Iconic nature, thrilling adventures and unique, varied culture
The fight to save our ocean’s ecosystem and critically endangered coral reefs
This engaging film tells the story of Walt Whitman’s remarkable life (1819-1892), the turbulent era in which he lived, and the timeless poetry he created. Interweaving narration and dramatic readings with captivating period music, insights from scholars, and photography filmed in key locations, this documentary brings to life Whitman’s unique character and poems.
With the Galveston landing of U.S. Army Gen. Gordon Granger in 1865, slavery in Texas ended. African bondsmen became freedmen, and women and children likewise became African Americans. Many left the plantations to join freedom colonies; others sought out opportunities in cities and towns. Today, the consequences of gentrification and rising property values challenge new generations.
Life and history in East Texas Timber region
Travel Ireland with Michael Londra, celebrating Irish culture, history, and music.
Climate change is a critical scientific and social issue that confronts today's world. Nowhere are the consequences of a warming climate more pronounced and observable than in the Polar Regions. The documentary FROZEN OBSESSION follows the 18-day, 2,000-mile Northwest Passage Project expedition through the stunningly beautiful and extreme Canadian Arctic Archipelago aboard the Swedish research icebreaker Oden. During the expedition, the Northwest Passage Project team studies water chemistry, microbiology, birds, mammals, and physical oceanography. As FROZEN OBSESSION bears witness to a dramatically changing Arctic, we gain a sobering assessment of what's at stake. But in a hopeful turn, the film also witnesses the exhilarating life-changing experiences of the students on this expedition, who represent the next generation of scientists and decision makers who will surely make a difference in the world.
Worried about our world? Garry Davis leapt off the Broadway stage onto the world stage to give us hope and a vision for a better way.
Let's Learn is an educational public television series for children ages 3 to 8, featuring instruction by educators and virtual field trips.
A Taste of History® is a travel and cooking television series that explores America’s culinary beginnings. Host, Chef Walter Staib, brings history to life through 18th century recipe recreation. Filmed in international locations and historic kitchens of America, A Taste of History gives viewers an in-depth look into the culture and cuisine that shaped American history.
Each room in this hotel has a frightening story
Featuring Carlos Santana, Mickey Hart and Derek Trucks
Sacramento resident Sharon Styles explores the history of her family, and a once-forgotten cemetery near a small Texas town. Experience Sharon’s emotional journey to find her roots and seeks answers about her family’s place in American history.
The most powerful vampire of them all!
Some tombs are better left unopened
Inventing America brings our Founding Fathers back to life in a TV talk show before a live audience. In Episode 3, "Liberty for All," James Madison (John Douglas Hall), Thomas Jefferson (Bill Barker), Alexander Hamilton (Hal Bidlack) and Patrick Henry (Richard Schumann) reveal the conflicts and infighting behind the new U.S. Constitution and how that led to the Bill of Rights. The program features a Q&A with college students in which the Founders apply the Bill of Rights to our own time. It concludes with Henry's famous "Give me liberty, or give me death" speech that inspired the idea of America in the first place.
Mark Cohen performs six of Shakespeare’s most intriguing characters.
Murders in the Louisiana Swamps
A follow-up to Inventing America: Making a Nation, Inventing America: Making a Government brings our Founding Fathers back to life in a TV talk show filmed before a live audience. Episode 2 tells the story behind the Constitutional Convention of 1787 – four momentous months that changed the world. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Gouverneur Morris and George Washington discuss the conflicts and compromises that led to creating the world’s most enduring republic. While imagined and presented as a retrospective, the conversation is based on fact, using the Founders’ actual words.
Created by Milton Nieuwsma and filmed by Zach Liniewski and Philip A. Lane, two-time Emmy Award-winners from previous collaborations, the show was recorded at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. The host and moderator is Fred Johnson, associate professor of history at Hope College. The director is John K.V. Tammi, professor emeritus of theatre and founder of Hope College’s acclaimed Summer Repertory Theatre.
KTWU’s Theatre of the Mind presents an all-new production in the style of a 1940’s radio play. Based on three classic stories and adapted by playwright Philip Grecian.
“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving
“The Cats of Ulthar” by H. P. Lovecraft
As has been the custom with these dramas, the actors often play multiple roles and employ vintage microphones to simulate radio’s Golden Age with live physical sound effects. They portray period radio performers, and so the haunted presence of Poe’s House of Usher, the hoofbeats of the Headless Horseman and the horrific fantasy with felines is created through “theater of the mind” in the imagination of the listening audience.
The man historians have dubbed our nation's most powerful vice-president
Inventing America: Making a Nation brings our Founding Fathers back to life in a TV talk show filmed before a live audience. Episode 1 features three delegates to the Second Continental Congress—Thomas Jefferson (Bill Barker), Benjamin Franklin (John Hamant) and John Adams (Sam Goodyear)—discussing the lead-up to the Declaration of Independence. A fourth delegate, John Dickinson (Rodney TeSlaa), who refused to sign the document, reveals the conflict behind this historic event..
When he’s on the rampage, no one is safe
“Once upon a midnight dreary…”
One of the most famous detective stories