Benjamin Franklin

Documentary Series

The Best of Families

Dramatic Series

This eight-part series presents the lives of three fictional families, each typifying a different social, ethnic, and economic segment of New York City in the 1880s and 1890s.

Program 1
Generations
In 1880, each family suffers financial setbacks when the failure of the Reading Railroad causes an economic crisis.

Program 2
The Bridge
When the Brooklyn Bridge is completed and opened in 1883, the three families respond with varying degrees of optimism and skepticism to this symbol of emerging technology.

Program 3
The Election—Patronage or Paradise
The families have various encounters with city politics through connections with Tammany Hall and in the 1886 mayoral election campaign of Teddy Roosevelt.

Program 4
Ambition
In 1890, the paths of the families cross when the prominent banker Teddy Wheeler decides to pursue philanthropy to make his bank better known.

Program 5
A Chill to the Bones
The deepening recession of 1893 finds the lives of the three families converging at Morton House, the first settlement house for the poor.

Program 6
The Great Trolley Battle
Two brothers take opposite sides in a violent trolley strike in 1895.

Program 7
New Times
On New Year's Eve, 1899, the families reflect on their lives and unrealized dreams and look toward the approaching century with renewed hope.

Program 8
January 17, 1977
In this final episode, twentieth-century descendants of the original three families confront situations similar to those faced by members of their families in the late nineteenth century.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Children's Television Workshop, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1977
SERIES CREATOR: Naomi Foner
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ethel Winant
PRODUCER: Gareth Davies
SERIES HEAD WRITER: Corinne Jacker
CAST: Guy Boyd, William Carden, Frederick Coffin, Alice Drummond, George Ede, Jill Eikenberry, Peter Evans, Clarence Felder, Pauline Flanagan, Victor Garber, Sean Griffin, George Hearn, William Hurt, Suzanne Lederer, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Julia McKenzie, Milo O'Shea, Lisa Pelikan, William Prince, Josef Sommer, Sigourney Weaver

FORMAT: Video
Program 1 (110:00), Programs 2-8 (59:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Indiana University, Audio-Visual Center

Bill of Rights Radio Project

Documentary Radio Series

Program 1
Gun Control and the Second Amendment: Interpretations and Misinterpretations

Program 2
Pressure Groups, Censorship, and the First Amendment

Program 3
Of God, Land, and Nation: Native American Land Claims and the Bill of Rights

Program 4
Neutral against God: Prayer in Public Schools

Program 5
And Throw Away the Key: The Eighth Amendment and Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Program 6
Public Libraries and the First Amendment

Program 7
The Birds, the Bees, and the Constitution: Sex Education in the Public Schools

Program 8
The Politics of the Original Sin: Entrapment, Temptation, and the Constitution

Program 9
He went and Preached unto the Spirits in Prison: Freedom of Religion in American Penal Institutions

Program 10
Abortion: A Matter of Life and Death

Program 11
Open Secrets: Technological Transfer, National Security, and the First Amendment

Program 12
Cults and the Constitution: Who's Abusing Whom?

Program 13
Television on Trial: Cameras in the Courts

Program 14
Without Due Process: Prejudice in the Application of Constitutional Rights of Citizens and Non-Citizens

Program 15
Crazy and/or Guilty as Charged: Constitutional Aspects of the Insanity Plea and Diminished Capacity Defenses

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Bill of Rights Educational Radio Project, Berkeley, CA
YEARS PRODUCED: 1982–84
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Adi Gevins

AWARDS: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, First Place, Best Documentary (Program 2); CPB, First Place, Best Documentary (Program10); CPB, Second Place, Best Documentary (Program 14); San Francisco State University, School of Broadcast Communications Award, (the series); National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Golden Reel Award (the series); NFCB, First Place Award (for the 3-minute module programs) CPB, First Place Award (Bicentennial edition of the series)

FORMAT: Audiocassette
15 (30:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Pacifica Program Service/Radio Archive

The Blood of Barre

Radio Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Vermont Public Radio, Windsor, VT
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Steve Robinson, Betty Smith
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Betty Rogers
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Art Silverman
WRITER: Tom Looker

FORMAT: Audiocassette (30:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available

Bond of Iron

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: South Carolina Educational Television Network, Columbia, SC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Peter Anderson, John G. Sproat
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: William Peters
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Patricia Curtice
CAST: Brock Peters, Darren McGavin

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: South Carolina Educational Television Marketing

Brooklyn Bridge

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Department of Records and Information, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Ken Burns
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ken Burns, Buddy Squires
EDITOR/WRITER: Amy Stechler
RESEARCHER: Thomas Lewis
NARRATOR: David McCullough
READINGS: Paul Roebling, Julie Harris, Arthur Miller, Kurt Vonnegut, David McCullough, and others

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Academy Award nomination, Best Documentary Feature; CINE Golden Eagle; American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; Selected for MOMA/New Directors; FILMEX (Los Angeles); Chicago International Film Festival, Certificate of Merit; Christopher Award; Organization of American Historians, Erik Barnouw Award (for outstanding historical documentary); Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy, Special Mention

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (two versions, 58:00 and 39:00; the shorter version focuses on the history and building of the bridge)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

Documentary

Long before Martin Luther King, Jr., became a national figure Bayard Rustin routinely put his body—and his life—on the line as a crusader for racial and economic justice. Rustin's commitment to pacifism and his visionary advocacy of Gandhian nonviolence made him a civil rights pioneer in the 1940s and an important advisor to King in the 50s and 60s. In 1963, Rustin brought his unique skills to the crowning glory of his civil rights career: his work organizing the historic March on Washington, the biggest protest America had ever witnessed. But in the fiercely homophobic era of the 40s and 50s, Rustin was also seen as a political liability. As an openly gay man, he was frequently shunned by the very civil rights movement he helped create. Brother Outsider chronicles Rustin's complex 60-year career as an activist for peace, racial and economic justice, and international human rights.

PRINT MATERIALS: Press kit available from Question Why Films; classroom guide available at http://www.rustin.org/ and from the distributor

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Sundance Film Festival 2003; Audience Award for Best Feature, New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2003; Audience Award in Documentary: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Indianapolis Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals, 2003; Documentary Award, Turin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2003, Documentary First Prize, Rhode Island Film Festival 2003; Best Documentary Feature, Cinequest Film Festival 2003; Documentary Award, Athens International Film Festival 2003

Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Simon & Goodman Picture Company, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1996
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires
EDITOR: Sara Fishro
NARRATOR: Morley Safer
INTERVIEWS: John Cage, Arthur Penn, Philip Johnson, Merce Cunningham, Paul Goldberger, Al Hirschfeld, Schuyler Chapin, Spalding Gray, George C. Scott, E.G. Marshall, Mike Wallace, Marian Seldes, Tony Roberts, Ellen Burstyn, Griffin Dunne, Morley Safer, Robert Sean Leonard, Robert McNeil, Kate Burton, Philip Bosco

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Sundance Film Festival; DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton Award for Independent Programming; Emmy Award Nomination; Festival Du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal; Sydney Film Festival

PRINT MATERIAL/WEBSITE: www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fuller_b.html

FORMAT: Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Zeitgeist Films, Ltd.

Buffalo Social History Project

Documentary Radio Series

Program 1
Buffalo 100 Years Ago
features accounts of everyday life in Buffalo 100 years ago through newspaper advertisements, features, and editorials.

Program 2
Immigration
relates the experiences of mid-nineteenth-century Irish, turn-of-the-century Polish, and contemporary Puerto Rican immigrants.

Program 3
Working Life
describes the work expectations and personal experiences of members of the Buffalo community over three generations.

Program 4
Compulsory Education
examines the development and maintenance of compulsory public education from 1874 to the 1930s.

Program 5
Land and Property
looks at the social and financial value of land in the city of Buffalo.

Program 6
Social Welfare
focuses on the problems of poverty in relation to democratic ideals of social and political equality.

Program 7
Parkside Neighborhood
profiles one of the city's residential neighborhoods from 1880 to the present.

Program 8
Erie Canal
features literary descriptions of canal boat travel, as well as information on the techniques of canal building in England and America during the early nineteenth century.

Program 9
Labor and Capital
examines the history of industrialization, unionism, and the free market economy in Buffalo.

Program 10
Opportunity and Education
explores issues of pluralism and bilingualism in nineteenth and twentieth-century public schools.

Program 11
Catholic Culture
probes Catholicism as the religion of many of Buffalo's immigrants.

Program 12
Pan American Exposition
presents information on two local legends with national import: the Pan American Exposition of 1901 and the Larkin Company's mail order emporium (1876–1941), a distributor of household goods that collapsed during the Great Depression.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WBFO-FM, Buffalo, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1977
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Jo Blatti

FORMAT: Audiocassette
12 magazine-format radio programs (2 to 3 hours)

DISTRIBUTOR: Pacifica Program Service/Radio Archive (ask for NFCB 5555-NFCB 5583)

The Case of the Legless Veteran

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Howard Petrick
EDITOR: Kenji Yamamoto
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ashley James

FORMAT: 16mm (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Mass Productions

Chesapeake Bay: Its History and Heritage

Documentary Radio Series

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WRFK, Richmond, VA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Joe Goldenberg
HOSTS: Joe Goldenberg, Fred Hopkins
ENGINEER: Jerry Glass

FORMAT: Cassette, Reel to Reel
50 (15:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available

The Civil War

Documentary Series

Program 1
1861: A 90-Day War
begins with an examination of slavery and the causes of the war, then traces the events that led to the firing on Fort Sumter and the rush to arms on both sides, and concludes with the first Battle of Bull Run.

Program 2
1862: A Very Bloody Affair
explains how Lincoln's war to preserve the Union is transformed into a war to emancipate the slaves.

Program 3
1862: Forever Free
shows how as 1862 wears on, it marks a difficult year for the Union, leading up to the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day of the war, and the emancipation of the slaves.

Program 4
1863: Simply Murder
considers Northern opposition to the Emancipation Proclamation, the miseries of regimental life, the increasing desperation of the Confederate homefront, Lee's brilliant victory at Chancellorsville, and Grant's futile attempts to take Vicksburg by siege.

Program 5
1863: The Universe of Battle
opens with an account of the Battle of Gettysburg, and goes on to describe the fall of Vicksburg, the New York draft riots, the first use of black troops, and Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

Program 6
1864: Valley of the Shadow of Death
opens with a biographical comparison of Grant and Lee, recounts the battles that pitted the two generals against each other, traces Sherman's Atlanta campaign, and explores the ghastly medical practices in both North and South.

Program 7
1864: Most Hallowed Ground
considers how Union victories in Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley tilt the 1864 election toward Lincoln, and the Confederacy's last hope for independence dies.

Program 8
1865: War is All Hell
traces the decline of the Confederacy from Sherman's March to the sea through Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

Program 9
The Better Angels of Our Nature
recounts Lincoln's assassination and the final days of the war, closing with a look at how the Civil War transformed the country.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: WETA, Washington, DC, and Florentine Films, Walpole, NH
YEARS PRODUCED: 1986-1990
PRODUCERS: Ken Burns, Ric Burns
DIRECTOR: Ken Burns
WRITERS: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, with Ken Burns
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ken Burns, Buddy Squire, Allen Moore
EDITORS Paul Barnes, Bruce Shaw, Tricia Reidy
COORDINATING PRODUCER: Catherine Eisele
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/POST PRODUCTION: Lynn Novick
COPRODUCERS: Stephen Ives, Julie Dunfey, Mike Hill
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Camilla Rockwell, Susanna Steisel
NARRATOR: David McCullough
ON-CAMERA INTERVIEWS: Shelby Foote, Barbara J. Fields, William Safire, Ed Bearss, and others
VOICES: Sam Waterson, Jason Robards, Julie Harris, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Morgan Freeman, Garrison Keillor, Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur Miller, Studs Terkel, Colleen Dewhurst, Charley McDowell, Jody Powell, George Plimpton, Philip Bosco, Horton Foote, and others

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: George Foster Peabody Award; The Lincoln Prize, Lincoln and Soldiers Institute, Gettysburg College, PA; The People's Choice Award, America's Favorite Miniseries; Television Producer of the Year Award, Producers Guild of America, Documentary Category; Christopher Award; CINE Golden Eagle; Telluride Film Festival; Museum of Broadcasting, Special Honor; National Board of Review, D.W. Griffith Award for Best Television Miniseries; Dartmouth College Film Award; Civil War Round Table, Bell I. Wiley Award; Clarion Award; National Emmy (two); Angel Award, Best TV Miniseries of the Year; Advancement of Learning through Broadcasting Award, National Education Association; National Educational Film & Video Festival, Silver Apple; American Film & Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University Awards, Silver Baton, Independent Television Productions; British Academy of Film and Television, Best Foreign Television Show; Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Nonmusical Album; Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album

PRINT MATERIAL: Educational materials (Teacher's Guide, etc.) available from Tel-Ed, Inc., 7449 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046

FORMAT: Video
Programs 1, 5 (90:00); programs 2,3,4,6,7,8,9 (60:00)

DISTRIBUTORS:

The Color of Honor

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Center for Educational Telecommunications Inc., and Vox Productions, San Francisco, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Loni Ding
EDITORS: Loni Ding, Steve Kuever
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tomas Tucker, Michael Chin
NARRATOR: Loni Ding

SPECIAL SCREENINGS: Smithsonian Institution; U.S. Congress

FORMAT: Video (101:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Vox Productions

Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians

Documentary

Coney Island

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Coney Island Film Project and City Lore, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
PRODUCERS: Ric Burns, Buddy Squires
DIRECTOR: Ric Burns
WRITER: Richard Snow
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires, Allen Moore
EDITOR: Paul Barnes
NARRATOR: Philip Bosco
READINGS: Andrei Codrescu, Vincent Gardenia, Judd Hirch, Nathan Lane, John Mahoney, Jerry Orbach, George Plimpton, Lois Smith, Frances Sternhagen, Eli Wallach

AWARDS: Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Hugo; Sundance Film Festival; CINE Golden Eagle; Time Magazine, "Best of 1991 Television"; Organization of American Historians, Erik Barnouw Award

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (two versions, 67:00 and 52:00)

DISTRIBUTORS:

Constitutional Journal

Radio Series (Documentary and Drama)

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Radio America, Washington, DC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: James C. Roberts
PRODUCER: Marc A. Lipsitz
WRITER/NARRATOR: Jeffrey St. John
CAST: Phil Nicolaides, Jim Parisi, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Jim Kelly

PRINT MATERIAL: Book version available through Jameson Books, Ottawa, IL

FORMAT: Audiocassette
6 (60:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Radio America

Contrary Warriors: A Story of the Crow Tribe

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Rattlesnake Productions, Missoula, MT
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986
PRODUCERS: Connie Poten, Pamela Roberts, Beth Ferris
WRITERS: Connie Poten, Beth Ferris
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stephen Lighthill
EDITOR: Jennifer Chinlund
NARRATOR: Peter Coyote

AWARD: American Film and Video Festival, John Grierson Award

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

A Country Auction

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Center for Visual Communication, Philadelphia, PA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Robert Aibel, Ben Levin, Chris Musello, Jay Ruby
EDITOR: Ben Levin
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tom Ott

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: The Pennsylvania State University, Audio Visual Services

Craven Street

Dramatic Radio Series

Program 1
After the Boston Massacre, Franklin agrees to represent the radical colony of Massachusetts Bay.

