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World Culture and
History
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Long Bow Group, New York, NY 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
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Direct
Cinema Limited
Documentary Radio
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. PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: World Music Productions,
Brooklyn, NY YEAR PRODUCED: 2004 EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Sean
Barlow PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Sean Barlow, Banning Eyre NARRATOR:
Georges Collinet
PRINT MATERIAL: Afropop Worldwide's companion web site, http://www.afropop.org/, has fresh
content published weekly. FORMAT: One hour DISTRIBUTORS: Public
Radio International
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Long Bow Village Film Group, Philadelphia,
PA 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
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
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
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Midas S.A., Paris; Mallia Films, Gentilly,
France; and Community Animation, Inc., Ithaca, NY YEAR PRODUCED:
1983 COPRODUCERS: Marie-Francoise Mascaro, Bertrand Van Effenterre,
William Gilcher DIRECTOR: Georges Rouquier EDITOR: Genevieve
Louveau CINEMATOGRAPHY: Andre Villard, Pierre-Laurent Chenieux
AWARD: Venice International Film Festival, Special Jury Prize
FORMAT: 35mm, 16mm (90:00)
DISTRIBUTORS:
New
Yorker Films (U.S.)
Les
Films Rene Malo (Canada)
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Yale University Films, New Haven, CT, and
BBC, Scotland 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
AWARD: Television and Radio Club of Scotland, Best Single Drama on
Television
FORMAT: Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Films
for the Humanities and Sciences
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Yale University Films, New Haven, CT and BBC,
Scotland 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
FORMAT: Video (112:00) Part 1 (60:00), Part 2 (52:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Films
for the Humanities and Sciences
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.)
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Unicorn Projects, Inc., Washington, DC 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
AWARDS: American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon; CINE Golden Eagle
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (two versions, 57:20 and 30:00)
DISTRIBUTORS:
PBS
Video (video)
Unicorn
Projects, Inc. (16mm)
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.)
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Unicorn Projects, Inc., Washington, DC 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
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:
PBS
Video (video)
Unicorn
Projects, Inc. (16mm)
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: George Washington University, Washington,
DC 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
PRINT MATERIAL: Viewer's Guide (55 pages), available through
Annenberg/CPB Project (see distributor listing).
FORMAT: Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: The
Annenberg/CPB Project
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Film News Now Foundation and Ambrica
Productions, New York, NY 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
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:
Coronet/MTI
Film and Video, Inc. (U.S.)
Jane
Balfour Films, Ltd. (international)
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
Documentary Series Columbus and the Age of
Discovery is a seven-part series on Christopher Columbus, his era, and
his legacy.
Program 1 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.
PRODUCER/WRITER: Thomas Friedman DIRECTOR: Stephen Segaller
Program 2 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.
PRODUCER/WRITER: Thomas Friedman DIRECTOR: Stephen Segaller
Program 3 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.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Zvi Dor-Ner
Program 4 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.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Zvi Dor-Ner
Program 5 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.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Graham Chedd
Program 6 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.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Graham Chedd
Program 7 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.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Graham Chedd
SERIES PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH, Boston, MA YEARS PRODUCED:
1985-1991 SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Zvi Dor-Ner ORIGINAL MUSIC
COMPOSED BY: Sheldon Mirowitz HOST: Mauricio Obregon NARRATOR: Will
Lyman
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
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Metropolitan Pittsburgh Public Broadcasting,
Inc. (WQED) 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
FORMAT: Audiocassette (59:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: WQED
(Metropolitan Pittsburgh Public Broadcasting)
DocumentaryThe 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
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.)
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Thirteen/WNET, New York, NY, in association
with BBC-TV, London, England, and RM Arts, Munich, Germany 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
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:
- The Power of Dance
- Lord of the Dance
- Sex and Social Dance
- New Worlds, New Forms
- Dance Centerstage
- Dancing in One World
FORMAT: Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
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.)
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Thirteen/WNET, New York, NY, in association
with BBC-TV, London, England, and RM Arts, Munich, Germany 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
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
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).
Program l 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.
PRODUCER/WRITER/DIRECTOR: Sue Williams EDITOR: Sharon Sachs
Program 2 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.
PRODUCER/WRITER: Tom Weidlinger EDITOR: Constance Ryder
Program 3 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.
