"Soundtrack for a Revolution" American Experience tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music -- the songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass gatherings, in police wagons, and in jail cells as they fought fo...
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...
Independent Television Service (ITVS) has announced the lineup for the fourth season of Global Voices, the international documentary television series on KUED WORLD, Channel 7.2. (Comcast 115), Global Voices presents a unique fi...
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...
Filmed over three years, Lucy Walker's "Waste Land" follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his home country of Brazil, and to Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest garbage dump located on the outskirts of Ri...
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...
"Desert of Forbidden Art" is the incredible story of how one man, Igor Savitsky, saved a treasure trove of art worth millions of dollars by hiding it in a small museum in the desert in Uzbekistan. A tireless collector of paintings, Savitsky traveled...
Before Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, there was Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in, one of the most revolutionary television shows of all time. From 1968 until 1973, Laugh-in frequently was seen by 50 million viewers, captu...
"He was considered the funniest man on earth - a brilliant performer on the lecture circuit who could entertain almost any audience - and a spectacularly inept businessman whose countless schemes to get rich quick threatened again and again to bring...
The Motown Sound: In Performance at the White House, recorded February 24, 2011 at the White House, is hosted in part by President Obama and First Lady Michelle. The musical special celebrates Black History Month and the legacy of Motown, the distinc...
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