World Culture and
History
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Long Bow Group, New York, NY FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Direct
Cinema Limited
Afropop Worldwide, is a weekly program devoted to the
contemporary music of Africa and the African Diaspora. Afropop
Worldwide's series-within-a-series called Hip Deep features
historical retrospectives that engage authors and scholars as program
collaborators. PRINT MATERIAL: Afropop Worldwide's companion web site, http://www.afropop.org/, has fresh
content published weekly. PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Long Bow Village Film Group, Philadelphia,
PA AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Earthwatch Film Award; Margaret Mead Film Festival;
Hawaii International Film Festival; San Francisco International Film
Festival
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: New Day
Films
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Midas S.A., Paris; Mallia Films, Gentilly,
France; and Community Animation, Inc., Ithaca, NY AWARD: Venice International Film Festival, Special Jury Prize
FORMAT: 35mm, 16mm (90:00)
DISTRIBUTORS:
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Yale University Films, New Haven, CT, and
BBC, Scotland AWARD: Television and Radio Club of Scotland, Best Single Drama on
Television
FORMAT: Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Films
for the Humanities and Sciences
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Yale University Films, New Haven, CT and BBC,
Scotland FORMAT: Video (112:00) Part 1 (60:00), Part 2 (52:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Films
for the Humanities and Sciences
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Unicorn Projects, Inc., Washington, DC AWARDS: American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon; CINE Golden Eagle
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (two versions, 57:20 and 30:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Unicorn Projects, Inc., Washington, DC AWARDS: American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; International
Film and Television Festival of New York, Finalist; Chicago International
Film Festival, Certificate of Merit; CINE Golden Eagle
FORMAT: Video (two versions, 58:00 and 29:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: George Washington University, Washington,
DC PRINT MATERIAL: Viewer's Guide (55 pages), available through
Annenberg/CPB Project (see distributor listing).
FORMAT: Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: The
Annenberg/CPB Project
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Film News Now Foundation and Ambrica
Productions, New York, NY AWARDS/FESTIVALS: National Educational Film and Video Festival, Bronze
Apple; American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon; International Chinese
Film Festival, Montreal
FORMAT: Video (135:00) Part I: Battle for Survival, 1911–36 (58:00);
Part II: Fighting for the Future, 1936–49 (58:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: Program 1 PRODUCER/WRITER: Thomas Friedman DIRECTOR: Stephen Segaller
Program 2 PRODUCER/WRITER: Thomas Friedman Program 3 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Zvi Dor-Ner
Program 4 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Zvi Dor-Ner
Program 5 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Graham Chedd
Program 6 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Graham Chedd
Program 7 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Graham Chedd
SERIES PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH, Boston, MA PRINT MATERIAL: Companion Volume: Columbus and the Age of
Discovery by Zvi Dor-Ner with William Scheller; interactive videodisc;
audiocassette; resource guides; Teachers' guides; student newspaper
(printed in 1992)
FORMAT: Video 7 (58:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Films
for the Humanities and Sciences
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Metropolitan Pittsburgh Public Broadcasting,
Inc. (WQED) FORMAT: Audiocassette (59:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: WQED
(Metropolitan Pittsburgh Public Broadcasting)
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Thirteen/WNET, New York, NY, in association
with BBC-TV, London, England, and RM Arts, Munich, Germany PRINT MATERIALS: Teacher's Resource Guide, P.O. Box 245, Little Falls,
NJ 07424-9876; Dancing (trade book) by Gerald Jones, Harry N.
Abrams, Inc. (publisher), 100 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
NOTE: Other programs in the series (supported by other funders) are:
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Thirteen/WNET, New York, NY, in association
with BBC-TV, London, England, and RM Arts, Munich, Germany PRINT MATERIALS: Teacher's Resource Guide, P.O. Box 245, Little Falls,
NJ 07424-9876; Dancing (trade book) by Gerald Jones, Harry N.
Abrams, Inc. (publisher), 100 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
NOTE: Other programs in the series are listed above, under Dancing:
Dance at Court
FORMAT: Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
Program l PRODUCER/WRITER/DIRECTOR: Sue Williams Program 2 PRODUCER/WRITER: Tom Weidlinger Program 3 PRODUCER/WRITER/DIRECTOR: Christina von Braun PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA, and
LMK Images, Paris, France FORMAT: Video 3 (60:00) programs
DISTRIBUTORS: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA, and David Grubin Productions, New York, NY AWARDS/FESTIVALS: American Association of Museums, Media and Technology
Committee, MUSE Award; The New York Festival, Gold Medal; CINE Golden
Eagle; Writers Guild of America Award
PRINT MATERIAL: Teacher's Guide available through L.A. County Museum of
Art
FORMAT: Video (60:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: KCET
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Long Bow Group, Inc., Brookline, MA AWARDS/FESTIVALS: George F. Peabody Award for Television Journalism;
New York Film Festival; Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema; Berlin
International Film Festival
PRINT MATERIALS: Background information, biographies of filmmakers and
of major characters appearing in the film, chronology of events, and press
clippings, available from the Long Bow Group.
FORMAT: Video (188:30)
DISTRIBUTORS: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Educational Television and Film Center,
Washington, DC AWARDS: Emmy Award; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold
Apple; Leipzig International Film Festival, Special Jury Prize; American
Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; Museum of Modern Art, New
Directors/New Films
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: New Day
Films
Program 1 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Eugene Marner Program 2 DIRECTORS: Eugene Marner, Patricia Sides, Julian Krainin, Howard
Enders Program 3 PRODUCERS: John G. Fox, Julian Krainin Program 4 PRODUCER: Michael Joseloff Program 5 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Eugene Marner Program 6 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Eugene Marner Program 7 PRODUCER/DIRECTORS: Marc Siegel, Morton Silverstein Program 8 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Alan Rosenthal Program 9 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Alan Rosenthal SERIES PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WNET/13, New York, NY AWARDS: Emmy Award; Christopher Award; American Film Festival, Red
Ribbon
FORMAT: Video 9 (60:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Public
Media Inc.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Third World Newsreel, New York, NY FORMAT: 16mm, Video (55:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Third World
Newsreel
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York,
NY AWARD: Mannheim Film Festival, Gold Dukat Award
FORMAT: 16mm (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Ganesha Productions, Los Angeles, CA AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (23:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Coronet/MTI
Film and Video, Inc. (for Disney Educational Productions)
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: National Public Radio, Washington, DC FORMAT: Audiocassette 2 (23:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Ways & Means Production, New York,
NY FESTIVALS: U.S. Film Festival; Global Village Film Festival; FILMEX
(Los Angeles); Museum of Modern Art and Film Society of Lincoln Center,
New Directors/New Films
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (92:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: First
Run/Icarus Films
While Koreans identify the war as the most important event in their
recent history, for many Americans the fiftieth anniversary of the Korean
War evoked only the vaguest notions of who fought and why U.S. soldiers
were there. By the time it ended, inconclusively, on July 27, 1953, 54,000
Americans were dead and Korea was already on its way to becoming America's
"Forgotten War." Korea: The Unfinished War features new
interviews, woven together with archival tape, bringing to life a war that
never received the attention it deserved. This American RadioWorks special
report uses personal stories to illuminate the end of segregation in the
armed forces; the policy of "limited war" and containment; and the
American military build-up that lasted through the Cold War to the present
day. PRINT MATERIALS: Text and audio of the radio documentary, as well as
interview transcripts and other resources are available on the website www.americanradioworks.org/features/korea/index.html
FORMAT: One hour-long radio Special Report, one 13-minute newsmagazine
report on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. Two ten-minute stories
on PRI's The World and an extensive companion website.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Jewish Heritage Project, New York,
NY AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Federation of European Film Critics Award; Leipzig
International Film Festival, Best Film; U.S. (Sundance) Film and Video
Festival; Montreal International Film Festival; San Francisco
International Film Festival; Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy; Berlin
International Film Festival; London International Film Festival:
Valladolid International Film Festival; Dallas International Film
Festival; Yamagata (Japan) International Film Festival
PRINT MATERIAL: The film is based on The Chronicle of the Lodz
Ghetto, commissioned by the Eldest of the Jews and written for the
purpose of historical illumination
FORMAT: 35mm, Video (103:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: The Jewish
Heritage Project
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Voces Unidas Bilingual Broadcasting
Foundation, Salinas, CA FORMAT: Audiocassette (30:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Hunter
