When the dry season begins in the Kalahari, flamingos chicks must persevere the hostile conditions and journey on foot to the nearest water source. From Nature's KALAHARI: THE GREAT THIRSTLAND, airing JULY 8th ON PBS (check local listings.) Shot in high-definition, this film by renowned naturalist filmmaker Tim Liversedge captures the astonishing ecological spectacle of Kalahari.
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Sealed in a protective suit of his own design, an African bullfrog surfaces from deep underground. From Nature's KALAHARI: THE GREAT THIRSTLAND, airing JULY 8th ON PBS (check local listings.) Shot in high-definition, this film by renowned naturalist filmmaker Tim Liversedge captures the astonishing ecological spectacle of Kalahari.
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An abandoned zebra foal, who is trapped in a muddy pool, is attracted to the only other creature it sees, an elephant. From Nature's KALAHARI: THE GREAT THIRSTLAND, airing JULY 8th ON PBS (check local listings.) Shot in high-definition, this film by renowned naturalist filmmaker Tim Liversedge captures the astonishing ecological spectacle of Kalahari.
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To all appearances, the sands of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa comprise one of the most barren regions on Earth. But every so often, violent rainstorms subdue the swirling hot sands, drenching the ancient Magkadikadi saltpans. In their wake, life re-emerges in a staggering display of over-abundance, almost as if brought forth by the supernatural.
In the first of two hour-long films on the Kalahari - shot in high-definition and on 35mm by renowned naturalist filmmaker Tim Liversedge - the NATURE series brings this spectacle to television in the encore presentation of Kalahari: The Great Thirstland, Sunday, July 8 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings).
For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature
Coming to PBS Sept., 2007. THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns.
In all of the battle scenes, dramatic historical footage and photographs are combined with extraordinarily realistic sound effects to give the film a terrifying, visceral immediacy.
THE WAR will air over two weeks, beginning Sunday, September 23, 2007 (four nights the first week and three nights the second week) from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on three nights).
For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/thewar
A Bill Moyers essay on Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal.
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Asians back in Africa
In this installment of FRONTLINE/World's Rough-Cut series, Omar Sachedina travels to Uganda. Omar was always fascinated by the Indian traditions his family had preserved, even though his parents have never visited India. They were born in Uganda. In 1972, his parents were expelled from the country by the notorious dictator Idi Amin.
By traveling to Uganda, he thought it would help him better understand his parents and, more profoundly, himself. He also wanted to investigate the racial dynamics in the country since the expulsion and discover which side -- if any -- he would "side" with: the Asians or the blacks ... or both.
For more: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/05/uganda_the_retu.html
A rough, new energy frontier
In this installment of FRONTLINE/World's Rough-Cut series, Nick Guroff explores the remote Sakhalin Island, what international oilmen might call a "hardship post." It is on the very edge of the Russian Far East, the historic equivalent of America's Wild West. The narrow, 600-mile-long island is populated by only half a million people, and its seasons are severe even by Russian standards.
But underneath the surface of the island and the surrounding seas is enough oil and gas to power the United States for as much as a decade.
For more: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/05/russia_island_o.html
The People's Court takes viewers inside the courtrooms and law schools of China to provide an unprecedented and unexpected portrait of its rapidly growing legal system. The documentary follows itinerant judges, law students, a human rights lawyer, and ordinary Chinese citizens seeking justice as the country tackles the massive task of establishing a legal framework for its new market economy.
Poised to surpass the United States as the largest economy in the world, China faces mounting domestic and international pressure for a fair and transparent framework of laws. This experiment to introduce justice and the "rule of law" to a nation still firmly controlled by the Communist party has global implications.
PBS Airdate: Tuesday, July 3rd at 9pm (check local listings). For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle
Dominating the field of Olympic boxing for the past quarter century, Cuba's gold medal-winning athletes have propelled their tiny nation onto the world stage and served as an unconventional tool of foreign and domestic policy. Now, for the first time ever, the legendary Havana Boxing Academy - where physical training and revolutionary indoctrination go hand in hand - has opened its doors to a foreign film crew.
