Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 Program 7 Program 8 Program 9 Program 10 Program 11 Program 12 Program 13 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WNET/13, New York, NY AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Four Emmy awards, eleven Emmy nominations,
1976;sixteen Emmy nominations, 1977; George Foster Peabody Award; Virgin
Islands International Film Festival, First Prize, Television Category;
Ohio State Bicentennial Award
PRINT MATERIAL: Teacher, Viewer, and Study Guides no longer available
FORMAT: 16mm DISTRIBUTOR: Indiana
University, Audio-Visual Center
Based on their correspondence, this nine-part series presents the
life-long personal and political relationship between John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Adams-Jefferson Project of Carleton College,
Carleton College, Northfield, MN PRINT MATERIAL: Study Guide available
FORMAT: Audiocassette DISTRIBUTOR: Adams-Jefferson
Project of Carleton College
Based on the television series of the same name, the radio program is
rooted in the history of slavery and its impact on Americans, black and
white, in the struggle to forge a new nation. The themes of freedom,
national identity, inclusion/exclusion, leadership and resistance, and
sense of personal worth are one which are still being grappled with. The
series takes a hard look at our shared history and links current events to
their historical roots in a way that informs and enriches the national
discussion of what it means to be an American. AWARDS/FESTIVALS: The segment on "Science and Race" by NPR's Frank
Browning won the CPB Gold Medal 1998. PRODUCTION ORGANZATION: Blackside, Inc, Boston, MA
AWARD: CINE Golden Eagle
PRINT MATERIAL: Study guide available through The American
Experience, WNET-TV, 357 West 58th Street, New York, NY l00l9, attn:
Robert Miller
FORMAT: Video (51:30)
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Daedalus Productions, Inc., New York,
NY AWARDS: American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon; U.S. Film
Festival, Special Jury Prize; CINE Golden Eagle; Baltimore Film Festival,
First Prize; National Educational Film and Video Festival, First Prize;
Columbus (OH) International Film Festival, Chris Statuette; International
Documentary Association, Exceptional Creative Achievement;
Booklist, Nonprint Editor's Choice (American Library Association)
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema
Guild, Inc.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Media Study Inc., Buffalo, NY AWARDS: American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; CINE Golden
Eagle
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Direct
Cinema Limited
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Cabin Creek Center for Work and Environmental
Studies, New York, NY AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Academy Award, Best Documentary Feature; Sundance
Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and Filmmakers Trophy;
San Francisco Film Festival, Golden Gate Award, Current Events Category;
American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; Baltimore Film Competition,
Governor's Citation; New York Film Festival, premiere; U.S.A. (Dallas)
Film Festival; AFI/L.A. Film Festival; Cleveland International Film
Festival
FORMAT: 35mm, 16mm, Video
DISTRIBUTOR: Cabin Creek
Center for Work and Environmental Studies
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: World News Institute, Great Falls, VA PRINT MATERIAL: Program transcripts available
FORMAT: Video DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Center for New American Media, New York,
NY AWARDS/FESTIVALS: George Foster Peabody Journalism Award; CINE Golden
Eagle; American Film and Video Festival, Finalist; The Margaret Mead Film
Festival; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Silver Apple
PRINT MATERIAL: Study Guide and brochure available
FORMAT: Video (two versions, 56:00 and 40:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: New Day
Films
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Pacific Street Film Projects, Inc., Brooklyn,
NY AWARD: Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Plaque
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema
Guild, Inc.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: NET (National Educational Television), New
York, NY FORMAT: 16mm (59:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Indiana
University, Audio-Visual Center
Annie Oakley personified the vanished Old West for millions of
Americans—but she more accurately represents her nation in the years when
she was a great star, from the mid-1880s through the early 1900s. The
United States in the late Victorian age was a country caught between the
disappearing frontier and the emerging machine age. Americans were full of
nostalgia for the past, particularly the Wild West. But they lived in a
country where twentieth-century technology was roaring in—a country that
was home to a movement crusading for women's rights and other progressive
causes. Oakley was a star sharpshooter of the Wild West Shows, which were
the most popular form of live entertainment in the United States in the
last quarter of the nineteenth-century. Many Americans in her day believed
that the Old West had been the most "American" place—eliminating
distinctions of wealth, fostering honesty, courage, hard work, and
self-sufficiency. In a time of massive immigration, industrialization,
overcrowding and rampant disease in Eastern cities, the Wild West Shows
flourished because they were a way of looking backward. Most people have
seen Oakley as either a determined feminist or the woman who gave up
everything to stand by her man, like the fictionalized version of her in
the musical Annie Get Your Gun. But the real Annie Oakley was
more complicated. She was a superb athlete and consummate entertainer, yet
strove always to be seen as a genteel Victorian lady. She advocated
increased independence for women—yet was a staunch opponent of women's
suffrage. Today many believe that Annie Oakley is a mythical character.
Her real life was entirely overshadowed by the legend. Annie
Oakley now reveals the authentic Annie Oakley—a genuinely complicated
person whose many contradictions mirrored her times. PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Silvercloud Video Productions, Inc., Tucson,
AZ FORMAT: Video (59:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Silvercloud
Video Productions, Inc.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WETA-TV, Washington, DC AWARDS/FESTIVALS: The "Chris" Awards; Columbus International Film &
Video Festival—Bronze Plaque; The New York Festival—Bronze Medal, August
1996; National Black Programmers Consortium—Best Historical Documentary
PRINT MATERIAL: Press kit
FORMAT: Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: California
Newsreel
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Riverside Productions, New York, NY AWARDS: George Foster Peabody Award
PRINT MATERIAL: Arguing the World : The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words
by Joseph Dorman FORMAT: Video (60:50)
DISTRIBUTOR: First
Run Features
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The National Council of La Raza, Washington,
DC FESTIVALS: Santa Fe Film Festival; Telluride Film Festival; Mill Valley
(CA) Film Festival
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: available in video stores or contact Moctezuma
Esparza
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 Program 7 Program 8 Program 9 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: WETA, Washington, DC and Florentine Films,
Walpole, NH AWARDS/FESTIVALS: CINE Golden Eagle; Telluride Film Festival; New York
Festival Competition, Gold Medal; Parents' Choice Award; Best of the Year
lists in Time, People, and TV Guide; Emmy, Best
Information Series; Clarion Award
PRINT MATERIALS: Companion book, Baseball: An illustrated
History, by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns (Knopf, 1994); Teacher's
Guide and classroom materials; three children's books, Twenty Five
Great Moments by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns with S.A. Kramer;
Shadow Ball: The History of the Negro League by Geoffrey C. Ward
and Ken Burns with Jim O'Connor; Who Invented the Game? by Geoffrey
C. Ward and Ken Burns with Paul Robert Walker (all Knopf, 1994); book on
tape (read by Ken Burns); music soundtrack (CD and tape); etc.
FORMAT: Video, 9 programs (from 107 to 151 minutes each)
DISTRIBUTORS:
This eight-part series presents the lives of three fictional families,
each typifying a different social, ethnic, and economic segment of New
York City in the 1880s and 1890s.
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 Program 7 Program 8 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Children's Television Workshop, New York,
NY FORMAT: Video DISTRIBUTOR: Indiana
University, Audio-Visual Center
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 Program 7 Program 8 Program 9 Program 10 Program 11 Program 12 Program 13 Program 14 Program 15 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Bill of Rights Educational Radio Project,
Berkeley, CA AWARDS: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, First Place, Best
Documentary (Program 2); CPB, First Place, Best Documentary (Program10);
CPB, Second Place, Best Documentary (Program 14); San Francisco State
University, School of Broadcast Communications Award, (the series);
National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Golden Reel Award (the
series); NFCB, First Place Award (for the 3-minute module programs) CPB,
First Place Award (Bicentennial edition of the series)
FORMAT: Audiocassette DISTRIBUTOR: Pacifica
Program Service/Radio Archive
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Vermont Public Radio, Windsor, VT FORMAT: Audiocassette (30:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: South Carolina Educational Television Network,
Columbia, SC FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: South
Carolina Educational Television Marketing
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Department of Records and Information, New
York, NY AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Academy Award nomination, Best Documentary Feature;
CINE Golden Eagle; American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; Selected
for MOMA/New Directors; FILMEX (Los Angeles); Chicago International Film
Festival, Certificate of Merit; Christopher Award; Organization of
American Historians, Erik Barnouw Award (for outstanding historical
documentary); Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy, Special Mention
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (two versions, 58:00 and 39:00; the shorter version
focuses on the history and building of the bridge)
DISTRIBUTOR: Direct
Cinema Limited
Long before Martin Luther King, Jr., became a national figure Bayard
Rustin routinely put his body—and his life—on the line as a crusader for
racial and economic justice. Rustin's commitment to pacifism and his
visionary advocacy of Gandhian nonviolence made him a civil rights pioneer
in the 1940s and an important advisor to King in the 50s and 60s. In 1963,
Rustin brought his unique skills to the crowning glory of his civil rights
career: his work organizing the historic March on Washington, the biggest
protest America had ever witnessed. But in the fiercely homophobic era of
the 40s and 50s, Rustin was also seen as a political liability. As an
openly gay man, he was frequently shunned by the very civil rights
movement he helped create. Brother Outsider chronicles Rustin's
complex 60-year career as an activist for peace, racial and economic
justice, and international human rights. PRINT MATERIALS: Press kit available from Question Why Films; classroom
guide available at http://www.rustin.org/ and from the
distributor AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Sundance Film Festival 2003; Audience Award for Best
Feature, New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2003; Audience Award in
Documentary: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Indianapolis
Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals, 2003; Documentary Award, Turin Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival 2003, Documentary First Prize, Rhode Island Film
Festival 2003; Best Documentary Feature, Cinequest Film Festival 2003;
Documentary Award, Athens International Film Festival 2003 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Simon & Goodman Picture Company, New York,
NY AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Sundance Film Festival; DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton
Award for Independent Programming; Emmy Award Nomination; Festival Du
Nouveau Cinema, Montreal; Sydney Film Festival
PRINT MATERIAL/WEBSITE: www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fuller_b.html
FORMAT: Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Zeitgeist
Films, Ltd.