College of the City University of New York AWARDS/FESTIVALS: American Film and Video Festival, Finalist; First
LASA Invitational Film Festival; Independent Focus;Choice,
Outstanding Nonprint Material (American Library Association)
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (59:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema
Guild, Inc.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Ambrica Productions, New York, NY, in
association with WGBH, Boston, MA, and Channel 4, U.K. AWARDS/FESTIVALS: San Francisco International Film Festival, Best of
Category in Television History; Writer's Guild of America, Outstanding
Achievement Award nomination
PRINT MATERIALS: Posters with Teaching/Discussion Guide and
Bibliography
FORMAT: Video (118:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: Program 1 INTERVIEWS: General Mikhail Burtsev, General Sergei Kondrashev, Auguste
Lecoeur, Wolfgang Leonhard, Hans Mahle, Daniel Melnikov, Vyacheslay
Molotov, Dr. Klaus-Peter Schultz, Wilhemina Slavutskaya, Pavel Sudoplatov,
Leonid Zamyatin
Program 2 INTERVIEWS: Alexei Aszubel, Ivan Baibakov, Lev Delyusin, Andrei
Dobrovsky, Mikhail Kapitsa, Liu Keming, Colonel Gavril Korotkov, Colonel
Aleksander Orlov, Zhu Rhuizhen, Sergei Tikhvinski, Valentin Vdovin, Shi
Zhe
Program 3 INTERVIEWS: General Vladimir Abramov, Alexei Adzubel, Aleksander
Alekseyev, Yevgeni Bazhanov, Colonel Alexei Belov, Lev Deliusin, Oleg
Daroussenkov, Carlos Franqui, Mikhail Kapitsa, Rada Khrushcheva,Yevgeni
Kobalev, Nikolai Leonov, Felix Machulsky, Vladimir Semichastny
Program 4 INTERVIEWS: Georgi Arbatov, Elena Bonner, General Makhmud Gareev,
Andrei Grachev, KGB General Sergei Kondrashev, Georgi Kornienko, Mikhail
Kosarev, Anatoli Kovalev, Marshal Viktor Kullkov, KGB General Nikolai
Leonov, Gregory Lokshin, Nikolai Shishlin, Tair Tairov, Valentin Vdovin,
General Dmitri Volkogonov, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Valentin Zorin
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Thirteen/WNET, New York, NY, in coproduction
with Barraclough Carey Productions, Ltd. and Pacem Productions, Inc.,and
in association with BBC, Bristol, UK FORMAT: Video, 4 (58:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Pacem
Distribution International
Program 1 Program 2 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington,
DC AWARDS: Chicago International Film Festival, Certificate of Merit;
Hemisfilm '80 Festival, Special Jury Prize
FORMAT: 16mm, Video Program 1 (120:00); Program 2 (180:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Folger
Shakespeare Library, Museum Shop
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: David Grubin Productions, New York, NY AWARDS: George Foster Peabody Award
FORMAT: Video (4 hours)
DISTRIBUTORS: Devillier
Donegan Enterprises and PBS
Video
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Metropolitan Pittsburgh Public Broadcasting
Inc. (WQED) FORMAT: Video (27:48)
DISTRIBUTOR: Indiana
University, Audio-Visual Center
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Ciesla Foundation, Washington, DC AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Anthropos Film Festival, Los Angeles, First Prize
Winner; American Film and Video Festival, Honorable Mention; CINE Golden
Eagle; Berlin Film Festival; FILMEX (Los Angeles); INPUT Conference;
Toronto Film Festival; London Film Festival; Troia-Haifa Film Festival;
London Jewish Film Festival; San Francisco Jewish Film Festival;
Australian Jewish Film Festivals (Sydney and Melbourne)
PRINT MATERIAL: Viewer's guide and record, with or without booklet,
available. Record booklet contains essays on the songs and lyrics in
English and in transliterated Yiddish. For these materials contact: Aviva
Kempner, Ciesla Foundation, 1707 Lanier Place, NW, Washington, DC 20009.
Telephone: 202-462-7528
FORMAT: 35mm, 16mm, Video (133:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: National
Center for Jewish Film
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 Program 7 Program 8 Program 9 Program 10 PPRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Independent Broadcasting Associates, Inc.,
Littleton, MA PRINT MATERIALS: Independent Broadcasting Associates, Inc. To hear
samples, go to http://www.neh.gov/www.baradio.org
FORMAT: Audiocassette 10 (60:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Independent
Broadcasting Associates, Inc.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Medici Foundation, Princeton, NJ FORMAT: Video (88:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: New
Dimensions Video
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Unicorn Projects, Inc., Washington, DC AWARDS: National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple; CINE
Golden Eagle
PRINT MATERIAL: Teacher and Student Guides available
FORMAT: Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: Program 1 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: John Madden, Tom Voegeli Program 2 PRODUCERS: National Public Radio and Radio Telefis Eireann,
Dublin Program 3 PRODUCER: Robert Montiegel Program 4 DIRECTOR: Daniel Freudenberger Program 5 PRODUCER: Mary Lou Finnegan Program 6 PRODUCER: Mary Lou Finnegan
Program 7 PRODUCER: Mary Lou Finnegan Program 8 PRODUCER: Robert Montiegel Program 9 PRODUCER: Robert Montiegel
Program 10 PRODUCER: Mary Lou Finnegan Program 11 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: John Madden Program 12 PRODUCER: Robert Malesky PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: National Public Radio, Washington, DC FORMAT: Audiocassette 12 (60:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Hava Kohav Theatre Foundation, Inc.,
Riverside, NY and New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY AWARDS: Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Feature
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (113:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: Direct
Cinema Limited
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The George Washington University, Washington,
DC PRINT MATERIAL: Bilingual transcript available (103 pages with thirty
photographs)
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: contact Dr.
Chung-wen Shih
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Unicorn Projects, Inc., Washington, DC
AWARD: National Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program
PRINT MATERIALS: School Kit with Teacher's Guide
FORMAT: Video (55:57)
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
Video
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Cultural Research and Communication, Inc.,
Emeryville, CA FESTIVALS: FILMEX (Los Angeles); American Film Festival; Toronto Film
Festival; Edinburgh Film Festival; Mill Valley (CA) Film Festival
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: First
Run/Icarus Films
Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 Premiere Presentation
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: BBC Television, England, in association with
Warner Brothers Television, New York, NY AWARD: British Television Critics, Best Dramatic Series
Encore Presentation
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: WETA, Washington, DC, in association with The
Institute for Research in History, New York, NY PRINT MATERIAL: Shoulder to Shoulder by Midge McKenzie (Alfred
A. Knopf, 1975 and Vintage Paperback, 1988)
FORMAT: Video DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
Video
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Film News Now Foundation, New York, NY AWARDS/FESTIVALS: CINE Golden Eagle; American Anthropology Association;
International Conference in Visual Communication; FILMEX (Los Angeles);
New York Film Festival; American Film Festival; Cinemadu Reel; Margaret
Mead Film Festival
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (52:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Filmakers
Library
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Veriation Films, Palo Alto, CA, and Film Arts
Foundation, San Francisco, CA AWARD: American Film Festival, Finalist
PRINT MATERIAL: Viewer's Guide available
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (57:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Lara Classics, Inc., Cambridge, MA AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Nominated for a Ceasar (French Academy Award), Best
First Time Director (for Suzanne Schiffman); Toronto International Film
Festival; Boston Film Festival
FORMAT: 35mm, Video (90:00) In French (with English subtitles) or in
English
DISTRIBUTORS: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Accuracy In Media, Inc., Washington,
DC FORMAT: Video (two versions, 58:30 and 112:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Program 1 Program 2 Program 3 America's Mandarin (1954–63) Program 4 Program 5 Program 6 Program 7 Program 8 Program 9 Program 10 Program 11 Program 12 Program 13 PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA;
Central Independent Television/UK; and Antenne 2/France AWARDS: For Series: Alfred I. Dupont/Columbia University Broadcast
Journalism Award; 6 National Emmy awards; George Foster Peabody Award;
International Film Festival of Nyon, Certificate of Merit; George Polk
Award, Documentary Television Award; Organization of American Historians,
Erik Barnouw Award; New England Historical Society, Certificate of Merit;
San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Award for Network
Documentary, Television Special Program Category; America Takes
Charge: Global Village Film and Video Documentary Festival, Best
Program Made for Television; Roots of a War American Film Festival,
Red Ribbon; Tet 1968 American Film Festival, Honorable Mention
PRINT MATERIALS: Anthology, Textbook, and Instructor's Guide available
(see below)
Study Guide and Anthology—Steven Cohen, Vietnam: Anthology and Guide
to a Television History. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf), 1983. Nearly150
documents, along with photographs, maps, chronologies, and historical
summaries. Desk copies of the study guide are available through
McGraw-Hill, 1-800-338-3987.
Textbook—Stanley Karnow, Vietnam (New York: Viking Press) 1983.
In the first full history of the war, chief correspondent for the
television series Karnow combines scholarship with information from thirty
years of reporting on the French and American wars in Indochina. Personal,
desk, and examination copies of the textbook are available from Penguin
USA, 1-800-331-4624.
Instructor's Guide to Vietnam, 1983. Interdisciplinary material
and instructional suggestions for using the series as a television course
or in existing courses in history, political science, or philosophy.
Colleges, universities, and other organizations can license the use of
Vietnam from the PBS Adult Learning Service as a credit or
non-credit television course and receive one copy of the guide and the
right to tape the programs off-air and to use them with enrolled
telecourse students for the term of the license.