As Fidel Castro's faltering health throws the future into question, Victory is Your Duty reveals the academy as a microcosm of Cuban society where grade-school boys are groomed to fight for the honor of the revolution.
PBS Airdate: Tuesday, July 10th at 9pm (check local listings). For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/
This July, Wide Angle launches its sixth season of in-depth explorations of the forces shaping the world today, presenting global stories on a human scale. With a special focus on human stories that rarely make the headlines, Wide Angle travels the globe and digs deep to offer Americans uncommon and invaluable insight into today's interconnected world.
These 45-minute documentaries, produced by outstanding filmmakers and journalists from the United States and abroad, are followed by one-on-one interviews with foreign policy experts, administration officials, legislative leaders, authors, and journalists as Wide Angle connects the dots between international stories and the concerns of Americans.
The series, a production of Thirteen/WNET New York, airs every Tuesday at 9 p.m. on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings).
PBS Airdate: Tuesdays at 9pm (check local listing), starting July 3rd. For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/
The History Detectives investigate a mysterious $6 bill from the revolutionary period, a slip of paper autographed by luminaries from World War II and an unassuming pin that may be a piece of the Liberty Bell. Tune in Monday, July 2, 2007, 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings) to see this critically acclaimed series combining the latest forensic technology with old-fashioned, pavement-pounding historical detective work.
Exploring historical objects and the stories behind them, HISTORY DETECTIVES crisscrosses the country, delving into legends, folklore and personal histories to discover potentially extraordinary objects in everyday American homes, cities and small towns.For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/historydetectives
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Watch this preview of Part 2 of "Think Like a Terrorist," the season opener of Exposé: America's Investigative Reports on PBS.
Why has investigative reporter Carl Prine been hailed as a truth-teller by some and attacked as an abettor of terrorists by others? What did his stories in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reveal about security conditions of dangerous chemicals as they are transported via U.S. railways?
And watch the full episode when it premieres online, Wednesday, June 27, at 12 noon ET. (Or check your local listings for broadcast dates on PBS stations nationwide, beginning Friday, June 29.)
To view Part 1 of “Think Like a Terrorist,” go to http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/watch/index.html
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Tune in on Sunday, June 24 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings), when the NATURE series presents The Venom Cure. The Venom Cure illustrates how some of the animals we fear most may one day soon be helping us solve or alleviate a wide range of life-threatening medical problems.
For more information, go to http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/venomcure/
To kill its prey, a coneshell extends a proboscis armed with a harpoonlike tip that injects a deadly venom. Tune in on Sunday, June 24 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings), when the NATURE series presents The Venom Cure. The Venom Cure illustrates how some of the animals we fear most may one day soon be helping us solve or alleviate a wide range of life-threatening medical problems.
For more information, go to http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/venomcure/
Researchers believe that a spray containing the clotting agent from brown snake venom could eventually be used by emergency response teams to save the lives of trauma victims. Tune in on Sunday, June 24 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings), when the NATURE series presents The Venom Cure. The Venom Cure illustrates how some of the animals we fear most may one day soon be helping us solve or alleviate a wide range of life-threatening medical problems.
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Learn how Copperhead venom could help treat cancer. Tune in on Sunday, June 24 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings), when the NATURE series presents The Venom Cure. The Venom Cure illustrates how some of the animals we fear most may one day soon be helping us solve or alleviate a wide range of life-threatening medical problems.
For more information, go to http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/venomcure/
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Watch this preview of Part 1 of "Think Like a Terrorist," the season opener of Exposé: America's Investigative Reports on PBS.
Why has investigative reporter Carl Prine been hailed as a truth-teller by some and attacked as an abettor of terrorists by others? What did his stories in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reveal about security conditions at some of the nation's chemical plants and storage facilities?
And watch the full episode when it premieres online, Wednesday, June 20, at 12 noon. (Or check your local listings for broadcast dates on PBS nationwide, beginning Friday, June 22.)