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 Program 7 Program 8 Program 9 Program 10 Program 11 Program 12 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WBFO-FM, Buffalo, NY FORMAT: Audiocassette DISTRIBUTOR: Pacifica
Program Service/Radio Archive (ask for NFCB 5555-NFCB 5583)
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco,
CA FORMAT: 16mm (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Mass
Productions
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WRFK, Richmond, VA FORMAT: Cassette, Reel to Reel DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 Program 7 Program 8 Program 9 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: WETA, Washington, DC, and Florentine Films,
Walpole, NH AWARDS/FESTIVALS: George Foster Peabody Award; The Lincoln Prize,
Lincoln and Soldiers Institute, Gettysburg College, PA; The People's
Choice Award, America's Favorite Miniseries; Television Producer of the
Year Award, Producers Guild of America, Documentary Category; Christopher
Award; CINE Golden Eagle; Telluride Film Festival; Museum of Broadcasting,
Special Honor; National Board of Review, D.W. Griffith Award for Best
Television Miniseries; Dartmouth College Film Award; Civil War Round
Table, Bell I. Wiley Award; Clarion Award; National Emmy (two); Angel
Award, Best TV Miniseries of the Year; Advancement of Learning through
Broadcasting Award, National Education Association; National Educational
Film & Video Festival, Silver Apple; American Film & Video
Festival, Blue Ribbon; Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University Awards,
Silver Baton, Independent Television Productions; British Academy of Film
and Television, Best Foreign Television Show; Grammy Award for Best Spoken
Word or Nonmusical Album; Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album
PRINT MATERIAL: Educational materials (Teacher's Guide, etc.) available
from Tel-Ed, Inc., 7449 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046
FORMAT: Video DISTRIBUTORS: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Center for Educational Telecommunications
Inc., and Vox Productions, San Francisco, CA SPECIAL SCREENINGS: Smithsonian Institution; U.S. Congress
FORMAT: Video (101:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Vox
Productions
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Coney Island Film Project and City Lore, New
York, NY AWARDS: Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Hugo; Sundance Film
Festival; CINE Golden Eagle; Time Magazine, "Best of 1991
Television"; Organization of American Historians, Erik Barnouw Award
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (two versions, 67:00 and 52:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Radio America, Washington, DC PRINT MATERIAL: Book version available through Jameson Books, Ottawa,
IL
FORMAT: Audiocassette DISTRIBUTOR: Radio
America
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Rattlesnake Productions, Missoula, MT AWARD: American Film and Video Festival, John Grierson Award
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Direct
Cinema Limited
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Center for Visual Communication, Philadelphia,
PA FORMAT: 16mm, Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: The
Pennsylvania State University, Audio Visual Services
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The American Dialogues Foundation, Glendale,
CA FORMAT: Audiocassette (50:00-55:00 each)
DISTRIBUTOR: The
Hollywood Theater of the Ear
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Great Projects Film Company, Inc., New York,
NY FORMAT: Video (120:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
Video
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: KCET, Los Angeles, CA AWARDS: Ohio State Award; Houston Film Festival, Silver Award
FORMAT: Video (120:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: KCET
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 Program 7 Program 8 Program 9 Program 10 Program 11 Program 12 Program 13 Program 14 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: National Radio Theatre, Chicago, IL FORMAT: Audiocassette DISTRIBUTOR: Pacifica
Program Service/Radio Archive
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Center for Contemporary Media, Inc., Atlanta,
GA AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Plaque;
National Educational Film and Video Festival, Bronze Apple
FORMAT: Video (two versions, 88:00 and 58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: New Day
Films
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Steeplechase Films, Inc., New York, NY AWARDS/SCREENINGS: National Emmy Nomination, Outstanding Achievement in
a Craft/Directing and Writing; National Board of Review, D.W.Griffith
Award; Peabody Broadcasting Award; Western Heritage Awards Competition,
National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Outstanding Documentary; CINE Golden Eagle;
National Educational Film and Video Festival, Silver Apple; Booklist, Top
of the List; Telluride Film Festival; The Aspen Filmfest; International
Documentary Film Festival (Los Angeles); Denver, Mountainfilm, and Great
Plains Film Festivals; Western History Conference/California Historical
Society (Sacramento, CA and Laramie, WY); Alliance Française (NYC);
Channel Four/Britain
FORMAT: Video (84:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Florentine Films/Hott Productions,
Haydenville, MA PRINT MATERIAL: WETA: Press kit, Study Guide, Poster
AWARDS: George Foster Peabody Award
FORMAT: Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Films
for the Humanities and Sciences
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston,
MA AWARDS: Christopher Award; Chicago International Film Festival,
Certificate of Merit; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold
Apple
FORMAT: Video (150:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Ambrica Productions, Inc., Waltham, MA FORMAT: Video (160:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
Video
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: James Agee Film Project, Johnson City,
TN AWARDS/FESTIVALS: American Film and Video Festival, Finalist; National
Emmy nomination, Public Affairs Documentary; FILMEX (Los Angeles);
American Film Festival; Leipzig Film Festival; U.S. Film Festival;
American Studies Association; Filmex; Museum of Modern Art; The Kennedy
Center
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: James Agee
Film Project Library
Emma Goldman (1869–1940) was an exceedingly outspoken woman who spent
three decades in the United States battling political and social
injustice. In the eyes of some, she was the most dangerous woman in
America. To others, she was an uncompromising voice for freedom. Goldman
was an old-school soapboxer, pamphleteer, writer and publisher. She
condemned capitalism, advocated the ideology of anarchism, was accused of
fomenting the assassination of President William McKinley, crusaded for
birth control, and led a campaign to oppose the draft during World War I
that landed her in prison and paved the way to her deportation from the
United States in 1919. "Her name was enough in those days to produce a
shudder," said Margaret Anderson, a close friend of Goldman and the
publisher the avant-garde magazine The Little Review. "She was
considered "a monster, an exponent of free love and bombs." PRINT MATERIAL: Copies of publicity materials are available from
American Experience (WGBH Boston). See also the American
Experience website pbs.org/amex/goldman for more
information on the film. PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Florentine Films, NH, in association with
WETA, Washington, DC FORMAT: Video (116:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
Video
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston,
MA FORMAT: 16mm (60:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Exiles Project, New York, NY FESTIVALS: Montreal International Film Festival; Nyon (Switzerland)
International Film Festival
PRINT MATERIAL: Viewer's Guide available
FORMAT: Video (116:00) DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
Program 1 * Program 2 * Program 3 * Program 4 * Program 5 Program 6 Program 7 Program 8 Program 9 * Program 10 * PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Judi Moore Smith Productions, Temple Hills,
MD AWARDS: National Association of Black Journalists; Federation of
Community Broadcasters, Outstanding Radio Production; Ohio State
Achievement Award
FORMAT: Audiocassette DISTRIBUTOR: contact Judi Moore
Smith-Latta
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH, Boston, MA, in association with David
Grubin Productions, New York, NY AWARD: George Foster Peabody Award
PRINT MATERIAL: Transcripts can be purchased by calling 303-931-9000
FORMAT: Video, Programs 1, 2 (60:00), Programs 3, 4 (75:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Paradigm Productions, Inc. AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle; National Educational Media Network Golden
Apple; Best Documentary, Cine Festival, San Antonio
FORMAT: Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: University
Distribution Services
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH-Radio, Boston, MA AWARD: CPB Award, Best Arts and Humanities Documentary
PRINT MATERIAL: The series is based on the book First Person
America, edited by Ann Banks, published by Alfred A. Knopf
FORMAT: Audiocassette DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc., Conway,
MA FORMAT: 16mm, Video (two versions, 73:00 and 57:30)
DISTRIBUTOR: Straight
Ahead Pictures, Inc.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Charles Fries Productions, Inc., Studio City,
CA, an Public Television Playhouse, Inc., New York, NY AWARD: NAACP Image Award
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Jewish Forward Film Project, Amherst,
MA PRINT MATERIAL: Program transcript available
FORMAT: Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Direct
Cinema Limited
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WETA-TV, Washington, DC PRINT MATERIAL: Teacher's Guide
FORMAT: Video (86:46)
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
Video
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Clarity Educational Productions, Berkeley,
CA AWARDS: Academy Award Nomination, Best Documentary Feature; Sundance
Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize, Best Documentary; International
Documentary Association, Best Documentary; Organization of American
Historians, Erik Barnouw Award; American Historical Association, John
O'Connor Award, Best Historical Documentary; National Educational Film and
Video Festival, Best of Northern California
FORMAT: Video (110:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Clarity
Educational Productions
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Fundi Productions, Inc., New York, NY AWARDS: London Film Festival, Film of the Year; San Francisco
International Film Festival, Best of Category; Black Filmmakers Hall of
Fame, First Prize Documentary
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (two versions, 60:00 and 45:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: First
Run/Icarus Films
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Great Projects Film Company, Inc., New York,
NY AWARDS/SCREENINGS: National Educational Film & Video Festival,
Silver Apple; Worldfest (Houston, TX), Silver Award; American Film and
Video Festival, Red Ribbon; Film Council of Greater Columbus, Chris Award,
Best in History Category; CINE Golden Eagle
FORMAT: Video (88:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: Direct
Cinema Limited
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Center for the Study of Southern Culture,
University of Mississippi and George King and Associates, Atlanta, GA
SCREENINGS (selected): Organization of American Historians, Washington
DC; National Conference on Racial and Ethnic Relations, Atlanta; African
American Museums Association, Chicago; American Culture Association of the
South, Charleston; American Studies Association, Nashville; National
Council on Black American Affairs, Oakland; National Association of Black
Cultural Centers, Kansas City; American Historical Association, Chicago;
National Association for Multicultural Education, Washington, DC; National
Association for African American Studies, Norfolk; National Association
for Ethnic Studies, Boulder
FORMAT: Video (70:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: California
Newsreel
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 Program 7 Program 8 Program 9 Program 10 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Soundscape, Inc., Alexandria, VA PRINT MATERIAL: Loan of cassettes with detailed discussion leader's
guide available to senior citizen groups from: Discovery through the
Humanities Program, The National Council on Aging, 409 Third Street, S.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20024, 202-479-1200
FORMAT: Audiocassettes DISTRIBUTOR: Pacifica
Program Service/Radio Archive
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Abraham Lincoln Brigade Film Project, New
York, NY AWARDS: American Film Festival, Blue Ribbon; National Educational Film
and Video Festival, First Prize, History
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (98:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: First
Run/Icarus Films
Program 1 * Program 2 * Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 * Program 7 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Blackside, Inc., Boston, MA PRINT MATERIAL: The Great Depression: America in the 1930s by
T.H. Watkins (Little, Brown, 1993)
AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Emmy Award for Writing, National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences (Program 1); National Emmy
Nominations(Programs 5 ,6); Silver Baton, Alfred I. DuPont Columbia
University Awards (series); CINE Golden Eagle (series); Women in
Communications, Inc., Clarion Award (series); National Association of
Black Journalists Award (Programs 5,6); Worldfest, Houston International
Film Festival, Gold Award (Programs 3,5) and Special Jury Award (Program
7); Columbus(OH) International Film and Video Festival, Bronze Plaque
Program 2) and Honorable Mention (Programs 4,5,6); National Educational
Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple (Program 6), Silver Apple (Program 7);
Council on Foundations Festival (Program 3); Banff Television Festival
(Program 1)
FORMAT: Video, 7 (60:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
Video
Episode 1
U.S.
History and American Studies
The Adams Chronicles
Dramatic Series
This series of thirteen one-hour dramas
weaves together the lives of four generations of the Adams family with
events that shaped American history. Spanning the years 1750 to 1900, it
is based on 300,000 pages of letters, diaries, and journals written by
various members of the family.