FORMAT: Video DISTRIBUTORS: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Medici Foundation, Princeton, NJ FORMAT: Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: contact New
Dimensions Video
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Film Arts Foundation and James Culp
Productions, San Francisco, CA FESTIVAL: Hawaii Film Festival
FORMAT: Video (57:40)
DISTRIBUTOR: The
Film History Foundation
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: Independent Broadcasting Associates, Inc.,
Littleton, MA AWARDS: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Best Public Affairs
Documentary; National Conference of Christians and Jews, Inc., Fellowship
Award; National Mass Media Brotherhood Award
FORMAT: Audiocassettes 13 (29:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Independent
Broadcasting Associates, Inc.
Abode of Illusion
Documentary
The film considers differences between Chinese
and Western aesthetics through an examination of the work of Chang
Ta-Ch'ien (1899–1983), one of China's foremost modern painters.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1992
PRODUCERS: Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon, Kathy Kline, Carl
Nagin
DIRECTORS: Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon
WRITER: Carma
Hinton
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Richard Gordon
EDITOR: David Carnochan
Afropop Worldwide
Documentary Radio
YEAR PRODUCED: 2004
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Sean
Barlow
PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Sean Barlow, Banning Eyre
NARRATOR:
Georges Collinet
DISTRIBUTORS: Public
Radio International
All under Heaven: Life in a Chinese Village
Documentary
All under Heaven examines the effect of
political change, particularly collectivization and decollectivization, on
Long Bow, a village about 400 miles southwest of Beijing, China.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
PRODUCERS: Richard Gordon, Carma Hinton,
Kathy Kline, Dan Sipe
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Tim Callahan, David
Carnochan
DIRECTORS: Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon
WRITERS: Carma
Hinton, with Laurie Block, John Crowley
EDITOR: David
Carnochan
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Richard Gordon
SOUND RECORDIST: Yand Ifang
Building Big
Documentary
Think big! Engineers have been doing just that
for thousands of years, as renowned author-illustrator David Macaulay
proves in this five-part miniseries on spectacular structures. The
programs cover bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams, and tunnels—past and
present. Along the way, Macaulay highlights the engineering principles and
human stories behind some of the most remarkable achievements in the
history of building.
Program 1
Bridges
How does a bridge withstand the forces of nature and
traffic? David Macaulay takes viewers from the stone arch bridges of the
Roman Empire to Japan's giant, all-steel Akashi Kaikyo suspension bridge,
the longest in the world. Through the epic sagas of the Brooklyn, Golden
Gate, and other great bridges, Macaulay shows how engineers have conquered
ever-wider spans with better construction materials and innovative
designs.
Program 2
Domes
How does a dome support itself? Ever since the Roman
Emperor Hadrian topped his Pantheon with a dome, this roof-with-class has
been the prestige building form. Big domes cover civilization's most
revered structures, from great cathedrals to mosques to houses of
government. David Macaulay uncovers the tricky technology of domes, from
the Pantheon to the geodesic marvels of Buckminster Fuller and beyond.
Program 3
Skyscrapers
What does it take to erect a skyscraper 100 stories tall?
From the medieval towers of Italy's San Gimignano to today's race to build
the world's tallest skyscraper, David Macaulay chronicles our aptitude for
altitude. On the way up, he highlights the remarkable achievements of the
Gothic cathedral builders and the almost-disaster of New York's Citigroup
(formerly Citicorp) Center.
Program 4
Dams
How does a dam resist the crush of millions of gallons of
water? David Macaulay surveys the dam ¾ the biggest, costliest structure
of all ¾ from Hoover's concrete arch confronting the Colorado River to the
Aswan High Dam, a veritable underwater mountain sitting on the Nile
riverbed, holding back a lake the size of England.
Program 5
Tunnels
What keeps a tunnel from collapsing? Tunnels have advanced
from dangerous, claustrophobic passages to spacious, safe subterranean
networks as roomy as shopping malls. David Macaulay takes viewers
underground to explore the history and ingenuity behind some of the
world's tunneling marvels.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH Educational Foundational, Boston, MA
and Production Group, Inc., Washington, DC
YEAR PRODUCED:
2000
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Paula S. Apsell, Larry
Klein
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS/WRITERS: Larry Klein, Thomas Levenson, Joseph
McMaster, Judith Dwan Hallet, Eugenie Vink
NARRATOR: David Macaulay
AWARDS: Peabody Award
PRINT MATERIALS: Sample print and video materials are available to
press on request.
FORMAT: Video, 5 programs 60:00 each
DISTRIBUTOR: WGBH
Biquefarre
Drama
This film is a sequel to director Georges Rouquier's
landmark feature Farrebique, a portrait of rural French society in
the Aveyron district of southern France.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1983
COPRODUCERS: Marie-Francoise Mascaro, Bertrand Van Effenterre,
William Gilcher
DIRECTOR: Georges Rouquier
EDITOR: Genevieve
Louveau
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Andre Villard, Pierre-Laurent Chenieux
Boswell for The Defence
Drama
This film explores the issues of quality of life and
justice in eighteenth-century Scotland through the story of James Reid, a
butcher accused of stealing nineteen sheep, who was sentenced to hang. It
focuses on Reid's defense by Scottish lawyer and writer James Boswell.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Howard Sayre
Weaver
PRODUCER: Roderick Graham
EDITOR: Robert Bathgate
WRITER:
Mark Harris
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stuart Wyld
CAST: David McKail, Alec
Heggie, Isobel Black, Andrew Keir
Boswell in London
Drama
Adapted from James Boswell's London Journal,
this two-part dramatization portrays Boswell's attempts to seek acceptance
in London society, his historic meeting and developing friendship with
Samuel Johnson, and his departure for Holland to study law.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: William
Peters
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Roderick Graham
WRITER: Mark
Harris
EDITOR: Brian Ashcroft
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stuart Wyld
CAST:
Ian Sharp, Annette Lynton, Tony Steedman
Castle
Documentary
Based on a book by David Macaulay, this film
explains the architectural design, social organization, and military
significance of a thirteenth-century Welsh castle through a blend of
animated dramatic sequences and live action. (See also Cathedral
and Pyramid.)
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1983
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ray Hubbard
COPRODUCERS: Larry
Klein, Mark Olshaker
WRITER: Mark Olshaker
DIRECTOR OF ANIMATION:
Jack Stokes
ANIMATION: The Animation Partnership in association with TV
Cartoons, Ltd.
HOSTS: David Macaulay, Sarah Bullen
VOICES: Ronald
Baddily, Brian Blessed, Ellis Jones, Freddie Jones, Roy Purcell, Marie
Sutherland
Cathedral
Documentary
Drawn from the book by architect/illustrator
David Macaulay, Cathedral combines animated dramatic episodes with
location sequences to tell the story of the planning, construction, and
dedication of a fictional cathedral in medieval France. (See also Castle
and Pyramid.)
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1985
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ray Hubbard
PRODUCERS/WRITERS:
Larry Klein, Mark Olshaker
ANIMATION: The Animation
Partnership
ANIMATION CREATED & DIRECTED BY: Tony White
HOSTS:
David Macaulay, Caroline Berg
VOICES: Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed,
Geoffrey Matthews, Paul Bacon, Sean Barrett, Paul Bacon, Peter Pacey,
Ellis Jones
China's Cosmopolitan Age: The Tang
Documentary
This program examines the legacy of the Tang
dynasty (A.D. 618–907) in government, art, religion, and philosophy, and
its far-reaching contribution to the humanistic traditions of China,
Korea, and Japan.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Joan Chung-wen
Shih
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Christopher Li, Haining Wu, Shangyuan
Zhao
EDITORS: Penny Trams, Mike Ritter
NARRATORS: Stanley Anderson,
Theo Feng
China in Revolution, 1911–1949
Documentary
China in Revolution, 1911–1949 explores
the establishment of the Chinese communist state, from the fall of the boy
emperor, Pu Yi, to the birth of the People's Republic of China.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:
Judith Vecchioni
PRODUCERS: Sue Williams, Kathryn
Dietz
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Sue Williams
CODIRECTOR: Kathryn
Dietz
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Richard Gordon
EDITOR: Howard
Sharp
NARRATOR: Will Lyman
Citizen Kurchatov: Stalin's
Bomb Maker
Documentary
The enigmatic world-class physicist, Igor
Kurchatov, feared the 1945 American atomic bomb monopoly, "They had used
it on Japan, Russia could be next." In four years of intensive work he
developed the bomb for Stalin. Was he a crusader for nuclear sanity, like
his American counterpart Oppenheimer, or an apparatchik who outlived his
bosses, Stalin and KGB director Beria, by being, "A consummate politician
who, like a great actor, could play a role while hiding his true
feelings?"
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Kaufman Vision Productions, Cambridge,
MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1999
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Brian Kaufman, Martin
Shewin
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Brian Kaufman
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Valeri Shaptonov, Gary Henoch, Glen Percy, Vladimir Meralou
EDITOR:
Brian Kaufman
NARRATOR: Ted O'Brien
FORMAT: Video 57 mins
DISTRIBUTOR: Oregon
Public Broadcasting
Columbus and the Age of Discovery
Documentary Series
Columbus and the Age of
Discovery is a seven-part series on Christopher Columbus, his era, and
his legacy.