For web-exclusive video and audio features on this story, go to http://www.pbs.org/expose
(This clip is audio only.) In a NOW web-exclusive audio interview, Robert Redford talks to Host David Brancaccio about why he thinks "change is in the air" as businesses find value in going green. Redford says environmental issues are gaining traction and that global warming will be "huge" in the 2008 presidential election. More on the documentary he produced and appears in: http://www.pbs.org/now/news/324.html
Bill Moyers interviews writer, activist, and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs, who has taken part in some of the seminal civil rights struggles in U.S. history, about her belief that real change for democracy will come from the grassroots. "We're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country," she says. "We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make.....in order to force the government to do differently."
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In a surprising public admission, Gen. Jack Keane, the Army's second in command during the US invasion of Iraq, tells FRONTLINE about his own failure to plan for an insurgency, and how White House rhetoric about "defeating the insurgents" never lined up with the Army's mission.
In "Endgame," FRONTLINE talks with key military strategists and top administration figures about the events leading up to the "surge" of US troops and the likelihood of its success. Coming on air Tuesday, June 19 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check locallistings) and online at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/endgame/ .
NOW on PBS looks into the shaky future of Internet radio stations pending a decision to dramatically increase royalty fees. Will it drive these often small, independent outfits out of business? For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/323/index.html#internet-radio
Also, check out NOW Host David Brancaccio's list of favorite Interent radio stations at: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/323/internet-radio.html
A snow leopard hunts a bharal. From a Silent Roar: Searching for the Snow Leopard, the first documentary to capture behavioral details, including mating and hunting, of the ghostly, exquisitely beautiful big cat of the Himalayas. Tune in Sunday, June 17 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings) to watch the program.
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Snow leopards are recorded visiting and refreshing a rock scent, enabling them to keep in touch with one another. From a Silent Roar: Searching for the Snow Leopard, the first documentary to capture behavioral details, including mating and hunting, of the ghostly, exquisitely beautiful big cat of the Himalayas. Tune in Sunday, June 17 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings) to watch the program.
For more information, go to: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/snowleopard/
Filmmakers Hugh Miles and Mitchell Kelly succeed in filming snow leopards mating, an event that has never been captured on film before. The filmmakers defy death while pursuing this legendary big cat in Silent Roar: Searching for the Snow Leopard -- the first film to capture the mysterious and intimate behavior of the snow leopard. Tune in Sunday, June 17 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings) to watch the program.
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Only a privileged few have ever seen a snow leopard, the powerful and mysterious predator of the Himalayas. Acclaimed natural history filmmakers Hugh Miles and Mitchell Kelly defy death while pursuing this legendary big cat in Silent Roar: Searching for the Snow Leopard -- the first film to capture the mysterious and intimate behavior of the snow leopard. Tune in Sunday, June 17 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings.)
For more information, go to: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/snowleopard/
Beginning to trade on the NYSE last week (early June 2007), Northwest airlines dodged the bankruptcy bullet. But while a $1.4 billion a year cut in labor expenses has ensured lower costs for Northwest, why are airline executives still flying high on salaries, stock options and benefits while workers and retirees see cuts in pay and compensation?
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GREAT PERFORMANCES presents We Love Ella! A Tribute to the First Lady of Song, premiering Wednesday, June 6 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/ellatribute/index.html
This web-exclusive video features concert footage from the broadcast and interviews with the a capella group Take 6 and singer Ledisi, who appeared in an all-star event commemorating what would have been the 90 birthday of America's beloved "First Lady of Song." This once-in-a-lifetime concert, co-hosted by Natalie Cole and Quincy Jones, included Ella-inspired performances by Stevie Wonder, Patti Austin, Nancy Wilson, American Idol Ruben Studdard, Jon Faddis, and more.
GREAT PERFORMANCES presents We Love Ella! A Tribute to the First Lady of Song, premiering Wednesday, June 6 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/ellatribute/index.html
This web-exclusive video features concert footage from the broadcast and interviews with singer Monica Mancini and pianist George Duke, who performed in an all-star event commemorating what would have been the 90 birthday of America's beloved "First Lady of Song."
This once-in-a-lifetime concert, co-hosted by Natalie Cole and Quincy Jones, included Ella-inspired performances by Stevie Wonder, Patti Austin, Nancy Wilson, American Idol Ruben Studdard, Jon Faddis, and more.