John Adams: Lawyer (1758–70)
This program
features John Adams' experiences as a young lawyer, his courting of
Abigail Smith, and his emergence as a voice against unjust practices
imposed by the British crown.
John Adams: Revolutionary (1770–76)
While
John Adams serves as a delegate to Philadelphia's second Continental
Congress and signs the Declaration of Independence, Abigail is left alone
with the young children to tend the family farm in Braintree,
Massachusetts.
John Adams: Diplomat (1776–83)
John Adams
undertakes several diplomatic missions during the Revolutionary War,
including negotiations with Lord Howe, commander of the British forces,
and an appointment as Commissioner to France.
John Adams: Minister to Great Britain
(1784–87)
John Adams faces many problems in negotiating trade
agreements with Great Britain. A brief visit from Thomas Jefferson results
in their first disagreement over constitutional issues.
John Adams: Vice-President
(1788–96)
John Adams suffers eight years of frustration as
vice-president under George Washington before election to the presidency,
when he inherits a cabinet loyal to Hamilton.
John Adams: President (1797–1801)
John
Adams faces a new crisis with France, the futility of peace missions, and
public sentiment over the XYZ Affair urging him to declare war on France.
Jefferson defeats him in the election of 1800.
John Quincy Adams: Diplomat
(1809–15)
John Quincy Adams serves as Minister to Russia, and heads the
peace commission that negotiates the Treaty of Ghent, before becoming the
second Adams to serve as Minister to Great Britain.
John Quincy Adams: Secretary of State
(1817–25)
As Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams drafts the
Transcontinental Treaty with Spain and proposes a course in international
relations later known as the Monroe Doctrine. He becomes President in
1824.
John Quincy Adams: President
(1825–29)
John Quincy Adams faces growing opposition from states'
rightists throughout his presidency, and loses the election of 1828 to
Andrew Jackson.
John Quincy Adams: Congressman
(1830–48)
Despite objections from his family, John Quincy Adams serves
in the U.S. House of Representatives until his death in 1848.
Charles Francis Adams: Minister to Great
Britain (1861–63)
Charles Francis Adams, son of John Quincy, is
able to keep the British from recognizing the Confederacy while serving as
Minister to Great Britain.
Henry Adams: Historian (1870–85)
The
sons of Charles Francis Adams, Henry and Charles Francis II, pursue
separate careers to fulfill their postwar vision of a reunited and
revitalized America.
Charles Francis Adams II: Industrialist
(1886–93)
Charles Francis Adams II enjoys many triumphs as president of
the Union Pacific Railroad but ultimately loses the battle for its control
to Jay Gould. Like his brother Henry, he is dismayed by the nation's
changing values in the industrial society.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1976
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jac Venza
SERIES PRODUCER: Virginia
Kassel
COORDINATING PRODUCER: Robert Costello
PRODUCERS: James
Cellan Jones, Fred Coe, Robert Costello, Jac Venza, Paul
Bogart
DIRECTORS: Paul Bogart, James Cellan Jones, Fred Coe, Barry
Davis, Bill Glenn, Anthony Page
WRITERS: Jerome Coopersmith, Ian
Hunter, Tad Mosel, Jacqueline Babbin, Sherman Yellan, Allan Sloane, Anne
Howard Bailey, Sam Hall, Roger Hirson, Corinne Jacker, Millard Lampell,
Philip Reisman, Jr.
STORY CONSULTANT: Jacqueline Babbin
CAST: George
Grizzard, John Houseman, Kathryn Walker, Nancy Marchand, William Daniels,
Stephen Austin, John Wylie, Albert Stratton, Robert Snively, Charles
Siebert, James Broderick, Peter Brandon, Nancy Coleman, Helen Stenborg,
George Hearn, Harris Yulin, Stephen Joyce, Roberta Maxwell, Keene Curtis,
Robert Prosky, David Birney, John Beal
13 (60:00) programs
Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson
Dramatic Radio Series
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Michael P. Zuckert, Ruth Weiner, Charles
Umbanhowe
DIRECTOR: Karl Schmidt
EDITOR: Marv Nonn
NARRATOR:
Carol Cowan
CAST: James Lawless, John Lewin, Denise DuMaurier, Richard
Riehle, Claudia Wilkins
9 (30:00) programs
Africans In America
Documentary Radio Series
YEAR PRODUCED: 1998
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert Lyons
DISTRIBUTOR: National
Public Radio
After the Crash
Documentary
After the Crash considers three
significant protest groups of the early Depression years: farmers in
Arkansas; auto workers in Detroit; and the "Bonus Army," an assembly of
World War I veterans and their families who came to Washington, D.C. to
lobby for benefits.
YEAR PRODUCED:
l990 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER: Henry Hampton
SENIOR PRODUCER: Terry Kay
Rockefeller
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Eric Neudel
WRITER: Steve
Fayer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joe Vitagliano
EDITOR: Bernice K.
Schneider
NARRATOR: Jason Robards
Alexander Hamilton
Documentary
Alexander Hamilton is the story of America's most controversial Founding Father, a gifted statesman who laid the groundwork for America's modern economy and whose short life had more than its share of heroism, scandal, and tragedy.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Twin Cities Public Television, St. Paul, MN
YEAR PRODUCED: 2007
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Catherine Allan, Twin Cities Public Television, and Mark Samels, American Experience
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Muffie Meyer
WRITER: Ronald Blumer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tom Hurwitz
EDITOR: Jerry Lakso
NARRATOR: Colm Feore
CAST: Mary Bacon, Samuel Barnett, Gerald Bamman, Lauren Bloom, John Curless, Michael Cumpsty, Richard Easton, Peter Gerety, Daniel Gerroll, Neal Huff, Neil McGarry, Julia Morrison, Brian Murray, Mark Nelson, Denis O'Hare, Kelli O'Hara, Jamie Parker, Brandon Reilly, Bridget Regan, Marc Solomon, Henry Strozier, Michael Stuhlbarg
FORMAT: Video/DVD Approx. 2 hours
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
America and Lewis Hine
Documentary
This film examines the life and times of
America's pioneer social photographer Lewis Hine (1874–1940), who
documented the story of European immigrants in early industrial America.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: David
Loxton
COPRODUCERS: Nina Rosenblum, Daniel V. Allentuck
DIRECTOR:
Nina Rosenblum
WRITERS: Daniel V. Allentuck, John Crowley, L.S.
Block
EDITORS: Lora Hays, Gerald Donlan
CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Walker,
Robert Aachs, Kobi Kobiashi
NARRATION: Jason Robards, Maureen
Stapleton
America Lost and Found
Documentary
America Lost and Found is a portrait of
Americans as they experienced the Great Depression.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1980
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Lance Bird, Tom Johnson
WRITERS:
Lance Bird, John Crowley
EDITOR: Kate Hirson
NARRATOR: Pat
Hingle
American Dream
Documentary
American Dream examines the Hormel
meatpacking plant strike in Austin, Minnesota, in the mid-1980s and its
impact on the union, community, and individuals.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1990
PRODUCERS: Barbara Kopple,
Arthur Cohn
DIRECTOR: Barbara Kopple
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Peter Gilbert,
Kevin Keating, Hart Perry, Mark Petersson, Mathieu Roberts
EDITORS: Tom
Haneke, Lawrence Silk, Cathy Caplan
MUSIC: Michael Small
American Forum
Documentary
In this three-part program, professionals in
constitutional law and history discuss ideas central to the development of
the U.S. Constitution that have been debated since 1787.
Virtue and the Constitution
The question
of conflict between the need for civic virtue and the commercial impulses
in a democratic republic is examined by author George Gilder; Dr. Ernest
van den Haag, Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Policy at Fordham
University Law School; and Robert A. Goldwin, Director of Constitutional
Studies, American Enterprise Institute.
Is the Constitution
Democratic?
Vanderbilt University professor of political science,
William C. Havard; The Brookings Institution's James L. Sundquist; and
University of Virginia political scientist, David M. O'Brien provide
various perspectives on this issue.
Rights and the Constitution
This program
traces the relationship of rights to the Constitution, beginning with the
Convention and Hamilton's Federalist Papers. The ideas are
discussed by Georgetown University professor of government, Richard G.
Stevens; Harvey Mudd College professor of humanities, William B. Allen;
and historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1986
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Richard Bishirjian
PRODUCER:
Gerald W. Lange
DIRECTOR: Chuck Martin
PROGRAM RESEARCH: Nelson
Ong
HOST/NARRATOR: Avi Nelson
3 (30:00) programs
American Tongues
Documentary
American Tongues examines attitudes
toward regional, social, and ethnic variations in American speech and how
those attitudes reflect larger cultural issues.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Andrew Kolker, Louis
Alvarez
COPRODUCERS/CODIRECTORS/COWRITERS: Andrew Kolker, Louis
Alvarez
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Andrew Kolker
EDITORS: Andrew Kolker, Louis
Alvarez, John Purcell
NARRATOR: Polly Holliday
Anarchism in America
Documentary
This film explores the history of anarchism in
the United States.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Joel Sucher, Steven
Fischler
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Elizabeth Garfield
EDITOR: Krishna
Boden
Ancestors in the Americas
Documentary
Part
1
Coolies, Sailors, Settlers: Voyage to a New
World, 17th to 19th Centuries describes the astonishing untold
story of how Asians-Filipinos, Chinese and Asian Indians-first arrived in
the Americas before the American Revolutionary War. Sweeping across oceans
and centuries of time…from 16th-century Spanish galleons sailing the
Manila to Acapulco trade route, to the Opium Wars, to 19th-century Chinese
and Indian coolie laborers who were shipped to plantations in South
America and the Caribbean as replacements for freed black slaves in the
colonies of the Americas. This film explains why today there are Chinese
Cubans and Indo-Guyanese in New York and ten generations of Filipinos in
Louisiana.
Part 2
Chinese in the Frontier West: An
American Story 1849 to 1880s explores the arrival of Chinese in
Gold Rush 1850s California and their ventures into the Frontier West from
Oregon and Washington to Idaho and Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota.
Laboring, reclaiming land, and building communities while pursuing cases
before the US courts for justice and equality, they set legal precedents
and left a legacy of civil rights for all Americans.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Center for Educational Telecommunications,
Berkeley, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: Part 1: 1996 and Part 2: 1998
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Loni Ding
NARRATORS: Sab Shimono, Pat
Morita
EDITORS: Eric Ladenburg, Sean Thomas, Ken
Schneider
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kyle Kibbe, May Ying Welsh
VOICES: Wood
Moy, Wei Ye Ou, Crystal Huie, Terry Chow, Rex Navarrete, Oscar Penaranda,
Ved Vatuk, Tejinder Kaur, Usha Jain, Robert Ernst, Hawlan Ng, Alan Lau
PRINTED MATERIALS: Publicity packets. CET brochures are also
available, via email to loniding@voxproductions.org.
For classroom and viewer guides visit the websites http://www.cetel.org/ and www.pbs.org/ancestorsintheamericas.
AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Part 2: National Educational Media Network -
Silver Apple Award; Parts 1 & 2: American Library Association Booklist
Editor's Choice
FORMAT: VHS 120 minutes
DISTRIBUTOR: Center
for Educational Telecommunications
....And the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
Documentary
This film follows the efforts of Native
Americans to maintain control of the land in Menominee County, Wisconsin,
the only Indian-governed county in the nation.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1971
PRODUCER/WRITER: Ann
Delaney
NARRATOR: E. G. Marshall
Annie Oakley
Documentary
YEAR PRODUCED: 2006
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER: Mark Samels
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Riva Freifeld
WRITER: Ken
Chowder
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joel Shapiro, Boyd Estus, Robert Elfstrom,
Michael Chin, John Chater
EDITOR: David Espar
NARRATOR: Laura
Linney
PRINT MATERIALS: American Experience/WGBH
FORMAT:
Video and DVD 60 mins
DISTRIBUTOR: WGBH
Apache Mountain Spirits
Drama
Apache Mountain Spirits weaves an ancient
legend with a modern story to illustrate the role of the mythical Apache
holy figures known as the Gaan. The actors are all members of the
tribe.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
PRODUCER: John Crouch
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER:
Jennie Crouch
DIRECTOR: Bob Graham
EDITORS: Tim Clark, John
Crouch
WRITERS: Joy Harjo, Henry Greenberg
A. Philip Randolph
Documentary
This film biography analyzes the impact of Asa
Philip Randolph's leadership and accomplishments—from his youth in
Florida, through his formative years in New York to his contributions in
the labor and civil rights movements.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1996
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Tamara E. Robinson
DIRECTOR: Dante
James
WRITERS: Juan Williams, Dante James
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael
Chin
EDITOR: Catherine Shields
NARRATOR: Lynne Thigpen
Arguing the World
Documentary
Arguing the World traces the diverging
political paths of four New York intellectuals: Irving Howe, Irving
Kristol, Nathan Glazer, and Daniel Bell. The film explores their
intertwined lives from their childhoods in New York’s Jewish immigrant
neighborhoods to their years as radicals at the City College of New York,
their controversial role in the McCarthy years, their clash with the New
Left, and their sharp disagreements over the rise of Ronald Reagan.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1996
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Arnold
Labaton
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Joseph Dorman
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Barrin Bonet
EDITOR: Jonathan Oppenheim
NARRATOR: Alan Rosenberg
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Drama
This film is based on the true story of a Mexican
farmer in Texas in 1901 who, through a faulty translation from Spanish to
English, is accused of a robbery he did not commit.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982
PRODUCER: Moctezuma Esparza, Michael
Hausman
DIRECTOR: Robert Young
WRITER: Victor Villasenor (from the
book With a Pistol in His Hand by Americo Paredes)
EDITORS: John
Bertucci, Arthur Coburn
MUSIC: W. Michael Lewis, Edward James
Olmos
CAST: Edward James Olmos, Tom Bower, James Gammon, Pepe Serna,
Rosanna DeSoto
Baseball
Documentary Series
This history of America's "national
pastime" examines the sport in the context of such issues as race, gender,
the immigrant experience, urban, rural, and popular culture, and the
meaning of leisure.
Our Game
1st Inning, 1840s to 1900,
traces baseball's rise, in one generation, from a gentlemen's hobby to a
national sport played and watched by millions. Featured are Albert
Goodwill Spalding, the first baseball magnate; the game's first gambling
scandal; the first attempts by women to play the game; and the first black
professionals, who were hounded out of the game.
Something Like a War
2nd Inning, 1900 to
1910, presents some of the most fascinating individuals ever to play the
game: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, and John McGraw.
The Faith of Fifty Million People
3rd
Inning, 1910 to 1920, features the Black Sox scandal, in which eight
members of the Chicago White Sox took money from gamblers to throw the
World Series in 1919.
A National Heirloom
4th Inning, 1920 to
1930, focuses on Babe Ruth, the Baltimore saloon-keeper's son who became
the best-known baseball player in American history.
Shadow Ball
5th Inning, 1930 to 1940,
covers baseball's desperate attempts to survive the Great Depression; the
parallel world of the Negro Leagues; Babe Ruth's fading career; the rise
of a new generation of stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams; and
the Negro League World Series game that pitted Satchel Paige against Josh
Gibson.
The National Pastime
6th Inning, 1940 to
1950, begins with the 1941 season: Joe DiMaggio hits in fifty-six straight
games; Ted Williams hits .400; and the Brooklyn Dodgers win their first
pennant in twenty years. When World War II intervenes, baseball's best
players become soldiers, and on April 15, 1947, baseball is integrated,
when Jackie Robinson takes the field.
The Capital of Baseball
7th Inning, 1950
to 1960, examines the heyday of New York City baseball, where for ten
straight years a local team always played in the World Series and almost
always won. In 1955 the Brooklyn Dodgers finally win their first World
Series, only to be moved by their owner to a new city 3,000 miles away.
A Whole New Ball Game
8th Inning, 1960 to
1970, unfolds against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s, when many
question the game's relevance. Highlights include Bill Mazeroski's last
inning home run that wins the 1960 World Series; the breaking of Babe
Ruth's home run record by Roger Maris; and the first successful attempt by
baseball players to organize into a union.
Home
9th Inning, 1970 to present, covers
the most recent history of baseball and explores the future of the game,
including the rising influence of television and free agency.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
PRODUCERS: Ken Burns and Lynn
Novick
DIRECTOR: Ken Burns
WRITERS: Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken
Burns
SUPERVISING FILM EDITOR: Paul Barnes
EDITORS: Paul Barnes,
Yaffa Lerea, Tricia Reidy, Michael Levine, Rikk Desgres
COORDINATING
PRODUCERS: Bruce Alfred and Mike Hill
NARRATOR: John
Chancellor
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires, Ken Burns, Allen
Moore
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: David Schaye, Susanna Steisel
CONSULTING
PRODUCER: Stephen Ives
SENIOR CREATIVE CONSULTANT: John
Thorn
PRODUCER MANAGER: Camilla Rockwell
VOICES: Adam Arkin, Mike
Barnicle, Philip Bosco, Keith Carradine, David Caruso, Wendy Conquest,
John Cusack, Ossie Davis, Loren Dean, Ed Harris, Julie Harris, John
Hartford, Gregory Hines, Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Gene Jones,
Garrison Keillor, Alan King, Stephen Lang, Al Lewis, Delroy Lindo, Charley
McDowell, Amy Madigan, Michael Moriarty, Arthur Miller, Paul Newman,
Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neil, Gregory Peck, George Plimpton, Jody Powell, Aidan
Quinn, Latanya Richardson, Jason Robards, Paul Roebling, Jerry Stiller,
Studs Terkel, John Turturro, Eli Wallach, M. Emmet Walsh, Tom Wicker, Paul
Winfield
Benjamin Franklin
Documentary Series
Benjamin Franklin traces Franklin's
epic life from humble beginnings to fame as a scientist, founding father,
and America's first diplomat to France.
Episode 1
Let the Experiment Be Made
(1706–53)
From obscure beginnings as a printer's apprentice,
Franklin quickly rises to prominence as a leading publisher, businessman,
and civic booster in Philadelphia. His discoveries in the new science of
electricity help free the world from superstition and propel Franklin onto
the world stage.
Episode 2
The Making of a Revolutionary
(1755–76)
America's most celebrated citizen moves to London and
finds himself in the middle of a growing dispute between England and the
colonies, a dispute that turns this loyal subject of the British empire
into a revolutionary and causes a tragic break with his own son.
Episode 3
The Chess Master
(1776–90)
Franklin embarks on the most important mission of his
long life, as America's first ambassador to France to help save the
floundering American Revolution. After the war, he becomes the only
Founding Father to actively campaign against slavery and plays a critical
role in the Constitutional Convention that will form the basis of a new
nation.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: TPT/Twin Cities Public Television in
association with Middlemarch Films, Inc.
YEARS PRODUCED:
2001-2002
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Catherine Allan
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS:
Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
EXECUTIVE IN CHARGE OF PRODUCTION: Gerald
Richman
LINE PRODUCER: Charles Darby
WRITER: Ronald
Blumer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tom Hurwitz
EDITORS: Eric Davies, Donna
Marino, Sharon Sachs
NARRATOR: Colm Feore
LEAD ACTOR: Richard
Easton
MUSIC: Richard Einhorn
SCHOLARS: Ellen Cohn, Tom Fleming, Roy
Goodman, Jack P. Greene, John Heilbron, E. Philip Krider, J. A. Leo Lemay,
Ralph Lerner, Claude-Anne Lopez, Pauline Maier, David Taft Morgan, Jr.,
Gordon Wood, Michael Zuckert
PRINT MATERIAL: Educational materials available online at www.pbs.org/benfranklin
AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Primetime Emmy Award; The Film Council of Greater
Columbus
FORMAT: Video and DVD
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
Video
The Best of Families
Dramatic Series
Generations
In 1880, each family suffers
financial setbacks when the failure of the Reading Railroad causes an
economic crisis.
The Bridge
When the Brooklyn Bridge is
completed and opened in 1883, the three families respond with varying
degrees of optimism and skepticism to this symbol of emerging technology.
The Election—Patronage or Paradise
The
families have various encounters with city politics through connections
with Tammany Hall and in the 1886 mayoral election campaign of Teddy
Roosevelt.
Ambition
In 1890, the paths of the
families cross when the prominent banker Teddy Wheeler decides to pursue
philanthropy to make his bank better known.
A Chill to the Bones
The deepening
recession of 1893 finds the lives of the three families converging at
Morton House, the first settlement house for the poor.
The Great Trolley Battle
Two brothers
take opposite sides in a violent trolley strike in 1895.
New Times
On New Year's Eve, 1899, the
families reflect on their lives and unrealized dreams and look toward the
approaching century with renewed hope.
January 17, 1977
In this final episode,
twentieth-century descendants of the original three families confront
situations similar to those faced by members of their families in the late
nineteenth century.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1977
SERIES CREATOR: Naomi Foner
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER: Ethel Winant
PRODUCER: Gareth Davies
SERIES HEAD WRITER:
Corinne Jacker
CAST: Guy Boyd, William Carden, Frederick Coffin, Alice
Drummond, George Ede, Jill Eikenberry, Peter Evans, Clarence Felder,
Pauline Flanagan, Victor Garber, Sean Griffin, George Hearn, William Hurt,
Suzanne Lederer, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Julia McKenzie, Milo O'Shea, Lisa
Pelikan, William Prince, Josef Sommer, Sigourney Weaver
Program 1 (110:00), Programs 2-8 (59:00)
Bill of Rights Radio Project
Documentary Radio Series
Each program in this fifteen-part
series examines the legal, historical, and social context of a
contemporary public policy issue rooted in the Bill of Rights.