Columbus' World
travels to China, the
Spice Islands, Cairo, Genoa, Venice, and Istanbul to explore the world of
the fifteenth century and set the stage for Columbus' great seagoing
adventure.
An Idea Takes Shape
considers the
advances in shipbuilding and navigation that made Columbus' voyages
possible, examines his motivations, and chronicles his long and arduous
search for patronage to fund his westward route to the Orient.
DIRECTOR: Stephen Segaller
The Crossing
recreates Columbus' first
transatlantic route with working replicas of the Nina, the Pinta, and the
Santa Maria as well as with excerpts from his logs and journal.
Worlds Found and Lost
follows a
modern-day crew as they sail the route of Columbus' first voyage, from his
landfall at San Salvador, through the Bahamas to Cuba, Haiti and the
Dominican Republic, searching for the Caribbean that Columbus saw, and the
changes left in his wake.
The Sword and the Cross
shows how the
Americas evolved from the new blend of peoples, diseases, motives, and
attitudes brought by Columbus and those who followed him. In addition, the
impact of the conquistadors and the Catholic church on the indigenous
population is explored.
The Columbian Exchange
examines the
interchange of horses, cattle, corn, potatoes, and sugar cane between the
Old World and the New, and the lasting impact on the people of both
worlds.
In Search of Columbus
follows the path
of the Admiral's fourth and final voyage and explores perceptions of
Columbus by different nations and cultures on the eve of the
quincentenary.
YEARS PRODUCED:
1985-1991
SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Zvi Dor-Ner
ORIGINAL MUSIC
COMPOSED BY: Sheldon Mirowitz
HOST: Mauricio Obregon
NARRATOR: Will
Lyman
Corpus Duende: Echoes of the Spanish Civil War
Radio Documentary
Corpus Duende documents the
Spanish Civil War and its international repercussions through the
testimony of survivors as well as through period music, poetry, and news
reports.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Thomas B.
Skinner
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Bill Howell
STORY: Based on a script by
Robert E. Lee
NARRATOR: Karl Hardman
CAST: Eli Wallach, Denise Hunt,
Pip Theodor, Wilson Hutton, Hugh A. Rose
The Crucible of the
Millennium
Documentary
The years surrounding 1500 represent a pivotal
time in human history, marking the birth of our Modern Age. During that
period, the invention of the printing press in Europe, based on a Chinese
invention, spurred an information revolution and changed the way people
envisioned the world. Different peoples, cultures, and religions came into
contact with another, often for the first time, and sometimes violently.
The reverberations of these developments are still felt today in the
interconnectedness of cultures and economics and in issues related to
immigration, the environment, economic inequality, nationalism, and
racism. The two-part special examines the technological advances, the
wide-ranging exploration and the collision of cultures that characterized
the midpoint of the last millennium, revealing why an understanding of
that period is critical to an understanding of the world today.
Part I
Through the Looking
Glass
tells the story of Calicut, a bustling port city on the
coast of southwest India that was the crossroads of many cultures, a place
that gave rise to the trade on a global scale. The program captures the
experience and adventures of three 15th-century visitors to Calicut—the
royal leader of a Chinese maritime expedition as auspicious as any that
followed, an ambassador from the Ottoman court and a Portuguese explorer
whose visit changed the course of history.
Part II
Echoes and
Resonances
chronicles 15th- and 16th-century interactions between
Europeans and the peoples of the Americas and Africa. The program follows
the exploits of the early European explorers and shows how their
explorations, conquests and trade in everything from sugar to human beings
ultimately brought the entire world, often reluctantly, into permanent
contact, and raised issues of colonial domination that remain unresolved
to this day. The program concludes with prominent scholars offering their
views on the issues raised by the program and exploring solutions.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Kroyt Brandt Productions, Inc., New York
City, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 2001
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Yanna Kroyt
Brandt
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Yanna Kroyt Brandt, Cheryl Hill
WRITERS: Yanna Kroyt Brandt, Bernard Weisberger
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Juan Barrera
EDITOR: Gary Princz
HOST: Jeanne
Moutoussamy-Ashe
NARRATOR: Reuben Santiago-Hudson
PRINT MATERIALS: Educational guide available from the American
Forum for Global Education, 120 Wall Street, New York City, NY 10005, call
at 800-813-5060 or email at globed120@aol.com
AWARDS/FESTIVALS: US International Film and Video Festival; Axiem
award for excellence; Aurora (Platinum Best of Show); 2 Chris honorable
mention awards for Show 1 and the script for Show 1
FORMAT: Video 2 programs 90:00 each
DISTRIBUTORS: Monarch
Films and KCTS-Seattle
Dancing: Dance at Court
Documentary
Dance at Court explores dance as an
expression of social order and power—from the perfection of ballet in the
court of Louis XIV to dance in the contemporary courts of Japan, Java, and
Ghana. (One of eight programs in a series exploring the nature and role of
dance throughout the world.)
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1993
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Rhoda Grauer
PRODUCERS: Geoff
Dunlop, Jane Alexander
WRITERS: Gerald Jonas, Rhoda
Grauer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mike Coles, Chris O'Dell
EDITOR: Kate
Hirson
HOST/NARRATOR: Raoul Trujillo
FORMAT: Video (58:00)
Dancing: The Individual and Tradition
Documentary
This program introduces the individualistic
choreographers who revolutionized dance performance in the twentieth
century, e.g., Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Vaslav Nijinski, Katherine
Dunham, George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp, Sardono Kusumo, and Garth Fagan.
(One of eight programs in a series on the role of dance in different
cultures.)
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1993
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Rhoda Grauer
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS:
Muffie Meyer, Ellen Hovde
WRITERS: Ronald Blumer, David
Boorstein
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tom Hurwitz
EDITOR: Alison
Ellwood
HOST/NARRATOR: Raoul Trujillo
De Gaulle and France
Documentary Series
De Gaulle and France is a
three-part series on the life, impact, and legacy of the French general
and statesman Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970).
A Vision of France
traces the rise of de
Gaulle with the establishment of his French government-in-exile in London
and the restructuring of post-war Europe.
EDITOR: Sharon Sachs
Return of the General
examines de
Gaulle's re-entry into politics during the Algerian crisis, his efforts at
revising the French constitution, and his abandonment of the notion of a
French empire.
EDITOR: Constance Ryder
Challenging the World
considers de
Gaulle's policies and actions as he worked toward insuring France's place
as a major international power during the 1960s.
EDITOR: Claire
Painchault
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
Judith Vecchione, Yves Eudes
PRODUCER/WRITERS: Sue Williams, Tom
Wiedlinger, Christina von Braun
DIRECTORS: Sue Williams, Christina von
Braun
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Georges Diane, Alain Thiollet, Michel Gau,
Jean-Claude Barxell
EDITORS: Sharon Sachs, Constance Ryder, Claire
Painchault
NARRATOR: Gene Galusha
Degenerate Art
Documentary
This film examines the Nazi attacks against
avant garde art, music, film, and literature that culminated in the
Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition of 1937.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1993
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Stephanie Barron, David
Grubin
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: David Grubin
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Allan
Palmer
EDITOR: Bob Eisenhardt
NARRATOR: David
McCullough
INTERVIEWS: Robert Hughes, Sander Gilman, Peter Guenther,
Olda Kokoschka, Ursus Dix, Titus Felixmuller, Josephine Knapp, Bernard
Schultze, Peter Setz, Gert Werneberg
The Gate of Heavenly
Peace
Documentary
This film revisits the 1989 protests in
Tiananmen Square in the context of the political habits and attitudes that
have informed Chinese public life over the past century.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1995
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Richard Gordon, Carma
Hinton
WRITERS: Geremie Barmé, John Crowley
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Richard
Gordon
EDITORS: David Carnochan, Charles Phred Churchill
NARRATOR:
Deborah Amos
INTERVIEWS: Dai Qing, Ding Zilin, Feng Congde, Ge Yang,
Han Dongfang, Hou Dejian, Liang Xiaoyan, Liu Xiaobo, Lü Jinghua, Wang Dan,
Wu Guoguang, Wuer Kaixi, Xiang Xiaoji, Zhao Hongliang
The Global Assembly Line
Documentary
The Global Assembly Line explores the
impact of transnational expansion and relocation in the electronics and
garment industries through the experience of women and men working in
these industries in developing countries and in North America.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986
COPRODUCERS: Lorraine Gray, Anne
Bohlen, Maria Patricia, Fernandez Kelly
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Lorraine
Gray
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Sandi Sissel, Baird Bryant, Lorraine
Gray
EDITORS: Mary Lampson, Sarah Fishko
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
Documentary Series
Heritage is a nine-part
documentary series that chronicles the 3,000-year history of the Jewish
people.
