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- Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
- Two critics review films both old and new.
- A look at the life and work of writer/filmmaker Nora Ephron.
- Chicago housing system segregated Black families, diminishing their wealth for generations.Uncovering overlooked history, the resistance against discrimination, and how these policies deepened the national racial wealth gap.
- Illegal broadcast showing Max Headroom Impostor doing non-sense things and obscenities, shown over sports news and "Doctor Who" episode, which became cult phenomena as culprits were never captured.
- America's First Guru is the compelling story of how Yoga and Indian Wisdom first entered the popular American conversation in 1893 with the arrival of an Indian monk Swami Vivekananda at the first Parliament of Religions in Chicago
- On the major social and political issues of our time, economist, author, and columnist Walter Williams is one of America's most provocative thinkers. He is black, yet he opposes affirmative action. He believes that the Civil Rights Act was a major error, that the minimum wage actually creates unemployment, and that occupational and business licensure and industry regulation work against minorities and others in American business. Perhaps, most importantly, he has come to believe that it has been the welfare state that has done to black Americans what slavery could never do: destroy the black family.The story of Walter Williams' life unfolds through exclusive, on-location interviews with Williams and many others, referencing those turbulent, discriminatory events of the 1960s that so influenced his thinking and his life.
- Rick Bayless, chef, travels to Mexico, samples food, and then returns to his kitchen to teach you how to cook the same dishes.
- Bleacher Bums takes place in the bleachers of Chicago's Wrigley Field. The characters are a bunch of Chicago Cubs fans, watching a game in progress on a summer afternoon.
- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy come together from remarkably different backgrounds, life experiences and points of view to explore the idea of a unifying American creed. Their spirited inquiry frames the stories of a range of citizen-activists striving to realize their own visions of America's promise across deep divides.
- Host and Travel Guide Colleen Kelly explores must-see locations & attractions throughout the U.S. and abroad, sharing expert travel tips and insights to create easier family vacations filled with once-in-a-lifetime memories. Each 30-minute episode of Family Travel with Colleen Kelly offers a personalized, "exclusive" behind-the-scenes tour, showcasing adventure, culinary, history, and travel tips!
- Algren's backstreet poetry and gritty tales of Chicago interweave with the pulse of a live, onstage jazz combo in this intimate portrait of one of Chicago's most enduring literary figures. Performed against a background of grainy 16mm films, Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day invites you to meet Algren, the people he chronicled, and shuffle the streets of Chicago in his shoes. Jeff-nominated Ensemble Member Thomas J. Cox plays role of Algren, giving us an incomparable window into Algren's rhythmic, comic, sensual vision of his beloved city.
- Footage of Charles, some previously unseen, narrated by specially-selected old interviews with the King and Queen Camilla.
- On December 1, 1958, fire swept through Our Lady of the Angels school on Chicago's west side, killing 92 children and three nuns. This Emmy award-winning program tells the unforgettable story of ordinary people caught up in a mind-numbing disaster. Told through vivid first-hand accounts and stunning archival footage, Angels Too Soon is also the story of a fire that remains officially unsolved, despite the detailed confession of a 10-year-old student in the school. Above all, it is a story of faith, hope and courage, the day that 92 children became Angels Too Soon.
- During a third-grade lesson on the civil rights movement and Rosa Parks, a Latino boy raises his hand to ask, "Where did we sit on the bus?" - and his teacher can't answer the question.
- An in-depth look at the highly successful TV series, including a study of the philosophical approach of the program.
- Experience the critically acclaimed Thodos Dance Chicago story ballet A LIGHT IN THE DARK from the best seat in the house in this incredible performance-on-film production from renowned choreographers Ann Reinking and Melissa Thodos. The ballet, which features original music from composer Bruce Wolosoff, interprets the early life of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan through dance.
- DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis tells the history of Chicago's African-American community as never before, through the voices of its leading citizens, scholars, artists, politicians, and business leaders.
- Actor, Paul Winfield narrates a program that documents a time when men were denied access to the major leagues because of their race. The program includes interviews with players such as: Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Buck Leonard, Jimmy Crutchfield, David Malarcher, Effa Manley, and Quincy Trouppe.
- To those who watch television in the developed world, there doesn't seem to be a better system on earth than the capitalist system. We are experiencing the longest economic expansion in modern history. Soviet Communism has been defeated. But make no mistake, as we will demonstrate in this program, capitalism is surprisingly vulnerable. The moment of capitalism's greatest triumph is the moment of its greatest crisis, its "Moment of Truth." In fact, capitalism is not working for the vast majority of humanity that lives on the planet. Two-thirds of the world's population have been locked out of the global economy, forced to operate outside the rule of law, they have no legal identity, no credit, no capital, and thus no way to prosper. To unlock The Power of the Poor is to change the world. If we fail, these people will turn against capitalism as they have turned against other failed economic systems, and that could make for a very difficult, violent time. Filmed on location from Latin America to Africa, The Power of the Poor will demonstrate how free markets, individual freedom and especially the right to property can transform the poor into the most powerful resource in the world. At its heart is the potential triumph of capitalism as a system.
- History of Chicago's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community from the Civil War to today.