Program 2
Franklin comes upon stolen letters from the royal governor of Massachusetts urging "an abridgement of British liberty" in America.

Program 3
Franklin's involvement with the stolen letters causes a furor and leads to a duel.

Program 4
The Boston Tea Party increases Franklin's difficulties with the British government.

Program 5
As hostilities mount between Britain and America, Franklin is involved in three sets of secret, eleventh-hour peace talks.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The American Dialogues Foundation, Glendale, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1992
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert Foxworth
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Yuri Rasovsky
CAST: Nigel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Montgomery, George Grizzard, Martin Sheen, David Warner, and others

FORMAT: Audiocassette (50:00-55:00 each)

DISTRIBUTOR: The Hollywood Theater of the Ear

Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Great Projects Film Company, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1999
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Daniel B. Polin, Kenneth Mandel
PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Daniel B. Polin, Daniel A. Miller
DIRECTOR: Daniel A. Miller
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger T. Grange, III
EDITOR: Ted Winterburn
NARRATOR: Edward James Olmos

FORMAT: Video (120:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Darrow

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: KCET, Los Angeles, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991 (first broadcast on American Playhouse)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ricki Franklin
PRODUCERS: Richard Heus, Stephen Stept
DIRECTOR: John Coles
WRITERS: William Schmidt, Stephen Stept
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Paul Murphy
EDITOR: Angelo Carrao
CAST: Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Jenkins, Christopher Cooper

AWARDS: Ohio State Award; Houston Film Festival, Silver Award

FORMAT: Video (120:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: KCET

Dateline 1787

Dramatic Radio Series

Program 1
May 27, 1787
The National Radio Theatre News Team, situated in the "broadcast booth" of the Philadelphia State House, reports on the background and opening of the Convention called to revise the Articles of Confederation.

Program 2
June 3, 1787
Virginia Governor Edmund Randolph introduces a plan for wholesale reform.

Program 3
June 10, 1787
Elements of the Randolph Plan are debated as differences emerge on questions of representation.

Program 4
June 17, 1787
Tension mounts between the federalists and nationalists regarding legislative representation.

Program 5
June 24, 1787
National response to the confederal argument of the New Jersey Plan is aired; a final vote is taken to choose between the Randolph and Paterson plans.

Program 6
July 1, 1787
Delegates reach an impasse over methods of apportioning representation.

Program 7
July 8, 1787
The controversy over representation is turned over to a committee.

Program 8
July 15, 1787
The debate turns to differences between the North and South over slavery.

Program 9
July 22, 1787
A vote temporarily settles the representation issue; the delegates turn their attention to the Presidency and powers of federal government.

Program 10
August 4, 1787
Methods of electing the President are debated, as the controversies between large and small states continue.

Program 11
August 12, 1787
Committee reports are followed by particularly rapid progress.

Program 12
September 2, 1787
Delegates reach a compromise on the slavery issue; the presidency takes final form; property requirements for suffrage are thrown out.

Program 13
September 16, 1787
The Committee on Postponed Matters reports as the convention draws to a close. There is a discussion of defection, an interview with George Washington, and presentation of the final draft of the Constitution.

Program 14
September 17, 1787
The News Team captures Benjamin Franklin's "rising sun" remark and buttonholes other delegates after adjournment for their closing impressions.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: National Radio Theatre, Chicago, IL
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Yuri Rasovsky
WRITERS: Michelle Damico, Denise Jimenez, Yuri Rasovsky

FORMAT: Audiocassette
14 (30:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Pacifica Program Service/Radio Archive

Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated South

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Center for Contemporary Media, Inc., Atlanta, GA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Kathleen Dowdey, Jed Dannenbaum
EDITOR: Kathleen Dowdey
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Edwin Myers
HOST/NARRATOR: Burt Lancaster
INTERVIEWS: Julian Bond, Tom Brokaw, Jimmy Carter, John Lewis, Vernon Jordan, Herman Talmadge, Sander Vanocur, Andrew Young, Harry Ashmore, Eugene Patterson, Claude Sitton, and others

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Plaque; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Bronze Apple

FORMAT: Video (two versions, 88:00 and 58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: New Day Films

The Donner Party

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Steeplechase Films, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1992 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Judy Crichton
PRODUCERS: Lisa Ades, Ric Burns
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Ric Burns
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires, with Allen Moore
EDITOR: Bruce Shaw
HOST/NARRATOR: David McCullough
VOICES: J.D. Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Gene Jones, Amy Madigan, Donald McCann, George Plimpton, Paul Roebling, Lois Smith, Frances Sternhagen, Eli Wallach

AWARDS/SCREENINGS: National Emmy Nomination, Outstanding Achievement in a Craft/Directing and Writing; National Board of Review, D.W.Griffith Award; Peabody Broadcasting Award; Western Heritage Awards Competition, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Outstanding Documentary; CINE Golden Eagle; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Silver Apple; Booklist, Top of the List; Telluride Film Festival; The Aspen Filmfest; International Documentary Film Festival (Los Angeles); Denver, Mountainfilm, and Great Plains Film Festivals; Western History Conference/California Historical Society (Sacramento, CA and Laramie, WY); Alliance Française (NYC); Channel Four/Britain

FORMAT: Video (84:00)

DISTRIBUTORS:

Divided Highways: The Interstates and the Transformation of American Life

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Florentine Films/Hott Productions, Haydenville, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1997
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Larry Hott, Tom Lewis
PRODUCERS: Larry Hott, Tom Lewis
DIRECTOR: Larry Hott
WRITER: Tom Lewis
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Allen Moore
EDITOR: Diane Garey
NARRATOR: George Guidall
INTERVIEWS: Stephen Ambrose, Michael Smith, Dave Barry, Michele Grijalva, Jessica Matthews, Lisa Newton, Phillip Patton, Stephen Goddard, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, Harley Shaiken, David Lee, Sandra Rosenbloom, Ronald Edsforth, Kenneth Jackson, Roland Marchand, Fred Rogers, Frank Griggs, Molly Ivins, John Kay, William Cronon, Jonathan Gifford, T. Willard Fair, Jesse McCrary, Joseph Alioto, Fred Salvucci, Sylvia Hyman, Ken Krulkemeyer, Claire Barrett, Jane Holtz Kay, Sunny Moore, Tom Brennan, Ann Bandazian, Diane and Gary Phillips, Marion and James Malone, David Dillon, Andres Duany, Julia Child, William Fay, Char Miller

PRINT MATERIAL: WETA: Press kit, Study Guide, Poster

AWARDS: George Foster Peabody Award

FORMAT: Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Eisenhower

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1993 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Austin Hoyt, Judy Crichton
PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Adriana Bosch (Part I), Austin Hoyt (Part II)
COPRODUCER/EDITOR: Daniel McCabe (Part I)
EDITOR: Sarah Holt (Part II)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mark Gunning
MUSIC: Michael Bacon
NARRATOR: David McCullough
INTERVIEWS: John Eisenhower, Stephen E. Ambrose, Michael R. Beschloss, Forrest Pogue, Fred I. Greenstein, Sir Michael Howard, David Eisenhower, Nigel Hamilton, Andy Rooney, Arthur Schlesinger, Robert Donovan, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, Judge Constance Motley, Chalmers Roberts, Ambassador Vernon A. Walters, Gen. Georgiy A. Mikhailov, and others

AWARDS: Christopher Award; Chicago International Film Festival, Certificate of Merit; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple

FORMAT: Video (150:00)

DISTRIBUTORS:

Eleanor Roosevelt

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Ambrica Productions, Inc., Waltham, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 2000
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Judith Vecchione, Margaret Drain
PRODUCERS: Kathryn Dietz, Sue Williams
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Sue Williams
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bestor Cram, William Turnley, James Callanan, Joel Shapiro
EDITOR: Howard Sharp
NARRATOR: Alfre Woodard

FORMAT: Video (160:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

The Electric Valley

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: James Agee Film Project, Johnson City, TN
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Jude Cassidy
WRITERS: Ross Spears, Dick Couto, Melanie Maholick
EDITOR: Melanie Maholick
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Anthony Forma
NARRATOR: Wilma Dykeman

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: American Film and Video Festival, Finalist; National Emmy nomination, Public Affairs Documentary; FILMEX (Los Angeles); American Film Festival; Leipzig Film Festival; U.S. Film Festival; American Studies Association; Filmex; Museum of Modern Art; The Kennedy Center

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: James Agee Film Project Library

Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman

Documentary

Emma Goldman (1869–1940) was an exceedingly outspoken woman who spent three decades in the United States battling political and social injustice. In the eyes of some, she was the most dangerous woman in America. To others, she was an uncompromising voice for freedom. Goldman was an old-school soapboxer, pamphleteer, writer and publisher. She condemned capitalism, advocated the ideology of anarchism, was accused of fomenting the assassination of President William McKinley, crusaded for birth control, and led a campaign to oppose the draft during World War I that landed her in prison and paved the way to her deportation from the United States in 1919. "Her name was enough in those days to produce a shudder," said Margaret Anderson, a close friend of Goldman and the publisher the avant-garde magazine The Little Review. "She was considered "a monster, an exponent of free love and bombs."

PRINT MATERIAL: Copies of publicity materials are available from American Experience (WGBH Boston). See also the American Experience website pbs.org/amex/goldman for more information on the film.

Empire of the Air

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Florentine Films, NH, in association with WETA, Washington, DC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ken Burns
PRODUCERS: Ken Burns, Morgan Wesson, Tom Lewis, Camilla Rockwell, Susanna Stelsel
WRITER: Geoffrey C. Ward
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ken Burns, Buddy Squires, Allen Moore
EDITORS: Yaffa Lerea, Paul Barnes
NARRATOR: Jason Robards

FORMAT: Video (116:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Ephraim McDowell's Kentucky Ride

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Peter McGhee
PRODUCER: Jo Gladstone
DIRECTOR: Francis Gladstone
WRITER: Milan Stitt
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Peter Hoving
EDITOR: Elvido Abella
CAST: Paul Guilfoyle, Elizabeth Perry, John Seitz, Mark Winkworth, Judith Harkness, Maryce Carter, Jack Davison, Max Deitch, Ellin Ruskin, Eric Tull, Eileen Sokol, Clifton Powell, Martin R. Anderson, William Dean, Jenny Applegate, Elwyn Gladstone, Sally Bohl

FORMAT: 16mm (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available

The Exiles

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Exiles Project, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: l989
COPRODUCERS/COWRITERS: Richard Kaplan, Lou Potter
DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHY: Richard Kaplan
EDITORS: Anne Borin, Walter Hess, Richard Kaplan
HOST/NARRATOR: Vartan Gregorian

FESTIVALS: Montreal International Film Festival; Nyon (Switzerland) International Film Festival

PRINT MATERIAL: Viewer's Guide available

FORMAT: Video (116:00)
Part I, 1931–42 (63:00); Part II, 1942–Present (53:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Expressions: Black American Folk Art and Culture

Documentary Radio Series

Program 1 *
Authentic Afro-American Legends
traces the origin, evolution, and transmittal of African-American legends.

Program 2 *
Afro-American Proverbs
explores the use of short sayings that express simple, common-sense truths based on practical experience.

Program 3 *
Arabing
considers the art of "arabing" as practiced in Baltimore, Maryland. "Arabers" are street vendors who sell their wares by walking through city streets with calls derived from the same source as blues, gospel, and other traditional black American music genres.

Program 4 *
A Capella
explores the African-American tradition of singing without instrumental accompaniment.

Program 5
Song Making
looks at the development of the African-American song tradition, specifically how it may be used to record history and how melodies, rhythms, and lyrics are reshaped through the oral tradition.

Program 6
Hair Sculpture
examines the history and significance of the popular urban and rural art of African-American hair design.

Program 7
The Party
compares historical slave rituals and their cultural connection with present-day house, rent, and card parties.

Program 8
Street Cheers
analyzes the contemporary urban art form called streetcheers, popular among African-American youth.

Program 9 *
Rhythms
looks at the beat and style of black art.

Program 10 *
Preaching
treats the musical, dramatic, and oratorical preaching styles in the traditional black church and considers the black preacher as artist.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Judi Moore Smith Productions, Temple Hills, MD
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER/NARRATOR: Judi Moore Smith

AWARDS: National Association of Black Journalists; Federation of Community Broadcasters, Outstanding Radio Production; Ohio State Achievement Award

FORMAT: Audiocassette
10 (30:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: contact Judi Moore Smith-Latta

FDR

Documentary Series

Program 1
features FDR's childhood at Hyde Park, his marriage to Eleanor, and his entrance into national politics.

Program 2
traces his attack of polio, the long struggle to overcome his paralysis, his changing relationship with Eleanor, and his return to political life.

Program 3
explores the first two terms of his presidency, which are characterized by a new vision of the role and responsibility of government and by an evolving political partnership with Eleanor.

Program 4
covers the progress of World War II and the importance of FDR's relationships with Churchill and Stalin in planning for war and subsequent peace. His health visibly failing, FDR dies in 1945, within a year of his inauguration for a fourth term.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH, Boston, MA, in association with David Grubin Productions, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
PRODUCER/WRITER: David Grubin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER for The American Experience: Judy Crichton
SENIOR PRODUCER: Chana Gazit
EDITORS: Susan Fanshel, Geof Bartz
CINEMATOGRAPHY: William B. McCullough, Roger Phenix
NARRATOR: David McCullough
MUSIC: Michael Bacon
SERIES ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Allyson Luchak
SENIOR CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Geoffrey C. Ward

AWARD: George Foster Peabody Award

PRINT MATERIAL: Transcripts can be purchased by calling 303-931-9000

FORMAT: Video, Programs 1, 2 (60:00), Programs 3, 4 (75:00)

DISTRIBUTORS:

The Fight

Documentary

The Fight in the Fields: César Chávez and the Farm Workers' Struggle

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Paradigm Productions, Inc.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1996
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Rick Tejada-Flores
DIRECTORS: Rick Tejada-Flores, Ray Telles
WRITERS: Rick Tejada-Flores, Ray Telles
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vicente Franco
EDITOR: Herb Ferrette
NARRATOR: Henry Darrow
INTERVIEWS: Jesse de la Cruz, Dolores Huerta, Chris Hartmire, and others

AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle; National Educational Media Network Golden Apple; Best Documentary, Cine Festival, San Antonio

FORMAT: Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: University Distribution Services

First Person America: Voices from the Thirties

Radio Series (Documentary and Drama)

Program 1
Troupers and Pitchmen: A Vanishing World
considers a time when itinerant salesmen and traveling entertainers regaled America with their performances.

Program 2
When I First Came to This Land
describes how immigrants struggled to preserve their ethnic identity.

Program 3
Making Ends Meet
suggests some of the ways women sustained themselves during the hard times of the 1930s.

Program 4
Talking Union
focuses on the fierce struggle for unionization in the 1930s.

Program 5
Smoke and Steel
portrays the human cost of building America and describes how industrial work became a legitimate literary theme.

