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American Masters
Watch Eddie Vedder smash the stage and his microphone in this archival concert footage of one of Pearl Jam's rowdier stage performances where set to the song "Leash" from Vs., the band's second studio album. American Masters Pearl Jam Twenty premieres nationwide Friday, October 21, 2011 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) as part of the first PBS Arts Fall Festival. Continue
To The Contrary
epublican women in the House of Representatives start a new caucus to highlight female lawmakers and court women voters; so-called "pink collar" jobs like nursing and primary education are recruiting more men than ever before; A new organization lobbies for better working conditions of models in the United States. Continue
Washington Week
Looking for some good summer reading? Check out the books Gwen and the Washington Week panelists recommend for the beach, the car, the plane or the pool. From fiction to politics, history to biography, there is something for everybody. The smartest reporters in Washington, D.C. bring you their suggestions for the summer's best reads. Continue
PBS Presents
The PBS Arts Summer Festival expands the scope and diversity of the arts on television, with a multi-part weekly series and new original online content that takes viewers across the country and around the world. Award-winning television, film and stage star Anna Deavere Smith ("Nurse Jackie," "The West Wing") will serve as weekly host for the Summer Festival. 6/29/2012 Continue
To The Contrary
For the first time in U.S. history, white newborns are outnumbered by babies of color; the U.S. Army recently made history by officially opening jobs in combat battalions to women, but direct ground combat roles are still exclusive to men; To The Contrary travels to China to explore the role the U.S. Foreign Service plays in diplomacy overseas. Continue
Global Voices
Fabrice Champion, a young internationally renowned trapeze artist, hit another acrobat in mid-air during a show and was paralyzed. Following years of rehabilitation therapy, hopes lost and found, he returns to the circus as director and teacher. Continue
American Experience
Explore the history of an American president who rose from a broken childhood to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history. 5/15/2012 Continue
PBS Parents
Here are seven food blogging moms we love on Kitchen Explorers sharing their favorite Mother’s Day memory and recipe inspiration to hopefully help you celebrate your own mom or for your own family to celebrate you. Continue
Finding Your Roots
Hear the stories of free black ancestors of John Legend, Wanda Sykes, Margarett Cooper and Dr. Gates. 5/13/2012 Continue
PBS Presents
Celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month this May and every day with a PBS video collection that explores this culture's diversity. Continue
POV
It is one man's obsessive pursuit of justice and dignity that led Jasmine Dellal into the Gypsies' hidden thousand-year-old culture. Charming and outspoken, Spokane resident Jimmy Marks defies widely held stereotypes-and his own people's code of secrecy-to unlock a Romani world in America and tell a story which is at once humorous and poignant and speaks of the community's continuing persecution. Continue
To The Contrary
A man is suing his ex-fiance for more than $60 thousand because they didn't get married. Continue
Great Performances
Thrill to the singing of the legendary Tony Bennett, who's joined by contemporary artists. 6/1/2012 Continue
Global Voices
Kaing Guek Eav (alias Duch) is a Jekyll-and-Hyde character who began as a mathematics teacher, and then became the commandant of Tuol Sleng prison in Cambodia, ultimately responsible for the torture and murder of 14,000 people. Comrade Duch recounts his flight, conversion to evangelical Christianity, and how he was finally brought to justice before an international tribunal. Continue
Independent Lens
When a highly successful Mexican American Studies program at a high school in Tucson comes under fire for teaching ethnic chauvinism, teachers and students fight back. This modern civil rights struggle is born at the epicenter of the immigration debate in the age of identity politics. Continue
Finding Your Roots
See how the American experience has been shaped by people who were in the New World long before the Mayflower. 5/20/2012 Continue
POV
Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur’an school for girls in Damascus, Syria, 30 years ago. Every summer, her students immerse themselves in a rigorous study of Islam. A surprising cultural shift is underway - women are claiming space within the mosque. Shot right before the uprising in Syria erupted, 'The Light in Her Eyes' offers an extraordinary portrait of a leader. Continue
To The Contrary
As President Obama reminds women about his commitment in a new online graphic, Romney tells women the President's policies are hostile; The Vatican releases a letter scolding American nuns for themes of radical feminism; Women's rights advocates and Nobel Peace Prize recipients reflect on their work. Continue
PBS Presents
Delight in a song contest in which 2,000 students sing in the Hawaiian language using four-part harmony. 5/11/2012 Continue
American Experience
Explore the history of an American president who rose from a broken childhood to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history. 5/8/2012 Continue
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1. APPALACHIA: A History of Mountains and People DVD
Academy Award winning actress Sissy Spacek narrates APPALACHIA: A HISTORY OF MOUNTAINS AND PEOPLE.
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