A People Is Born (c. 3500 B.C.E. to sixth
century B.C.E.)
recounts the origins of the Jewish people from
their exodus out of Egypt to their Babylonian exile.
STORY: Marc Siegel
WRITER: John
Sharnik
The Power of the Word (sixth century B.C.E. to
second century C.E.)
examines how the Jewish people formed an
identity based on ideas as opposed to territory during the Babylonian
exile.
STORY: Marc Siegel
WRITER: John Lord
POST-PRODUCTION
PRODUCER: Len Morris
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Petra Lent, Rivalyn Zweig
The Shaping of Traditions (first to ninth
centuries)
describes how different Jewish sects dispersed
throughout the Mediterranean region and how this influenced the emergence
of Christianity and Islam.
DIRECTOR: Julian
Krainin
WRITERS: John G. Fox, Marc Siegel
The Crucible of Europe (ninth to fifteenth
centuries)
explores Jewish life and religion throughout Western
Europe during the Middle Ages.
DIRECTOR: Julian Krainin
WRITERS: John
G. Fox, Marc Siegel, Michael Joseloff, Howard Enders
The Search for Deliverance (1492–1789)
describes the Jewish-European experience, from the expulsion of Jews
from Spain in 1492 to the French Revolution.
WRITER: John G. Fox
Roads from the Ghetto (1789-1917)
traces the impact on the Jewish experience of the Industrial and
French Revolutions.
WRITERS: Eugene Marner, John G. Fox
The Golden Land (1654–1932)
examines
the stages of Jewish immigration to America and the convergence of the
American ideal of democracy with the ancient Jewish heritage of freedom.
WRITER: Marc
Montfrey
Out of the Ashes (1917–45)
describes
the Nazi ideology, Jewish "shetl" life, repression and persecution leading
to "The Final Solution," and Jewish resistance.
WRITER: Brian Winston
Into the Future (1945 to the present)
focuses on events leading up to the creation of Israel, its early
history and relationship with Jews worldwide, and the long-range issues of
identity and security.
WRITER: Aleck Jackson
YEAR PRODUCED:
1984
SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Arnold Labaton, Marc Siegel
SERIES
PRODUCER: John G. Fox
SENIOR EDITORIAL CONSULTANT: Marc Siegel
HOST:
Abba Eban
Homes Apart: Korea
Documentary
This film looks at the division of Korea
through the eyes of the producer/narrator and a Korean-American who is
reunited with his sister in North Korea.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1991
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Orinne J.T.
Takagi
PRODUCER/NARRATOR: Christine Choy
DIRECTOR: J.T.
Takagi
WRITER: David Henry Hwang
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Christine Choy,
Nick Doob
EDITOR: Maro Chermayeff.
PRINT MATERIAL: Study guide
available
Image before My Eyes
Documentary
Image before My Eyes recreates Jewish
life in Poland from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1980
PRODUCERS: Josh Waletzky, Susan
Lazarus
DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Josh Waletzky
WRITER: Jerome Badanes
India Speaks
Documentary
This program reveals India's cultural,
linguistic, economic, and philosophical diversity through a look at the
lives of several of its citizens.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1986
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Paula Haller
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Rickie Gauld
EDITOR: Jan Roblee
The Jews of Shanghai
Radio Documentary
Through the testimony of survivors, this
two-part program looks at the experience of the more than one hundred
thousand European Jews who fled to Shanghai from Hitler's Third Reich.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1990
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Bill Buzenberg, Ellen
Weiss
PRODUCER/WRITERS: Art Silverman, Susan Stamberg
EDITOR::
Brooke Gladstone
NARRATOR: Susan Stamberg
Kaddish
Documentary
Kaddish is a film about growing up as
the American-born child of a Holocaust survivor in the Orthodox Jewish
Community of Boro Park, New York.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Steve
Brand
NARRATOR: Yossi Klein
Korea: The Unfinished War
Documentary Radio
YEAR PRODUCED: 2003
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Bill
Buzenberg
PRODUCERS: John Biewen, Stephen Smith
EDITOR: Deborah
George
HOST: Stephen Smith
Lodz Ghetto
Documentary
This film focuses on Poland's Lodz Ghetto
(1941–44), the longest surviving community of Jews trapped in Hitler's
Europe, and is drawn entirely from the secret daily journals and
photographs which these people left behind.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1990
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Stephen
Samuels
PRODUCER: Alan Adelson
DIRECTORS: Kathryn Taverna, Alan
Adelson
SCRIPT COMPILED BY: Kathryn Taverna, Alan
Adelson
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires, Jozef Piwkowski
EDITOR:
Kathryn Taverna
MUSIC: Wendy Blackstone
VOICES: Jerzy Kosinski,
Nicholas Kepros, Barbara Rosenblat, David Warrilow, Gregory Gordon
Los Corridos
Radio Documentary
This program explores the history and
significance of the Mexican ballads or story songs known as
corridos and how they pass on traditions, oral history, and
cultural values.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
PROGRAM DIRECTOR: C.
Beatriz Lopez-Flores
PRODUCER: Chris Strachwitz
Manos a la Obra: The Story Of Operation Bootstrap
Documentary
Manos a la Obra (Put Your Hands to
Work) traces the historical background of Operation Bootstrap and the
economic development of Puerto Rico from the 1930s to the 1960s.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1983
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Jaime Barrios
ASSOCIATE
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Pedro Angel Rivera, Susan Zeig
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Susan Zeig, Alicia Weber
NARRATOR: Ilka Tania Payan
The Mao Years, 1949–1976
Documentary
This program examines the history of China
from the Communist takeover in 1949 until the death of Mao Zedong and the
end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. (See also China in
Revolution.)
YEAR PRODUCED:
1994
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Judith Vecchione
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER:
Sue Williams
COORDINATING PRODUCER: Kathryn Dietz
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Bestor Cram, Jean de Segonzac, Joe Vitagliano, Boyd Estus, Chris
Burrill
EDITOR: Howard Sharp
NARRATOR: Will Lyman
MUSIC: Tan Dun
Messengers From Moscow
Documentary Series
Filmed over a two-year period, this
series explores the four crucial phases of Cold War confrontation from
inside the former Soviet Union, through the eyes and memories of key
Soviet and other communist participants. (NEH provided production support
for Program 4.)
The Struggle for Europe
examines Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin's plan to extend communism not just into Eastern
Europe but into Western Europe as well.
The East is Red
tells the story of the
alliance between the Soviet Union and China—the main hope of Soviet
expansionists in the 1950s.
Fires in the Third World
spotlights the
two hot spots of international tension in the 1960s—Cuba and
Vietnam—explaining Soviet strategy at the time and challenging many of the
myths related to those events.
The Center Collapses
relates how and why
the ideology and mission that justified the existence of the Soviet
Union—to lead the working class to communism all over the world—also
destroyed it.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCERS: Arnold Labaton (WNET), Daniel Wolf (Barraclough Carey), Eugene
B. Shirley & Herbert Ellison (Pacem)
PRODUCTION/EXECUTIVE: William
Murphy
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Daniel Wolf (Barraclough
Carey)
CHIEF CONSULTANT; Herbert Ellison (Pacem)
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Valentin Chernoval (Barraclough Carey)
EDITOR: Christin Pancott
(Barraclough Carey)
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT: John Sharnick
(WNET)
NARRATOR: E.G. Marshall
Morning Sun
Documentary
A two-hour documentary about China's Cultural
Revolution (c.1964–76), the film provides a multi-perspective view of
this tumultuous period as seen through the eyes—and reflected in the
hearts and minds—of members of the generation that came of age in the
1960s. Others join them in creating the film's conversation about the
Cultural Revolution and its enduring legacy. Morning Sun is also
a film about the cultures and convictions that created the impetus,
language, style, and content of the Cultural Revolution—the films and
plays, the music and ideas, the rhetoric and ideologies, the education and
the aspirations, and the frustrations and fantasies that are at the heart
of a story about a new revolution that attempted to remake revolution
itself.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Long Bow Group, Brookline, MA
YEAR
PRODUCED: 2003
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Carma Hinton, Geremie R. Barmé,
Richard Gordon
WRITERS: Geremie R. Barmé, Carma Hinton, John Crowley
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Richard Gordon
EDITOR: David Carnochan
NARRATOR:
Margot Adler
AWARDS: American Historical Association, John E. O'Connor Film
Award, 2004; National Film Board of Canada: Nominee, Best Documentary
Feature 2003; International Documentary Association: Nominee, ABCNEWS
VideoSource and Pare Lorentz Awards Banff Television Festival: Finalist;
Best Documentary, Cinemasia Film Festival, Amsterdam
FESTIVALS: Berlin International Film Festival (Premiere), San
Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, Hong Kong
International Film Festival, É Tudo Verdade/It's All True: International
Documentary Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil, Banff Television Festival,
SilverDocs, Seattle International Film Festival, Starz Denver
International Film Festival, Cinemasia Film Festival, Amsterdam, Singapore
International Film Festival, New Zealand International Film Festivals,
Brisbane International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film
Festival, Haifa International Film Festival, New England Film and Video
Festival
FORMAT: Video 117 mins
DISTRIBUTOR: National
Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA)
The Mystery Play of Elche
Documentary and Drama
As the only play performed
continually since the Middle Ages, the Mystery Play of Elche has
been declared a National Cultural Monument in Spain, re-enacted every year
by the townspeople of Elche.