PRODUCER/WRITER/DIRECTOR: Christina von Braun EDITOR: Claire
Painchault
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA, and
LMK Images, Paris, France 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
FORMAT: Video 3 (60:00) programs
DISTRIBUTORS:
WGBH
Educational Foundation (U.S.)
Jane
Balfour Films, Ltd. (international)
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA, and David Grubin Productions, New York, NY 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
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
DocumentaryThis 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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Long Bow Group, Inc., Brookline, MA 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
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:
National
Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA)
Jane
Balfour Films, Ltd. (European TV only)
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Educational Television and Film Center,
Washington, DC 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
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
Documentary Series Heritage is a nine-part
documentary series that chronicles the 3,000-year history of the Jewish
people.
Program 1 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.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Eugene Marner STORY: Marc Siegel WRITER: John
Sharnik
Program 2 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.
DIRECTORS: Eugene Marner, Patricia Sides, Julian Krainin, Howard
Enders STORY: Marc Siegel WRITER: John Lord POST-PRODUCTION
PRODUCER: Len Morris ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Petra Lent, Rivalyn Zweig
Program 3 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.
PRODUCERS: John G. Fox, Julian Krainin DIRECTOR: Julian
Krainin WRITERS: John G. Fox, Marc Siegel
Program 4 The Crucible of Europe (ninth to fifteenth
centuries) explores Jewish life and religion throughout Western
Europe during the Middle Ages.
PRODUCER: Michael Joseloff DIRECTOR: Julian Krainin WRITERS: John
G. Fox, Marc Siegel, Michael Joseloff, Howard Enders
Program 5 The Search for Deliverance (1492–1789)
describes the Jewish-European experience, from the expulsion of Jews
from Spain in 1492 to the French Revolution.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Eugene Marner WRITER: John G. Fox
Program 6 Roads from the Ghetto (1789-1917)
traces the impact on the Jewish experience of the Industrial and
French Revolutions.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Eugene Marner WRITERS: Eugene Marner, John G. Fox
Program 7 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.
PRODUCER/DIRECTORS: Marc Siegel, Morton Silverstein WRITER: Marc
Montfrey
Program 8 Out of the Ashes (1917–45) describes
the Nazi ideology, Jewish "shetl" life, repression and persecution leading
to "The Final Solution," and Jewish resistance.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Alan Rosenthal WRITER: Brian Winston
Program 9 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.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Alan Rosenthal WRITER: Aleck Jackson
SERIES PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WNET/13, New York, NY YEAR PRODUCED:
1984 SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Arnold Labaton, Marc Siegel SERIES
PRODUCER: John G. Fox SENIOR EDITORIAL CONSULTANT: Marc Siegel HOST:
Abba Eban
AWARDS: Emmy Award; Christopher Award; American Film Festival, Red
Ribbon
FORMAT: Video 9 (60:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Public
Media Inc.
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Third World Newsreel, New York, NY 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
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (55:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Third World
Newsreel
Documentary Image before My Eyes recreates Jewish
life in Poland from the late nineteenth century through the 1930s.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York,
NY YEAR PRODUCED: 1980 PRODUCERS: Josh Waletzky, Susan
Lazarus DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Josh Waletzky WRITER: Jerome Badanes
AWARD: Mannheim Film Festival, Gold Dukat Award
FORMAT: 16mm (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
Documentary This program reveals India's cultural,
linguistic, economic, and philosophical diversity through a look at the
lives of several of its citizens.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Ganesha Productions, Los Angeles, CA YEAR
PRODUCED: 1986 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Paula Haller CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Rickie Gauld EDITOR: Jan Roblee
AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (23:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Coronet/MTI
Film and Video, Inc. (for Disney Educational Productions)
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: National Public Radio, Washington, DC YEAR
PRODUCED: 1990 EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Bill Buzenberg, Ellen
Weiss PRODUCER/WRITERS: Art Silverman, Susan Stamberg EDITOR::
Brooke Gladstone NARRATOR: Susan Stamberg
FORMAT: Audiocassette 2 (23:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Ways & Means Production, New York,
NY YEAR PRODUCED: 1984 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Steve
Brand NARRATOR: Yossi Klein
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
Documentary Radio
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. PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: American RadioWorks/Minnesota Public
Radio YEAR PRODUCED: 2003 EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Bill
Buzenberg PRODUCERS: John Biewen, Stephen Smith EDITOR: Deborah
George HOST: Stephen Smith
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.
