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KUED Commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day

Two Powerful Documentaries
Tue, May 3rd, 2011

KUED Channel 7 commemorates National Holocaust Remembrance Day with the television premiere of two remarkable documentaries: Irena Sendler In the Name of Their Mothers on Tuesday, May 3 at 8:00 p.m. and Independent Lens "A Film Unfinished" on Tuesday...

American Experience "Stonewall Uprising" Uncovers The Event That Started Gay Rights Movement

Mon, April 25th, 2011

In 1969, homosexual acts were illegal in every state except Illinois and gays frequently found themselves being hauled off to jail, their names splashed in the next day's newspaper.  In the middle of the 19th century, most physiologists decreed...

New Series Uncovers Vibrant Black African Roots of Latin America

Tue, April 19th, 2011

12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World.  While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States.  The rest -- over 10.5 million -- were taken to the Caribbean and Lati...

KUED Honors Earth Day with Premiere of Documentary on John Muir

Mon, April 18th, 2011

Preservationist, naturalist, author, explorer, activist, scientist, farmer, John Muir (1838 - 1914) was all these things and more. Nearly a century after his death, the Scottish American is remembered and revered as the father of the environmental mo...

Nature "Survivors of the Fire Storm" the Story of Australia's Worst Natural Disaster

Sun, April 17th, 2011

On February 7, 2009, drought and a record-breaking heat wave in the Australian state of Victoria generated a firestorm of epic proportions.  High winds turned 400 bushfires into one raging fire front that trapped animals and people.  One hu...

Television's First Reality Show, An American Family, Returns to KUED World 7.2

Mon, April 11th, 2011

An American Family, the original 12-hour reality series that first sparked the "reality TV" revolution, hasn't been seen in its entirety for more than 20 years. An American Family will be shown in a single 12-hour marathon beginning Sunday, April 24...

KUED Honors Earth Day with a Week of Special Programming

Mon, April 11th, 2011

KUED Channel 7 celebrates Earth Day (April 22) with a week of special programs that educate and inspire awareness of our planet. Nature: Survivors of the Firestorm - Sunday, April 17 at 7:00 p.m. The bushfires that tore through the Australian stat...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE SELECTS U of U STUDENT TO "GET ON THE BUS"  

Student Freedom Ride to Retrace Historic Civil Rights Route From Washington, D.C. to New Orleans  May 6 - May 16, 2011
Thu, April 7th, 2011

  American Experience, America's most-watched history series, today announced that 40 college students - including a University of Utah student -- have been selected for the 2011 Student Freedom Ride in conjunction with the broadcast of Freedom...

'Bible's Buried Secrets' Uncovers New Evidence

Wed, April 13th, 2011

NOVA takes viewers on a fascinating journey to the beginnings of modern religion in "The Bible's Buried Secrets," a landmark new documentary airing Wednesday April 13 at 8:00 p.m. on KUED Channel 7. The program's archeological and literary investiga...

'Great Famine' Tells the Story of American Relief Effort in Soviet Russia

Mon, April 11th, 2011

When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague. The U.S. responded with a massive two-year relief campaign championed by Herbert Hoover, before his presidential term, a...

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