A documentary study of the town of Elche and its
people precedes an edited presentation of the play sung in Valenciano.
This program features an unedited version of the
play, without interpretive material.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
PRODUCER: O.B. Hardison, Jr.
DIRECTOR:
Gudie Lawaetz
CO-DIRECTOR: Michael Dodds
Napoleon
Documentary
Napoleon is a four-hour public
television series about one of history’s most exciting, complex, and
controversial characters. Framed by the grand sweep of world events, the
series recalls some of history’s most dramatic moments through the story
of one man, whose life mirrored the times in which he lived, and whose
extraordinary impact continues to this day. The series presents Napoleon
as a man of substance, as well as a man of unchecked ambitions. A
chronological account of Napoleon’s life, the series charts his dramatic
rise to power as Emperor of France and his bitter final years spent in
exile on the tiny, remote island of St. Helena. In examining Napoleon’s
intersection with the major events and issues of the age, the series shows
how those influences shaped the man, and how, in turn, he shaped the
course of world history.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 2000
PRODUCERS: David Grubin, Allyson
Luchak
DIRECTOR/WRITER: David Grubin
CINEMATOGRAPHY: James
Callanan
EDITORS: Seth Bomse, Susan Fanshel
NARRATOR: David
McCullough
The Parching Winds of Somalia
Documentary
This film examines the history and
contemporary concerns of the Islamic African nation of Somalia.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: David
Roland
PRODUCER: Charles Geshekter
WRITERS: Charles Geshekter, Mary
Rawson
EDITORS: Gary Hines, Frank George
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Andre
Gunn
NARRATOR: Mary Rawson
Partisans of Vilna
Documentary
Through archival footage and interviews with
former partisans, this film explores Jewish resistance in Vilna, Poland,
during World War II.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1986
PRODUCER: Aviva Kempner
DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Josh
Waletzky
NARRATOR: Roberta Wallach
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Danny Shneuer
Passage to India
Documentary Radio Series
The series presents India on its
own terms and in its own words by exploring ten "passages" or keys to
understanding modern India. Interviews and other recorded materials were
gathered throughout the country, from Punjab to Calcutta, the Himalayas to
Kerala, and from all sections of Indian society: Brahmins and
Untouchables, Muslims, Sikhs and Tribals, pavement dwellers and
Maharajahs. The programs interweave readings of poems and short stories
from Classical and Contemporary Indian culture into the documentary
fabric.
A Kaleidoscope of Cultures
Language,
race, religion, geography and climate-India is so diverse that by rights
it shouldn't really be a country at all: and yet it is this very diversity
that contains within it the secret that somehow binds Indians together.
The Presence of the Past
In the West we
live almost entirely in the present and the future. But life in India is
dominated and shaped by its past and by very different notions of time
itself. The program uses the example of the political career of Mahatma
Gandhi to show how Gandhi consciously blended past and present to
deliberate political ends.
Puja: Darsan Dena, Darsan Lena
Hinduism
is a bewildering mosaic of mythologies, rituals and gods. This program
looks at Hinduism as worship in the daily lives of Indians. Several of the
best---known Hindu myths are retold by Indian actors. The programs also
features recordings of religious festivals to the gods Siva, Vishnu, and
Parvati.
Biryani and Plum Pudding
India is the
"black hole" of civilizations, with a unique ability to absorb,
incorporate and synthesize other cultures into something new and typically
Indian. The program focuses on the Muslim and British impact on India and
the manner in which they, in their turn, have been Indianised.
Vedas, Ragas, and Storytellers
In a
country where only 35 percent of the population is formally literate, oral
cultures are enormously important even today, although modern education,
politics and mass media are rapidly modifying the face-to-face nature of
ancient styles of performance and perception. The program looks at the
oral tradition in classical, folk, and popular cultures and how these
traditions are handed down through the generations.
In Search of Filmwallahs
The Indian
cinema is the largest in the world; over 800 new films every year and over
eleven million film goers every day. It's the dominant cultural form in
today's India, retelling the past, interpreting the present, and creating
new myths and dreams for millions, many uneducated and uprooted from their
past.
Praneschacharya's Dilemma
Western
individualism is, in many ways, alien to the Indian psyche. Indians
operate within circles of dependence and interdependence of family, caste,
language and religion. Indians define themselves on a multitude of levels
and through a mosaic of identities, justifying behavior through right
action or Dharma. The modernization of sections of Indian society
therefore creates new tensions and contradictions between individual and
community roles and identities.
Sita Speak!
In Hindu mythology women are
usually all powerful, creative, and endowed with shakti or all-pervading
energy. In practice, Indian women have been submissive and self effacing,
prisoners of their very virtues. Today, the situation is full of tensions
and contradictions as legislation and self-assertiveness on the part of
educated and illiterate, affluent and poor women clash with centuries of
tradition and immobilism.
Swadeshi: The Quest for
Self-Reliance
India, more than any other country save China, has
pursued a conscious and continuous policy of economic self-reliance and
political non-alignment since Independence. The causes for this
single-minded policy have roots deep within Indian culture. The results
have allowed India to remain independent but at considerable economic and
political cost. Recent liberalization, while opening up the economy and
accelerating growth, also threatens to widen the gap between urban and
rural India, between rich and poor, and to compromise national community.
Ram Rajya: In Search of Indian
Democracy
At first glance, India would not appear to be fertile
soil for democracy. The rigidities and hierarchies inherent in caste,
religion and India's multiple societies, combined with a history of
despotic rule from several centers, appears to be totally at odds with the
vibrancy of Indian democracy. Furthermore, democratic institutions have
been under severe abuse in recent years. Communalism, caste warfare,
pervasive corruption and the breakdown of democratic civility all threaten
the health of Indian democracy. And yet Indian voters may be illiterate,
but they are also shrewd and treasure the right to vote as the one
safeguard against abuse and tyranny.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1990
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Martine
Crandall-Hollick PRODUCERS: Julian Crandall-Hollick, Dean
Cappello
DIRECTOR/WRITER/ EDITOR/NARRATOR: Julian Crandall-Hollick
CAST: Jonathen Epstein, Dennis Krausnik, George Muellner, Normi Noel
and Gless Huggil
The Prince
Documentary
The Prince focuses on the evolution of
a distinct social type—the princes and rulers who governed Europe from the
fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. (See also The
Warrior.)
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1988
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: William C.
Jersey
WRITERS: Lee Bobker, Mark Page, Theodore K.
Rabb
CINEMATOGRAPHY: William C. Jersey
EDITOR: Jeffrey
Friedman
HOST/NARRATOR: Peter Donat
Pyramid
Documentary
Based on the book by architect/illustrator
David Macaulay, this film combines animation with location photography to
tell the story of the planning, construction, and cultural significance of
the Great Pyramid at Giza. (See also Castle
and Cathedral.)
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1988
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ray Hubbard
PRODUCERS: Larry
Klein, Mark Olshaker
DIRECTOR: Larry Klein
WRITER: Mark Olshaker
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ron Van Nostrand
EDITORS: Michael Ritter, Elsie
Hull
ANIMATION: The Animation Partnership
DIRECTORS OF ANIMATION:
Tony White, Richard Burdett
HOST/NARRATOR: David Macaulay
VOICES:
Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Brian Blessed, Tim Pigott-Smith, Sian Phillips,
Sarah Bullen, Geoffrey Matthews, Timothy Spall, Peter Pacey, Ysanne
Churchman
A Question of Place
Documentary Radio Series
A Question of Place
introduces thirteen seminal figures in modern intellectual history and
explores some of their ideas regarding human nature and the place of men
and women in the larger order.
Sigmund Freud
(1856–1939)
explores Freud's life and work and dramatically
recreates his classic case study "Dora."
WRITER: Elsa
First
NARRATOR: Fritz Weaver
CAST: Tom Voegeli, Dianne Wiest
James Joyce
(1882–1941)
features excerpts from Ulysses and other works,
performed by the Radio Telefis Eireann Repertory Company.
PERFORMANCES: RTE Repertory Company
Robert Frost
(1874–1963)
explores the different voices of Frost's poetry
through dramatizations, readings, and the writer's comments to fellow poet
John Ciardi.
PERFORMERS: Robert Frost, Russell Horton,
Leslie Cass, Terrence Currier, John Wylie
Igor Stravinsky
(1882–1971)
combines dramatizations of events from the composer's
life with excerpts from his works and analysis of his place in music.
WRITERS: Mary Lou Finnegan, Carol
Malmi
PERFORMERS: Theodore Bikel, Carole Shelley, Russell Horton,
Donald Madden, Joe Mahar, John Tillinger
Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970)
includes excerpts from Russell's writings, letters,
and memoirs.
