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Film Tells Epic Story of Mexican Revolution

Mon, September 19th, 2011

Storm That Swept Mexico, airing Mon. Sept. 19 at 9:00 p.m,  tells the epic story of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Fueled by the Mexican people’s growing dissatisfaction with an elitist ruling regime, the revolution was led by two of th...

NOVA Unveils How We Became Humans

Wed, August 31st, 2011

Where did we come from? What makes us human? NOVA presents a comprehensive three-part, three-hour special investigating explosive new discoveries that are transforming the picture of how we became human.  Nova: "Becoming Human" airs Wednesday, A...

Film Follows RFK in the Land of Apartheid

Mon, August 22nd, 2011

 Few people know the story of Senator Robert Kennedy's influential 1966 visit to South Africa during the worst years of apartheid.  KUED tells the story in RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope airs on Monday, August 22 at 9:00 p.m...

POV's "Enemies of the People," Unprecedented Investigation Into Cambodia's 'Killing Fields,' Premieres Tuesday, July 12 on KUED

  Those Behind the Slaughter of Close to 2 Million Cambodians Confess Their Crimes and a Top Khmer Rouge Leader Explains Why the Killings Were Ordered Filmmaker/journalist Thet Sambath Awarded 2011 Knight Journalism Award; Documentary to be Used as Evidence  At Current Trial of Khmer Rouge Leaders  
Tue, July 12th, 2011

"It may be one of the most important films about Cambodia ever made . . . . Works not only as a historical document, but also as a work of art."   -- Patrick Barta, The Wall Street Journal   Some have compared th...

Television's First Reality TV Show "American Family" Airs on KUED

Thu, July 7th, 2011

  On Thursday evening, January 11, 1973 at 9:00 p.m., two filmmakers  stepped into the home of the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California and An American Family became the nation's first reality television show. It was the most controver...

KUED Chronicles Utah's Role in the Space Shuttle Program

Tue, July 5th, 2011

  In July, the nation will close the chapter of space exploration tied with the Space Shuttle program. While the entire nation has felt pride in its achievements and loss in its tragedies, few states have had the close attachment to the program...

POV "My Perestroika," Five Personal Experiences of the Fall of the Soviet Union

Tue, June 28th, 2011

A rare account of the collapse of the Soviet Union as experienced by five members of the last generation of Soviet children, My Perestroika has its national broadcast premiere on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 11:00 p.m. on KUED as part of the 24th season...

Six Part Series on the Private Life of Abraham and Mary Lincoln Airs on KUED

Mon, June 20th, 2011

In 1882 Mary Todd Lincoln was living on a hill on the outskirts of Springfield, Illinois. She kept the curtains drawn, never went outside, never received visitors and neighborhood children hurried past frightened by "the crazy lady" in the upstairs r...

New Season of History Detectives Begins June 21 on KUED

Tue, June 21st, 2011

America's top gumshoes are back to prove once again that an object found in an attic or backyard might be anything but ordinary. Wesley Cowan, independent appraiser and auctioneer; Gwendolyn Wright, historian and professor of architecture, Columbia...

Frontline Investigates Nation's Worst Economic Meltdown

Tue, June 14th, 2011

  "We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) -- who not only warned of the potential f...

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