- History Channel: The French Revolution
Documentary examining the key figures and events of the French Revolution.
www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=209830
- NOW With Bill Moyers: Selling War
Overview of the use, and nature of, propaganda from ancient times to the modern era.
www.pbs.org/now/politics/propaganda.html
- Time of the Lincolns, The
Film examining the Lincolns' personal history, slavery and freedom, and the Civil War.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns
- American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till
2002 PBS special detailing the death of Emmitt Till, the 14-year-old black boy who was murdered after he whistled at a white woman in Money, Mississippi.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till
- Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Companion site to the Academy Award nominated documentary.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro
- American Experience: War Letters
Contains program transcript, excerpts from soldiers' letters home from the Civil War to Vietnam, a chronology of U.S. military actions from 1775 to the 1990s, and more.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/warletters
- Queen Victoria's Empire
Online companion to the PBS television series. Includes educational resources and an online game exploring the British empire under Victoria.
www.pbs.org/empires/victoria
- Broken Arrow
Authentic portrait study of the famed Apache leader Cochise.
www.womenwritersblock.com/ourfavwest17.htm
- American Experience: Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Chronicles the life of Malcolm X from birth until his assassination at age 39. Narrated by Alfre Woodard, with historical clips and interviews with Maya Angelou, Ossie Davis, Alex Haley, and others.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/malcolmx
- Enemies of War
PBS film which examines the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and two women in El Salvador. Includes background on the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).
www.pbs.org/enemiesofwar
- Bringing Down a Dictator
PBS film of the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic by an avowedly nonviolent group of student revolutionaries called Otpor.
www.pbs.org/weta/dictator
- Secrets of the Dead II
PBS series investigates mysteries of the ancient and recent past; including murder at Stonehenge, the tomb of Christ, death at Jamestown, and the Salem Witch Trials.
www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets2
- 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/10_Days_That_Unexpectedly_Changed_America
- Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
PBS American Experience documentary examining the 1974 kidnapping of teenage heiress Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/guerrilla
- In Search of Ancient Ireland@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Television_Shows/Arts_and_Humanities
- Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Companion site to Horatio's Drive, a PBS documentary by Ken Burns that chronicles the first cross-country trip in a horseless carriage, taken in 1903 by Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson.
www.pbs.org/horatio
- Elie Wiesel, First Person Singular
2002 PBS special on the life and work of author, activist, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Includes biography, photos, teacher resources, and more.
www.pbs.org/eliewiesel
- They Made America
Examines America's evolution over two centuries, from the infancy of the country, to its growth as an industrial power through the stories of 12 influential innovators.
www.pbs.org/theymadeamerica
- PBS: Warship
Companion site to the four-part TV series. From early wooden fleets to battleships, and from submarines to aircraft carriers.
www.pbs.org/wnet/warship
- American Experience: Stephen Foster
Companion to the PBS documentary about the legendary songwriter whose works include Oh! Susanna, Swanee River, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, and Beautiful Dreamer.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster
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