Program 6
Harlem Stories
centers around the dramatized narrative of a Pullman porter who lamented his move north to Harlem in a conversation with federal writer Ralph Ellison.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH-Radio, Boston, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1980
COPROJECT DIRECTORS: Ann Banks, Barbara Sirota
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert Montiegel
PRODUCER: Knute Walker
DIRECTOR: Joan Micklin Silver
EDITOR: Ann Banks
WRITER: Tom Looker (based on the book First Person America by Ann Banks)
HOST/NARRATOR: Oscar Brand

AWARD: CPB Award, Best Arts and Humanities Documentary

PRINT MATERIAL: The series is based on the book First Person America, edited by Ann Banks, published by Alfred A. Knopf

FORMAT: Audiocassette
6 (30:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Fit: Episodes In the History of the Body

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc., Conway, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Laurie Block
WRITERS: Laurie Block, John Crowley
EDITOR: Howard Sharp
NARRATOR: Linda Hunt

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (two versions, 73:00 and 57:30)

DISTRIBUTOR: Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc.

For Us, The Living: The Medgar Evers Story

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Charles Fries Productions, Inc., Studio City, CA, an Public Television Playhouse, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983 (first broadcast on American Playhouse)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Charles W. Fries
PRODUCER: J. Kenneth Rotcop
DIRECTOR: Michael Schultz
ADAPTATION: Ossie Davis, J. Kenneth Rotcop
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alan Kozlowski
CAST: Howard Rollins Jr., Irene Cara, Margaret Avery, Roscoe Lee Browne, Larry Fishburne, Janet MacLaughlan, Dick Anthony Williams, Paul Winfield, Thalmus Rasulala

AWARD: NAACP Image Award

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Forgotten Genius

Documentary

The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Jewish Forward Film Project, Amherst, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987
PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Marlene Booth, Linda Matchan
DIRECTOR: Marlene Booth
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nancy Schreiber
EDITOR: Eric W. Handley
NARRATOR: Tim Sawyer

PRINT MATERIAL: Program transcript available

FORMAT: Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WETA-TV, Washington, DC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Tamara E. Robinson
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Orlando Bagwell
COPRODUCER: Lisa Jones
NARRATION WRITTEN BY: Steve Fayer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael Chin
EDITOR: Sandra Marie Christie
NARRATOR: Alfre Woodard
VOICE OF DOUGLASS: Charles S. Dutton AWARDS: National Emmy Nomination, Individual Achievement in a Craft/Researchers

PRINT MATERIAL: Teacher's Guide

FORMAT: Video (86:46)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Freedom On My Mind

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Clarity Educational Productions, Berkeley, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
WRITER/EDITOR: Michael Chandler
SCRIPT BY: Michael Moore, with Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vicente Franco, Michael Ching, Steve Devita
NARRATOR: Ronnie Washington
INTERVIEWS: Victoria Gray, Bob Moses, Endesha Ida Mae Holland, L.C.Dorsey, Cleveland Sellers, Pam Chude Allen, Marshall Ganz, Curtis Hayes, Heather Booth, Len Edwards

AWARDS: Academy Award Nomination, Best Documentary Feature; Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize, Best Documentary; International Documentary Association, Best Documentary; Organization of American Historians, Erik Barnouw Award; American Historical Association, John O'Connor Award, Best Historical Documentary; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Best of Northern California

FORMAT: Video (110:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Clarity Educational Productions

Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Fundi Productions, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Joanne Grant
DIRECTORIAL CONSULTANT: Saul Landau
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Judy Irola
EDITOR: Hortense Beveridge
CONSULTING EDITOR: John Carter
MUSIC: Bernice Johnson Reagon

AWARDS: London Film Festival, Film of the Year; San Francisco International Film Festival, Best of Category; Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, First Prize Documentary

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (two versions, 60:00 and 45:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: First Run/Icarus Films

George Marshall and the American Century

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Great Projects Film Company, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991
PRODUCERS: Daniel B. Polin, Kenneth Mandel
DIRECTORS: Kenneth Mandel, Ken Levis
WRITER: Geoffrey C. Ward
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Phil Abraham
EDITOR: Ken Levis

AWARDS/SCREENINGS: National Educational Film & Video Festival, Silver Apple; Worldfest (Houston, TX), Silver Award; American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon; Film Council of Greater Columbus, Chris Award, Best in History Category; CINE Golden Eagle

FORMAT: Video (88:00)

DISTRIBUTORS: Direct Cinema Limited

George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire

Documentary

Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

Documentary

Goin' to Chicago

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi and George King and Associates, Atlanta, GA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Chiz Schultz
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: George King
WRITER: Lou Potter
EDITOR: Amy Carey
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Rick Butler
NARRATOR: Vertamae Grosvenor

SCREENINGS (selected): Organization of American Historians, Washington DC; National Conference on Racial and Ethnic Relations, Atlanta; African American Museums Association, Chicago; American Culture Association of the South, Charleston; American Studies Association, Nashville; National Council on Black American Affairs, Oakland; National Association of Black Cultural Centers, Kansas City; American Historical Association, Chicago; National Association for Multicultural Education, Washington, DC; National Association for African American Studies, Norfolk; National Association for Ethnic Studies, Boulder

FORMAT: Video (70:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: California Newsreel

The Gold Rush

Documentary

The Golden Cradle: Immigrant Women in the United States

Documentary Radio Series

Program 1
The Journey
looks at diaries and other accounts from immigrant women who survived the journey to America.

Program 2
The Half-Open Door
recalls how several generations of immigrants faced the realities of the quota system, exclusion laws, detainment, and deportation.

Program 3
The Alley, The Acre, and Back a' the Yards
is the story of women who established ethnic communities that continue today despite changing economic and social pressures.

Program 4
In America, They Say Work Is No Shame
relates the experiences of immigrant laborers and union organizers in American factories and sweatshops.

Program 5
Three Tunes for an American Songbook
explains how and why three women emigrated from Russia, Greece, and Italy in the early 1900s.

Program 6
Daily Bread
examines the working experience of immigrant women who served as domestic servants, farm wives, shopkeepers, and boardinghouse operators.

Program 7
English Lessons
records the difficulties that immigrant women have faced in trying to educate their children and themselves.

Program 8
My Mother Was a Member of the Rumanian Ladies Aide Society
explores the history of societies and organizations, originally formed as support systems, that affected the socio-political fabric of America.

Program 9
Tapestries
expresses the way immigrant women artists responded to life in a new world.

Program 10
In America, We Wear a New Name
features Russian, Cuban, Japanese, and Hungarian women speaking of conflicting identities in their new homeland.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Soundscape, Inc., Alexandria, VA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
COPRODUCERS: Deborah George, Louise Cleveland
RESEARCH DIRECTOR: Jane M. Deren
ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR: Karen Getman
NARRATOR: Mandy I. Bynum

PRINT MATERIAL: Loan of cassettes with detailed discussion leader's guide available to senior citizen groups from: Discovery through the Humanities Program, The National Council on Aging, 409 Third Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024, 202-479-1200

FORMAT: Audiocassettes
10 (30:00) programs on 5 (60:00) cassettes

DISTRIBUTOR: Pacifica Program Service/Radio Archive

The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Abraham Lincoln Brigade Film Project, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stephen Lighthill, Peter S. Rosen, Joe Vitagliano, Renner Wunderlich
EDITOR: Noel Buckner
NARRATION CO-AUTHOR: Robert A. Rosenstone
NARRATOR: Studs Terkel

AWARDS: American Film Festival, Blue Ribbon; National Educational Film and Video Festival, First Prize, History

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (98:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: First Run/Icarus Films

The Great Depression

Documentary series

Program 1 *
Job at Ford's
The rise of the Ford motor company affords opportunities for thousands of workers, but is followed by the grim realities of economic crisis and tough management decisions.

Program 2 *
The Road to Rock Bottom
As economic collapse takes its toll on America, farmers protest; mortgages are called in by banks; robberies increase dramatically; and in the summer of 1932, the U.S. Army is called in to quell the Veterans' Bonus March on Washington DC.

Program 3
New Deal/New York
As President Roosevelt presides over the creation of new federal agencies to combat the effects of the Depression, nowhere is the effect of new public works projects more apparent than in Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's New York City. Though FDR, the American aristocrat, and LaGuardia, the son of immigrants, are unlikely partners, together they expand and redefine the role of government in people's lives.

Program 4
We Have a Plan
When world famous Socialist author Upton Sinclair runs for governor of California, his platform provides an alternative to capitalism and tests the limits of the New Deal. Ironically, one year after Sinclair's defeat, President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, a move that signals the beginnings of a modern welfare state.

Program 5
Mean Things Happening
On tenant farms of the Arkansas Delta and in the steel factories of America's industrial heartland, men and women battle landowners and factory managers for the right to join a union.

Program 6 *
To Be Somebody
Hard times bring fear, which often erupts in violence and discrimination towards America's racial and ethnic minorities. But hard times also encourage some to fight against bigotry through the courts, in Congress, and by example—the NAACP's Walter White, African American attorney Charles Houston, heavyweight champ Joe Louis, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Program 7
Arsenal of Democracy
As the 1930s draw to a close, Americans celebrate a dream of peace and prosperity at World Fairs in San Francisco and New York. But with Japanese and German troops on the march, they soon discover that while the New Deal changed America forever, it is war, not government programs, that ends the Great Depression.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Blackside, Inc., Boston, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1993
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Henry Hampton
SENIOR PRODUCER: Terry Kay Rockefeller
SERIES WRITER: Steve Fayer
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION: Orlando Bagwell
PRODUCERS: Jon Else (1); Terry Kay Rockefeller (2); Dante L. James(3,5); Lyn Goldfarb (4); Stephen Stept (6); Susan Bellows (7)
ASSOCIATEPRODUCERS: Leslie D. Farrell (1,2); Susan Levene (3,5); Tracy Heather Strain (4); Lisa A. Jones (6); Lulie Hadad (7)
EDITORS: Lillian Benson (1); Howard Sharp (2,4); Jon Neuberger (3,5);Marian Hunter (6); Eric Handley (7)
SUPERVISING PRODUCERS: Alison Bassett, Stephen Stept
SERIES ARCHIVIST: Katy Mostoller
COMPOSER: Brian Keane
NARRATOR: Joe Morton

PRINT MATERIAL: The Great Depression: America in the 1930s by T.H. Watkins (Little, Brown, 1993)

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Emmy Award for Writing, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Program 1); National Emmy Nominations(Programs 5 ,6); Silver Baton, Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University Awards (series); CINE Golden Eagle (series); Women in Communications, Inc., Clarion Award (series); National Association of Black Journalists Award (Programs 5,6); Worldfest, Houston International Film Festival, Gold Award (Programs 3,5) and Special Jury Award (Program 7); Columbus(OH) International Film and Video Festival, Bronze Plaque Program 2) and Honorable Mention (Programs 4,5,6); National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple (Program 6), Silver Apple (Program 7); Council on Foundations Festival (Program 3); Banff Television Festival (Program 1)

FORMAT: Video, 7 (60:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

The Great War

Documentary

Episode 1
Explosion
Takes a sweeping look at the conditions and events that caused the cataclysm to unfold and sheds new light on how the fuse was lit that led to the first man-made catastrophe of the twentieth century.

Episode 2
Stalemate
The military believed that technical advances in weaponry would make for a quick outcome on the battlefield. How then did modern weaponry bring about a deadly stalemate? From the beginning the war was out of hand, and new styles of warfare were producing new kinds of horror and unprecedented levels of suffering and death.

Episode 3
Total War
By 1915, the conflict had spread across boundaries between continents and peoples, becoming a global war—a fact grimly confirmed by the unlikely battles between Turks and Australians on the Turkish cliffs of Gallipoli.

Episode 4
Slaughter
World War I gave new meaning to death on the battlefield, a breadth and horror summed up in one word: slaughter. The Battle of Verdun became for the French what Gettysburg is for Americans. A million men died there in only nine months. The British offered the same unspeakable sacrifice at The Somme, where another million died, and at Passchendaele, a graveyard for half a million more.

Episode 5
Mutiny
By 1917, men, armies, and nations were nearing a breaking point. For individual soldiers, it emerged as shell shock, a personal withdrawal from an intolerable reality. For armies, it was outright rebellion; half the French army mutinied in 1917, refusing to undertake senseless attacks.

Episode 6
Collapse
At the start of 1918, the odds looked bad for the Allies. With Russia knocked out of the war by revolution and the French Army rocked by mutiny, Germany stepped up the offensive on the Western Front. But in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson urged the United States into the war to "make the world safe for democracy," and by 1918, five million American men were in uniform. Episode Six relates the military and domestic factors that led to Germany's ultimate collapse—and to the stage that would be set for a bitter peace.

Episode 7
Hatred and Hunger
The war laid the groundwork for the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia when the Allies briefly sent their soldiers to stop the Russian Revolution. And from the Balkans to the Middle East, the unresolved issues of the Great War were Simply rearranged. Versailles provided no real peace, and the seeds were sown for an even more catastrophic war.

Episode 8
War Without End
The final episode explores the aftermath of the war and the failed peace. For the lost generation it spawned, the war became a war without end, one that haunted everyone. Writers and other artists tried to create an answer, and millions searched for hope and messages from departed loved ones through Spiritualism. In Germany, the sense of betrayal and dishonor prompted some Germans to seek revenge. The man who rose up to lead them was Adolph Hitler.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: KCET, Los Angeles, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1997
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Blaine Baggett
PRODUCERS: Carl Byker, Issac Mizrahi, Lyn Goldfarb, Margaret Koval, Jay Winter
DIRECTORS: Carl Byker, Issac Mizrahi, Mitch Wilson
WRITERS: Blaine Baggett, Carl Byker, Jay Winter, Lyn Goldfarb
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mitch Wilson
EDITORS: Carl Byker, David Mrazek, Stosh Jarecki, Joe Bersen, Meri Weingarten
NARRATOR: Salome Jens
CAST: Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Irons, Martin Landau, Jane Leeves, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Barrett, Elya Baskin, Ned Beatty, Helena Bonham-Carter, Timothy Bottoms, Leslie Caron, Master Sean Cowley, Natalya Fainkina Louis Gossett, Jr., Rupert Graves, David Hayter, Allan Hendrick, Jeremy Irons, Gerard Ishmael, Peter Jessop, David Keith, Udo Kier, Nastassja Kinski, Jeroen Krabbe, Yaphet Kotto, Malcom McDowell, Paul Mercurio, Helen Mirren, Mary Mouradian, Paul Panting, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jurgen Prochnow, Ian Richardson, Marion Ross, Martin Sheen, Lianne Schirmer, Philippe Smolinowski, Friedrich Solms, Jean Stapleton, Imogen Stubbs, Kai Wulff, Michael York

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Two Emmy's, one DuPont, and one Peabody

PRINT MATERIAL: Companion Book (Penguin Studio Book), Teachers Guides

FORMAT: Video 8 (60:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Hard Winter

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Morris County Historical Society, Morristown, NJ
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Chiz Schultz
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Valerie Shepherd
DIRECTOR: Mat Brauchitsch
EDITORS: Victor Kanefsky, Les Mulkey
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Judith Irola, Joseph Friendman
CAST: Alfred De Quoy, Janet Scott, Wil Buchanan, Tony Carlin, Steve Orlouski, Chuck Portz