PERFORMERS: John Houseman, Tammy Grimes
Noam Chomsky (b.
1928)
looks at transformational grammar, Chomsky's revolutionary
contribution to the field of linguistics.
Simone de Beauvoir
(1908–86)
considers the concerns and legacies of this feminist
existentialist philosopher.
PERFORMERS: Viveca Lindfors, Kristoffer
Lindfors, Tammy Grimes, Ti Grace Atkinson, Elaine Marks
William Faulkner
(1897–1962)
includes the recollections of friends, Faulkner's
famous Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and dramatized excerpts from his
work with Tennessee Williams playing Faulkner.
PERFORMER: Tennessee Williams
Claude Levi-Strauss (b.
1908)
looks at how the anthropologist became the father of
structuralism and how his approach has been applied to a range of academic
fields.
W.E.B. DuBois
(1868–1963)
presents DuBois's life through excerpts from his
writings performed by members of the Negro Ensemble Company.
DIRECTOR: Douglas Turner
Ward
PERFORMERS: Graham Brown, Frances Foster, and other members of the
Negro Ensemble Company
Bertolt Brecht
(1898–1956)
describes the playwright's life through reminiscences
of friends and collaborators and includes dramatized excerpts from his
plays.
WRITER: Richard Gilman
PERFORMERS:
Alvin Epstein, Tammy Grimes
Michel Foucault
(1898–1956)
examines the controversies surrounding Foucault's
challenge to traditional concepts of civilization and humankind.
WRITER: Jonathan Arac
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1980
SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Mary Lou Finnegan, Robert
Montiegel
The Restless Conscience
Documentary
The Restless Conscience explores the
motivating principles and activities of a small group of individuals
within wartime Germany who comprised the anti-Nazi underground.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1991
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Hava Kohav
Beller
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Volker Rodde, Martin Schaer, Gabor Bagyoni, and
others
EDITORS: Tonicka Janek, Juliette Weber, David Rogow
NARRATOR:
John Dildine
Return from Silence: China's Revolutionary
Writers
Documentary
This film profiles five leading Chinese
writers whose work has had a great impact on the development of modern
China: the poet Ai Qing; the dramatist Cao Yu; and writers Mao Dun, Ba
Jin, and Ding Ling.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Joan Chung-wen
Shih
EDITOR: Martha Conboy
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert
Sullivan
NARRATOR: Joan Chung-wen Shih
Roman City
Documentary
Based on the book by David Macaulay, this film
combines animated dramatic episodes with location sequences to tell the
story of life in and around the fictional but historically accurate Roman
city of Verbonia, a well-planned town with such modern conveniences as
marketplaces, public baths, running water, and indoor plumbing.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ray Hubbard
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Larry Klein
WRITER: Mark Olshaker
ANIMATION:
Kurtz and Friends
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mike Fox
EDITOR: Milton
Spencer
HOST/NARRATOR: David Macaulay
VOICES: Sir Ian Mckellen, Sir
Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, John Sessions, Sophie Thompson
The Roman Empire in
the First Century
Documentary
Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the
first century, the world was ruled by Rome. The Roman Empire struggled
with problems which are surprisingly familiar: violent coups,
assassination, overarching ambition, civil war, clashes between the
classes as well as the sexes, and questions of personal freedom versus
government control. But from the chaos, the Roman Empire would emerge
stronger and more dazzling than ever before. Soon, it would stretch from
Britain across Europe to the shores of North Africa and from Spain across
Greece and the Middle East to the borders of Asia. It would embrace
hundreds of languages and religions and till its many cultures into a rich
soil from which Western civilization would grow. Rome would become the
world's first and most enduring super power.
Episode I
Order from Chaos
Millions of people-both famous and
uncelebrated-played parts in the astonishing rise of Rome, but above them
all was Caesar Augustus. Raised amid civil war, Augustus came to personify
the people he led. He was contradictory, at once capable of brutal
violence and tender compassion. He was influential, forging the image of
Roman grandeur that endures to this day. And he was enormously popular.
But those that crossed Augustus often faced dire consequences: his rivals
Marc Antony and Cleopatra; the poet, Ovid; even his own daughter, Julia.
The story of Augustan Rome is the story of greatness at a price.
Episode II
Years of Trial
In the year 14 AD, Augustus died and the Empire stood at a
crossroads. Would Rome continue on the course set by its first
emperor...or return to chaos? A reluctant new emperor quickly inhabited
the imperial palace and quickly confronted mutiny and intrigue. At first,
Tiberius struggled to live up to his predecessor, but he soon abandoned
the effort. Tiberius' ultimate decline from ascetic ruler to reclusive
despot ushered in one of the most notorious rulers of the ancient
world-Caligula. As fear and conspiracy descended on Rome, crisis roiled
the provinces. In Judaea, a charismatic leader named Jesus challenged the
religious and political establishment. The local furor barely touched
Rome, but the legacy of Jesus would one day engulf the Empire itself.
Episode III
Winds of Change
Claudius, the most unlikely member of the imperial family, becomes
one of the greatest emperors of the Roman Empire-only to fall victim to a
brutally ambitious wife. A principled philosopher named Seneca found
himself compromised as a tutor to the erratic young Nero. In Britain, a
warrior queen named Boudicca battled Roman legions, and in Judaea, the
Jewish people revolted. Under Nero's disastrous rule, Rome nearly burned
to the ground. The Empire was on the edge of disaster.
Episode IV
Years of Eruption
With Nero's death, the dynasty of Augustus came to an end. And once
again, the Empire faced an uncertain future. Rival generals fought for
supremacy in the streets of Rome. A new dynasty brought another tyrant to
the throne. Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii and thousands of
people beneath a torrent of ash and mud. But the Empire weathered the
crisis. As the first century drew to a close, Rome's legacy was destined
to reverberate across the ages.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Goldfarb and Koval Productions,
Inc.
YEAR PRODUCED: 2001
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Margaret Koval, Lyn
Goldfarb
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Margaret Koval, Lyn Goldfarb
WRITER:
Margaret Koval
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael Chin
EDITOR: Douglas Cheek,
Bill Haugse
NARRATOR: Sigourney Weaver
FORMAT: Video 4 programs 60:00 each
DISTRIBUTOR:PBS
Video
Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey
Documentary
Routes of Exile examines the 2000-year
history of the Moroccan Jews.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Eugene
Rosow
COPRODUCERS: Howard Dratch, Vivian Kleiman
WRITERS: Eugene
Rosow, Linda Post
EDITORS: Eugene Rosow, Anne Stein
NARRATOR: Paul
Frees
Shoulder to Shoulder
Dramatic Series
Shoulder to Shoulder follows the lives of three members of
the Pankhurst family and those of other pioneers of women's suffrage in
England at the end of the nineteenth century. Originally aired on
Masterpiece Theater, the Endowment provided funds to acquire the
series for re-broadcast and to support the production of introductory
material by actress Jane Alexander.
The Pankhurst Family
Emmeline Pankhurst,
who shares her recently deceased husband's passion for social reform,
emerges as the force behind the new Manchester-based organization, the
Women's Social and Political Union, and with daughters Christabel and
Sylvia, mobilizes other women in efforts to change British attitudes and
laws.
Annie Kenney
By age 13, Annie Kenney was
working full-time in the Lancaster mills. When the women's movement moves
to London, Kenney becomes a suffrage organizer after a chance meeting with
Christabel Pankhurst. Her efforts bring the working class into the women's
movement.
Lady Constance Lytton
A member of the
aristocracy, Lady Constance Lytton becomes convinced of the need for
confrontational tactics in the struggle for suffrage. She also strikes out
against the class system.
Christabel Pankhurst
Emmeline
Pankhurst's oldest daughter, Christabel, emerges as a youthful militant
leader. This program explores her opinions and ideology.
Outrage
On Derby Day, June 4, 1913,
Emily Wilding Davidson throws herself under the hoofs of the King's horse
at the Derby. Her death makes her the first of many martyrs for women's
rights. This episode also tells the story of the critical break that
develops between sisters Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst.