GREAT PERFORMANCES presents We Love Ella! A Tribute to the First Lady of Song, premiering Wednesday, June 6 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/ellatribute/index.html
In this web-exclusive video, see concert footage from the broadcast and interviews with jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and vocalist Lizz Wright as they weigh in on America's "First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald. The interviews were shot at a gala musical event commemorating what would have been Ella's 90th birthday. This once-in-a-lifetime concert, co-hosted by Natalie Cole and Quincy Jones, also included Ella-inspired performances by Stevie Wonder, Patti Austin, Nancy Wilson, American Idol Ruben Studdard, George Duke, Take 6, and others.
GREAT PERFORMANCES presents We Love Ella! A Tribute to the First Lady of Song, premiering Wednesday, June 6 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/ellatribute/index.html
In this Web-exclusive video, see concert footage from the broadcast and interviews with American Idol Ruben Studdard and saxman Dave Koz as they share their thoughts on America's "First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald. The interviews were shot at a gala musical event commemorating what would have been Ella's 90th birthday.
The once-in-a-lifetime concert, co-hosted by Natalie Cole and Quincy Jones, also included Ella-inspired performances by Stevie Wonder, Patti Austin, Nancy Wilson, Jon Faddis, George Duke, Take 6, and others.
In a NOW on the News Web-exclusive audio interview from May 31, Cindy Sheehan tells NOW on PBS Host and Senior Editor David Brancaccio that she plans to rest up, spend time with her family, and then continue her struggle against the Iraqi war.
"We're going to pull back and regroup and figure out a better way to come at this," Sheehan told NOW.
Sheehan - whose son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, died in Iraq in 2004 - announced on Memorial Day that she was done being the public face of the movement. "I think my mission, my activism has reached a brick wall," she tells Brancaccio. Sheehan gained national attention when she camped outside President Bush's Texas ranch in August 2005 demanding to talk with the President.
Learn more at http://www.pbs.org/now/news/322.html
This week Bill Moyers reflects on a conversation between Lyndon Johnson and his National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy that took place in 1964.
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Troubled youths learn about responsibility from the horses they care for at the Colorado Boys Ranch. This lesson is one of the provocative subjects covered in NATURE's Wisdom of the Wild, airing on Sunday, June 3 at 8 p.m.(ET) on PBS (check local listings).
To learn more, go to: http://www.pbs.org/nature
An eight-year-old boy, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder and cannot speak or communicate, is motivated to learn in a therapy session involving some very perceptive dolphins. This therapy session is one of the provocative subjects covered in NATURE's Wisdom of the Wild, airing on Sunday, June 3 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings).
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In a Tanzanian jungle, a Western scientist and a tribal medicine man follow a chimpanzee in search of new medicines. On the plains of Kenya, a woman learns a powerful lesson about family -- from orphaned elephants. And in the Florida Keys, a dolphin opens up the lines of communication with an eight-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic illness. As humans learn more about animal intelligence, we also are discovering that animals have a lot to teach us. Those lessons are the provocative subject of Wisdom of the Wild, airing on Thirteen/WNET New York's award-winning NATURE series Sunday, June 3 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings).
To learn more, go to: http://www.pbs.org/nature
The Cain and Abel Conflict --Eagles have small families and their strategy is to invest in the quality of their young often resulting in only one chick surviving. Watch as the NATURE series soars with magnificent predators in Shadow Over The Sun: A Story of Eagles airing Sunday, May 27 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature
Vulnerable Prey -- As spring moves into early summer and new life begins in the Scottish Highlands, a red deer calf becomes victim to a young golden eagle's hunt.
Watch as the NATURE series soars with magnificent predators in Shadow Over The Sun: A Story of Eagles airing Sunday, May 27 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature
Preview--A golden eagle is so large and powerful it can bring down a red deer calf, survive the most brutal winters in the Highlands of Scotland and breed successfully for up to 40 years. Yet sightings are rare and a mere glimpse of one gliding over the frost-tipped mountain peaks is a gift.