AWARD: American Film and Video Festival, Finalist

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Harry Hopkins: At FDR's Side

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Educational Film Center, Annandale, VA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1989
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ira Klugerman
PRODUCERS: Verne Newton, Frank Nesbitt
DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Frank Nesbitt
WRITER: Verne Newton
SCRIPT EDITOR: Ruth Pollak
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Chris Li, Greg Larsen
NARRATOR: Walter Cronkite

AWARDS: National Emmy nominee, Outstanding Historical Documentary; American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; CINE Golden Eagle; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Silver Apple; Columbus (OH) International Film Festival, Bronze Plaque

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (87:41)

DISTRIBUTOR: Educational Film Center

Heartland

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Filmhaus and Wilderness Women Productions, Inc., Bonner, MT
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Annick Smith
PRODUCERS: Beth Ferris, Michael Hausman
DIRECTOR: Richard Pearce
WRITERS: Beth Ferris, William Kittredge
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Fred Murphy
CAST: Rip Torn, Conchata Ferrell, Barry Primus, Lilia Skala, Megan Folsom, Amy Wright

AWARDS: U.S. Film Festival, Best Independent Film, Co-winner; Berlin Film Festival, Grand Prix Golden Bear, Co-winner

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (95:00)

DISTRIBUTORS: available in video stores (The Pickman Film Corporation and Thorn EMI)

Hearts and Hands

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Ferrero Films and Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Pat Ferrero
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Julie Silber
WRITER: Beth Ferris
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emiko Omori
EDITOR: Jennifer Chinlund
NARRATOR: Nancy Houfek

AWARDS/SELECTED SCREENINGS: Earthwatch Film Award; Hawaii International Film Festival, People's Choice Award, Best Documentary; Cine Golden Eagle; American Film Festival, Blue Ribbon; Athens Film Festival, First Prize Documentary; Sinking Creek Film Festival, Best Feature; National Education Film and Video Festival, Crystal Apple, Best of Category-History; San Francisco International Film Festival, Best of Category-Fine Arts; UCLA Film and Folklore Festival, Best Historical Exploration of Folklore; Chicago International Film Festival, Gold Plaque; Festival International de Crateil et du Val de Marne; American Folklife Center, Library of Congress; Hawaii, London, and Denver International Film Festivals; Edinburgh Film Festival; Council on Foundations; American Film Institute; Museum of Modern Art; Museum of American Folk Art

PRINT MATERIAL: Companion book available through Quilt Digest Press, 95514th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114

FORMAT: Video (63:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: New Day Films

Henry Luce: A Vision of Empire

Documentary

The Homefront

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Jack Kaufman
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Steve Schechter
COPRODUCER: Mark Jonathan Harris
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Franklin D. Mitchell
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Don Lenzer
EDITOR: Ron Brody
NARRATOR: Leslie Nielson

AWARDS: American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon, History; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Best of Festival; Baltimore Independent Filmmakers' Competition, First Prize, Documentary; Columbus(OH) International Film and Video Festival, Chris Award; Houston International Film Festival, Gold Special Jury Award, History; Chicago International Film Festival, Bronze Hugo; New York International Film and Television Festival, Silver Medal

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Churchill Films, Inc.

House Divided

Dramatic Series

Program l
Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
In 1822, a prosperous free black carpenter in Charleston, South Carolina, leads an abortive rebellion to free the city's slaves.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WPBT/Community Television Foundation of South Florida, Inc.,
Miami, FL
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert S. Morgan
PRODUCER: Yanna Kroyt Brandt
DIRECTOR: Stan Lathan
WRITER: William Hauptman
EDITORS: John Carter and Paul Evans
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Larry Pizer
CAST: Yaphet Kotto, Ned Beatty, Cleavon Little, Antonia Fargas, Donald Moffat, Brock Peters, William Windom, Mary Alice, Bernie Casey

AWARDS: Ohio State Award; Freedom Foundation Award; National Black Programming Consortium, Best Drama; Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, Best Drama; NAACP Image Award

FORMAT: Video (90:00)
DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available

Program 2
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
A free black man from Saratoga, New York struggles for twelve years to regain his freedom after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Past America, Inc.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert S. Morgan
PRODUCER: Yanna Kroyt Brandt
DIRECTOR: Gordon Parks
WRITERS: Lou Potter and Samm-Art Williams
EDITOR: John Carte
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hiro Narita
CAST: Avery Brooks, Petronia Paley, Rhetta Greene, John Saxon, Mason Adams, Lee Bryant, Janet League, Joe Seneca, Kent Broadhurst, J.C. Quinn, Michael Tolan

AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle; Organization of American Historians, Erik Barnouw Award (for outstanding historical drama)

FORMAT: Video (113:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: SVS, Inc. (Sony Video) (retitled Half Slave, Half Free)

Program 3
Experiment in Freedom: Charlotte Forten's Mission
In 1861, the daughter of a wealthy black family gives up her comfortable life in Philadelphia to teach and help freed slaves build a new society on the Sea Islands of South Carolina.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Past America, Inc.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert S. Morgan
PRODUCER: Yanna Kroyt Brandt
DIRECTOR: Barry Crane
WRITER: Samm-Art Williams
EDITOR: John Carter
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joseph Wilcots
CAST: Melba Moore, Ned Beatty, Glynn Turman, Mary Alice, Moses Gunn, Carla Borelli, Micki Grant, Anna Marie Horsford, Bruce McGill, Jay Paterson, Vyto Reginis, Roderick Wimberly

FORMAT: Video (120:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available

H.R. 6161: An Act of Congress

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WVIA, Pittston, PA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
PRODUCER: Jerry Colbert
DIRECTOR: Charles Guggenheim

AWARDS: American Film and Video Festival, Honorable Mention; San Francisco International Film Festival, Political Documentary, Best of Category

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (59:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Coronet/MTI Film and Video, Inc.

Huey Long

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Florentine Films, Inc., Walpole, NH
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
COPRODUCERS: Ken Burns, Richard Kilberg
DIRECTOR: Ken Burns
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires
NARRATOR: David McCullough

AWARDS: American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon; Organization of American Historians, Erik Barnouw Award (for outstanding historical documentary)

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (88:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

Indian America: A Gift From the Past

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Media Resource Associates, Inc., Washington, D.C.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Robin Cutler, Dave Warren
PRODUCERS: Robin Cutler, Karen Thomas
DIRECTOR: Karen Thomas
WRITER: Robin Cutler
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mike Fox, Allen Moore
EDITOR: Penny Trams
MUSIC: Mark Adler
NARRATOR: Wes Studi

AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Bronze Apple; Christopher Award for Humanities

FORMAT: Video (56:40)

DISTRIBUTOR: Media Resource Associates, Inc.

Inheritance

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Bowling Green Films and WMHT-TV, Schenectady, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1975
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Jack Ofield
WRITER: Helen-Maria Erawan

FORMAT: 16mm (two versions, 60:00 and 43:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: University of Michigan, Film and Video Library (ask for title #: 027-64-F)

Ishi, the Last Yahi

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Rattlesnake Productions, Inc., Berkeley, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1992 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: N. Jed Riffe, Pamela Roberts
ADDITIONAL LOCATION DIRECTION: Steven Okazaki
WRITERS: Anne Makepeace with Jenifer Hood and Louise Steinman
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stephen Lighthill
EDITOR: Jennifer Chinlund

AWARDS/SCREENINGS: Munich Film Festival, American Independents Program, Best Film; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Best of Festival; Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Video Festival, Honorable Mention; American Indian Film Festival (San Francisco), Best Documentary Film (Short); National Emmy Nomination, Best Historical Program

PRINT MATERIAL: Viewers Guide, Curriculum Guide, Anthology forthcoming

FORMAT: Video, 16mm (56:00)

DISTRIBUTORS:

John and Abigail Adams

Documentary

Drawing on the extraordinary correspondence between the second president and his wife, this joint biography sheds light not only on the characters of two remarkable people, but also on the tumultuous times through which they lived. John and Abigail Adams played a critical role in many of the pivotal events of their era: he was a vociferous participant at the Continental Congress; she was an important eye-witness reporter during the Siege of Boston; he was an important war-time emissary to France. In the post-war era, first as vice president, then as president, Adams was caught up in the increasing political divisiveness that characterized the 1790s when rifts in the country almost pulled the fledgling nation apart. In addition to a window onto the revolutionary era, John and Abigail's story provides a strikingly intimate look inside a marriage of true companions, for whom life included not just the great events of history, but also laughter, loneliness, affection, and family tragedy. This American Experience program reminds us that the Founding Fathers—and Mothers—were not men and women of marble following a script that made independence and American national success a pre-ordained conclusion but rather real, flawed, multi-dimensional people, who had no idea how things would turn out.

PRINT MATERIALS: Teachers' Guide, available on program website www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams

FORMAT: Video and DVD 2 hours

John James Audubon: Drawn From Nature

Documentary

AWARDS/FESTIVAL: CINE Golden Eagle; Best Environmental Art Film, EarthVision International Environmental Film Festival; Best of Festival List, Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival; Merit Award, International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula; Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital; Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival; The Chris Awards, Columbus International Film Festival

Keeping On

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Many Mansions Institute/Cabin Creek Center, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Barbara Kopple
PRODUCER: Coral Hawthorne
WRITER: Horton Foote
EDITOR: Lora Hayes
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Larry Pizer
CAST: James Broderick, Danny Glover, Dick Anthony Williams, Carol Kane

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (72:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Caridi Entertainment

The Killing Floor

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: KERA-TV, Dallas and Public Forum Productions
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Elsa Rassbach
PRODUCER: George Manasse
DIRECTOR: Bill Duke
WRITERS: Leslie Lee, Ron Milner, Elsa Rassbach
EDITOR: John Carter
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bill Birch
CAST: Damien Leake, Alfre Woodward, Clarence Felder, Moses Gunn

AWARDS: U.S.A. (Dallas) Film Festival, Special Jury Award; U.S. Film Festival (Sundance), Special Jury Award; International Film and Television Festival of New York, Silver Medal; Hemisfilm International Festival, Best Feature; National Black Consortium, First Place, Drama; NAACP Image Award nominations for Best Television Movie, Best Actor and Best Actress; Critics' Week, Cannes Film Festival

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (120:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Orion-Nelson Entertainment (homevideo)

King of America

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Center for Television in the Humanities, Inc., Atlanta, GA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1980
PROCUCER: David Horwatt
DIRECTOR: Dezso Magyar
WRITER: B.J. Merhoiz
EDITOR: Jay Freund
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael Fash
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Swados
CAST: Barry Miller, Andreas Katsulas, Olympia Dukakis

FORMAT: Video (74:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Caridi Entertainment

LaGuardia, the Dreamer and the Doer

Documentary Radio Series

Program 1
LaGuardia and Reform
describes the mayor's war with Tammany Hall and his fights against gamblers, racketeers, and "tin horns."

Program 2
Health and Housing
explains how LaGuardia made the availability of proper housing a function of city government and established the largest public health effort in the city's history.

Program 3
LaGuardia and Organized Labor
traces LaGuardia's shifting stance on unions and unionization.

Program 4
LaGuardia and the Physical City
shows how LaGuardia's public works brought about government-sponsored municipal transformation in New York City.

Program 5
LaGuardia and Aviation
discusses the mayor's lifelong support for aviation.

Program 6
LaGuardia and Relief
recounts how LaGuardia made public assistance a reality in New York.

Program 7
World War II
looks at LaGuardia's third term as mayor and his emergence as a radio personality.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: LaGuardia Archives, LaGuardia Community College/CUNY, Long Island City, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1990
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Richard K. Lieberman
PRODUCER/EDITOR: Tom Vitale
WRITER: Dick Worth
NARRATOR: Tony LoBianco

FORMAT: Audiocassette
7 (30:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: LaGuardia Archives, LaGuardia Community College

Last Stand at Little Bighorn

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Midnight Films, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1992 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Judy Crichton
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Paul Stekler
WRITERS: James Welch, Paul Stekler
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jon Else, Erik Daarstad
EDITOR: Michal Goldman
NARRATOR: N. Scott Momaday

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Columbus International Film Festival, Bronze Plaque; National Emmy Award, Outstanding Achievement in a Craft/Research; National Emmy Nomination, Outstanding Achievement in a Craft/Writing; American Film Festival, Blue Ribbon; Western Writers of America, Spur Award, Best Documentary Script; CINE Golden Eagle; Great Plains Film Festival

FORMAT: Video (52:30)

DISTRIBUTORS:

LBJ

Documentary Series

Program 1
Beautiful Texas
chronicles Johnson's youth in rural Southwest Texas, his early political campaigns, and his years as Senator and Vice President. It concludes with his assumption of the Presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Program 2
My Fellow Americans
traces the formation of Johnson's civil rights agenda, his vision of the Great Society, and the events leading to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.

Program 3
We Shall Overcome
traces the developing war in Vietnam and its effects on the Great Society.

Program 4
The Last Believer
chronicles the remaining year's of Johnson's presidency, his decision not to seek reelection in 1968, and his final days on his Texas ranch.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: KERA-TV, Dallas, TX, and David Grubin Productions, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Patricia P. Perini
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: David Grubin
SENIOR PRODUCER: Chana Gazit
EDITORS: Geof Bartz, Tom Haneke
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Hillary Dann, Sam Sills
CINEMATOGRAPHY: William McCullough
MUSIC: Michael Bacon
NARRATOR: Will Lyman

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Alfred I. DuPont, Columbia University Broadcast Journalism Award, Silver Baton; National Emmy Nominee, Outstanding Historical Programming and Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft/Writing; Chicago International Film Festival, Gold Hugo, also Gold Plaque for Music Score; Houston Film Festival, Gold Medal; Ohio State Award; Gabriel Awards, Certificate of Merit; San Francisco International Film Festival, Best of Category, Television History; American Film and Video Festival, Honorable Mention (Parts 1,3); CINE Golden Eagle; INPUT; Nyon Film Festival

FORMAT: Video
4 (60:00) programs

DISTRIBUTORS:

Liberty! The American Revolution

Documentary and Dramatic Series

Episode 1
The Reluctant Revolutionaries
In 1763, American colonists live in a hierarchical world of gentlemen and commoners, proud to be subjects of King George III. With the end of the French and Indian War, America has become a land of opportunity, but the British impose a seemingly routine tax—the Stamp Act. It creates a firestorm throughout the colonies as Americans see their liberties and their power threatened.

Episode 2
Blows Must Decide
By the fall of 1774, British troops occupy Boston. Thirteen colonies, who until now have had little in common with one another, take faltering steps to unite in reaction to this aggression. But even after shots are fired at Lexington, there is great disagreement about what to do next. Finally, on July 2, 1776, independence is declared. Two days later, Congress passes The Declaration of Independence. A fight for independence is being transformed into a political revolution.

Episode 3
The Times that Try Men's Souls
Days after the Declaration of Independence is signed, an immense British force drops anchor in New York harbor, pitting the largest professional army in the world against George Washington's army of untrained volunteers. On the day after Christmas, 1776, a desperate Washington leads his Continentals quietly across the half-frozen Delaware River, surprising a garrison of Hessian soldiers at Trenton. Washington becomes a hero and the American Revolution goes on.

