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SECRETS OF THE DEAD: "Escape From Auschwitz"

- The First Documentary Entirely Dedicated to the Story of Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler's Heroic Efforts to Expose Nazi Atrocities - Includes Dramatic Reconstructions and Rare Interviews With Eyewitness Survivors and Holocaust -
Wed, April 30th, 2008

Auschwitz was Hitler's largest concentration camp. Nazi records show that tens of thousands of Jews from German-occupied territories were sent there to be executed each month; by 1944, 12,000 Jews a day were being murdered inside its barbed wire f...

"CARRIER" OFFERS INTIMATE LOOK AT LIFE ABOARD A U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER

Filmmakers Given Unparalleled Access to Document Stories During Six-Month Deployment to Persian Gulf
Sun, April 27th, 2008

CARRIER, a revealing story of daily life on a United States aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, premieres Sunday-Thursday, April 27-May 1, from 8 - 10 p.m. on KUED-Channel 7. Given unprecedented access by the Navy to the ship and its personnel, the fil...CARRIER, una historia reveladora sobre la vida diaria en un portaaviones militar de los Estados Unidos, el USS Nimitz, se estrena el domingo,27 de abril al  jueves 1 de mayo, de 8 - 10 p.m. en KUED-Canal 7.  Se obtuvo un acceso sin preceden...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "Roberto Clemente"

An Intimate Portrait of a Baseball Player and Humanitarian Whose Passion and Grace Made Him a Legend
Mon, April 21st, 2008

On December 31, 1972, Roberto Clemente, a 38-year-old baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates, boarded a DC-7 aircraft loaded with relief supplies for survivors of a catastrophic earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua. Concerned over reports that the...

KUED Airs Critically Acclaimed "KING CORN"

"As relevant as Super-Size Me and as important as An Inconvenient Truth." - The Austin Chronicle
Tue, April 15th, 2008

KING CORN is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college, move to the heartland town that was once home to their great-...

The Truth About Cancer

Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker Takes on the Question, "How Far Have We Come in the War on Cancer?"; Journalist and Cancer Survivor Linda Ellerbee Hosts Post-Broadcast Panel Discussion
Wed, April 16th, 2008

What is the truth about cancer? Is it the same deadly killer it was 30 years ago - or are we making progress? THE TRUTH ABOUT CANCER, which answers the questions through the poignant stories of patients battling the disease, airs Wednesday, April 1...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "Walt Whitman"

"I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul. I go with the slaves of the earth equally with the masters. And I will stand between the master and the slaves, entering into both so that both will understand me alike." - Walt Whitman
Mon, April 14th, 2008

He is one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot and faithful advocate of democracy. His name graces shopping malls, highway rest stops and local high schools. He has adherents around the globe. But in his own...

AMERICAN MASTERS: "Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun"

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company! It's beyond me. - Zora Neale Hurston
Wed, April 9th, 2008

Writer. Cultural anthropologist. Chronicler of folk roots and ethnic traditions. Daughter of a former slave. The first black graduate of Barnard. Zora Neale Hurston attained unique success in many areas, but during her lifetime her words and concl...

JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU: OCEAN ADVENTURES: "Return to the Amazon"

New Two-Part Series Returns to the Amazon With Jean-Michel Cousteau and the Next Generation of the Cousteau Family
Wed, April 2nd, 2008

The Amazon: the most powerful of the world's rivers, its rapid transformation will alter the global climate. Emptying into the Atlantic Ocean, it flows through the world's largest tropical rainforest, the vast, natural theater where evolution has g...

PBS Addresses "Caring for your Parents"

KUED Produces Follow-up Program and Hosts Half-Day Caregiving Conference
Wed, April 2nd, 2008

As the population ages, many adult children are grappling with an unprecedented social, cultural, economic and personal revolution as they become the primary caregivers for their aging parents.  Caring for Your Parents, airing April 2 at 8 p...PBS Presenta "Cuidando a los Padres" KUED Produce Programa a Continuación y Ofrece Conferencia de Medio Día sobre el Proveer Cuidado Al madurar la población, muchos hijos adultos se ven enfrentados con una revolución...

FRONTLINE: "Bush's War"

On Fifth Anniversary of Iraq Invasion, FRONTLINE Presents Definitive Chronicle of Bush's War on Terror
Mon, March 24th, 2008

From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; from the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; from the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge - for six years, FRONTLINE has revealed the defining stories of the war on terror in m...

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