Sylvia Pankhurst
Women in England win
the vote as a direct result of suffragette support for World War I, but
for some, like Sylvia Pankhurst, it is a shallow victory. Sylvia, a
pacifist who has broken with her mother and sister because she opposes
England's entry into the war, becomes a strong supporter of the Russian
Revolution, writes a book on Russia, completes a biography of her mother,
and campaigns for the greater freedom and independence of all people.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1974 (first
American broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre, 1975)
PRODUCERS:
Midge McKenzie, Georgia Brown, Verity Lambert
WRITERS: Ken Taylor,
Douglas Livingstone, Hugh Whittemore, Alan Plater
DIRECTORS: Waris
Hussein, Moira Armstrong
CAST: Sian Phillips, Angela Down, Patricia
Quinn, Michael Gough, Georgia Brown, Judy Parfitt, Sheila Grant, Pat
Beckett, Liz Ashley, Jenny Till, Martin Matthews, Antonia Pemberton
YEAR PRODUCED:
1988
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Midge McKenzie
COORDINATING PRODUCER:
Barbara Abrash
EDITOR: Stephen Prockter
HOST: Jane Alexander
6 (57:50) programs
So Far from India
Documentary
This film examines the cultural transitions
experienced by an Indian immigrant in New York.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1982
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Mira Nair
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alex
Griswold
EDITOR: Ann Schaetzel
Song of Survival
Documentary
Song of Survival traces the experiences
of 600 women and children who were incarcerated for three and a half years
in a Japanese prison camp in South Sumatra during World War II. Nine
survivors describe their captivity and recreate the "vocal orchestra" they
formed there, singing orchestral and piano music from notes written from
memory.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
PRODUCERS: Stephen
Longstreth, David Espar, Robert Moore, Helen Colijn
DIRECTOR: Stephen
Longstreth
WRITERS: David Espar, Stephen
Longstreth
CINEMATOGRAPHY/EDITOR: David Espar
Sorceress
Drama
This film examines thirteenth-century French village
life and beliefs through the story of the ascetic friar Etienne de Bourbon
who condemns a compassionate herbalist to death for heresy.
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1987
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Vincent Malle, Martine
Marignac
PRODUCERS: Pamela Berger, Georges Reinhart, Annie
Leibovici
DIRECTOR: Suzanne Schiffman
COWRITERS: Pamela Berger,
Suzanne Schiffman
EDITOR: Martine Barraque
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Patrick
Blossier
ART DIRECTION: Bernard Vezat
MUSIC: Michel Portal
CAST:
Tcheky Karyo, Christine Boisson, Jean Carmet, Raoul Billery, Catherine
Frot, Feodor Atkine, Maria de Medeiros
Television's Vietnam: Impact of the Media/The
Real Story
Documentary
A response to the thirteen-part PBS series
Vietnam: A Television History, this program features a critique of
the original series and an examination of the role of the media in
creating perceptions that influenced the course of the war. A two-hour
version includes an introduction and a panel discussion focusing on the
major issues raised in the critique.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Peter C.
Rollins
EDITOR: Bill Crane
HOST/NARRATOR: Charlton
Heston
MODERATOR/PANEL DISCUSSION: Arthur Miller
Vietnam: A Television History
Documentary Series
With the history of French colonial
Indochina as background, Vietnam: A Television History chronicles
three decades of conflict in Southeast Asia.
Roots of a War
covers a rebellion
against the Chinese in the first century A.D., the development of the
Vietnamese revolutionary movement during the Second World War, and
Indochina's return to French rule after the war.
The First Vietnam War
(1946–54)
considers how, after eight years of fighting, the
French lost their empire in Indochina.
chronicles
President Eisenhower's decision to support Ngo Dinh Diem as the leader of
a separate, anti-Communist state in South Vietnam; it also considers
President Kennedy's choice, nine years later, not to interfere in a plot
to overthrow Diem.
LBJ Goes to War (1964–65)
examines
how, as a result of events in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964, the
United States increased the number of American troops.
America Takes Charge (1965–67)
tells
the story of some of those sent as part of the military build-up.
America's Enemy (1954–67)
presents the
escalating conflict in Vietnam from the different perspectives of
Communist leaders in Hanoi, Vietcong guerillas, North Vietnamese soldiers
and civilians, and Americans held as prisoners of war.
Tet, 1968
examines the Communist
offensive and its political consequences for President Johnson.
Vietnamizing the War
(1968-1973)
explores the impact of American withdrawal on American
soldiers, Vietnamese civilians, the economy of Vietnam, and the conduct of
the war
No Neutral Ground: Cambodia and
Laos
traces American activities in the two countries from 1961 when
President Kennedy sent in special forces to aid guerilla troops against
Communist forces.
Peace Is at Hand (1968–73)
analyzes
the course of the complex peace talks in Paris, from their inception in
mid-1969 to the final cease-fire agreement nearly five years later.
Homefront USA
traces the eroding public
support for the war.
The End of the Tunnel
(1973–75)
considers the fall of Saigon and the capitulation of
South Vietnam.
Legacies
examines the results of the
war in Asia and the United States, particularly its effects on Vietnam and
on American foreign policy.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1983
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Richard Ellison
PRODUCERS: Elizabeth
Deane, Austin Hoyt, Martin A. Smith, Judith Vecchione, Bruce Palling,
Andrew Pearson
DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RESEARCH: Lawrence Lichty
CHIEF
CORRESPONDENT: Stanley Karnow
MUSIC: Mickey Hart
13 (60:00) programs
The Warrior
Documentary
Focusing on the changing role of the warrior,
a distinct social figure common in the Renaissance, this film traces
important themes and ideas of the period through drama, architecture,
literature, philosophy, and art. (See also The
Prince.)
YEAR
PRODUCED: 1985
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: William C. Jersey, Ian
Martin
PRODUCERS: Paul Kafno, Alan Horrox
DIRECTOR: Paul
Kafno
WRITERS: Paul Kafno, Theodore Rabb
EDITOR: Michael
Chandler
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ray Siemens
NARRATOR/HOST: Theodore Rabb
Westward to China
Documentary
Through eye witness accounts, Westward to
China examines the experiences of the diverse groups of Americans who
lived and worked in China during the turbulent Nanking Decade, 1927–37:
missionaries, entrepreneurs, soldiers, journalists, doctors, and
diplomats.
YEAR PRODUCED:
1990
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: James Culp
WRITERS: James Culp, Yasha
Aginsky, Erica Marcus
CINEMATOGRAPHY: James Culp, Richard Gordon, Len
McClure
EDITOR: Yasha Aginsky
HOST: Harrison Salisbury
NARRATOR:
Peter Thomas
CAST: Ed Asner as the voice of Edgar Snow
Winnetou & Old
Shatterhand
Documentary Radio
For more than five hundred years,
European writers have invented an American West as a backdrop for stories
that basically reflect Europe's quarrels and fantasies about itself, not
about America. The series discusses Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's
Travels; Rousseau's "noble savage," free of laws and constraints on
his behavior; Atala, written in 1800 by the French catholic
writer Chateaubriand; nineteenth-century "boys own" stories by Mayne Reid,
Friedrick Gerstaecker, Gabriel Ferry; the series of "Winnetou and Old
Shatterhand" novels by the Saxon author Karl May first published in
Dresden one hundred years ago, as well as the impact of such cultural
icons as Buffalo Bill.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Independent Broadcasting Associates, Inc.,
Littleton, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1992
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Martine
Crandall-Hollick
PRODUCERS: Julian Crandall-Hollick, Dean
Cappello
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Julian Crandall-Hollick
EDITOR/NARRATOR:
Julian Crandall-Hollick
FORMAT: Audio 1 - 90 minute radio documentary
DISTRIBUTOR: Independent
Broadcasting Associates, Inc.
The World of Islam
Documentary Radio Series
Recorded on location in fifteen
Muslim countries, The World of Islam is a thirteen-part series of
radio documentaries exploring Islam as a faith, culture, and political
ideology.
Islam: A Complete Way of Life
introduces
the basic elements of Islam.
The Five Pillars of Islam
features
individuals from several countries and walks of life discussing what it
means personally to be a Muslim.
Muhammed and His Heirs
examines the
character and influence of Muhammed and the origins of the factional split
between Sunni and Shiite Muslims through the observations of Muslim
scholars.
The Rise and Fall of the
Caliphate
describes the ascent and decline of one of the world's
most powerful empires.
The Magnificent Heritage: The Golden Age of
Islamic Civilization
presents Muslim historians and others
describing the Islamic Golden Age (800 to 1500 A.D.) and its achievements
in art and science—algebra, Arabic numerals, abstract design.
Decay or Rebirth? The Plight of Islamic Art
Today
features Muslim artists from several countries discussing the
pressures on them to conform to Western styles and tastes and their
efforts to revive Islamic art forms.
Islam and the West
presents Muslims from
several countries discussing the often strained relationships with
Christians and offering opinions on how to improve them.
Resurgent Islam Today
examines Islam's
political and cultural revival and its implications for the West from the
perspective of Muslim leaders and activists.
Voices of the Resurgence
traces the
efforts of members of Muslim revivalist groups as they attempt to make
Islam relevant to the twenty-first century.
Islam in America: The Immigrant
Experience
presents Muslim immigrants to the United States speaking
of both the problems and advantages of making new lives in this country.
Black Islam
chronicles the growth of
Islam among African-Americans and considers the two rival African-American
Muslim groups, Nation of Islam and the American Muslim Mission.
Women and Family in Muslim
Societies
considers the views of Muslim women and men about the
teaching of Islam concerning women and the influence of traditional
patriarchal values on their lives.
Whither Islam: The Future of
Islam
explores the relevance of Islamic values and institutions for
the twenty-first century.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER/NARRATOR: Julian Crandall Hollick
HOST: Peter
Jennings