DISTRIBUTOR: National
Public Radio
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Jewish Heritage Project, New York,
NY 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
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
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Voces Unidas Bilingual Broadcasting
Foundation, Salinas, CA YEAR PRODUCED: 1983 PROGRAM DIRECTOR: C.
Beatriz Lopez-Flores PRODUCER: Chris Strachwitz
FORMAT: Audiocassette (30:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Hunter
College of the City University of New York YEAR PRODUCED:
1983 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Jaime Barrios ASSOCIATE
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Pedro Angel Rivera, Susan Zeig CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Susan Zeig, Alicia Weber NARRATOR: Ilka Tania Payan
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.
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.)
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Ambrica Productions, New York, NY, in
association with WGBH, Boston, MA, and Channel 4, U.K. 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
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:
Zeitgeist
Films, Ltd. (educational)
Jane
Balfour Films, Ltd. (international)
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.)
Program 1 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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
FORMAT: Video, 4 (58:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Pacem
Distribution International
DocumentaryA 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)
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.
Program 1 A documentary study of the town of Elche and its
people precedes an edited presentation of the play sung in Valenciano.
Program 2 This program features an unedited version of the
play, without interpretive material.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington,
DC YEAR PRODUCED: 1979 PRODUCER: O.B. Hardison, Jr. DIRECTOR:
Gudie Lawaetz CO-DIRECTOR: Michael Dodds
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
DocumentaryNapoleon 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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: David Grubin Productions, New York, NY YEAR
PRODUCED: 2000 PRODUCERS: David Grubin, Allyson
Luchak DIRECTOR/WRITER: David Grubin CINEMATOGRAPHY: James
Callanan EDITORS: Seth Bomse, Susan Fanshel NARRATOR: David
McCullough
AWARDS: George Foster Peabody Award
PRINT MATERIALS: Poster with lesson plan for high schools,
available through Thirteen/WNET New York
FORMAT: Video (4 hours)
DISTRIBUTORS: Devillier
Donegan Enterprises and PBS
Video
Documentary This film examines the history and
contemporary concerns of the Islamic African nation of Somalia.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Metropolitan Pittsburgh Public Broadcasting
Inc. (WQED) 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
FORMAT: Video (27:48)
DISTRIBUTOR: Indiana
University, Audio-Visual Center
Documentary Through archival footage and interviews with
former partisans, this film explores Jewish resistance in Vilna, Poland,
during World War II.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Ciesla Foundation, Washington, DC YEAR
PRODUCED: 1986 PRODUCER: Aviva Kempner DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Josh
Waletzky NARRATOR: Roberta Wallach CINEMATOGRAPHY: Danny Shneuer
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
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.
Program 1 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.
Program 2 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.
Program 3 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.
Program 4 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.
Program 5 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.
Program 6 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.
Program 7 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.
Program 8 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.
Program 9 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.
Program 10 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.
PPRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Independent Broadcasting Associates, Inc.,
Littleton, MA 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
PRINT MATERIALS: Independent Broadcasting Associates, Inc. To hear
samples, go to http://www.neh.gov/www.baradio.org
AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Series award: 1991 Ohio State Award. Individual
Program Awards: A Kaleidoscope of Cultures; Gabriel Award 1990; Gold Cindy
Award 1990; Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold Medal 1991; Armstrong
Award (Innovation) 1991; New York International Radio Festival 1991; Gold
Award Best Sound; New York International Radio Festival 1991; Silver Award
Best Scripting; New York International Radio Festival 1991; Gold Award
Best Educational Program; New York International Radio Festival; 1991
Grand Award/Best of Festival; informational programs. Puja, Darsan Dena:
Darsan Lena: Bronze Cindy Award 1990; International Radio Festival 1990
Finalist Award; Special Cindy Award for Music 1990
FORMAT: Audiocassette 10 (60:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Independent
Broadcasting Associates, Inc.
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.)
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Medici Foundation, Princeton, NJ 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
FORMAT: Video (88:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: New
Dimensions Video
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.)
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Unicorn Projects, Inc., Washington, DC 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
AWARDS: National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple; CINE
Golden Eagle
PRINT MATERIAL: Teacher and Student Guides available
FORMAT: Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTORS:
PBS
Video (video)
Unicorn
Projects, Inc. (16mm)
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.
