THIRTEEN is partnering with these bookstores, libraries and book festivals in New York and New Jersey to put readers on the same pages of the wide-ranging Great American Read. Continue reading
Four free screening days at the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center feature American Masters films and talkbacks with their filmmakers. The documentaries focus on acclaimed writers: Harper Lee, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Louisa May Alcott. Continue reading
This week and on National Streaming Day (May 20, 2018), see the best programs on THIRTEEN, streaming anywhere, anytime here and on our THIRTEEN Explore apps. Continue reading
The series Jamestown centers on three women who are bound to marry the men who paid for their passage to the English colony in Virginia. Here’s a look at some real wives in the first permanent English colony in the New World. Continue reading
If the one thing that can tear you away from reading a book is a great show about literature, then get your bookmark ready for a new eight-part series about the power of books and the joy of reading. The…
The mother of public television, WNET, has a mother lode of premieres in May, including NOVA’s Wonder series on the frontiers of science; The Great American Read; and Little Women on Masterpiece. Continue reading
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) provides funding to all public broadcasting, including THIRTEEN. Watch the most famous defense of its funding, by Fred Rogers of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. Continue reading
Watch the Emmy Award-winning documentary from THIRTEEN’s Public Broadcasting Laboratory series in 1968, which aired days after Dr. King’s assassination. Continue reading
The Great American Read is a new television series launching on PBS stations with a two-hour special event on Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. Hosted by journalist Meredith Vieira, the eight-part series will take viewers on a journey…
To Kill a Mockingbird is among the 100 novels on The Great American Read’s list of America’s Best-Loved Books. This reading guide directs attention to the issues and themes in the the classic story by Harper Lee. Continue reading
The public will vote on America’s Best-Loved Novel as part of The Great American Read series beginning Tuesday, May 22 at 8 p.m. See and download the list of novels here. Continue reading
The Friends of THIRTEEN are partnering with Westport Public Library in Westport, Connecticut, to promote The Great American Read. The Friends will have a booth at the Library’s Maker Faire on Saturday, April 21, to promote The Great American Read,…
See the best of what public television has to offer, free to stream anywhere, anytime. The Roads to Memphis examines the paths of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his killer. Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Child in Time. Continue reading
Joseph Louw, on assignment for the public television network NET, was the only photographer on the scene at the time of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Continue reading
This April showers you with vernally verdant viewing vis à vis Mother Earth. Continue reading