Episode 4
Oh Fatal Ambition!
Congress dispatches Benjamin Franklin to France in late 1776 to request financial and military support. Louis XVI is reluctant to back the young republic without proof it can win. British General John Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga is the incentive France needs to supply arms and men to the revolution in America.

Episode 5
The World Turned Upside Down
How do Americans, fighting in the name of liberty, justify the institution of slavery? The British army hopes to exploit the contradiction posed by slavery in the South, but their attempt to win the south fails. Meanwhile, France enters into the revolution. The convergence of Washington's army and the French fleet at Yorktown traps the British army. Two years later, The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending eight long years of fighting.

Episode 6
Are We to Be a Nation?
Peace brings with it a new set of challenges: the country is bankrupt and the states find themselves squabbling with one another over many issues. A Constitutional Convention, held only to revise the Articles of Confederation, under which the country is run, instead creates a blueprint for an entirely new system of government.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: KTCA/Twin Cities Public Television, St. Paul, MN
YEAR PRODUCED: 1997
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Catherine Allan
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
WRITERS: Ron Blumer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tom Hurwitz
EDITORS: Sharon Sachs, Josh Walletsky
HOST: Forrest Sawyer
NARRATOR: Edward Herrmann
CAST: Philip Bosco, Colm Feore, Terrence Mann, Roger Rees, Donna Murphy, and others

PRINT MATERIAL: PBS Video: Curriculum Guide. Owen Comora Associates: Press Material

FORMAT: Video 6 (60:00) episodes

DISTRIBUTORS:

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Clarity Educational Productions, Emeryville, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1980
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Connie Field
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Ellen Geiger, Lorraine Kahn, Jane Scantlebury, Bonnie Bellow
EDITORS: Lucy Massie Phenix, Connie Field
THE WOMEN IN THE FILM: Wanita Allen, Gladys Belcher, Lyn Childs, Lola Weixel, Margaret Wright

AWARDS: Chicago International Film Festival, Gold Hugo, Documentary; Houston International Film Festival, Special Jury Gold Award, Best in Category; Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy, Gold Marzocco (First Prize); Athena International Film Festival, Gold Athena (First Prize); American Film Festival, John Grierson, Blue Ribbon; Cine Golden Eagle

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTORS:

A Life Apart: Hasidism in America

Documentary

Production Team: Menachem Daum, Brooklyn NY and Oren Rudavsky, New York City, NY
Year Produced: 1997
Executive Producer: Arnold Labatan
Producers/Directors: Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky
Writers: Menachem Daum, Bob Seidman
Cinematography: Oren Rudavsky
Editor: Ruth Shell
Narrators: Leonard Nimoy, Sarah Jessica Parker

Awards/Festivals: CINE Golden Eagle; Jewish Video Competition, First Place for Broadcast Documentary; Sydney Film Festival, June 1997

Print Material: Press kit

Format: Video (96:00)

Distributor: First Run/Icarus Films

Lincoln and the War Within

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: WGBY-TV, Springfield, MA, and Lumière Productions, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1992
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Mark Erstling
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Calvin Skaggs
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Robert Brent Toplin
CO-PRODUCER: Paul Marcus
WRITERS: Frederic Hunter, Thomas Babe
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael Spiller
EDITOR: Jay Freund
CAST: Chris Sarandon, Tom Aldredge, Will Patton, Remak Ramsay, Dylan Baker, Alan North, Joan Macintosh, Tony Carlin, Jack Gilpin, Pirie MacDonald, Veronica Cartwright

FORMAT: Video (73:30)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Lindbergh

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Insignia Films, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1990 (first broadcast on The American Experience: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Judy Crichton
PRODUCERS: Stephen Ives, Ken Burns
DIRECTOR: Stephen Ives
WRITER: Geoffrey C. Ward
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires
EDITOR: Juliet Weber

AWARD: CINE Golden Eagle

FORMAT: Video (56:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Living Atlanta

Documentary Radio Series

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WRFG Radio, Atlanta, GA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
PRODUCER: Harlan E. Joye
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Cliff Kuhn

PRINT MATERIAL: Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City from 1914 to 1948 (University of Georgia Press, 1990)

FORMAT: Audio
50 (30:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Long Shadows

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: James Agee Film Project, Johnson City, TN
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Ross Spears
WRITERS: Ross Spears, Jamie Ross
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Anthony Forma
EDITOR: Neil Means, Grahame Weinbren
NARRATOR: Ross Spears
INTERVIEWS: Robert Penn Warren, Jimmy Carter, Robert Coles, Studs Terkel, Tom Wicker, C. Vann Woodward, John Hope Franklin, and others

SELECTED SCREENINGS: Museum of Modern Art; The Kennedy Center; Festival of American Film; Smithsonian Institute; Chicago Historical Society; American Historical Association

FORMAT: Video (88:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: James Agee Film Project Library

Lost & Found Sound

Documentary

MacArthur

Documentary

Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind

Documentary

Margaret Sanger

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Cobblestone Films, Glen Ridge, NJ
YEAR PRODUCED: 1997
PRODUCERS: Bruce Alfred, Holly Carter
DIRECTOR: Bruce Alfred
WRITERS: Bruce Alfred, Michelle Ferrari
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mead Hunt
EDITOR: Joanna Kiernan
NARRATOR: Blair Brown
VOICES: Amy Irving, Amy Madigan, Katie Couric, Matthew Broderick, Derek Jacobi, George Plimpton, Daniel Von Bargen, Jaqueline Williams, Cherry Jones, Philip Bosco, Ludmilla Bokievsky, Nicholas Haylett

FORMAT: Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Mary Silliman's War

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Heritage Films, San Dimas, CA, in association with Citadel Communications, Halifax, Canada
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994 (first broadcast on Lifetime Cable Channel)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Nick Spiropoulous, Stuart Rath
PRODUCERS: Steven Schechter, Barry Cowling
DIRECTOR: Stephen Surjick
WRITERS: Steven Schechter, Louisa Burns-Bisogno
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alar Kivilo
EDITORS: Joanne D'Antonio, Allan Shefland
MUSIC: John Welsman
CAST: Nancy Palk, Richard Donat, Diane D'Aquila, Paul Boretski, Joanne Miller

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Gold Medal, Houston International Film Festival; Silver Medal, National Educational Film and Video Festival; Best Educational Production, 10th Annual TV Movie Awards; Bronze Plaque, Columbus Film Festival

PRINT MATERIAL: Study Guide

FORMAT: Video (93:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Heritage Films

Metropolitan Avenue: Community Women In a Changing Neighborhood

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Metropolitan Avenue Film Project, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/NARRATOR: Christine Noschese
EDITOR: Stan Salfas
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Kirk LaVine
CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Bonanno
AWARDS/FESTIVALS: American Film and Video Festival, John Grierson
Award; Film Forum, Premiere; Leipzig International Film Festival, Special Jury Prize; Mannheim International Film Festival; Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy

FORMAT: 16mm (58:00), Video (two versions, 58:00 and 49:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: New Day Films

Middletown

Documentary Series

Program 1
Second Time Around
looks at the issues and complexities surrounding a contemporary marriage, especially as contrasted to those of fifty years ago.

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Peter Davis
EDITOR: Tom Haneke
CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Lindley

AWARD: Emmy nomination (for editing)

Program 2
Family Business
examines the idea of personal freedom through economic independence as it follows the struggles of a family of ten to save their pizza parlor from bankruptcy.

EXECUTIVE/PRODUCER: Peter Davis
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Tom Cohen
EDITOR: Bob Brady
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tom Hurwitz

AWARD: Emmy nomination (for directing)

Program 3
The Campaign
follows the personalities, strategies, and pressures involved in Muncie's mayoral race.

PRODUCER: Peter Davis
DIRECTOR: Tom Cohen
EDITOR: Bob Brady
CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Lindley

AWARDS: Two Emmy's (for sound and editing), Emmy nomination (producer)

Program 4
Community of Praise
examines the influence of faith on a family of evangelical Christian fundamentalists.

PRODUCER: Peter Davis
DIRECTORS/EDITORS: Richard Leacock, Marisa Silver
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Richard Leacock

AWARD: Emmy nomination (for editing)

Program 5
The Big Game
looks at the role of sports and how basketball games between two local high schools provide outlets for community tension.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Peter Davis
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: E.J. Vaughn
EDITOR: Ruth Newald
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Paul Goldsmith, Mark Benjamin

AWARD: American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon

Program 6
Seventeen
focuses on Muncie high school seniors as they face the tensions and uncertainties of growing up. (Some viewers may find the language of the film objectionable.)

PRODUCER: Peter Davis
DIRECTORS: Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines
EDITORS/CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines

AWARD: U.S. Film Festival, First Prize

SERIES PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Middletown Film Project, New York, NY
YEARS PRODUCED: 1979-1982
SERIES PRODUCER: Peter Davis

FORMAT: 16mm, Video
Programs 1, 4, 5 (60:00), Program 2 (90:00), Program 3 (80:00), Program 6(120:00)

DISTRIBUTORS: First Run/Icarus Films (program 6, Seventeen) Programs 1-5 not currently available

Middletown Revisited

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WIPB/49, Muncie, IN
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Larry A. Dyer
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: Tim Merriweather, Linda Furnish
DIRECTOR: Richard Roffman
EDITORS: John Prager, Steve Singer, Ralph Cassano
CAMERA OPERATORS: Debra Steele, Richard Collins, Gary Valente
NARRATOR: Ben Wattenburg

FORMAT: Video (58:55)

DISTRIBUTOR: Ball State University, University Libraries, Educational Resources/Public Services (on-site viewing only)

A Midwife's Tale

Documentary/Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Filmmaker's Collaborative/Blueberry Hill Productions, Watertown, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1997
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Rebecca Eaton, Judy Crichton, Margaret Drain
PRODUCER/WRITER: Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
DIRECTOR: Richard P. Rogers
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Peter Stein, Steven Poster
EDITORS: William A. Anderson, Susan Korda
CAST: Kaiulani Lee, Ron Tough, Laurel Ulrich, Kevin Jubinville, Waneta Storms, Henriette Ivanans, Patricia Welbourn, Tari Signor, Andrew Miller, Ronald Spurles, Paula Dawson, Eric Jaillet, Andrew Power, Charlie Rhindress, John Cail, Wendy Way, Dawn McKelvie Cyr, Sarah Evans, Alyson Green, Guy Grenier, Susan Hayward, Doug Sutherland, Mia Dillon, J. Smith Cameron, Gil Rogers, Joel Hunter, Robert Jones, Kaiulani Kimbrell, Ruth Anderson, Jim Belding, Wallace Brown, Darrel Butler, Janet Monid, Jenny Munday, Peter O'Neill, Tom Oldenburg, Cecil Sharpe

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: San Francisco Film Festival, Silver Spire Award; Northampton Film Festival, Kodak Vision Award; American Association of State and Local History's Top Media Award; New England Historical Association's Top Media Award; Bronze Apple; Emmy; Cine Golden Eagle; Vancouver International Film Festival; St. Louis Film Festival; Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival; DC Women in Film Festival; Atlantic Film Festival; INPUT International Public Television Screening Conference; The Hampton's International Film Festival; San Francisco International Film Festival; Green Mountain Film Festival; International Family Film Festival; Nortell Palm Springs International Film Festival; Northampton Film Festival; Maine Women's Film Festival; Silver Images Film Festival

FORMAT: Video (88:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Mill Times

Documentary

Mississippi Triangle

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Film News Now Foundation, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Christine Choy
CODIRECTORS: Worth Long, Allan Siegel

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Berlin International Film Festival; FILMEX (Los Angeles); Dorothy Arzner Film Festival, Critics' Award

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (110:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Third World Newsreel

Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian-American Poets

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Mitsuye and Nellie Film Project, San Francisco, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
PRODUCER: Allie Light
DIRECTOR: Irving Saraf
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emiko Omori
CAST: Mitsuye Yamada, Nellie Wong

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Women Make Movies

Molders of Troy

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Bowling Green Films, Inc. and WMHT, Schenectady, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Jack Ofield
WRITERS: W.W. Lewis, Paul Wilkes
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Daniel J. Walkowitz
RESEARCH DIRECTOR: Barbara Abrash

FORMAT: 16mm (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Documentary

Murder At Harvard

Documentary

Murder At Harvard uses a combination of film-noir style drama and present-day documentary footage to tell the true tale of one of the most famous American crimes of the nineteenth-century: the grisly murder of eminent Bostonian George Parkman by Harvard Professor John Webster in November 1849. It tells two stories in parallel: the murder itself and historian Simon Schama's journey into the past to seek the "truth" behind the mystery and to pose the question: how do we ever know for certain what happened in the past?

PRINT MATERIALS: PBS web site: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/murder/

My Palikari

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Center for Television in the Humanities, Inc., Atlanta, GA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: David Horwatt
PRODUCERS: Sue Jett, Tony Mark
DIRECTOR: Charles S. Dubin
SCRIPTWRITER: George Kirgo
STORYWRITER: Leon Capetanos
EDITOR: Richard Bracken
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ennio Guarnieri
MUSIC: John Cacavas
CAST: Telly Savalas, Keith Gordon, Edye Byrde, Lori-Nan Engler

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Caridi Entertainment

Nat Turner A Troublesome Property

Documentary

Nat Turner A Troublesome Property is a groundbreaking exploration of slavery, race, violence and memory in American life. The film examines the Nat Turner slave rebellion of 1831, the most significant slave rebellion in our nation's history, as both an historical event and a subject of historical memory. The filmmakers have interviewed a broad range of contemporary black and white descendants, historians, writers, and artists. The film weaves selections from these interviews into a rich narrative reflecting the multifaceted legacy of Nat Turner in America today. The film also presents Nat Turner as an important figure in American historical memory through selected dramatic recreations based on images and words found in folklore, poetry, novels and plays from 1831 to the present. We explore how the publication in 1967 of William Styron's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, incited a bitter debate over issues of race and memory. The passions released by this fictional depiction of a major African American leader by a major white Southern writer are still felt today.

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Athens International Film Fest, US Film Festival; Hollywood Black Film Festival; Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame and the Long Beach Film Festival

New York: A Documentary Film

Documentary Series

Program 1
The Country and the City (1609–1825)
Identifies the key themes that formed the spine of New York’s history: commerce and capitalism, diversity and democracy, transformation and creativity. This episode chronicles the arrival of the Dutch, the impact of the English and the horrors of colonial slavery, and New York’s role in the critical years during and after the American Revolution. The episode ends with the extraordinary burst of entrepreneurial energy that culminated in the building of the Erie Canal, which launched New York on its course to becoming the first national city in America.

Program 2
Order and Disorder (1825–65)
Already established as America’s premiere port, New York swelled into the nation’s greatest industrial metropolis as a massive wave of German and Irish immigration turned the city into one of the world’s most complex urban environments, bringing a host of new social problems. The city’s artists, innovators, and leaders—from Walt Whitman to the designers of Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux—grapple with the city’s growing conflicts, which culminate in the catastrophic Civil War Draft Riots of 1863.

