America in the 1960s and ‘70s was in turmoil, but at 10 o’clock every Saturday night, in dorms and dens, in living rooms and bedrooms across the country, Americans watched The Carol Burnett Show. For 11 years, the wacky performer yelled l...
The world has watched Syria’s agony from a distance. For tens of thousands of Syrians, though, the civil war is unfolding with intimate horror. Families destroyed in an instant. Once-peaceful villages ripped apart by sectarian rage.  ...
Follow one of Britain’s most popular medical experts as he conducts experiments on himself to improve his health and discover up close how the human body works. Three specials, airing Wednesday nights at 9:00 on KUED beginning Wednesday,...
KUED commemorates the Holocaust with four programs in April. Rescue in the Philippines Tue. Apr. 2, 11PM A fascinating, but seldom-told chapter of World War II history is recounted in this one-hour documentary narrated by Liv Schrieber. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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