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Frontline and Independent Lens Illuminate the Issue of Child Abuse on Native-American Reservations

Kind Hearted Woman
Mon, April 1st, 2013

In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer’s Wife, Country Boys) returns with Kind Hearted Woman, a special two-part series that illuminates the issue of child sexual abuse on Native-American reservations as...

Five Poker Players Saved 1,300 Holocaust Refugees

Tue, April 2nd, 2013

Rescue in the Phillipines: Refuge from the Holocaust is a fascinating, but seldom-told, chapter of WWII history. The remarkable stories are recounted in a one-hour documentary, narrated by Liev Schrieber, that airs on KUED Tuesday, April 2...

KUED Profiles Philip Roth, Graham Greene

Fri, March 29th, 2013

American Masters Philip Roth: Unmasked , a 90-minute documentary airing Friday, March 29 at 8:00 p.m., on KUED, features Roth freely discussing very intimate aspects of his life and art as he has never done before. In the film, Roth is candid a...

KUED Explores Teen Dropout Rates, Education

180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School and Tavis Smiley Reports: Education Under Arrest
Mon, March 25th, 2013

180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School  is an two-part intimate portrait of life for the first graduating class of Washington Metropolitan High School (DC Met), a public school in Washington, D.C, where only seven percent of studen...

KUED Concludes Critically Acclaimed Series, Utah Vietnam War Stories

"Drawdown" Looks at Final Years of War
Tue, March 12th, 2013

In the Civil War there was an expression. Soldiers said they want to “see the elephant”—meaning they were eager to go into battle. Once they dealt with the horror, they never wanted to see the elephant again… -- Lynn H...

Saving Earth's Most Charismatic Animal from the Hunt for Ivory

Battle for the Elephants
Wed, February 27th, 2013

What is it about elephants that pull us in, that evoke an almost immediate sympathy? Is it that family is so important to them? That they take care of their young? That they play? Or is it that they are simply so big, smart and powerful?   Wha...

Lifecasters Profiles Americans Achieving Their Dreams Later in Life

Thu, February 7th, 2013

Lifecasters is an innovative public television program in which five filmakers  tell the stories of Americans who have discovered creative ways of realizing their dreams – a bit later in life. Supported...

Sir David Attenborough Reflects on our Fragile Planet

The Final Installment of Nature's Three-Part Series on Sir David Attenborough
Wed, February 6th, 2013

In the final installment of Nature's three-part series on Sir David Attenborough, the renowned naturalist and broadcaster reflects on the dramatic impact that we have had on the natural world during his lifetime, including the disappearing rai...

Third Season of Pioneers of Television Comes to KUED  

Primetime Soaps, Funny Ladies, Superheroes and Miniseries
Tue, January 15th, 2013

Emmy-award winning radio personality, television host and producer Ryan Seacrest, has signed on to narrate the third season of Pioneers of Television, PBS’ Emmy-nominated series that brings to life the stories of television’s most beloved...

American Experience Tells Stories of Five Heroes of the Abolition Movement

The Abolitionists Premieres in Conjunction with 150th Anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation
Tue, January 8th, 2013

Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called by many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passiona...

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