Three Americans. Three rapidly changing industries. One dream that seems more mythical by the day. Promised Land follows a displaced factory worker in Ohio, a fifth-generation Kansas...
True Believer
Alarmed by the evangelical movement’s embrace of Trump, Robb Ryerse, a progressive evangelical and lifelong Republican, is called to step away from the...
Co-op City (currently in development)
Co-op City is a David and Goliath tale of working class tenants, their landlords, and the banks that held the bonds on the largest housing...
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age is a 2-hour program that was broadcast nationwide on February 6, 2018. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become...
Walt Disney
Walt Disney explores the life of a visionary animator, storyteller and entrepreneur whose influence on American culture was – and continues to be – more...
Henry Ford
Henry Ford, a 2-hour film funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, explores the life of America’s pre-eminent businessman and one of the most...
The Amish
The Amish, a two-hour special, explores the insular religious community, whose intense faith and adherence to four hundred year-old traditions have by turns captivated and...
God in America, Program 2: A Nation Reborn & A New Light
God in America explores the tumultuous 400-year relationship between religion and public life in America. The six-hour series tells the story of how religious dissidents...
The Polio Crusade
The Polio Crusade interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced...
WE SHALL REMAIN: Geronimo
We Shall Remain a five-part television series, shows how Native peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Episode 4,...
Namibia: This Land is Ours
Namibia: This Land is Ours examines how black and white Namibians are struggling over who should own Namibia's farms and cattle ranches. This same issue...
Making Schools Work with Hedrick Smith
Making Schools Work is a two-hour PBS special about education reform. It profiles several different approaches to individual school reform at the elementary, middle and...
RFK
Robert Francis Kennedy would almost certainly have been president if his violent death hadn't intervened. He was brave, claims one biographer, "precisely because he was...
Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm
Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm is a 90-minute program on the role of the Secretary General of the United Nations. With David Grubin and...