Just days before the Olympic games begin, a haze still stretches across Beijing. The air pollution in China is a powerful reminder of the consequences of China’s recent rapid economic …
A Civil War enthusiast owns an antique photograph that depicts about 20 older white men in full dress uniform, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with two black men. History Detectives investigates the first national social group to challenge the color barrier. Originally aired: Season 5, Episode 3. Watch a related video on Civil War photography.
August 5th at 10pm, P.O.V. will air the little-seen documentary “Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music” on Thirteen. This footage, of Johnny and June singing “Jackson”, is …
A new survey conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society has found hundreds of thousands of western lowland gorillas inhabiting the vast forests and swamps of the Congo Republic.
Phoenix Mars Lander: NASA’s latest bot
Brain Trauma: prevention and treatment
Mammoth Skeletons found locked together
Profile: Judah Folkman, cancer researcher
A roundup of all streaming video online from PBS and Thirteen programs that aired last week. See the list for all full episodes and full segments.
Profile of Menachem Youlus, a Torah scribe who has been called the Indiana Jones of rabbis because he has traveled to dangerous places all over the world in his mission to find, rescue, and recover sacred Torah scrolls. Originally aired August 1, 2008.
With former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is already serving five and a half years, expected to be sentenced on other charges next month, Bill Moyers takes viewers back to the scene of the crime in this update of “Capitol Crimes,” an acclaimed documentary investigating the Abramoff lobbying scandal. Watch now.
The Sports Museum of America is the first museum to pay tribute to the history and excitement of all sports. Watch Thirteen/WNET President Neal Shapiro interview Sports Museum Founder & CEO Philip Schwalb.
In a stem cell research breakthrough, scientists have reprogrammed skin cells from two elderly patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — also called ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease — to act like stem cells.