Gun Control and the Second Amendment:
Interpretations and Misinterpretations
Pressure Groups, Censorship, and the First
Amendment
Of God, Land, and Nation: Native American Land
Claims and the Bill of Rights
Neutral against God: Prayer in Public
Schools
And Throw Away the Key: The Eighth Amendment and
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Public Libraries and the First Amendment
The Birds, the Bees, and the Constitution: Sex
Education in the Public Schools
The Politics of the Original Sin: Entrapment,
Temptation, and the Constitution
He went and Preached unto the Spirits in Prison:
Freedom of Religion in American Penal Institutions
Abortion: A Matter of Life and Death
Open Secrets: Technological Transfer, National
Security, and the First Amendment
Cults and the Constitution: Who's Abusing
Whom?
Television on Trial: Cameras in the Courts
Without Due Process: Prejudice in the
Application of Constitutional Rights of Citizens and Non-Citizens
Crazy and/or Guilty as Charged: Constitutional
Aspects of the Insanity Plea and Diminished Capacity Defenses
YEARS PRODUCED: 1982–84
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Adi Gevins
15 (30:00) programs
The Blood of Barre
Radio Documentary
The Blood of Barre traces the
early history of the granite industry and its workforce in Barre, Vermont.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1979
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Steve Robinson, Betty
Smith
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Betty Rogers
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Art
Silverman
WRITER: Tom Looker
Bond of Iron
Drama
Through a point-counterpoint dialogue, Bond of
Iron depicts the relationship between a master and slave at a Virginia
ironworks foundry prior to the Civil War.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Peter
Anderson, John G. Sproat
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: William
Peters
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Patricia Curtice
CAST: Brock Peters,
Darren McGavin
Brooklyn Bridge
Documentary
This film focuses on the struggle to construct
the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 and on its transformation into a symbol of
American strength, ingenuity, and promise.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Ken
Burns
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ken Burns, Buddy Squires
EDITOR/WRITER: Amy
Stechler
RESEARCHER: Thomas Lewis
NARRATOR: David
McCullough
READINGS: Paul Roebling, Julie Harris, Arthur Miller, Kurt
Vonnegut, David McCullough, and others
Brother Outsider: The
Life of Bayard Rustin
Documentary
YEAR PRODUCED: 2003
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Sam
Pollard
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Nancy Kates, Bennett
Singer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Shepard
EDITORS: Veronica Selver,
Rhonda Collins
NARRATOR: Erik Todd Dellums
DISTRIBUTOR: California
Newsreel
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out
Loud
Documentary
Thinking Out Loud is a feature-length
film about the chief engineer and navigator of Spaceship Earth, R.
Buckminster Fuller. He was one of the twentieth century's most
distinguished, innovative, and controversial thinkers. To many he was a
genius, to some he was a crackpot. To most he was both.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1996
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Karen Goodman, Kirk
Simon
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires
EDITOR: Sara Fishro
NARRATOR:
Morley Safer
INTERVIEWS: John Cage, Arthur Penn, Philip Johnson, Merce
Cunningham, Paul Goldberger, Al Hirschfeld, Schuyler Chapin, Spalding
Gray, George C. Scott, E.G. Marshall, Mike Wallace, Marian Seldes, Tony
Roberts, Ellen Burstyn, Griffin Dunne, Morley Safer, Robert Sean Leonard,
Robert McNeil, Kate Burton, Philip Bosco
Buffalo Social History Project
Documentary Radio Series
Through oral histories, music,
dramatic readings, and commentary, this twelve-part series presents
changing patterns in the social and cultural life of a Great Lakes city
from 1825 through the 1970s.
Buffalo 100 Years Ago
features accounts
of everyday life in Buffalo 100 years ago through newspaper
advertisements, features, and editorials.
Immigration
relates the experiences of
mid-nineteenth-century Irish, turn-of-the-century Polish, and contemporary
Puerto Rican immigrants.
Working Life
describes the work
expectations and personal experiences of members of the Buffalo community
over three generations.
Compulsory Education
examines the
development and maintenance of compulsory public education from 1874 to
the 1930s.
Land and Property
looks at the social and
financial value of land in the city of Buffalo.
Social Welfare
focuses on the problems of
poverty in relation to democratic ideals of social and political equality.
Parkside Neighborhood
profiles one of the
city's residential neighborhoods from 1880 to the present.
Erie Canal
features literary descriptions
of canal boat travel, as well as information on the techniques of canal
building in England and America during the early nineteenth century.
Labor and Capital
examines the history of
industrialization, unionism, and the free market economy in Buffalo.
Opportunity and Education
explores issues of
pluralism and bilingualism in nineteenth and twentieth-century public
schools.
Catholic Culture
probes Catholicism as
the religion of many of Buffalo's immigrants.
Pan American Exposition
presents
information on two local legends with national import: the Pan American
Exposition of 1901 and the Larkin Company's mail order emporium
(1876–1941), a distributor of household goods that collapsed during the
Great Depression.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1977
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Jo Blatti
12 magazine-format radio programs (2 to 3
hours)
The Case of the Legless Veteran
Documentary
This film documents the McCarthy era defense
campaign of James Kutcher, a World War II veteran fired from his job at
the Veterans Administration in 1948 for his socialist beliefs.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Howard
Petrick
EDITOR: Kenji Yamamoto
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ashley James
Chesapeake Bay: Its History and Heritage
Documentary Radio Series
Through interviews with residents
and regional specialists, this fifty-part series examines the influence of
the Chesapeake Bay on the people who have inhabited its shores from
prehistoric times to the present.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1982
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Joe Goldenberg
HOSTS: Joe Goldenberg, Fred
Hopkins
ENGINEER: Jerry Glass
50 (15:00) programs
The Civil War
Documentary Series
This nine-part series examines the
history and meaning of the American Civil War, from its complex causes and
the daily life of soldiers to its impact on the nation's political and
social life.
1861: A 90-Day War
begins with an
examination of slavery and the causes of the war, then traces the events
that led to the firing on Fort Sumter and the rush to arms on both sides,
and concludes with the first Battle of Bull Run.
1862: A Very Bloody Affair
explains how
Lincoln's war to preserve the Union is transformed into a war to
emancipate the slaves.
1862: Forever Free
shows how as 1862
wears on, it marks a difficult year for the Union, leading up to the
Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day of the war, and the
emancipation of the slaves.
1863: Simply Murder
considers Northern
opposition to the Emancipation Proclamation, the miseries of regimental
life, the increasing desperation of the Confederate homefront, Lee's
brilliant victory at Chancellorsville, and Grant's futile attempts to take
Vicksburg by siege.
1863: The Universe of Battle
opens with
an account of the Battle of Gettysburg, and goes on to describe the fall
of Vicksburg, the New York draft riots, the first use of black troops, and
Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
1864: Valley of the Shadow of Death
opens
with a biographical comparison of Grant and Lee, recounts the battles that
pitted the two generals against each other, traces Sherman's Atlanta
campaign, and explores the ghastly medical practices in both North and
South.
1864: Most Hallowed Ground
considers how
Union victories in Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley tilt the
1864 election toward Lincoln, and the Confederacy's last hope for
independence dies.
1865: War is All Hell
traces the decline
of the Confederacy from Sherman's March to the sea through Lee's surrender
at Appomattox.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
recounts
Lincoln's assassination and the final days of the war, closing with a look
at how the Civil War transformed the country.
YEARS PRODUCED: 1986-1990
PRODUCERS: Ken Burns, Ric
Burns
DIRECTOR: Ken Burns
WRITERS: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, with
Ken Burns
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ken Burns, Buddy Squire, Allen
Moore
EDITORS Paul Barnes, Bruce Shaw, Tricia Reidy
COORDINATING
PRODUCER: Catherine Eisele
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/POST PRODUCTION: Lynn
Novick
COPRODUCERS: Stephen Ives, Julie Dunfey, Mike Hill
ASSOCIATE
PRODUCERS: Camilla Rockwell, Susanna Steisel
NARRATOR: David
McCullough
ON-CAMERA INTERVIEWS: Shelby Foote, Barbara J. Fields,
William Safire, Ed Bearss, and others
VOICES: Sam Waterson, Jason
Robards, Julie Harris, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Morgan Freeman,
Garrison Keillor, Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur Miller, Studs Terkel, Colleen
Dewhurst, Charley McDowell, Jody Powell, George Plimpton, Philip Bosco,
Horton Foote, and others
Programs 1, 5 (90:00); programs 2,3,4,6,7,8,9 (60:00)
The Color of Honor
Documentary
The Color of Honor documents
Japanese-American experiences during World War II by examining the
internment of American citizens of Japanese ancestry, the distinguished
record of Japanese-American combat soldiers in the liberation of France
and Italy, and the role that 6,000 Japanese-Americans played in the
Asian-Pacific theater as part of the U.S. Military Intelligence Service.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1988
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Loni Ding
EDITORS: Loni
Ding, Steve Kuever
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tomas Tucker, Michael
Chin
NARRATOR: Loni Ding
Coming
to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians
Documentary
Coming to Light tells the dramatic
story of Edward Curtis (1868–1952), a complicated, passionate,
self-educated pioneer and visionary artist who rose from poverty and
obscurity to become the most famous photographer of his time. He became
friends with Teddy Roosevelt, obtained funding from J.P. Morgan, and set
out in 1900 to photograph traditional Indian ways that he thought were
vanishing. Curtis abandoned his career as a successful portrait
photographer to create an astonishing body of work: 10,000 recordings,
twenty volumes of text, a full length motion picture with Kwakiutl people,
and 40,000 photographers. The film includes contemporary interviews with
Indian people revealing how Curtis worked with their parents and
grandparents in a collaborative effort to preserve traditional life that
was disappearing.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Anne Makepeace Productions, Inc.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 2000
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Anne Makepeace, Susan Lacy
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Anne Makepeace
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Uta
Briesewitz, Jennifer Lane, Emiko Omori
EDITOR: Jennifer
Chinlund
NARRATOR: Sheila Tousey
CAST: Bill Pullman
AWARDS/FESTIVALS: 2000 Academy Award for Feature Documentary
Finalist; John O'Connor Award for Best Film, the American Historical
Association; Gold Hugo, Chicago International Television Festival; CINE
Golden Eagle; Berkeley Film and Video Festival Best Historical
Documentary; Newport Beach Film Festival Audience Award, Best Documentary;
Sundance Film Festival 2000; Best Documentary, Telluride Mountain Film;
Saguaro Film Festival International 2000 Best Documentary; Hardacre Film
Festival Best Documentary; New Jersey Film Festival Best Documentary;
Houston WorldFest Special Jury Award, Vermont International Film Festival
Best Environmental Film; Aspen FilmFest Audience Favorite; American Indian
Film Festival, International Film Festivals in Munich, Santa Barbara,
Seattle, Nashville, Florida, New Zealand, Hawaii, Northampton, New
Orleans, Cork (Ireland)
PRINT MATERIALS: Press kit, MPRM
FORMAT: Video (85:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: Bullfrog
Films and CS
Associates
Coney Island
Documentary
This film explores the history and meaning of
Coney Island from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991 (first broadcast on The American
Experience)
PRODUCERS: Ric Burns, Buddy Squires
DIRECTOR: Ric
Burns
WRITER: Richard Snow
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires, Allen
Moore
EDITOR: Paul Barnes
NARRATOR: Philip Bosco
READINGS: Andrei
Codrescu, Vincent Gardenia, Judd Hirch, Nathan Lane, John Mahoney, Jerry
Orbach, George Plimpton, Lois Smith, Frances Sternhagen, Eli Wallach
Constitutional Journal
Radio Series (Documentary and Drama)
In 122 three-minute
programs, this series recounts the proceedings of the Constitutional
Convention of 1787 from the vantage point of a reporter on the convention
floor at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. It also includes
dramatizations of the remarks of Washington, Franklin, Madison, and other
delegates.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1987
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: James C. Roberts
PRODUCER: Marc
A. Lipsitz
WRITER/NARRATOR: Jeffrey St. John
CAST: Phil Nicolaides,
Jim Parisi, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Jim Kelly
6 (60:00) programs
Contrary Warriors: A Story of the Crow Tribe
Documentary
Contrary Warriors tells the story of the
Crow people of southwestern Montana, focusing on the leadership of
97-year-old Robert Summers Yellowtail, who began his career in 1910
defending Crow lands, rights, and tribal authority in the halls of
Congress.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1986
PRODUCERS: Connie Poten, Pamela Roberts, Beth
Ferris
WRITERS: Connie Poten, Beth Ferris
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stephen
Lighthill
EDITOR: Jennifer Chinlund
NARRATOR: Peter Coyote
A Country Auction
Documentary
A Country Auction examines how an estate
sale in rural Pennsylvania reveals the personal, social, and economic
pressures on a family and a community dealing with death.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Robert Aibel, Ben
Levin, Chris Musello, Jay Ruby
EDITOR: Ben Levin
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tom
Ott
Craven Street
Dramatic Radio Series
This five-part series dramatizes
Benjamin Franklin's last six years as a colonial agent in London
(1770-1775), and his attempts to prevent the American Revolution.
