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Bill Moyers Journal: Screenwriter David Simon
Item# 40417
© 2009
57 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-694-5
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-695-2
For five seasons, The Wire brought the poorly understood world of the inner city into living rooms across the country. In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers is joined by the creator of that crit...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Religious Scholar Karen Armstrong
Item# 40364
© 2009
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-541-2
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-542-9
A self-proclaimed "freelance monotheist," Karen Armstrong is on a mission to bring compassion, the heart of religion, as she sees it, back into modern life. In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers...
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Bill Moyers Journal: Parker Palmer on Spiritual Wholeness / Robert G. Kaiser on Washington Lobbyist Culture
Item# 40325
© 2009
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-516-0
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-517-7
In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with Parker Palmer, founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal, for a conversation about maintaining spiritual wholeness even as the economy and...
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New! Rude: Where Are Our Manners?
Item# 40923
© 2008
43 Min.
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"What are the rules of behavior? Do people not know, or do they not care?" In this program, host Valerie Pringle explores the reasons behind the ostensible breakdown of manners, defined as treating ot...
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New! Zimbardo Speaks: The Lucifer Effect and the Psychology of Evil
Item# 40662
© 2008
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-197-2
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-196-5
Philip Zimbardo has spent decades researching the transformation of character that occurs when generally good people are led to engage in evil actions. In this lecture, Zimbardo discourses on theories...
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Detective Shi and the Stolen Brides: Human Trafficking in China
Item# 40601
© 2008
52 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-133-0
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-132-3
Due to a traditional preference for male offspring, rural China now suffers from a shortage of women-and, in turn, an increase in kidnapping and human trafficking. This documentary follows a determin...
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Flowers of Rwanda: Making Peace with Genocide
Item# 40621
© 2008
24 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-157-6
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-156-9
Can killers and survivors coexist in peace? That is the crucial question facing Rwanda a dozen years after the genocide that claimed the lives of approximately 800,000 people-and the subject of this m...
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The Truth About Violence
Item# 40440
© 2008
52 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-900-7
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-901-4
Hiding deep within the human mind-or perhaps closer to its surface than many would care to know-are forces that can cause one person to assault and kill another. This program studies the primal center...
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Beyond the Nuclear Family
Item# 40310
© 2008
25 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-782-9
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-783-6
What is a family? The answer might have been easy a generation ago, but today a much wider range of possibilities exists. This program offers a thought-provoking look at the changing roles, structures...
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The Civilians' Story: Albert Kahn's Archive of the Planet
Item# 40346
© 2008
52 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-633-4
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-634-1
In addition to documenting the Great War itself, Albert Kahn's team of photographers recorded the impact of the conflict on French civilian life. This program examines offerings from Kahn's Archive of...
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