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Bill Moyers Journal: Sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot / Senator Dick Durbin on the Politics of Big Money
Item# 40502
© 2009
57 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-933-5
DVD ISBN: 978-1-60825-934-2
In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with Harvard University's Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, author of The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50. A MacArthur...
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Women's Rights
Item# 39351
© 2009
26 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-924-3
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-925-0
Despite the progress of the international women's movement in exposing and correcting human rights abuses against females, in many countries women are still fighting to attain the most basic of civil...
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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: Scholar John McWhorter / Robert Johnson on the Bank Bailout
Item# 40334
© 2009
53 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-518-4
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-519-1
In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers and John McWhorter, a political analyst and scholar of linguistics, weigh the meaning and implications of Attorney General Eric Holder's controversial speec...
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New! Reborn: New Orleans Schools
Item# 40696
© 2008
85 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-278-8
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-277-1
Despite its horrific destruction, Hurricane Katrina gave New Orleans educators the opportunity to reinvent a school system that wasn't working. This program chronicles the first official year of publi...
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New! Beauty in the Eyes of the Beheld
Item# 40721
© 2008
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-239-9
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-238-2
Society tells us that beautiful women have it all. But beauty can be as much a curse as it is a blessing. In this sensitively filmed program, eight women labeled as beautiful-two pageant winners, an e...
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Minds that Matter: John Lewis
Item# 40683
© 2008
59 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-61616-209-2
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-208-5
No one grasps the connections between social activism, electoral politics, and racial issues better than Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), perhaps the most prominent living veteran of the American civil...
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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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Let Freedom Ring: Moments from the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
Item# 40565
© 2008
100 Min.
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VHS ISBN: 978-1-60825-993-9
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-60825-994-6
DVD ISBN: 978-1-61616-247-4
Despite the colossal and continuing legacy of America's civil rights era, the movement is often best understood through the historical moments in which it took place. This NBC News program presents or...
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