Program 1 Sigmund Freud
(1856–1939) explores Freud's life and work and dramatically
recreates his classic case study "Dora."
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: John Madden, Tom Voegeli WRITER: Elsa
First NARRATOR: Fritz Weaver CAST: Tom Voegeli, Dianne Wiest
Program 2 James Joyce
(1882–1941) features excerpts from Ulysses and other works,
performed by the Radio Telefis Eireann Repertory Company.
PRODUCERS: National Public Radio and Radio Telefis Eireann,
Dublin PERFORMANCES: RTE Repertory Company
Program 3 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.
PRODUCER: Robert Montiegel PERFORMERS: Robert Frost, Russell Horton,
Leslie Cass, Terrence Currier, John Wylie
Program 4 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.
DIRECTOR: Daniel Freudenberger WRITERS: Mary Lou Finnegan, Carol
Malmi PERFORMERS: Theodore Bikel, Carole Shelley, Russell Horton,
Donald Madden, Joe Mahar, John Tillinger
Program 5 Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970) includes excerpts from Russell's writings, letters,
and memoirs.
PRODUCER: Mary Lou Finnegan PERFORMERS: John Houseman, Tammy Grimes
Program 6 Noam Chomsky (b.
1928) looks at transformational grammar, Chomsky's revolutionary
contribution to the field of linguistics.
PRODUCER: Mary Lou Finnegan
Program 7 Simone de Beauvoir
(1908–86) considers the concerns and legacies of this feminist
existentialist philosopher.
PRODUCER: Mary Lou Finnegan PERFORMERS: Viveca Lindfors, Kristoffer
Lindfors, Tammy Grimes, Ti Grace Atkinson, Elaine Marks
Program 8 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.
PRODUCER: Robert Montiegel PERFORMER: Tennessee Williams
Program 9 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.
PRODUCER: Robert Montiegel
Program 10 W.E.B. DuBois
(1868–1963) presents DuBois's life through excerpts from his
writings performed by members of the Negro Ensemble Company.
PRODUCER: Mary Lou Finnegan DIRECTOR: Douglas Turner
Ward PERFORMERS: Graham Brown, Frances Foster, and other members of the
Negro Ensemble Company
Program 11 Bertolt Brecht
(1898–1956) describes the playwright's life through reminiscences
of friends and collaborators and includes dramatized excerpts from his
plays.
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: John Madden WRITER: Richard Gilman PERFORMERS:
Alvin Epstein, Tammy Grimes
Program 12 Michel Foucault
(1898–1956) examines the controversies surrounding Foucault's
challenge to traditional concepts of civilization and humankind.
PRODUCER: Robert Malesky WRITER: Jonathan Arac
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: National Public Radio, Washington, DC YEAR
PRODUCED: 1980 SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Mary Lou Finnegan, Robert
Montiegel
FORMAT: Audiocassette 12 (60:00) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Hava Kohav Theatre Foundation, Inc.,
Riverside, NY and New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY 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
AWARDS: Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Feature
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (113:00)
DISTRIBUTORS: Direct
Cinema Limited
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The George Washington University, Washington,
DC YEAR PRODUCED: 1982 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Joan Chung-wen
Shih EDITOR: Martha Conboy CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert
Sullivan NARRATOR: Joan Chung-wen Shih
PRINT MATERIAL: Bilingual transcript available (103 pages with thirty
photographs)
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: contact Dr.
Chung-wen Shih
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Unicorn Projects, Inc., Washington, DC
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
AWARD: National Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program
PRINT MATERIALS: School Kit with Teacher's Guide
FORMAT: Video (55:57)
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
Video
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
Documentary Routes of Exile examines the 2000-year
history of the Moroccan Jews.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Cultural Research and Communication, Inc.,
Emeryville, CA 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
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
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.
Program 1 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.
Program 2 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.
Program 3 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.
Program 4 Christabel Pankhurst Emmeline
Pankhurst's oldest daughter, Christabel, emerges as a youthful militant
leader. This program explores her opinions and ideology.
Program 5 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.
Program 6 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.