- 2012 is the 100th anniversary of Milton Friedman's birth. His work and ideas continue to make the world a better place. As part of Milton Friedman's Century, the ideas featured in the landmark television series Free To Choose are being revisited in a new 3-part PBS broadcast. Testing Milton Friedman, hosted by award-winning veteran journalist Emily Rooney with a distinguished panel of two Friedman advocates and two challengers, presents a lively discussion and debate on Friedman's still-provocative ideas in each of these hour-long programs. Special emphasis is placed on the relevance of his ideas in view of the current world economic situation. The episodes are as follows: Equality of Opportunity - the panelists explore Friedman's ideas and the possible implications of equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. The panelists include: Walter Williams - author, syndicated columnist, and the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University; Shikha Dalmia - senior policy analyst at Reason Foundation; Matthew Yglesias - political blogger; John Bouman - president and advocacy director of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. Government Control - a discussion of what can occur when legislators, often in collusion with big business, intervene in the market. This program features: Amity Shlaes - author and syndicated columnist and a director at the George W. Bush Institute; Bryan Caplan - professor of economics at George Mason University, research fellow at the Mercatus Center and author; Austan Goolsbee - former chief economist for President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, a member of the Obama cabinet and professor of economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business; Clarence Page - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from the Chicago Tribune. Free Markets - the panel discusses the classic explanations and demonstrations of the workings and benefits of a free market and economic freedom. The panelists are: Kevin Murphy - George J. Stigler Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; Raghuram Rajan - Eric J. Gleacher Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and an economic advisor to the Prime Minister of India; Dani Rodrik - author and professor of international political economy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Brad DeLong - professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration.
- Each episode of Citizen Soldier explores topics on military history, affairs and policy through interviews and panel discussions with scholars, military personnel, and authors.
- Four investigative reports, shot on location in Greece, Brussels, California and Washington DC, highlight this in depth examination of Europe's current debt crisis and its connection to the U.S. economy. Narrated by Swedish author Johan Norberg, and George Mason University professor, Don Boudreaux, the investigative reports ask: "Where did Europe go wrong" and "is the United States now repeating the same mistakes?" In a conference center and restaurant in Malmo, Sweden young thinkers from around the world react to the presentations. Their age makes them inheritors of the problems and the solutions around the corner.
- Originally aired on WTTW-TV's "Image Union," this documentary follows the members of the Christian community Jesus People USA on Chicago's north side.
- When the U.S. assumed the PAX, it assumed responsibility for global order, but for how long? Just how deeply entangled should America be in the world's affairs? What alternatives are there to being the world's policemen? Is there really a downside to retreat? And in the absence of the U.S., how might global order be maintained - or decimated? In a companion documentary to America in Retreat by Wall Street Journal's Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Bret Stephens, Free To Choose Executive Editor and Cato Senior Fellow Johan Norberg examine the questions facing a nation leaning back toward isolationism.
- WTTW Journal was a monthly documentary series in Chicago. Top Guns of '43 (ep. 101) tells the story of World War II fighter pilots who trained on aircraft carriers on Lake Michigan, just off the Chicago shoreline.
- Ten towns designed or re-designed by visionary architects, corporations and citizen are highlighted. All share the goal to transform the lives of their residents through architecture, design and urban planning.
- A rarely seen exploration of the artistic life through interviews with dozens of prolific artists, choreographers and performers, which examines why artists "do what they do" despite the hardships, frustrations, and financial difficulties that can accompany an artistic life.
- A concert of all original music that celebrates 40 years of the Bloom School of Jazz, current students, alumni and friends.
- Ten American homes designed by visionary architects, their eclectic clients and current homeowners are highlighted. Each home combined form, function and art to challenge the nature of a home and evolving relationship with it.
- Around the world, people are flourishing...emerging from poverty...making better lives for themselves and their families. How are they managing it? Through increased economic freedom!
- A compilation of old Super-8 and 16mm footage of Riverview Amusement Park, combined with interviews from those who worked or visited there.
- Ten city parks designed by visionaries to offer an oasis for city dwellers are discussed. An overview of the evolution of American city parks and their history, as well as development of landscape architecture.
- A Franklin McMahon artist report about the political scene of 1968, the presidential campaign and the Vietnam War.
- The events happening across North Africa and in the Arab world today are the result of many things, but at the top of the list is the fact that the vast majority of the population has been systematically locked out of the system by Byzantine legal procedures and political repression. Globalization at the Crossroads features renowned Peruvian economist and author, Hernando de Soto. His twenty years of research show that economies prosper only in places where widespread personal property ownership exists-coupled with inclusive, efficient, and transparent business and property law. This program demonstrates how the West successfully revolutionized its legal systems, property laws, and developed the modern corporation. Other nations that have instituted private property and business reforms, such as post-WWII Japan and present-day China, have seen their economies take off and their middle classes grow. Globalization is the new civilization. But unless we include the 80% of humanity currently excluded from the system, they will bring civilization down, as they have brought down other civilizations in the past.
- An Extraterrestrial arrives on Earth, but remains tragically unnoticed.
- Documentary short of Livestock, a Chicago Punk/Noise Music Festival with the bands ONO, End Result and Fudge Tunnel.
- A woman struggles with the aftermath of a rape.