In Calgary, Alan Alda visits with Joan Vickers, whose research on where athletes focus their gaze has improved the skills of basketball and tennis players, golferseven darts players. Alda goes to...
Step inside the passionate, troubled lives of Juanita and Darrel Buschkoetter as they cling to family and farm. Part documentary, part love story, THE FARMER'S WIFE eloquently blends harsh American...
"God Is a Negro" takes place after Emancipation, when minister-turned-journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage black people in the political realm. Denied access to the...
Alan Alda joins some of the world’s leading astronomers as they wrestle with the startling implications of their latest discoveries: that everything we can see, from the world around us to the most...
This inspiring World War II story spotlights 450 men who fought on two fronts at once. Black American aviators, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, battled Axis powers in Europe and North Africa and then...
From a base in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family used charm, patronage, duplicity, and ruthlessness to amass wealth and power. The Medicis also ignited Western history's most important...
This week's programme is all about meteorites and asteroids. Not too far from the Rough Science base on the edge of Death Valley is Meteor Crater. Iain, Kathy and Mike have to work out how big the...
Declining by Degrees looks at what’s really going on in higher education. This monumental project gathers sixteen essayists that ask tough--and long overdue--questions about our colleges and...
Winner of a 2007 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for broadcast journalism, after more than two decades of stigma, research, and education, FRONTLINE presents the definitive chronicle of...