On May 15, 1937, Madeleine Albright, America’s highest-ranking woman in government and first female secretary of state, was born Maria Jana Korbelova in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Now a professor at the …
Thirteen is offering one of it’s programs captioned for the hearing impaired… online! The film Rolling produced for public television with Thirteen is now offering the full film online with captions and other accessible media features.
This 2-hour program, produced by David Brashears, traces the steps of the ill-fated 1996 Everest expeditions, in which 5 climbers died. Brashears takes a ‘Rashomon’-esque approach to the retelling of the tale, interviewing most of the survivors of the expeditions. See Frontline:
Five thousand years ago the Minoans, Europe’s first great civilization, flourished on the island of Crete. Yet in their heyday, they mysteriously disappeared. “Sinking Atlantis” digs deep into the Minoan soil and history, following archaeologists who are finding evidence of a massive tsunami that devastated the Minoans – and may have spawned the myth of Atlantis.
WLIW New York’s acclaimed Visions series makes an aerial pilgrimage to Israel, the world’s only Jewish state – home to approximately 7.2 million and the Holy Land of the three …
“A Walk to Beautiful” tells the stories of rural women who make their way to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, seeking treatment for obstetric fistula, a life-shattering complication of childbirth that was once common in the pre-industrial United States but that is now relegated to the poorest regions of the world.
All May, Thirteen is running special Asian programming for Asian Pacific Heritage month, telling stories from the entire Pacific Rim, from east to west, the islands of Fiji to expatriates in the U.S., stories from as far as India to as near as New York. See listings:
See three different angles on the stories of mothers in prison from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Independent Lens and ITVS.
In this episode of Real Moms, learn the facts about the centuries old practice of waterbirthing; watch the story of two remarkable disabled mothers; and discover the roller coaster ride of pre - and post-natal emotions. Watch the full episode:
Last month, P.O.V. exec. director Simon Kilmurry served on the jury for this specialized film festival, which is in its 10th year. He gives a detailed report about what he …