Program 3
Sunshine and Shadow (1865–98)
The spotlight shines on the growth, glamour, and grief of New York during America’s giddy postwar “Gilded Age.” Exploring the incomparable wealth of the robber barons and the unabashed corruption of political leaders like Tammany Hall boss William M. Tweed, this episode examines the era when the expansion of wealth and poverty built to a crescendo. The episode ends as the city itself dramatically expands its boundaries, annexing Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island into a single massive metropolis.

Program 4
The Power and the People (1898–1914)
In the new century, the extraordinary interplay of capitalism, democracy, and transformation surged to a climax. During a single generation, more than 10 million immigrants arrived in New York. The city itself became an even more dramatic lure with the construction of the first subways and skyscrapers. Arising from the plight of New York’s most exploited citizens came landmark legislation that would eventually transform the lives of all Americans.

Program 5
Cosmopolis (1914–31)
In this short but dazzling period, New York became the focal point of an extraordinary array of human and cultural energies, reaching its highest levels of urban excitement and glamour. In just over a decade, New York gave birth to its signature skyscrapers, the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings, artistic creations such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” and the jazz compositions of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Along the way, Harlem emerged as the undisputed capital of the African American experience, and the new media industries of advertising, radio networks, public relations, and magazines found homes in midtown Manhattan.

Program 6
The City and the World (1931–2000)
The series concludes with an extraordinary overview of the last 69 years of New York’s and America’s modern history, years that took the nation through the Depression and the New Deal; World War II; the economic and population booms of the 50s; the social revolutions of the 60s; the decay and recessions of the 70s; and the rebuilding, resurgence and re-evaluation of the 80s and 90s. Viewed by many as the capital of the world, New York became home to the United Nations and new generations of migrating Americans and international immigrants.

PRODUCTION ORGANZATION: Steeplechase Films, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1999-2000
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ric Burns
< PRODUCERS: Lisa Ades, Ric Burns
DIRECTOR: Ric Burns
WRITERS: Ric Burns, James Sanders
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires, Allen Moore
EDITORS: Li-Shin Yu, Ed Bartoski, David Hansen, Nina Schulman
NARRATOR: David Ogden Stiers
INTERVIEWS: Kenneth T. Jackson, Mike Wallace, Thomas Bender, Robert Caro, David Levering Lewis, David McCullough, Ann Douglas, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Marshall Berman, Margo Jefferson, John Steele Gordon, Robert A.M. Stern, Ada Louise Huxtable, Alfred Kazin, Pete Hamill, Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, Caleb Carr, E.L. Doctorow, the late Allen Ginsberg, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Tony Kushner, Fran Lebowitz, Phillip Lopate, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Albert Murray, Anna Quindlen, Martin Scorsese, Donald Trump. Also featured are the dramatic voices of Joan Allen, Philip Bosco, Keith David, Spalding Gray, Frederic Kimball, Robert Sean Leonard, David Margulies, Frank McCourt, Joe Morton, George Plimpton, Frances Sternhagen, Eli Wallach.

AWARDS: Emmy for achievement in picture editing in nonfiction programming; Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton

PRINT MATERIALS: New York: An Illustrated History, Ric Burns and James Sanders with Lisa Ades (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)

FORMAT: Video 6 (120:00) episodes

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Niagara Falls: The Changing Nature of a New World Symbol

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Florentine Films, Northampton, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS/WRITERS: Diane Garey, Larry R. Hott
EDITOR: Steve Alves
NARRATOR: Adolph Caesar

AWARD: American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (29:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

One on Every Corner: Manhattan's Greek-Owned Coffee Shops

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: International Women's Film Project, Washington, DC

YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
COPRODUCERS: Doreen Moses, Andrea Hull
EDITOR: Andrea Hull
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tom Siegel

AWARD: CINE Golden Eagle

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (48:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

One Woman, One Vote

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Educational Film Center, Annandale, VA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1995 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER for The American Experience: Judy Crichton
PRODUCER/WRITER: Ruth Pollak
COPRODUCER/COWRITER: Felicia Widmann
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Peter Pearce, Erich Roland
EDITORS: Patty Stern, A.C. Warden
NARRATOR: Susan Sarandon
HOST for The American Experience: David McCullough
VOICES: Karen Allen, Pat Carroll, Julie Harris, Linda Hunt, Amy Irving, Richard Kiley, Frances Sternhagen, Nina Totenberg, Doug Brown, Franchelle Dorn, Helen Hedman, Sarah Marshall, Alice McGill, Pamela Nyberg, Richard Stillwell, Henry Strozier

FORMAT: Video (106:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

The Orphan Trains

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Edward Gray Films, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Judy Crichton
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Janet Graham, Edward Gray
WRITER: Edward Gray
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Edward Marritz, Gary Steele
EDITOR: Josh Waletzky
COEDITOR: Kenneth Levis
NARRATOR: Stacy Keach

FORMAT: Video (57:30)

DISTRIBUTOR: contact PBS Video

Out of Ireland

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: American Focus, Inc., Charlottesville, VA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
PRODUCERS: Paul Wagner, Ellen Casey Wagner
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Paul Wagner
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Erich Roland
EDITORS: Paul Wagner, Neil Means, Reid Oechslin
NARRATOR: Kelly McGillis
VOICES: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Gabriel Byrne, Brenda Fricker

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Sundance Film Festival; Chicago International Film Festival, Certificate of Merit; Cork (Ireland) Film Festival; Denver International Film Festival

PRINT/AUDIO MATERIAL: Out of Ireland, companion book by Kerby Miller and Paul Wagner (Elliott and Clark, 1994); CD and cassette of soundtrack available through Shanachie Entertainment (see below)

FORMAT: Video, 16mm (111:00)

DISTRIBUTORS:

The Other Side of Victory

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: New York State Bicentennial Commission
YEAR PRODUCED: 1976
PRODUCER: Ira Barmak
DIRECTOR: Bill Jersey
WRITERS: Richard Wormser, Ira Barmak
CAST: Josh Clark, William Sanderson, Tom Waite, Jamie Ross, David Naughton, Roberta Maxwell, Mark Margolis, Steve Simpson

FORMAT: Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Bill Jersey Productions/Quest Productions

Paradox on 72nd Street

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Equinox Films and WNET/13, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Gene Searchinger

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Equinox Films, Inc.

A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Center for History in the Media, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1997
PRODUCERS: Nina Gilden Seavey, Paul Wagner
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Nina Gilden Seavey
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Allen Moore, Reuben Aaronson
EDITOR: Catherine Shields
NARRATOR: Olympia Dukakis

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS: 1998 Golden Apple Award, National Media Network for Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking; Golden Hugo Award in the History and Biography category, International Communication Film and Video Festival (INTERCOM); Erik Barnouw Prize, "best historical film"; Emmy, "Best Research in a News or Documentary program"

FORMAT: Video (88:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: The George Washington University

Partners of the Heart

Documentary

Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: American Studies Film Center, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1991 (first broadcast on The American Experience)
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Lance Bird, John Crowley, Tom Johnson
WRITER: Tom Johnson
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mead Hunt
EDITORS: Victor Kanefsky, Julianna Parroni
NARRATOR: Jason Robards

FORMAT: Video (85:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Florentine Films, Haydenville, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Lawrence R. Hott, Diane Garey
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Lawrence R. Hott, Diane Garey
WRITER: Kage Kleiner
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Allen Moore
EDITORS: Rikk Desgres, Diane Garey
NARRATOR: Joe Mantegna

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Finalist, International Documentary Film Festival; Northhampton Film Festival, National Educational Media Network Gold Apple

FORMAT: Video (120:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited (English version)

The Performed Word

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Anthropology Film Center Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981

PRODUCER: Gerald Davis
CODIRECTORS: Carlos de Jesus, Ernest Shinagawa
EDITORS: Ernest Shinagawa, Paul Grindrod
WRITERS: Gerald Davis, Ernest Shinagawa
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Hiroaki Tanaka, Rick Butler
NARRATOR: Gerald Davis

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Center for Southern Folklore

Picture Bride

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Cecile Company, Ltd.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1995
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Paul Mayersohn
PRODUCERS: Diane Mei Lin Mark, Lisa Onodera
DIRECTOR: Kayo Hatta
WRITERS: Kayo Hatta, Mari Hatta
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Claudio Rocha
EDITORS: Linzee Klingman, A.C.E., Mallory Gottlieb
CAST: Youki Kudoh, Yoko Sugi, Rev. Shoin Hoashi, Keiji Morita, Michael Hasegawa, Akira Takayama, Peter Clark, Warren Fabro, Lito Capina, Tamlyn Tomita, Michael Ashby, Glenn Cannon, James Grant Benton, Kati Kuroda, Hatsuko Otsuka, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kyle Kakuno, Dawn Saito, Christianne Mays, Toshiro Mifune, Moe Keale, Nobu McCarthy

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS: Audience Award for Best Dramatic Film, Sundance Film Festival, 1995; San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival; Cannes Film Festival

FORMAT: Video (95:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Miramax Films

Prince Among Slaves

Documentary

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Best Documentary 2007 at the American Black Film Festival; Cine Golden Eagle; Grand Goldie Film Award: for excellence in Direction presented to Andrea Kalin

PRI's The World

Documentary Radio Series

The Probable Passing of Elk Creek

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Tocayos Films and KTEH, San Jose, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: John W. Bloch, Elie Abel, Peter Baker
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER/NARRATOR: Rob Wilson
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mahlon Picht, William Zarchy, David Ambriz
EDITORS: Susan Slanhoff, Richard Chasen

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild, Inc.

The Pueblo Revolt

Radio Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, NM
YEAR PRODUCED: 1980
PRODUCER: Mel Lawrence
DIRECTOR: Phil Austin
WRITER: Peggy Schneider

FORMAT: Audiocassette
2 (60:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey

Documentary

Ralph Ellison: An American Journey

Documentary

Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Florentine Films, Haydenville, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1990
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Claudia Levin, Lawrence R. Hott
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires, Allen Moore, Bruce Jacoby
EDITOR: Sharon Sachs
NARRATOR: Linda Hunt

FORMAT: Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War

Documentary

In his first speech after the end of the Civil War, President Lincoln began with only a few words of celebration of the recent victory. He went straight to the problem at hand, acknowledging that there was no agreed-upon plan for the future, and warning that the way ahead would be fraught with great difficulty. Spanning the years 1863 to 1877, this American Experience mini-series tells the story of the tumultuous years after the Civil War during which America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and at the same time how the former slaves could be brought into the life of the country. This three-hour series interweaves the stories of key political players in Washington—among them, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses Grant—with the stories of ordinary people, black and white, Republican and Democrat, in the North and South, whose lives were caught up in the turbulent struggles of the era.

PRINT MATERIALS: Teachers' Guide available on program website: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction

Remembering Jim Crow

Documentary Radio

Jim Crow gripped the South for eighty years, and race relations today are still deeply marked by its system of repressive laws and customs. Correspondents Stephen Smith, Kate Ellis and Sasha Aslanian examine the neglected "middle years" of America's segregation story, through the voices of people—both black and white—who lived through it. Remembering Jim Crow draws on interviews conducted by the Center for Documentary Studies' "Behind the Veil" oral history project and new, original field work by American RadioWorks.

PRINT MATERIALS: Text and audio of the radio documentary; slideshows; information about Jim Crow laws and other resources are available on the website www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering/index.html

FORMAT: One hour-long radio report, two newsmagazine reports on NPR's Morning Edition, two eight-minute reports on the Travis Smiley Show and an extensive companion website

Remembering Slavery

Documentary/Radio Series

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Smithsonian Productions, Washington, DC, and Institute of Language and Culture, Clanton, AL
YEAR PRODUCED: 1999
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Wesley Horner
PRODUCERS: Kathie Earnell, Jacquie Gales Webb
DIRECTOR: Paul Johnson
WRITERS: Judlyne Lilly, Jacquie Gales Webb
EDITORS: Jacquie Gales Webb, John Tyler, Todd Hulslander
NARRATOR/HOST: Tonea Stewart
CAST: Debbie Allen, Clifton Davis, Louis Gossett, Jr., James Earl Jones, Jedda Jones, Melba Moore, Esther Rolle, John Sawyer

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: New York Festivals International Radio Awards: Gold World medal, Best Narration; Bronze Worldmedal, Best History Series; Finalist, Best Sound; American Museum Association, Honorable Mention; 1999 Museum Publications Design Competition (for enhanced CD/press kit); National Catholic Association for Communicators, Gabriel Award

PRINT MATERIALS: Study guides and companion book/tape set available through The New Press, 450 West 41st St, New York, NY 10036. See also the website: www.rememberingslavery.org

FORMAT: Video (2 hours)

DISTRIBUTOR: Public Radio International

Reporting America At War

Documentary

Reporting America at War chronicles over one hundred years of American war correspondents, from the Spanish American War through the present day and the conflict in Iraq. The documentary also traces the evolutionary nature of media-military relations in that period, through the experiences and reflections of the correspondents themselves. The revelations offer critical insights into how Americans perceive armed conflict, and the role of a free press in a democracy at war. A special coda added analysis of the experiences of the embedded reporters during the Iraq War.

PRINT MATERIALS: Companion book, Hyperion Press

Richard J. Daley: The Last Boss

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Social Media Productions, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1995
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Judy Crichton
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Barak Goodman
WRITERS: Barak Goodman, Geoffrey C. Ward
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jonathan Smith, Buddy Squires
EDITOR: Bruce Shaw
NARRATOR: David McCullough

FORMAT: Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Public Media Inc.

