On January 12, 2010, Haiti was leveled by one of the most devastating earthquakes in recorded history. Those responsible for handling the catastrophe, including the Haitian state and the United Nations, were crippled by the magnitude of the disaster and struggled to respond. In the confused aftermath, survivors were left without food, water or shelter. FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith and team arrived in Port-au-Prince within days, and in this powerful report, bears witness to the disaster and the ill-coordinated relief efforts in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Drawing on interviews with key officials and humanitarian experts from Port-au-Prince to New York, The Quake asks, can the world do better? And how?
Subjects: Earth Science
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FRONTLINE: Poisoned Waters – Home Use
FRONTLINE examines the rising hazards to human health and eco-system, and why it’s so hard to keep our waters clean. The coastal estuaries of Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay-are in perilous condition. Polluted runoff still flows in from industry, agriculture, and massive suburban development, and scientists fear contamination to the food chain, drinking water, as well as a growing list of endangered species.
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FRONTLINE: Poisoned Waters – Public Performance
FRONTLINE examines the rising hazards to human health and eco-system, and why it’s so hard to keep our waters clean. The coastal estuaries of Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay-are in perilous condition. Polluted runoff still flows in from industry, agriculture, and massive suburban development, and scientists fear contamination to the food chain, drinking water, as well as a growing list of endangered species.
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American Experience: Earth Days – Home Use
It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement-from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. Earth Days’ secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers-among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth catalogue founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins-are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower-era tableau to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (Oswald’s Ghost, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst) Earth Days is both a poetic meditation on man’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements-and missed opportunities-of groundbreaking eco-activism.
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American Experience: Earth Days – Public Performance
It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement-from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. Earth Days’ secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers-among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth catalogue founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins-are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower-era tableau to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs. Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (Oswald’s Ghost, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst) Earth Days is both a poetic meditation on man’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements-and missed opportunities-of groundbreaking eco-activism.
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Climate Change: Classroom Video Issues 2
Scientific evidence clearly shows that global temperatures are rising, and weather patterns are changing. Evidence is also clear that climatic changes – including extreme changes – have been present on our planet for millions of years.While this scientific evidence is widely accepted, some are skeptical about the degree of human responsibility for our changing climate, arguing that there is no need to change our energy use to the detriment of the economy – because the climate change we are currently experiencing is a natural phenomenon, not a human-caused phenomenon. This program poses questions for debate and discussion in the classroom surrounding climate change. It presents expert opinions, statistics and historical references presenting two sides of the story, and ultimately asks us, how worried should we be?
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Weather Bombs
Massive in scale and scope, oceanic Weather Bombs are a new and deadly force of nature to be reckoned with. Yet, Weather Bombs remain illusive and unpredictable. They form suddenly and with little warning. Today, meteorologists scramble to understand and forecast their trajectory while the Coast Guard train elite, special teams to save countless victims. Weather Bombs blends storm science with an exhilarating and dangerous adventure on the high seas in the study of Mother Nature’s newest destructive power.
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Mysteries in the Ice
From the high Arctic, to the Columbia ice fields, from the Yukon’s Mount Logan, to the Pacific coast, the glaciers of Canada are the planet’s most diverse frozen repository of secrets, telling the tale of our past, present and future in magnificent detail.
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Polar Safari
In the winter of 2001, a team of high altitude balloonists embarked on a rare and dangerous expedition over the world’s largest in-land sea – the Hudson Bay. Polar Safari is an adventure across virtually uncharted territory, rarely seen at this time of year and never traversed before by balloon. Along the way, the team encounters the unique people that inhabit the surrounding land and observe spectacular wonders. The expedition’s success put these fearless adventurers into the record books.
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Horizontal Everest
450 miles from the North Pole stands Horizontal Everest, the mountainous jewel of the remote north. It boasts the highest peaks of the Western Hemisphere, east of the Rockies. While many have climbed vertical Everest, only explorer Jerry Kobalenko has climbed Horizontal Everest. Using exclusive photography, Kobalenko shares this world of enchanted beauty as we travel over the frozen ocean for 50 hours under the midnight sun, uncovering the mysteries of the north.