After the Boston Massacre, Franklin agrees to
represent the radical colony of Massachusetts Bay.
Franklin comes upon stolen letters from the royal
governor of Massachusetts urging "an abridgement of British liberty" in
America.
Franklin's involvement with the stolen letters
causes a furor and leads to a duel.
The Boston Tea Party increases Franklin's
difficulties with the British government.
As hostilities mount between Britain and America,
Franklin is involved in three sets of secret, eleventh-hour peace talks.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1992
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert
Foxworth
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Yuri Rasovsky
CAST: Nigel
Hawthorne, Elizabeth Montgomery, George Grizzard, Martin Sheen, David
Warner, and others
Crucible of
Empire: The Spanish-American War
Documentary
The film, narrated by award-winning actor
Edward James Olmos, examines the colorful characters and historic events
surrounding this 100-year-old war and its relevance to the twentieth
century. Using reenactments, interviews with noted authors and popular
historians, and more than a dozen newly arranged popular songs from the
period, the program looks at the influence of race, economics, new
technologies, and the news media on America’s decision to go to war.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1999
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Daniel B. Polin, Kenneth
Mandel
PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Daniel B. Polin, Daniel A.
Miller
DIRECTOR: Daniel A. Miller
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger T. Grange,
III
EDITOR: Ted Winterburn
NARRATOR: Edward James Olmos
Darrow
Drama
This film presents the events and issues that
concerned Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) and documents his transformation
from a corporate lawyer to the maverick defense attorney who represented
Eugene Debs, the McNamara brothers, Leopold and Loeb, and Thomas Scopes.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991
(first broadcast on American Playhouse)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:
Ricki Franklin
PRODUCERS: Richard Heus, Stephen Stept
DIRECTOR: John
Coles
WRITERS: William Schmidt, Stephen Stept
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Paul
Murphy
EDITOR: Angelo Carrao
CAST: Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Jenkins,
Christopher Cooper
Dateline 1787
Dramatic Radio Series
Dateline 1787 is a
fourteen-part series that uses modern broadcast journalism to present and
examine the events, issues, and personalities surrounding the drafting of
the Constitution at the Convention of 1787. Commentators William B. Allen,
professor of government, Harvey Mudd College, and Jack N. Rakove,
professor of history, Stanford University, discuss the issues raised in
each episode.
May 27, 1787
The National Radio Theatre
News Team, situated in the "broadcast booth" of the Philadelphia State
House, reports on the background and opening of the Convention called to
revise the Articles of Confederation.
June 3, 1787
Virginia Governor Edmund
Randolph introduces a plan for wholesale reform.
June 10, 1787
Elements of the Randolph
Plan are debated as differences emerge on questions of representation.
June 17, 1787
Tension mounts between the
federalists and nationalists regarding legislative representation.
June 24, 1787
National response to the
confederal argument of the New Jersey Plan is aired; a final vote is taken
to choose between the Randolph and Paterson plans.
July 1, 1787
Delegates reach an impasse
over methods of apportioning representation.
July 8, 1787
The controversy over
representation is turned over to a committee.
July 15, 1787
The debate turns to
differences between the North and South over slavery.
July 22, 1787
A vote temporarily settles
the representation issue; the delegates turn their attention to the
Presidency and powers of federal government.
August 4, 1787
Methods of electing the
President are debated, as the controversies between large and small states
continue.
August 12, 1787
Committee reports are
followed by particularly rapid progress.
September 2, 1787
Delegates reach a
compromise on the slavery issue; the presidency takes final form; property
requirements for suffrage are thrown out.
September 16, 1787
The Committee on
Postponed Matters reports as the convention draws to a close. There is a
discussion of defection, an interview with George Washington, and
presentation of the final draft of the Constitution.
September 17, 1787
The News Team
captures Benjamin Franklin's "rising sun" remark and buttonholes other
delegates after adjournment for their closing impressions.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1986
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Yuri Rasovsky
WRITERS: Michelle
Damico, Denise Jimenez, Yuri Rasovsky
14 (30:00) programs
Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated
South
Documentary
Dawn's Early Light examines journalist
Ralph McGill, as he emerged during the 1950s and 1960s to become an
influential Southern white opponent of racial segregation.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Kathleen Dowdey, Jed
Dannenbaum
EDITOR: Kathleen Dowdey
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Edwin
Myers
HOST/NARRATOR: Burt Lancaster
INTERVIEWS: Julian Bond, Tom
Brokaw, Jimmy Carter, John Lewis, Vernon Jordan, Herman Talmadge, Sander
Vanocur, Andrew Young, Harry Ashmore, Eugene Patterson, Claude Sitton, and
others
The Donner Party
Documentary
This film chronicles the ill-fated journey of a
group of pioneers from Springfield, Illinois, to Sutter's Fort,
California, in the spring of 1846.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1992 (first broadcast on The American
Experience)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Judy Crichton
PRODUCERS: Lisa
Ades, Ric Burns
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Ric Burns
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy
Squires, with Allen Moore
EDITOR: Bruce Shaw
HOST/NARRATOR: David
McCullough
VOICES: J.D. Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Gene Jones, Amy
Madigan, Donald McCann, George Plimpton, Paul Roebling, Lois Smith,
Frances Sternhagen, Eli Wallach
Divided Highways: The Interstates and the
Transformation of American Life
Documentary
A compelling and humorous film that tells of
the high ideals and vision of those who planned the highways, the
engineers who built them, and the way these roads have changed the
communities and lives of all Americans.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1997
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Larry Hott,
Tom Lewis
PRODUCERS: Larry Hott, Tom Lewis
DIRECTOR: Larry
Hott
WRITER: Tom Lewis
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Allen Moore
EDITOR: Diane
Garey
NARRATOR: George Guidall
INTERVIEWS: Stephen Ambrose, Michael
Smith, Dave Barry, Michele Grijalva, Jessica Matthews, Lisa Newton,
Phillip Patton, Stephen Goddard, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, Harley Shaiken,
David Lee, Sandra Rosenbloom, Ronald Edsforth, Kenneth Jackson, Roland
Marchand, Fred Rogers, Frank Griggs, Molly Ivins, John Kay, William
Cronon, Jonathan Gifford, T. Willard Fair, Jesse McCrary, Joseph Alioto,
Fred Salvucci, Sylvia Hyman, Ken Krulkemeyer, Claire Barrett, Jane Holtz
Kay, Sunny Moore, Tom Brennan, Ann Bandazian, Diane and Gary Phillips,
Marion and James Malone, David Dillon, Andres Duany, Julia Child, William
Fay, Char Miller
Eisenhower
Documentary
Based on scholarship of the declassified
Eisenhower record, this two-part program looks at the life and career of
the 34th president of the United States. (Part I: Soldier; Part II:
Statesman)
YEAR PRODUCED: 1993 (first broadcast on The American
Experience)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Austin Hoyt, Judy Crichton
PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Adriana Bosch (Part I), Austin Hoyt (Part
II)
COPRODUCER/EDITOR: Daniel McCabe (Part I)
EDITOR: Sarah Holt
(Part II)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mark Gunning
MUSIC: Michael
Bacon
NARRATOR: David McCullough
INTERVIEWS: John Eisenhower,
Stephen E. Ambrose, Michael R. Beschloss, Forrest Pogue, Fred I.
Greenstein, Sir Michael Howard, David Eisenhower, Nigel Hamilton, Andy
Rooney, Arthur Schlesinger, Robert Donovan, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, Judge
Constance Motley, Chalmers Roberts, Ambassador Vernon A. Walters, Gen.