The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1996
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS (The American Experience): Judy Crichton, Margaret Drain
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Austin Hoyt
CO-PRODUCER: Gilda Brasch
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Terry Hopkins
EDITOR: Sarah Holt
NARRATOR: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers

PRINT MATERIAL: Press kit from The American Experience

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Erik Barnouw Award

FORMAT: Video (120:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Documentary

Roanoak

Dramatic Series

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: First Contact Films, Inc., and The South Carolina ETV Network, Spartanburg, SC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Lindsay Law
PRODUCERS: Timothy Marx, James K. McCarthy
COPRODUCERS: Robin C. Maw, Dina Harris
DIRECTOR: Jan Egleson
WRITERS: Dina Harris, James K. McCarthy
EDITOR: Bill Anderson
CAST: Victor Garber, Joseph Running Fox, Tino Juarez, Will Sampson

PRINT MATERIAL: Viewer's Guide available

FORMAT: Video (180:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

School: The Story of American Public Education

Documentary

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

Documentary

Search and Seizure: The Supreme Court and the Police

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Film Odyssey, Inc., Washington, DC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1992
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Karen Thomas

WRITERS: Karen Thomas, Jack McDonald, Wayne Lafave
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Terry Hopkins, Erich Roland
EDITOR: Martha Conboy
HOST/NARRATOR: Roger Mudd

FORMAT: Video (56:30)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Seasons of a Navajo

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Peace River Films and KAET, Tempe, AZ
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Anthony Schmitz
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Joana Hattery
DIRECTOR: John Borden
EDITOR: Michel Chalufour
CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Borden, Doug Shaffer
NARRATOR: Will Lyman

AWARDS: American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon; CINE Golden Eagle

FORMAT: Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Seeing Red

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Heartland Productions, Dayton, OH
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
CODIRECTORS/COPRODUCERS: James Klein, Julia Reichert
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Aaron Ezekiel

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Academy Award nominee, Best Feature Documentary; American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; Chicago International Film Festival, Bronze Hugo; New York Film Festival

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (100:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: New Day Films

Seguin

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: KCET, Community Television for Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Jesus S. Trevino
PRODUCER: Severo Perez
CAST: Enrique Castillo, Henry Darrow, Danny De La Paz, A Martinez, Julio Medina, Edward James Olmos, Lupe Ontiveros, Rose Portillo, Pepe Serna

FORMAT: 16mm (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available

Sentimental Women Need Not Apply

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Florentine Films, Haydenville, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS/WRITERS: Diane Garey, Lawrence R. Hott
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires, Allen Moore
EDITOR: Sharon Sachs
NARRATOR: Elaine Princi
MUSIC: Richard Einhorn

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: National Educational Film and Video Festival, Silver Apple, Women's Issues Category; Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Award of Excellence

FORMAT: Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

The Shakers

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Davenport Films, Delaplane, VA and the Curriculum in Folklore at UNC, Chapel Hill, NC.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1974
PRODUCERS: Tom Davenport, Frank Decola
EDITOR: Louis Stieg

FORMAT: Video (30.00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Davenport Films

Shannon County

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Center for Ozarks Studies of Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, and Veriation Films, Palo Alto, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Robert Flanders
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Robert Moore
EDITORS: Robert Moore, Lise Rubinstein, David Espar

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; CINE Golden Eagle; The Margaret Mead Festival

FORMAT: 16mm, Video
Part 1, Shannon County: Home (67:00), Part 2, Shannon County: The Hearts of the Children (57:00)

DISTRIBUTORS:

The Silence at Bethany

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Keener Productions, Los Angeles, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Lindsay Law, Joyce Keener
PRODUCER: Tom Cherones
DIRECTOR: Joel Oliansky
WRITER: Joyce Keener
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Charles Minsky
EDITOR: Pasquale Buba
MUSIC: Lalo Schifrin
CAST: Tom Dahlgren, Richard Fancy, Dakin Matthews, Mark Moses, Susan Wilder

FORMAT: 35mm, Video (88:23)

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Simple Justice

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: New Images Productions, Inc., Berkeley, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1992
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Avon Kirkland
PRODUCERS: Yanna Kroyt-Brandt, Preston Holmes
DIRECTOR: Helaine Head
WRITERS: John McGreevey, Avon Kirkland, Peter Cook
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joe Wilcots
EDITOR: Gary Princz
CAST: Peter Francis James, James Avery, George Grizzard, Pat Hingle, Denise Burse-Mickelbury, William Neely, Andre Braugher, Sam Gray, Diana Scarwid, Annie Murray, Matthew Arkin

AWARDS: National Educational Film and Video Festival, Gold Apple, "Best Biography"; Houston International Film Festival, Gold Medal; CINE Gold Eagle; National Education Association, Award for Advancement of Learning through Broadcasting

FORMAT: Video (2 hrs., 18 mins.)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Stories from the Spirit World: Legends of Native Americans

Radio Series (Documentary and Drama)

Program 1
The Old Ways Are Gone: The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California
introduces the Cahuilla creation myth, featuring contemporary native songs, dances, and games, with historic Cahuilla language recordings.

Program 2
The Legend of the Sun: Aztec Mythology
considers creation cycle stories popular among the Nahuatl-speaking people of Mexico, especially the Aztecs.

Program 3
December's Child: Chumash Mythology
is adapted from a book of the same name, which presents a collection of Chumash oral narratives.

Program 4
Confrontation of Mythologies
features a dialogue between Aztec priests and European missionaries that took place in 1524, an exchange that was reconstructed in 1564 by a Catholic priest and a group of Aztec informants in a document known as Colloquios y Doctrina Christiana.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Voices International, New York, NY
YEARS PRODUCED: 1985-86
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Everett C. Frost
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/WRITER: Faith Wilding
NARRATORS: Marcos Gutierrez (Program 1); Katherine Siva Saubel (2); Jimmie Skaggs (3); Tony Amendola (4)

FORMAT: Audiocassette
Program 1 (two versions, 60:00 and 90:00); Programs 2 & 3 (60:00); Program 4 (30:00)
Note: In the three-part Soundplay series package, Program 1 has been cut to 60:00 and Program 4 is excerpted in Program 2

DISTRIBUTOR: Pacifica Program Service/Radio Archive

Storm of Strangers

Documentary Series

Program 1
Jung Sai: Chinese-American
follows a young, fourth-generation Chinese-American journalist as she interviews members of the West Coast Chinese community about its history.

DIRECTORS: Frieda Lee Mock, Terry Sanders

Program 2
The Irish
combines photographs, illustrations, and a fictional oral autobiography to portray the immigration of the Irish to America.

DIRECTOR: Chris Jenkyns
NARRATOR: Edmund O'Brien

Program 3
Italian-American
Based on interviews with his parents, Martin Scorcese profiles the experiences of Italian-American immigrants through their eyes.

DIRECTOR: Martin Scorcese

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: National Communications Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1975
SERIES PRODUCERS: Saul Rubin, Elaine Attias

AWARDS: CINE Golden Eagle; American Film and Video Festival, First Prize & Red Ribbon; Association of Visual Communicators (formerly IFPA), Cindy Award

FORMAT: 16mm
3 (30:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Strangers and Kin

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Appalshop Films, Whitesburg, KY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1984
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Herb E. Smith
WRITERS: Herb E. Smith, Helen Lewis, Don Baker

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Appalshop Films

The Supreme Court's Holy Battles

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Film Odyssey, Inc., Washington, DC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1988
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Karen Thomas
COPRODUCER: George Wolfe
WRITERS: Karen Thomas, George Wolfe
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Erich Roland, Terry Hopkins, Judy Irola, Don Sellars
EDITOR: Mark Muheim
CORRESPONDENT: Roger Mudd

PRINT MATERIAL: Companion Guide available

FORMAT: Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Talk to Me: Americans in Conversation

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Arcadia Pictures, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1997
PRODUCERS: Andrea Simon, Jack Briggs
DIRECTOR: Andrea Simon
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jerry Pantzer, Wayne Delaroche
EDITORS: Lawrence Silk, Jane Zipp
INTERVIEWS: Allan Gurganus, Mary Pipher, Gordon Wood, Rosemary Bray, Randall Kennedy, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Ammiel Alcalay, John Mack Faragher, Tomás Atencio, and others

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Gold Medal-documentary, 1996 Charleston WorldFest.

PRINT MATERIAL: Discussion Guide/Resource Kit for use in setting up a community conversation on American identity. There is also a 22-minute "trigger film" called Toward a More Perfect Union, based on material from the longer program. Call Arcadia Pictures for information at 212-580-1299.

FORMAT: Video (57:20)

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild, Inc.

There She Is: A History of Miss America

Documentary

This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys

The tumultuous and inspirational journey of spiritual renewal and transformation is the theme of This Far by Faith, a major new television series from Blackside, Inc., producers of Eyes on the Prize, and Malcolm X: Make It Plain, and The Faith Project, Inc. an independent identity created to complete This Far by Faith. The series presents a dramatic interpretation of the African-American religious experience in six hours of dramatic narrative storytelling. Black religious institutions and individuals helped lead the first for the abolition of slavery, offered new political ideals and leadership during Reconstruction, provided shelter and opportunity during the years of migration, immigration, and through the Great Depression; and fueled the movement for civil rights in the middle of the twentieth century. In the years since, these individuals and institutions have formed a vanguard in the search for answers to problems facing the nation. This Far by Faith tells their stories and examinestheir legacies.

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: NightOwl Productions, Nahant, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Michael Uslan
PRODUCERS: Ben Melniker, Victor Pisano
DIRECTOR: Philip Leacock
WRITER: Victor Pisano
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Larry Pizer
EDITOR: Stan Salfas
CAST: Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick McGoohan, Phyllis Thaxter, Kim Hunter, Ronald Hunter, Will Lyman

FORMAT: Video
3 (56:00) programs

DISTRIBUTORS:

Through All Time: The American Search for Community

Documentary

Program 1
Traditional Small Towns
features research sociologists and residents of numerous towns throughout America commenting on small-town life.

Program 2
Pleasure Domes and Money Mills
examines resort and recreation towns, a new kind of American boom town, in contrast with the traditional company town.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: KPBS/15, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1977
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: James Case
WRITER: Margaret Cort Clifford

FORMAT: 16mm, Video
2 (28:00) Programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available

Through Deaf Eyes

Documentary

PRINT MATERIALS: Viewer and educational guides, press materials and photos are available for download at the project's companion website, pbs.org/throughdeafeyes

AWARDS/FESTIVAL: Deaf Rochester Film Festival, April, 2007

Thurgood Marshall Before the Court

This documentary concentrates on Justice Marshall's career before he joined the United States Supreme Court. Marshall is best known as the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court. Justice Marshall may also be known to many as the lead attorney in Brown v. Board of Education. Yet many Americans are unfamiliar with the full scope of Marshall's 30-year career striking at the legal framework of Jim Crow and establishing the foundation for modern civil rights law. In the 1940s and 50s, Marshall was perhaps the most recognized civil rights leader in the country—he was often called "Mr. Civil Rights." This comprehensive documentary project highlights contributions made by Marshall and key legal partners and by the courageous African Americans across the South who risked their jobs and safety to press their grievances in local courts.

PRINT MATERIAL: A printable transcript of the program is available on the website: www.americanradioworks.org/features/marshall

The Trial of Standing Bear

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Nebraskans for Public Television, Inc., Lincoln, NE
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Eugene Bunge
LINE PRODUCER: Dan Jones
DIRECTOR: Marshall Jamison
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Bob Hicks
STORY: Adapted from The Ponca Chiefs by Thomas Tibbles
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Schoenhut
EDITOR: Michael Farrell
NARRATOR: William Shatner
CAST: Ivan Naranjo, George Ede, Carmen de Lavallade, George Riddle

FORMAT: Video (90:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Nebraska ETV

The Time of the Lincolns

Documentary

TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: David Grubin Productions, Inc., New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1996
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Judy Crichton
PRODUCER: David Grubin
WRITERS: David Grubin, Geoffrey C. Ward
CINEMATOGRAPHY: James Callahan, William B. McCullough, Roger Phenix
EDITORS: Geof Bartz, Howard Sharp
NARRATORS: David McCullough, Jason Robards

FORMAT: Video 2 (120:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

Tupperware: Earl and Brownie's Plastic Empire

Documentary

Tupperware: it's a plastic product, a company, a marketing phenomenon, an enduring icon. A Tupperware party takes place somewhere in the world every 2.5 seconds. How did it happen? Tupperware tells the remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught saleswoman who built him an empire out of bowls that burped. Brownie was an intuitive marketing genius who trained a small army of Tupperware Ladies to put on Tupperware parties in living rooms across America in the 1950s. She rewarded her sales force with minks and modern appliances at extravagant annual jubilees. Her saleswomen earned thousands, even millions of dollars, selling Tupperware. And the experience changed their lives. At a time when women were being sent back to the kitchen, these women got around their husbands by starting up their own businesses—based in their kitchens.

PRINT MATERIAL: See Study Guide at www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tupperware

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Banff Rockie Award - Best History/Biography Program 2004 - worldwide; Savannah Film Festival jury prize - best documentary; nominated by the International Documentary Association as best documentary of the year in the continuing series; Montreal Film Festival, Silvedocs Festival, Maine International Film Festival, Mill Valley (CA) Film Festival, Savannah (GA) Film Festival, Valladolid International Film Festival (Spain), High Falls Film Festival (Rochester NY), Northampton (MA) Film Festival, Fort Landerdale (FL) Film Festival; St. Louis International Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival/Amsterdam, Sarasota (FL) Film Festival, Sedona (AZ) Film Festival, Bermuda International Film Festival, DocAviv Film Festival (Tel Aviv, Israel), Full Frame Film Festival (NC), Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, Barcelona International Women's Film Festival, Woods Hole Film Festival (MA)

The Two Worlds of Angelita (Los Dos Mundos De Angelita)

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Casa del Autor Puertorriqueno, San Juan, PR
YEAR PRODUCED: 1982
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Jane Morrison
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Lianne Halfon
WRITER: Jose Manuel Torres Santiago
EDITOR: Suzanne Fenn
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alfonso Beato
MUSIC: Dom Salvador
CAST: Marien Perez Riera, Rosalba Rolon, Angel Domenech Soto, Delia Esther Quinones

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: American Film Festival, Red Ribbon; U.S. Film Festival; Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (73:00)
In Spanish with English subtitles

DISTRIBUTOR: First Run/Icarus Films

Ulysses S. Grant

Documentary

Under All Is the Land

Documentary Radio Series

Program 1
Cycles: The Physical Centrality of the Land
explores the physical limits of the universe, the capacity for development, and the frontiers of scientific knowledge.

Program 2
Down to Earth: Culture and the Centrality of the Land
discusses the relationship between land and the development of cultural institutions.

Program 3
Useful Trees: Culture and Land
looks at the concept of land as expressed in the creative imagination, with a focus on music and literature.

Program 4
Get Big or Get Out: Small Farmers
examines the history of small farmers in the United States.

Program 5
The Way the Land Is Worked
evaluates the conditions and trends of land use in America, from the dangers of soil erosion to the use of migrant farm workers.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Sound and Print United, Inc., Warrenton, NC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
DIRECTOR: Willa Blackshear
PRODUCER/WRITER: Phaye Poliakoff
MUSIC: Si Kahn, Bernice Johnson Reagon

FORMAT: Audiocassette
5 (30:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available

Under this Sky

Drama

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Red Cloud Productions, Cambridge, and WGBY, Springfield, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Christine M. Herbes
PRODUCER: Phylis Geller
DIRECTOR: Randa Haines
WRITER: Sherry Sonnett
CAST: Irene Worth, Collin Wilcox-Paxton, W. B. Brydon, John Glover

FORMAT: 16mm (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Not currently available

Unfinished Journey: The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Documentary Radio Series

Two hundred years ago, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery to explore the recently acquired Louisiana Territory and, beyond it, the lands extending to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the 28-month, 7,680-mile expedition, collecting information on the peoples, flora, fauna, geography, and history of the territory that would later become a significant part of the nation. While tracing and documenting the human, environmental, and political issues that were left in the expedition's wake, the series gives voice to historians, anthropologists, and textual scholars and engages Native American experts, musicians, storytellers, and poets.

PRINT MATERIALS: Transcripts available at http://www.opb.org/lewisandclark/unfinishedjourney/episodes.html A companion DVD with extended interviews and visual imagery is also available.

The U.S.-Mexican War 1846–1848

Documentary

Program I
Neighbors and Strangers
In 1836, Texans—most of them immigrants from the United States—rebel against Mexico. A Mexican army arrives in Texas to put down the rebellion, but is defeated at the Battle of San Jacinto. Ten years later, Texas is annexed by the United States, and the United States and Mexico become embroiled in a border dispute. In April 1846, Zachary Taylor’s troops clash near the Rio Grande with Mexican forces under the command of General Mariano Arista. The battles at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma signal the beginning of war.

