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- Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
- Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
- A series showcasing documentaries on American history.
- Science documentaries about various topics.
- FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world and American television's top long-form news and current affairs series since 1983
- A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.
- Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented communities and universal challenges found across America. The series has been awarded numerous Emmys and Peabodys, and has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
- Follows two New York City couples, one heterosexual and one gay, who explore the peaks and the valleys of their respective relationships.
- POV, a cinema term for "point of view," is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented more than 300 of the best, boldest, and most innovative documentaries to PBS audiences across the country.
- Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.
- Reporter J.J. Dalton (Stockard Channing) wants to write a story about a gruelling three thousand kilometer auto rally through Africa. When her deal to ride with a driver falls through, she hires ex-stuntman Eddie Miles (David Carradine), who is racing against his former employer, the ruthless Count Borgia (Sir Christopher Lee), who becomes their hardest and meanest competitor in the rally. Borgia and his sidekick Feodor (Hamilton Camp) do all they can to thwart the other drivers, but luck and love are on J.J. and Eddie's side.
- A documentary on American political campaign marketing tactics and their consequences.
- A young English teacher and aspiring author takes his class on a trip to the home of his favourite author, Gorley Peters. While there, he meets Peter's daughter and a relationship develops.
- Details the impact of television on people and social institutions
- Rediscovering Dave Brubeck (2001) - An historical one-hour documentary of the legendary American jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, who is still going strong in his 80s, creating new music, constantly on tour, writing classical as well as jazz tunes.
- Master Scottish musician Alasdair Fraser follows his fiddle into unexpected territory and finds himself helping people around the world engage with their own musical traditions, cultures and, ultimately, themselves.
- Voodoo priest casts spell on peasant woman.
- Tells the story of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, whose creations reflect 25 years of social protest in America. The troupe's unique performing style includes comedy, satire, drama, music and dance mixed with strong political statements.
- THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA is the first film to probe one of our most treasured economic assumptions: that private corporations can be trusted to make the investments upon which all Americans depend. The film contrasts two Pittsburgh steelworkers conventional faith in private enterprise with the actual strategies and priorities of a giant corporation, U.S. Steel. It traces their growing realization that despite "supply side" business claims, increased profits don't necessarily "trickle down" to working Americans.
- How close are we to building a real HAL-9000 computer?
- A brave and balanced look at the choice a soldier makes when he finally must pull the trigger.
- For more than thirty years, Eleanor Roosevelt was America's most powerful woman. Millions adored her, but her FBI file was thicker than a stack of phone books. She spoke out fearlessly for civil rights, and the KKK put a price on her head. She helped Franklin D. Roosevelt rise to power and was one of his most valuable political assets, but the media satirized her as an ugly busybody. Drawing on interviews with her closest relatives, friends, and biographers, as well as rare home movie footage, the film reveals the hidden dimensions of one of the century's most influential women. She was born to wealth and power but orphaned at the age of 10. Her private life was marked by tragedy, infidelity, and a never-ending search for intimacy. Yet she persevered, fighting tirelessly for social justice for all and taking a lead role in the United Nations landmark Declaration of Human Rights.
- An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.