Georgiy A. Mikhailov, and others
Eleanor Roosevelt
Documentary
This film biography examines the life of one of
the twentieth century’s most influential figures, a woman who was shaped
and driven by politics and who remains an astonishingly relevant and
powerful role model for millions of Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt weaves
together interviews with Mrs. Roosevelt’s closest surviving relatives,
friends, and biographers as well as rare home movie footage—providing a
fresh, complex examination of an American legend.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 2000
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Judith Vecchione, Margaret
Drain
PRODUCERS: Kathryn Dietz, Sue Williams
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Sue
Williams
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bestor Cram, William Turnley, James Callanan,
Joel Shapiro
EDITOR: Howard Sharp
NARRATOR: Alfre Woodard
The Electric Valley
Documentary
The Electric Valley presents the history
of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal agency with a broad mission
to tame the forces of nature, create energy, and produce lasting
prosperity in the Tennessee Valley.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Jude Cassidy
WRITERS:
Ross Spears, Dick Couto, Melanie Maholick
EDITOR: Melanie
Maholick
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Anthony Forma
NARRATOR: Wilma Dykeman
Emma Goldman: An
Exceedingly Dangerous Woman
Documentary
YEAR PRODUCED:
2004
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Margaret Drain and Mark
Samels
PRODUCERS/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Mel Bucklin
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Eddie
Marritz
EDITOR: Ralph Hammack
NARRATOR: Blair Brown
CAST: Linda
Emond, Denis O'Hare
DISTRIBUTORS: WGBH
Empire of the Air
Documentary
This film tells the story of three men whose
role in the creation of radio transformed American culture: Lee de Forest,
Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ken
Burns
PRODUCERS: Ken Burns, Morgan Wesson, Tom Lewis, Camilla Rockwell,
Susanna Stelsel
WRITER: Geoffrey C. Ward
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ken Burns,
Buddy Squires, Allen Moore
EDITORS: Yaffa Lerea, Paul
Barnes
NARRATOR: Jason Robards
Ephraim McDowell's Kentucky Ride
Drama
In 1809, Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs America's
first successful abdominal surgery on Jane Dodd Crawford, who is suffering
from an undiagnosed ovarian tumor.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Peter McGhee
PRODUCER:
Jo Gladstone
DIRECTOR: Francis Gladstone
WRITER: Milan
Stitt
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Peter Hoving
EDITOR: Elvido Abella
CAST:
Paul Guilfoyle, Elizabeth Perry, John Seitz, Mark Winkworth, Judith
Harkness, Maryce Carter, Jack Davison, Max Deitch, Ellin Ruskin, Eric
Tull, Eileen Sokol, Clifton Powell, Martin R. Anderson, William Dean,
Jenny Applegate, Elwyn Gladstone, Sally Bohl
The Exiles
Documentary
The Exiles tells the story of the
European artists, intellectuals, and scientists who escaped to America
before the outbreak of World War II, and of their far-reaching
contributions to culture and scholarship in their adopted country. Among
those featured are Billy Wilder, Bruno Bettelheim, Erich Leinsdorf, Hanna
Gray, Edward Teller, and Alfred Eisenstaedt.
YEAR PRODUCED:
l989
COPRODUCERS/COWRITERS: Richard Kaplan, Lou
Potter
DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHY: Richard Kaplan
EDITORS: Anne Borin,
Walter Hess, Richard Kaplan
HOST/NARRATOR: Vartan Gregorian
Part I, 1931–42 (63:00); Part II,
1942–Present (53:00)
Expressions: Black American Folk Art and
Culture
Documentary Radio Series
Expressions is a ten-part
series of radio programs about African-American art forms which derive
from folk culture. The programs supported by NEH are designated by an
asterisk (*); the other programs were funded by the National Endowment for
the Arts.
Authentic Afro-American Legends
traces
the origin, evolution, and transmittal of African-American legends.
Afro-American Proverbs
explores the use
of short sayings that express simple, common-sense truths based on
practical experience.
Arabing
considers the art of "arabing"
as practiced in Baltimore, Maryland. "Arabers" are street vendors who sell
their wares by walking through city streets with calls derived from the
same source as blues, gospel, and other traditional black American music
genres.
A Capella
explores the African-American
tradition of singing without instrumental accompaniment.
Song Making
looks at the development of
the African-American song tradition, specifically how it may be used to
record history and how melodies, rhythms, and lyrics are reshaped through
the oral tradition.
Hair Sculpture
examines the history and
significance of the popular urban and rural art of African-American hair
design.
The Party
compares historical slave
rituals and their cultural connection with present-day house, rent, and
card parties.
Street Cheers
analyzes the contemporary
urban art form called streetcheers, popular among African-American youth.
Rhythms
looks at the beat and style of
black art.
Preaching
treats the musical,
dramatic, and oratorical preaching styles in the traditional black church
and considers the black preacher as artist.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER/NARRATOR: Judi Moore
Smith
10 (30:00) programs
FDR
Documentary Series
This four-part series examines the life
and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United
States.
features FDR's childhood at Hyde Park, his marriage
to Eleanor, and his entrance into national politics.
traces his attack of polio, the long struggle to
overcome his paralysis, his changing relationship with Eleanor, and his
return to political life.
explores the first two terms of his presidency,
which are characterized by a new vision of the role and responsibility of
government and by an evolving political partnership with Eleanor.
covers the progress of World War II and the
importance of FDR's relationships with Churchill and Stalin in planning
for war and subsequent peace. His health visibly failing, FDR dies in
1945, within a year of his inauguration for a fourth term.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994 (first broadcast
on The American Experience)
PRODUCER/WRITER: David
Grubin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER for The American Experience: Judy
Crichton
SENIOR PRODUCER: Chana Gazit
EDITORS: Susan Fanshel, Geof
Bartz
CINEMATOGRAPHY: William B. McCullough, Roger Phenix
NARRATOR:
David McCullough
MUSIC: Michael Bacon
SERIES ASSOCIATE PRODUCER:
Allyson Luchak
SENIOR CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Geoffrey C. Ward
The Fight
Documentary
This historical documentary chronicles the
interweaving lives of two heavyweight boxers: American Joe Louis and
German Max Schmeling. As they rise through the ranks of professional
boxing, each man must navigate societies buffeted by economic depression,
racism, and World War.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Social Media Productions, Brooklyn,
NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 2004
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Mark Samels
PRODUCERS:
Barak Goodman, John Maggio
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Barak Goodman
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stephen McCarthey
EDITOR: Lewis
Erskine
NARRATOR: Courtney B. Vance
PRINT MATERIALS: Press packet available from the director
AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Sundance Film Festival; Writers Guild Award;
Emmy, best direction.
FORMAT: Video 82:00 mins
DISTRIBUTOR: WGBH
The Fight in the Fields: César
Chávez and the Farm Workers' Struggle
Documentary
This film explores the pivotal role played by
the United Farm Workers and its leader César Chávez in organizing the
first successful union for farm workers. While focusing on Chávez, the
film portrays the Chicano activism of the 1960s and 1970s and the training
of a generation of organizers in their struggle for social and economic
justice.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1996
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Rick Tejada-Flores
DIRECTORS: Rick
Tejada-Flores, Ray Telles
WRITERS: Rick Tejada-Flores, Ray
Telles
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vicente Franco
EDITOR: Herb
Ferrette
NARRATOR: Henry Darrow
INTERVIEWS: Jesse de la Cruz,
Dolores Huerta, Chris Hartmire, and others
First Person America: Voices from the Thirties
Radio Series (Documentary and Drama)
Based on interviews
collected by the Federal Writers' Project during the late 1930s, this
six-part series recreates the experiences of Americans from diverse walks
of life in the decade of the Great Depression.
Troupers and Pitchmen: A Vanishing
World
considers a time when itinerant salesmen and traveling
entertainers regaled America with their performances.
When I First Came to This Land
describes
how immigrants struggled to preserve their ethnic identity.
Making Ends Meet
suggests some of the
ways women sustained themselves during the hard times of the 1930s.
Talking Union
focuses on the fierce
struggle for unionization in the 1930s.
Smoke and Steel
portrays the human cost
of building America and describes how industrial work became a legitimate
literary theme.
Harlem Stories
centers around the
dramatized narrative of a Pullman porter who lamented his move north to
Harlem in a conversation with federal writer Ralph Ellison.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1980
COPROJECT DIRECTORS: Ann Banks, Barbara Sirota
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER: Robert Montiegel
PRODUCER: Knute Walker
DIRECTOR: Joan
Micklin Silver
EDITOR: Ann Banks
WRITER: Tom Looker (based on the
book First Person America by Ann Banks)
HOST/NARRATOR: Oscar
Brand
6 (30:00) programs
Fit: Episodes In the History of the Body
Documentary
This film looks at the scientific theories and
cultural values underlying the American fascination with physical fitness
and the body over the past 150 years.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Laurie Block
WRITERS:
Laurie Block, John Crowley
EDITOR: Howard Sharp
NARRATOR: Linda Hunt
For Us, The Living: The Medgar Evers Story
Drama
Based on Myrlie Evers' book, For Us, The
Living, this film tells the story of assassinated civil rights leader
Medgar Evers and his efforts at ending segregation.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1983 (first broadcast on American Playhouse)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:
Charles W. Fries
PRODUCER: J. Kenneth Rotcop
DIRECTOR: Michael
Schultz
ADAPTATION: Ossie Davis, J. Kenneth Rotcop
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Alan Kozlowski
CAST: Howard Rollins Jr., Irene Cara, Margaret Avery,
Roscoe Lee Browne, Larry Fishburne, Janet MacLaughlan, Dick Anthony
Williams, Paul Winfield, Thalmus Rasulala
Forgotten Genius
Documentary
Forgotten Genius is a largely unknown story of scientific triumph and racial inequality. It covers the extraordinary life journey of Percy Julian, one of the great chemists of the twentieth century. The grandson of Alabama slaves, Julian met with every possible barrier in a deeply segregated America. He was a man of genius, devotion, and determination. As a black man he was also an outsider, fighting to make a place for himself in a profession and country divided by bigotry-a man who would eventually find freedom in the laboratory. By the time of his death, Julian had risen to the highest levels of scientific and personal achievement, overcoming countless obstacles to become a world-class scientist, a self-made millionaire, and a civil-rights pioneer.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 2006
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Paula S. Apsell
PRODUCERS: Llewellyn M. Smith, Stephen Lyons
DIRECTOR: Llewellyn M. Smith
WRITERS: Stephen Lyons, Llewellyn M. Smith
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gary Henoch, Tom Fahey, Stephen McCarthy
EDITOR: Doug Quade
NARRATOR: Courtney B. Vance
CAST: Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Raymond Lambert, Shawn Agard, Gregory Velez, Ray Almeida, Bobbie Patrick, Carmen Dillon, Edward Logan, Ceoria Coates, Donald Watson, Jonathan Niles, Pamela Lambert, Langston Toxey, Sean McGuirk, Frank Harrison
PRINT MATERIALS: Press Releases, Press Photos, Contact: Lindsay de la Rigaudiere, Tel. 617-300-4258
FORMAT: Video/DVD 2 hours
DISTRIBUTOR: WGBH
The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans
Documentary
This film documents the history of the Jewish
Forward, a Yiddish-language daily newspaper based in New York City,
which was for many years the most successful and widely read Yiddish paper
in the United States.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987
PRODUCERS/WRITERS:
Marlene Booth, Linda Matchan
DIRECTOR: Marlene Booth
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Nancy Schreiber
EDITOR: Eric W. Handley
NARRATOR: Tim Sawyer
Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote
History
Documentary
This program examines the life and work of
Frederick Douglass (1818–95), the former slave who became a leading
abolitionist, writer, orator, journalist, publisher, diplomat, and
champion of universal human rights.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1994
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Tamara E. Robinson
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR:
Orlando Bagwell
COPRODUCER: Lisa Jones
NARRATION WRITTEN BY: Steve
Fayer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael Chin
EDITOR: Sandra Marie
Christie
NARRATOR: Alfre Woodard
VOICE OF DOUGLASS: Charles S.
