did they get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 continue to go largely unreported?

Exposé: America’s Investigative Reports, In a Small Town
Part 1
Part 2
A small-town reporter unearths a long-buried secret within the local Boy Scouts, leading to a pedophile scandal that rocks a community.

FRONTLINE:
Gangs of Iraq
Can America build a truly national Iraqi army and police force to staunch the violence? A hard, on-the-ground look at the multibillion dollar training effort that is a centerpiece of the U.S. exit strategy.
The Undertaking
Thomas Lynch, 58, is a writer and a poet. He’s also a funeral director in a small town in central Michigan where he and his family have cared for the dead — and the living — for three generations. Lynch agreed to allow Frontline inside Lynch & Sons, from funeral arrangements to the embalming room, for this film.

FRONTLINE/World:
Afghanistan: The Other War
FRONTLINE/World correspondent Sam Kiley reports from the frontlines of the conflict, where dual battles are being fought to win the trust of the Afghan people and combat the extremists living among them. In the film, Kiley and his crew are granted unprecedented access to the outgoing British NATO commander, Gen. David Richards, who led 37,000 troops from 37 countries.
Dubai: Night Secrets
Known as the Las Vegas of the Persian Gulf, Dubai is a boomtown where men outnumber women three to one. Prostitution is illegal but rampant. Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova goes undercover to investigate.
Moscow’s Sex and the City
Traveling to Moscow, filmmaker and FRONTLINE/World reporter Victoria Gamburg introduces us to the fictional characters and the stars of Russia’s popular TV series, Balzac Age, and reveals how the show compares with the real-life experiences of single women making a life for themselves in Moscow.

The Mysterious Human Heart:
All three episodes watchable online.
About the heart: how it works, what can go wrong with it, and how we treat it. The three-hour series follows the stories of men and women, young and old, whose hearts have led them to a brush with mortality. The series explores the most common misconceptions about this unique organ, and documents scientific and medical discoveries that have given us new insights into the best ways to prevent and treat heart disease.

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer:
Political Turmoil, Margaret Warner in Pakistan
NewsHour correspondent Margaret Warner traveled to Pakistan to explore the politics of beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf, the country’s complicated ties with the United States, and its extremist elements.
A Silent War, A Violent Peace: Uganda’s Child Soldiers
The Ugandan government and the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, which have been mired in civil war for more than 21 years, agreed to resume peace talks Thursday. A report explores international attempts to end the conflict.

NOW on PBS:
Child Brides: Stolen Lives
In an hour-long special report, NOW takes an unprecedented inside look at a global custom that devastates girls’ lives and holds back communities.

General Award Nominations NOT streaming online:

P.O.V.:
Libby, Montana
Made in L.A.
Rain in a Dry Land
49 Up
Following Sean

America at a Crossroads:
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Explores the firsthand accounts of American servicemen and women through their own words. The film is built upon a project created by the NEA to gather the writing of servicemen and women and their families who have participated in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (many video clips online)
JIHAD: The Men and Ideas behind Al Qaeda
An in-depth look at modern, radical Islamic groups, this film explores the ideas and beliefs that inspire them, along with the challenges they pose for governments in the Middle East and the West. (many video clips online)

Independent Lens:
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Sentenced Home

Emmy Nods for Writing:

Nature:
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In the winter of 2006, without a trace, millions of bees vanished from their hives, leaving billions of dollars of crops at risk and potentially threatening our food supply. The epidemic set researchers scrambling to discover why honeybees were dying in record numbers. Full documentary online.

P.O.V:
Following Sean
Following Sean (clips online)

Emmy Nods for Research:

Nature:
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In the winter of 2006, without a trace, millions of bees vanished from their hives, leaving billions of dollars of crops at risk and potentially threatening our food supply. The epidemic set researchers scrambling to discover why honeybees were dying in record numbers. Full documentary online.

NOVA:
Forgotten Genius
Against all odds, African-American chemist Percy Julian became one of the great scientists of the 20th century. Full documentary online.

American Experience:
The Living Weapon
This American Experience production examines the international race to develop biological weapons in the 1940s and 1950s, revealing the scientific and technical challenges scientists faced and the moral dilemmas posed by their eventual success. Full documentary online.

Cinematography:

NATURE:
Sharkland
In SHARKLAND, you’ll be introduced to many of these unique animals, including the catsharks of the Agulhas Bank a 155-mile-wide stretch of shallow warm seas off the southeastern tip of the continent, Southern Africa’s richest fishing grounds. You’ll also explore nature’s most extreme sharks - the fastest, fiercest, smallest, and strongest - and discover the innovative adaptations that have made the Great White such an efficient killing machine. (clips online)
Silence of the Bees
In the winter of 2006, without a trace, millions of bees vanished from their hives, leaving billions of dollars of crops at risk and potentially threatening our food supply. The epidemic set researchers scrambling to discover why honeybees were dying in record numbers. Full documentary online.

America at a Crossroads:
Faith without Fear
Through a new lens, Irshad Manji, a Muslim, takes a journey to reconcile her faith in Allah with her love of freedom. Along the way, she reveals the personal risks — emotional and physical — that come with such an urgent mission. (many video clips online)

Craft in America:
Landscape
The second episode considers the physical landscape, as well as the political and social influences on artists, and how they translate into the objects they make. (video clips online)

Emmy Nods for Editing:

Nature: Silence of the Bees
In the winter of 2006, without a trace, millions of bees vanished from their hives, leaving billions of dollars of crops at risk and potentially threatening our food supply. The epidemic set researchers scrambling to discover why honeybees were dying in record numbers. Full episode online.

NOVA:
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
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. Full documentary online.

Emmy Nods for Graphic Design:

Curious: Survival
Artificial retinas, cancer cure, fuel cells, solar energy. Full episode online.

NOVA ScienceNOW:
all episodes online.

Music and Sound:

America at a Crossroads:
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Explores the firsthand accounts of American servicemen and women through their own words. The film is built upon a project created by the NEA to gather the writing of servicemen and women and their families who have participated in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (many video clips online)

Craft in America
clips only online.

Independent Lens:
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life

Lighting:

NOVA:
Forgotten Genius
Against all odds, African-American chemist Percy Julian became one of the great scientists of the 20th century. Full documentary online.