Travel to the mountains and glens of Scotland, to see the majestic golden eagle in its element when the NATURE series airs Shadow Over The Sun: A Story of Eagles, Sunday, May 27 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature
Can American entrepreneurial know-how save lives in Africa? NOW travels to Kenya to investigate an enterprising idea: franchising not burger and donut shops, but health services and drugs in rural Africa. American businessmen are teaming with African entrepreneurs to spread for-profit clinics around the country in the hopes of providing quality, affordable medical care to even Kenya's poorest people.
But can they overcome obstacles like extreme poverty, corruption, cheaper fraudulent services, and long distances to establish a sustained solution to a chronic problem? For the full show, tune in Friday, May 25 at 8:30 pm (check local listings), and discover more innovative ideas at http://www.pbs.org/now/enterprisingideas
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Chris Simcox, founder and head of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, talks to Senior Correspondent, Maria Hinojosa, about his views on illegal immigration. The Corps considers its mission to be "assisting Border Patrol in better defending" the border with Mexico.
For more on this report, visit: http://www.pbs.org/now/news/318.html
May 11 on PBS, Bill Moyers on the true human cost of war. Bill Moyers Journal airs Fridays on PBS (check local listings -- http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html )
Respond to Bill Moyers' essay on the cost of war at The Moyers Blog -- http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog
Can the Rev. Pat Robertson make Biblical law the law of the land? This Friday, Bill Moyers Journal takes a look at Regent University, Robertson's Christian leadership institution, which has seen some 150 students move into the Bush Administration since 2001.
Tune in Friday, May 11 on PBS (check local listings), and respond at The Moyers Blog - http://www.pbs.org/moyers
The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 was one of the worst natural disasters in human history.
As the world takes stock of the staggering human death toll, people began telling stories about amazing accounts of survival – in the animal kingdom. From CAN ANIMALS PREDICT DISASTER?, part of Thirteen/WNET New York's NATURE series , airing Sunday, May 13 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature
Biologist Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell believes that elephants are able to pick up incoming seismic vibrations from across a huge distances by placing their hypersensitive trunk on the ground. From CAN ANIMALS PREDICT DISASTER?, part of Thirteen/WNET New York's NATURE series , airing Sunday, May 13 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature
Geologist Jim Berkland claims to have a formula that uses animal behavior to accurately forecast earthquakes.
From CAN ANIMALS PREDICT DISASTER?, part of Thirteen/WNET New York's NATURE series , airing Sunday, May 13 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature
It was once a "foolish" notion, largely written off as an old wives' tale: that animals can sense impending natural disasters.
But today, given potent impetus from events preceding last winter's catastrophic tsunami, it's attracting serious scientific attention around the world as an idea that someday may help save human lives. Thirteen/WNET New York's NATURE series travels to four continents to examine this provocative and intriguing subject in CAN ANIMALS PREDICT DISASTER? - airing Sunday, May 13 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature
Former AT&T technician Mark Klein and internet expert Brian Reid describe an NSA listening room that Klein discovered while working at the company's operations center. In "Spying on the Home Front" FRONTLINE talks to intelligence insiders and asks: Is the Bush administration's domestic war on terrorism jeopardizing our civil liberties? Coming May 15 to PBS and online at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/homefront/ .
Community colleges offer a staggering array of classes and job training to nearly 13 million students nationwide but even as these institutions are responding to more challenges than ever, they are failing to graduate even half of those who come.
In “Discounted Dreams” you’ll meet a single mother, a young art student, a carpenter, and a former gang member all of whom have pinned their hopes on community college. How will they fare? Tune in to find out. Airing now on PBS. Check your local listings. For more information visit:
http://www.pbs.org/merrow/tv/discounteddreams/
Roughly 140 different shark species lurk in the waters off the coast of southern Africa. The NATURE episode SHARKLAND, premiering on PBS Sunday, May 6 at 8 p.m. (check local listings), dives in and gets up close with the great white, mako, tiger shark and other fearsome predators, capturing dramatic ambushes, feeding frenzies and other remarkable scenes.
Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, SHARKLAND is part of the 25th anniversary season of NATURE, the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series produced by Thirteen/WNET New York for PBS. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/nature .