Program II
The War for the Borderlands
In June of 1846, an army of 1,600 soldiers begin a 900-mile march to conquer the Mexican territory of New Mexico. In California, wealthy rancher Mariano Vallejo is imprisoned by a group of U.S. settlers in the Bear Flag Revolt, which gives birth to the short-lived independent Republic of California. When Mexico still refuses to surrender, U.S. President Polk turns his attention to the “Halls of Montezuma,” Mexico City itself.

Program III
The Hour of Sacrifice
In 1846, former Mexican President General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna returns from exile to unite Mexico against the U.S. invasion. President Polk formulates a plan to open a second front against Mexico. In 1847, Santa Anna’s troops meet Zachary Taylor’s army on a furrowed plain near the small hacienda of Buena Vista. Winfield Scott lands 10,000 U.S. soldiers on the beach at Veracruz. Scott and Santa Anna meet at Cerro Gordo in a battle that turns into a rout of the Mexican army. Defeated but unbowed, Santa Anna falls back to Mexico City to defend the capital.

Program IV
The Fate of Nations
The U.S. army reaches the Mexican capital defended by 20,000 Mexican solders led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. The battle for Mexico City begins with heavy casualties on both sides. Mexican defenders fight back courageously, but the capital is finally forced to surrender. General Winfield Scott rides triumphantly into Mexico City to occupy the fabled “Halls of Montezuma.” On February 2, 1848, the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, and a new border is established between Mexico and the United States.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc., Dallas, TX
YEAR PRODUCED: 1998
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Sylvia Komatsu
PRODUCERS: Sylvia Komatsu, Paul Espinosa, Andrea Boardman, Ginny Martin, Rob Tranchin
DIRECTOR/EDITOR: Ginny Martin
WRITER: Rob Tranchin
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ginny Martin, Allen Moore
NARRATOR: Bruce DuBose

AWARDS: Emmy Award for Historical Programming with Limited Dramatization for the episode "The Fate of Nations."

PRINT MATERIALS: Companion book through Bay Books and educational curriculum through PBS Video

FORMAT: Video 4 (60:00) episodes

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video (Note: A Spanish language version is also available).

Village of No River

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Newark Museum Association, Newark, NJ
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/WRITER: Barbara Lipton
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Stuart Hersh
EDITOR: Vincent Stenerson
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Craig Makhitarian
NARRATOR: Elsie Jimonie

FESTIVAL: Margaret Mead Film Festival

FORMAT: Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: The Newark Museum

Vinegar Joe

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: American Asian Cultural Exchange, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994 (first broadcast on The History Channel)
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Shirley Sun
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/EDITOR: James Kwei
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael Anderson, Bill Turnley, David Hogoboom
MUSIC: Patrick Gleason
NARRATOR: James Coburn

FORMAT: Video (56:48)

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Visions of the Constitution

Documentary Series

Program 1
The Search for Equality
explores the principle of equal protection under the law, from the efforts to abolish slavery through the suffragette and civil rights movements, to affirmative action.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Tom Skinner
PRODUCER/WRITER: Peggy Zapple
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: John Boyer, Lisa Cantini-Seguin, Vicki Johnson-Cherney
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Norris Brock, William Wegert, Allen Rosen, Mark Knobil
EDITOR: Gary J. Hines
HOST: Andrea Mitchell
LAW CORRESPONDENT: Tom Gerety

Program 2
The Judges
explores the nature and role of the Supreme Court, its justices, and its landmark cases.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Tom Skinner
PRODUCER/WRITER: Peggy Zapple
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: John Boyer, Lisa Cantini-Seguin, Vicki Johnson-Cherney
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Norris Brock, William Wegert, Allen Rosen, Mark Knobil
EDITOR: Patricia Yarborough
HOST: Andrea Mitchell
LAW CORRESPONDENT: Tom Gerety

Program 3
Crime and the Bill of Rights
looks at the right against self-incrimination and broader issues raised by the Christian Burial Case of 1968 in which the suspect was asked to locate the body of a 10-year-old girl he allegedly murdered.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Dan Fales
PRODUCER: Gordon Hyatt
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Shirley J. Saldamarco
WRITER/LAW CORRESPONDENT: Tom Gerety

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joe Seamans, Richard Kahn, John Connors, Art Vogel, Bruce Drummon
EDITOR: Christine Ochtum
HOST: Andrea Mitchell

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Metropolitan Pittsburgh Public Broadcasting(WQED), Pittsburgh, PA
YEARS PRODUCED: 1985–89
SERIES EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Tom Skinner

FORMAT: Video
3 (57:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

The War That Made America

Documentary

The War That Made America brings to life a vastly important—but often misunderstood—period of American history, a period that set in motion forces that would culminate in the American Revolution. The dramatic documentary tells the story of the French and Indian War (1754–63), which began in the wilderness of the Pennsylvania frontier and spread throughout the colonies, into Canada, and ultimately around the world. Narrated by Graham Greene, The War That Made America combines a commitment to accuracy with a compelling filmed portrayal of the dangerous world of the eighteenth-century frontier. A central figure is George Washington, then a brash and ambitious young officer in his twenties hoping to make his reputation in the military, whose blunders actually trigger the war. A primary focus of the series, and a story that has long been distorted or forgotten, is the critical military importance and strategic diplomacy of Native Americans in the conflict between the English and French for the expansion of their colonial empires. It was a war the British won, but the fruit of their victory contained the seeds of the Revolutionary War.

PRINT MATERIALS: Teachers guide available on http://www.thewarthatmadeamerica.org/

Washington: City Out of Wilderness

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: United States Capitol Historical Society, Washington, DC
YEAR PRODUCED: 1974
PROJECT DIRECTOR: William M. Maury
PRODUCER: Francis Thompson Company

AWARD: CINE Golden Eagle

FORMAT: 35mm (28:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Currently unavailable

Washington's Neighborhoods: A History of Change

Documentary Radio Series

Program 1
Washington: The Capital City—Part 1
traces the development of the nation's capital from its beginning as a swampland village through the mid-nineteenth century.

Program 2
Washington: The Capital City—Part 2
looks at further settlement of the federal city, particularly during the Civil War when Washington's residents were ambivalent about their loyalties.

Program 3
Georgetown and Alexandria
considers the evolution of both towns from competitive seaports, through decline, to their present status as fashionable residential areas.

Program 4
Anacostia: The Land across the River
chronicles how the Anacostia community became Washington's first suburb for working people of modest means.

Program 5
Streetcars and Streetcar Suburbs
examines the impact of the trolley, especially as it contributed to socio-economic divisions within the city

Program 6
Monumental Washington
portrays the well-known sites and attractions of the city.

Program 7
LeDroit Park: Washington's Black Community
focuses on the desegregation of LeDroit Park, once a fashionable suburb for well-to-do white Washingtonians.

Program 8
The Interwar Period: 1920-1940
examines the growth of the city during the Interwar Years.

Program 9
Automobile Suburbs
describes how the automobile led to the development of distant suburbs which, by the end of World War II, were spilling over the city's boundaries into neighboring Maryland and Virginia.

Program 10
In the Capital's Shadow: Two Neighborhoods
explores the divergent histories and lifestyles of Capitol Hill and Southwest Washington.

Program 11
The Death and Life of a Great American Downtown
presents the rise and fall of downtown Washington, and the new life that is returning to it.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Washington Ear, Inc., Silver Spring, MD
YEAR PRODUCED: 1981
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Margaret W. Rockwell
PRODUCERS: Larry Massett, Deborah Amos, Thomas Looker, Carol Malmi
WRITERS: Luther Spoeher, Larry Massett, Thomas Locker, Carol Malmi
NARRATOR: Noah Adams

PRINT MATERIAL: A set of fourteen braille and large-type maps of the city, with alphabetical index, is also available.

FORMAT: Audiocassette
11 (60:00) programs

DISTRIBUTOR: The Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc.

Water and the Dream of the Engineers

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Cine Research Associates, Boston, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Richard Broadman
COPRODUCER: John Grady
WRITERS: Richard Broadman, John Grady
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nick Doob

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (80:00) The film is also available in two parts, Water History (40:00) and The Shape of a Crisis (40:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Cine Research Associates

We Shall Overcome

Radio Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Public Affairs Media Center, Madison, WI
YEAR PRODUCED: 1983
PRODUCER/WRITER: Judith L. Strasser

FORMAT: Audiocassette (25:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Kaleidoscope Media Service

We Were So Beloved: The German Jews of Washington Heights

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS: Streetwise Films and New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Manfred Kirchheimer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: James Callanan, Steven Giuliano

FESTIVALS: Berlin Festival; FILMEX (Los Angeles)

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (145:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: First Run/Icarus Films

A Weave of Time

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1986
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Susan Fanshel
PRODUCERS: Susan Fanshel, John Adair, Deborah Gordon
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Robert Achs, Jack Parsons
EDITORS: Susan Fanshel, Deborah Gordon
MUSIC: Jim Pepper

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: Earthwatch Film Award; American Film and Video Festival, Blue Ribbon; National Educational Film and Video Festival, Silver Apple; Margaret Mead Film Festival; Hawaii International Film Festival; International Flaherty Film Seminar; Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy; Berlin Film Festival

FORMAT: Video (58:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Direct Cinema Limited

The West

Documentary Series

Program 1
The People (to 1806)
Spans the 1500s to 1806, beginning with the Europeans' arrival in the West, their conflict with native people, America's purchase of the Louisiana Territory, and Lewis and Clark's epic journey in search of the fabled Northwest Passage.

Program 2
Empire Upon the Trails (1806–48)
Covers the pivotal years when Americans began moving West in significant numbers, following the path of "Manifest Destiny," determined to make the West their own.

Program 3
The Speck of the Future (1848–56)
Begins in 1848, when James Marshall discovers gold on the American River in California, and tells the story of over 50,000 fortune seekers who swarmed into the Sierra Nevada scrambling for riches and changing the West forever.

Program 4
Death Runs Riot (1856–68)
Examines how the debate over whether new western lands would be slave or free provided the sparks that ignited the Civil War and how, after the war ended, Union heroes used the tactics they had used to defeat the South against the Native Americans of the West.

Program 5
The Grandest Enterprise Under God (1868–74)
Recounts America's struggle to unite the nation East and West with the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an astonishing achievement that opens the West to settlement as never before and identifies the United States as an emerging world power.

Program 6
Fight No More Forever (1874–77)
Chronicles groups caught in the path of America's westward expansion: Sitting Bull and the Lakota, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, and the Mormon patriarch, Brigham Young.

Program 7
The Geography of Hope (1877–87)
Documents the domestication of the West—Indians are sent to boarding schools, the prairies are fenced, and 4.5 million new settlers arrived to "tame" the West and stake a claim to the future.

Program 8
One Sky Above Us (1887–1914)
Shows that while much of the "wild west" did come to an end with the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, the hopes and dreams that have always shaped the West still burn brightly.

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Co-production of Insignia Films and WETA-TV, Washington, DC, in association with Florentine Films and Time-Life Video & Television.
YEAR PRODUCED: 1996
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Ken Burns
PRODUCERS: Stephen Ives, Jody Abramson, Michael Kantor
DIRECTOR: Stephen Ives
WRITERS: Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Buddy Squires, Allen Moore
EDITOR: Paul Barnes
NARRATOR: Peter Coyote
VOICES: Adam Arkin, Pilip Bosco, Matthew Broderick, Keith Carradine, Tantoon Cardinal, John Cullum, Blythe Danner, Ossie Davis, Hector Elizand, Julie Harris, Derek Jacobi, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan, Mary Stuart Masterson, Russell Means, Jason Robards, Gary Sinise, Jimmy Smits, B.D. Wong

AWARDS: 1997 Erik Barnouw Award

PRINT MATERIAL/WEBSITE: PBS Video: Teacher's Guide and Teacher's edition with video index; Life Time Learning Systems: Press kit, Study Guide, Poster, Website: www.pbs.org/weta/thewest; WETA: Newsletters

FORMAT: Video (90:00) Programs 1-7, Program 8 (120:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: PBS Video

The Wobblies

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Center for Educational Productions, New York, NY
YEAR PRODUCED: 1979
DIRECTORS: Deborah Shaffer, Stewart Bird
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sandi Sissel, Judy Irola, Peter Gessner, Bonnie Friedman
EDITORS: Deborah Shaffer, Stewart Bird

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon; New York Film Festival, premiere

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (89:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: First Run/Icarus Films

Woodrow Wilson

Documentary

The Women of Summer: The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Women of Summer, Inc., Tenafly, NJ
YEAR PRODUCED: 1985
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER: Suzanne Bauman
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Rita Heller
EDITOR: Phyllis Chinlund
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ross Lowell

AWARDS: American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon, History; CINE Golden Eagle; San Francisco International Film Festival, Second Place; Athens (OH) International Film Festival, Golden Athena; National Educational Film and Video Festival, First Prize, Social Studies; Booklist, Editor's Choice (American Library Association)

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (60:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Filmakers Library

Will The Circle Be Unbroken?

Documentary Radio series

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Southern Regional Council (SRC), Atlanta, GA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1997
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Steve Suitts
PRODUCER: George King
PRINCIPAL WRITER: George King
NARRATOR: Vertamae Grosvenor

PRINT MATERIAL: Press and marketing materials, reviews, and listener email responses available from SRC

AWARDS/FESTIVALS: 1998 George Foster Peabody Award; The National Federation of Community Broadcasters "Golden Reel" Award for Best News and Current Affairs Programming; The Oral History Association 1997 Nonprint Media Award

FORMAT: Audiocassette (13 hours)

DISTRIBUTOR: Southern Regional Council (SRC)

A World on Display: The St. Louis World's Fair of 1904

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: New Deal Films Inc., Corrales, NM
YEAR PRODUCED: 1994
PRODUCERS: Eric Breitbart, Mary Lance
DIRECTOR/WRITER: Eric Breitbart
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Evan Estern, Judy Hoffman
EDITOR: Eric Breitbart
NARRATOR: Leona Luba

SCREENINGS: Centre de la Villette, Paris; American Institute, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Webster University, St. Louis; Albuquerque Museum

PRINT MATERIALS: Brochure and Study Guide

FORMAT: Video (53:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: The Cinema Guild, Inc.

The Yiddish Radio Project

You May Call Her Madam Secretary

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: The Frances Perkins Film Project, Inc. West Tisbury, MA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987
PRODUCERS/WRITERS: Robert Potts, Marjory Potts
DIRECTOR: Marjory Potts
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Dean Gaskill
EDITORS: Michael Grenadier, Robert Potts
CAST: Frances Sternhagen, Robert Potts

AWARDS: American Film and Video Festival, Red Ribbon; CINE Golden Eagle; Columbus (OH) International Film Festival, Chris Bronze Plaque; "Outstanding Non-Print" Lists in Booklist and Choice, (American Library Association)

FORMAT: 16mm, Video (57:40)

DISTRIBUTOR: Vineyard Video Productions

Ziveli: Medicine for the Heart

Documentary

PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION: Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
YEAR PRODUCED: 1987
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Andrei Simic, Edward Levine
PRODUCER: Vikram Jayanti
DIRECTOR/CINEMATOGRAPHY: Les Blank
WRITER: Andrei Simic
EDITOR: Maureen Gosling
NARRATOR: Andrei Simic

AWARD: Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Plaque

FORMAT: Video (55:00)

DISTRIBUTOR: Flower Films