Premiere Presentation
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: BBC Television, England, in association with
Warner Brothers Television, New York, NY 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
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 YEAR PRODUCED:
1988 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Midge McKenzie COORDINATING PRODUCER:
Barbara Abrash EDITOR: Stephen Prockter HOST: Jane Alexander
PRINT MATERIAL: Shoulder to Shoulder by Midge McKenzie (Alfred
A. Knopf, 1975 and Vintage Paperback, 1988)
FORMAT: Video 6 (57:50) programs
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
Video
Documentary This film examines the cultural transitions
experienced by an Indian immigrant in New York.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Film News Now Foundation, New York, NY YEAR
PRODUCED: 1982 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Mira Nair CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alex
Griswold EDITOR: Ann Schaetzel
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
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Veriation Films, Palo Alto, CA, and Film Arts
Foundation, San Francisco, CA YEAR PRODUCED: 1985 PRODUCERS: Stephen
Longstreth, David Espar, Robert Moore, Helen Colijn DIRECTOR: Stephen
Longstreth WRITERS: David Espar, Stephen
Longstreth CINEMATOGRAPHY/EDITOR: David Espar
AWARD: American Film Festival, Finalist
PRINT MATERIAL: Viewer's Guide available
FORMAT: 16mm, Video (57:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Lara Classics, Inc., Cambridge, MA 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
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:
Lara
Classics (35mm)
Mystic
Fire Video (home video)
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Accuracy In Media, Inc., Washington,
DC YEAR PRODUCED: 1985 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Peter C.
Rollins EDITOR: Bill Crane HOST/NARRATOR: Charlton
Heston MODERATOR/PANEL DISCUSSION: Arthur Miller
FORMAT: Video (two versions, 58:30 and 112:00)
DISTRIBUTOR:
SVS,
Inc. (58:30 only)
Documentary Series With the history of French colonial
Indochina as background, Vietnam: A Television History chronicles
three decades of conflict in Southeast Asia.
Program 1 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.
Program 2 The First Vietnam War
(1946–54) considers how, after eight years of fighting, the
French lost their empire in Indochina.
Program 3 America's Mandarin (1954–63) 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.
Program 4 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.
Program 5 America Takes Charge (1965–67) tells
the story of some of those sent as part of the military build-up.
Program 6 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.
Program 7 Tet, 1968 examines the Communist
offensive and its political consequences for President Johnson.
Program 8 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
Program 9 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.
Program 10 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.
Program 11 Homefront USA traces the eroding public
support for the war.
Program 12 The End of the Tunnel
(1973–75) considers the fall of Saigon and the capitulation of
South Vietnam.
Program 13 Legacies examines the results of the
war in Asia and the United States, particularly its effects on Vietnam and
on American foreign policy.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA;
Central Independent Television/UK; and Antenne 2/France 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
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 13 (60:00) programs
DISTRIBUTORS:
Films
for the Humanities and Sciences
Sony
Video (homevideo)
Adult
Learning Service, PBS (telecourse)
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.)
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Medici Foundation, Princeton, NJ 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
FORMAT: Video (58:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: contact New
Dimensions Video
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.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Film Arts Foundation and James Culp
Productions, San Francisco, CA 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
FESTIVAL: Hawaii Film Festival
FORMAT: Video (57:40)
DISTRIBUTOR: The
Film History Foundation
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.
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.
Program 1 Islam: A Complete Way of Life introduces
the basic elements of Islam.
Program 2 The Five Pillars of Islam features
individuals from several countries and walks of life discussing what it
means personally to be a Muslim.
Program 3 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.
Program 4 The Rise and Fall of the
Caliphate describes the ascent and decline of one of the world's
most powerful empires.
Program 5 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.
Program 6 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.
Program 7 Islam and the West presents Muslims from
several countries discussing the often strained relationships with
Christians and offering opinions on how to improve them.
Program 8 Resurgent Islam Today examines Islam's
political and cultural revival and its implications for the West from the
perspective of Muslim leaders and activists.
Program 9 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.
Program 10 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.
Program 11 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.
Program 12 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.
Program 13 Whither Islam: The Future of
Islam explores the relevance of Islamic values and institutions for
the twenty-first century.
PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Independent Broadcasting Associates, Inc.,
Littleton, MA YEAR PRODUCED: 1983 EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER/NARRATOR: Julian Crandall Hollick HOST: Peter
Jennings
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.
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