Dutton AWARDS: National Emmy Nomination, Individual Achievement in a
Craft/Researchers
Freedom On My Mind
Documentary
This film tells the story of the 1961–64
Mississippi Voter Registration Project, largely in the voices of the
participants themselves, which culminated in Freedom Summer, when a
thousand college students from around the county went to Mississippi in
support of the sharecroppers, day laborers, maids, and young black
organizers who had been fighting racism in the state.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Connie Field, Marilyn
Mulford
WRITER/EDITOR: Michael Chandler
SCRIPT BY: Michael Moore,
with Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vicente Franco,
Michael Ching, Steve Devita
NARRATOR: Ronnie Washington
INTERVIEWS:
Victoria Gray, Bob Moses, Endesha Ida Mae Holland, L.C.Dorsey, Cleveland
Sellers, Pam Chude Allen, Marshall Ganz, Curtis Hayes, Heather Booth, Len
Edwards
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker
Documentary
This film presents the life and career of civil
rights activist Ella Baker, who was friend and adviser to Martin Luther
King Jr. and a driving force behind SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee).
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1981
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Joanne Grant
DIRECTORIAL
CONSULTANT: Saul Landau
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Judy Irola
EDITOR: Hortense
Beveridge
CONSULTING EDITOR: John Carter
MUSIC: Bernice Johnson
Reagon
George Marshall and the American Century
Documentary
This is a biography of General George C.
Marshall who as U.S. Army Chief of Staff led the Allied Victory in World
War II and as Secretary of State helped create the Marshall Plan.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991
PRODUCERS: Daniel B. Polin, Kenneth
Mandel
DIRECTORS: Kenneth Mandel, Ken Levis
WRITER: Geoffrey C.
Ward
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Phil Abraham
EDITOR: Ken Levis
George Wallace:
Settin' the Woods on Fire
Documentary
To many, George Wallace was the embodiment of
racism in America. To others, he was a champion of Southern pride and a
defender of the working class. He rose to power as the nation's best-known
segregationist in the early 1960s but was later elected governor of
Alabama with overwhelming black support. A Golden Gloves fighter, he
battled his way into the national spotlight and came close to deadlocking
the 1968 presidential election as a third-party candidate-then was shot
down by a would-be assassin on the eve of his greatest political
victories. Wallace would spend his remaining years seeking redemption for
the divisiveness he had once preached and asking forgiveness from those he
had scorned-but he left a conservative political legacy that continues to
influence national politics today.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Midnight Films, c/o RTF Department,
Austin, TX
YEAR PRODUCED: 2000
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Margaret
Drain
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Dan McCabe, Paul Stekler
WRITERS: Steve
Fayer, Dan McCabe, Paul Stekler
CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Hazard
EDITOR:
Dan McCabe
NARRATOR: Randy Quaid
PRINTED MATERIALS: Through WGBH/The American Experience
AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Sundance 2000 Film Festival, Special Jury Prize;
Emmy Award (for Research; nominated for an Emmy for Writing); Writer's
Guild of America Award for Outstanding Script for Television Documentary;
International Documentary Association Distinguished Documentary
Achievement Award; featured in the Academy Award's Tribute to
Documentaries
FORMAT: Video 160 mins
DISTRIBUTOR: WGBH
Geronimo and the Apache
Resistance
Documentary
This is the story of a tragic collision of two
civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one another. In
1886, 5,000 U.S. troops mobilized to capture this one man and his band of
followers who, by refusing to move onto a reservation, defied and eluded
federal authorities.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Judy Crichton
PRODUCER:
Neil Goodwin
DIRECTORS: Neil Goodwin, Jacqueline
Shearer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Doug Shaffer, Neil Goodwin
NARRATOR: Neil
Goodwin
FORMAT: Video 60 mins
DISTRIBUTOR: WGBH
Goin' to Chicago
Documentary
This program chronicles the migration in two
great waves between 1917and 1990 of some 6 million African Americans from
the rural South to cities in the North and West; the dynamic urban culture
that resulted; and the personal toll of such a move.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Chiz
Schultz
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: George King
WRITER: Lou Potter
EDITOR:
Amy Carey
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Rick Butler
NARRATOR: Vertamae
Grosvenor
The Gold Rush
Documentary
On January 28, 1848, James Marshall found gold near the fork of the American and Sacramento Rivers, unleashing a massive migration from around the world to what had been a forgotten backwater. With head-spinning speed, these gold-seekers created one of the most extraordinary societies in history-hard-driving, overwhelmingly male, often brutal. The Gold Rush was a remarkably international event; in short order, gold-seekers from Oregon and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Mexico, Chile, England, France, Australia, Ireland, and China were soon knee-deep in water in the diggings. They found themselves playing the Great California Lottery, in which luck not hard work or honesty, seemed the key to success. Told through the stories of a small group of diverse characters—Chinese and Chilean, Northerner and Southerner, black and white—this American Experience film tracks the evolution of the Gold Rush from the easy riches of the first few months to the fierce competition for a few good claims. It shows that as the diggings became oppressively crowded, Americans drove foreigners from the mines. And it explores how in the end, the big money was made, not by men with shovels, but by large investments in expensive hydraulic equipment. Nonetheless, in the hurly burly of the intervening years, the Gold Rush turned California into a place synonymous with risk, riches, and reinvention, a place where the impossible seemed likely.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH, Boston, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 2006
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Mark Samels
PRODUCERS: Randall Maclowry & Laura Longsworth
DIRECTOR: Randall Maclowry
WRITER: Michelle Ferrari
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Neil Reichline
EDITOR: Jon Neuburger
NARRATOR: Michael Murphy
PRINT MATERIALS: Transcript and teachers guide available at www.pbs.org/amex/goldrush
FORMAT: Video/DVD 120 hours
DISTRIBUTOR: WGBH - Television & International Distribution
PBS Video - Home & Audio Visual Distribution
The Golden Cradle: Immigrant Women in the United States
Documentary Radio Series
Through a blend of music, drama,
archival material and interviews, this ten-part series examines the social
history of America's women immigrants from the 1840s to the present.
The Journey
looks at diaries and other
accounts from immigrant women who survived the journey to America.
The Half-Open Door
recalls how several
generations of immigrants faced the realities of the quota system,
exclusion laws, detainment, and deportation.
The Alley, The Acre, and Back a' the
Yards
is the story of women who established ethnic communities that
continue today despite changing economic and social pressures.
In America, They Say Work Is No
Shame
relates the experiences of immigrant laborers and union
organizers in American factories and sweatshops.
Three Tunes for an American
Songbook
explains how and why three women emigrated from Russia,
Greece, and Italy in the early 1900s.
Daily Bread
examines the working
experience of immigrant women who served as domestic servants, farm wives,
shopkeepers, and boardinghouse operators.
English Lessons
records the difficulties
that immigrant women have faced in trying to educate their children and
themselves.
My Mother Was a Member of the Rumanian Ladies
Aide Society
explores the history of societies and organizations,
originally formed as support systems, that affected the socio-political
fabric of America.
Tapestries
expresses the way immigrant
women artists responded to life in a new world.
In America, We Wear a New Name
features
Russian, Cuban, Japanese, and Hungarian women speaking of conflicting
identities in their new homeland.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1984
COPRODUCERS: Deborah George, Louise
Cleveland
RESEARCH DIRECTOR: Jane M. Deren
ADMINISTRATIVE
COORDINATOR: Karen Getman
NARRATOR: Mandy I. Bynum
10 (30:00) programs on 5 (60:00) cassettes
The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the
Spanish Civil War
Documentary
Through the recollections of eleven veterans,
The Good Fight tells the story of the 3,200 Americans of the
Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought against the armies of France, Hitler,
and Mussolini in the Spanish Civil War.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Noel Buckner, Mary
Dore, Sam Sills
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stephen Lighthill, Peter S. Rosen, Joe
Vitagliano, Renner Wunderlich
EDITOR: Noel Buckner
NARRATION
CO-AUTHOR: Robert A. Rosenstone
NARRATOR: Studs Terkel
The Great Depression
Documentary series
Emphasizing the stories of ordinary
people, this seven-part American history series examines the period
between the two world wars, a time dominated by the economic depression
that followed the stock market crash of 1929. (* denotes NEH production
support)
Job at Ford's
The rise of the Ford
motor company affords opportunities for thousands of workers, but is
followed by the grim realities of economic crisis and tough management
decisions.
The Road to Rock Bottom
As economic
collapse takes its toll on America, farmers protest; mortgages are called
in by banks; robberies increase dramatically; and in the summer of 1932,
the U.S. Army is called in to quell the Veterans' Bonus March on
Washington DC.
New Deal/New York
As President Roosevelt
presides over the creation of new federal agencies to combat the effects
of the Depression, nowhere is the effect of new public works projects more
apparent than in Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's New York City. Though FDR, the
American aristocrat, and LaGuardia, the son of immigrants, are unlikely
partners, together they expand and redefine the role of government in
people's lives.
We Have a Plan
When world famous
Socialist author Upton Sinclair runs for governor of California, his
platform provides an alternative to capitalism and tests the limits of the
New Deal. Ironically, one year after Sinclair's defeat, President
Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, a move that signals the
beginnings of a modern welfare state.
Mean Things Happening
On tenant farms of
the Arkansas Delta and in the steel factories of America's industrial
heartland, men and women battle landowners and factory managers for the
right to join a union.
To Be Somebody
Hard times bring fear,
which often erupts in violence and discrimination towards America's racial
and ethnic minorities. But hard times also encourage some to fight against
bigotry through the courts, in Congress, and by example—the NAACP's Walter
White, African American attorney Charles Houston, heavyweight champ Joe
Louis, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Arsenal of Democracy
As the 1930s draw to
a close, Americans celebrate a dream of peace and prosperity at World
Fairs in San Francisco and New York. But with Japanese and German troops
on the march, they soon discover that while the New Deal changed America
forever, it is war, not government programs, that ends the Great
Depression.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1993
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Henry Hampton
SENIOR PRODUCER: Terry Kay
Rockefeller
SERIES WRITER: Steve Fayer
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION:
Orlando Bagwell
PRODUCERS: Jon Else (1); Terry Kay Rockefeller (2);
Dante L. James(3,5); Lyn Goldfarb (4); Stephen Stept (6); Susan Bellows
(7)
ASSOCIATEPRODUCERS: Leslie D. Farrell (1,2); Susan Levene (3,5);
Tracy Heather Strain (4); Lisa A. Jones (6); Lulie Hadad (7)
EDITORS:
Lillian Benson (1); Howard Sharp (2,4); Jon Neuberger (3,5);Marian Hunter
(6); Eric Handley (7)
SUPERVISING PRODUCERS: Alison Bassett, Stephen
Stept
SERIES ARCHIVIST: Katy Mostoller
COMPOSER: Brian
Keane
NARRATOR: Joe Morton
The Great War
Documentary
An eight-part series that reveals the impact
and importance of World War I, The Great War explores the poignant,
powerful, and permanent ways the war changed the lives of everyone it
touched.
Explosion
Takes a sweeping look at the
conditions and events that caused the cataclysm to unfold and sheds new
light on how the