"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 Works not only as a historical document, but also as a work of art."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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
Alexander Hamilton was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father and one of America's first constitutional lawyers. He was also an economist, a philosopher, and a soldier. But who is he really? And what made h...
The Metropolitan Opera's premiere production of John Adams' Nixon in China, conducted by the composer and staged by internationally acclaimed director Peter Sellars, will air on KUED June 1 at 8 p.m. The program was originally seen live in movi...
PBS' acclaimed history series, American Experience, presents the powerful and harrowing documentary Freedom Riders. In the early 60s, men and women, black and white, "got on the bus" and traveled from Washington D.C. to the deep South co...
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