This program details the successful launch and execution of the Marshall Plan — America’s expansive commitment to re-build Europe at the end of the war. Walter Cronkite traces the complex and changing relationship between the United States and England and explores the dramatic shifts of the Cold War from the end of the war up to the present.
Grade levels: Adult
-
The Music Instinct: Science and Song – Home Use
The power of music: The Music Instinct: Science and Song provides a ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism–and the whole ebb and flow of the cosmos–is moved by the undeniable effect of music. This follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads of science and culture in search of answers to music’s deep mysteries.
-
The Music Instinct: Science and Song – Public Performance
The power of music: The Music Instinct: Science and Song provides a ground-breaking exploration into how and why the human organism–and the whole ebb and flow of the cosmos–is moved by the undeniable effect of music. This follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads of science and culture in search of answers to music’s deep mysteries.
-
Finding Your Own True Love with Dr. Diane Kirschner – Home Use
Based on the book, Love in 90 Days, this practical and inspirational talk by Dr. Diana Kirschner provides advice on self-love, dating and finding a great relationship, plus information for couples who want to deepen their love.
-
Finding Your Own True Love with Dr. Diane Kirschner – Public Performance
Based on the book, Love in 90 Days, this practical and inspirational talk by Dr. Diana Kirschner provides advice on self-love, dating and finding a great relationship, plus information for couples who want to deepen their love.
-
Your Life, Your Money – Public Performance
Your Life, Your Money is a one-hour program about money management for young adults. Told through real-life stories by a series of engaging characters, this presents a broad range of fundamental financial information from basic banking to loans and insurance. The program describes the money management successes and challenges of six young adults (from diverse backgrounds and representing a diversity of ethic backgrounds and career choices) and, through their stories, teaches viewers about key personal finance topics such as the wise use of credit, investing for retirement, and insurance.
-
Your Life, Your Money – Home Use
Your Life, Your Money is a one-hour program about money management for young adults. Told through real-life stories by a series of engaging characters, this presents a broad range of fundamental financial information from basic banking to loans and insurance. The program describes the money management successes and challenges of six young adults (from diverse backgrounds and representing a diversity of ethic backgrounds and career choices) and, through their stories, teaches viewers about key personal finance topics such as the wise use of credit, investing for retirement, and insurance.
-
Justice: What’s The Right Thing to Do – Public Performance Rights & Home Use
More than 14,000 students have taken JUSTICE, one of Harvard’s most popular courses. In a trailblazing partnership with WGBH, Harvard is opening its classroom to the world. Professor Michael Sandel’s course aims to help viewers become more critically minded thinkers about the moral decisions we all face in our everyday lives.
-
Eyes on the Prize
Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Winner of numerous Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Award, and a Television Critics Association Award, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America. (3 Disks)
-
SOD: Witches Curse – Public Performance
The Salem Witch trials of 1692 imprisoned more than 150 people, with 19 hanged. Centuries later, a plausible, natural explanation has emerged for symptoms exhibited by those said to be bewitched. Behavioral psychologist Linda Caporeal takes viewers on a journey from wrenching convulsions and vivid delirium to contaminated crops, hallucinogenic drugs, and an ancient bog man hacked to death. Her theory may finally solve the witches’ curse.