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‘The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,’ beginning Sunday on PBS

by Verne Gay [Newsday (MCT)]

[25.Sep.09] :. REASON TO WATCH: Ken Burns (“Baseball,” “Jazz,” “The Civil War”) and longtime colleague-collaborator Dayton Duncan explore the national parks system. WHAT...

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Behind the scenes at public radio’s hit comedy show ‘Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’

by Steve Johnson [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[29.Jul.09] :. CHICAGO — As green rooms go, the one backstage at Chicago’s Chase Auditorium on the night of a “Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!” taping is not bad. There is a table, where...

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America at a Crossroads: The Mosque in Morgantown

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jun.09] :. The Mosque in Morgantown focuses on debates within an American Muslim community, as this involves a range of individuals and beliefs.

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Independent Lens: Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed in the Mountains

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.May.09] :. In Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed in the Mountains, impressionistic reenactments don’t provide plot or solicit viewer sympathy so much as they evoke anxiety.

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‘WWII Behind Closed Doors,’ beginning Wednesday on PBS

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[6.May.09] :. On the battlefields of Italy and North Africa, soldiers were dying — they supposed — for democracy. And at a conference table in Tehran, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were...

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Frontline: Sick Around America

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Mar.09] :. Sick Around America outlines the health care system, and its many contradictions.

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Independent Lens: Tulia, Texas

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Feb.09] :. As Tulia, Texas follows the many turns of the Drug Task Force case, from the initial convictions to investigations of undercover agent Tom Coleman, it becomes a cautionary tale.

American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Feb.09] :. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape.

Independent Lens: Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Feb.09] :. As Adjust Your Color recounts, Petey Greene used his groundbreaking radio and television talk shows to influence millions, winning two Emmy awards and varieties of adulation over the years.

Frontline: My Father, My Brother, and Me

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Feb.09] :. My Father, My Brother, and Me leaves the ethical and religious debates over Parkinson's disease mostly untouched, focusing instead on immediate issues, specifically, how to "live with" the disease.

The Story of India

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Jan.09] :. Michael Wood's style is typically breathless and impressed, following a general timeline and inviting you to feel his enthusiasm.

Independent Lens: Knee Deep

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Nov.08] :. Knee Deep is actually less interested in the details of who shot Janette Osborne than in the multiple stories that emerged from the crime.

Independent Lens: Dinner with the President: A Nation’s Journey

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Oct.08] :. Dinner with the President: A Nation’s Journey finds a particular, recurring focus in the question of women's rights.

Independent Lens: Chicago 10

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.08] :. Opening the Fall 2008 season of Independent Lens, Chicago 10 revises old ideas -- about what constitutes history and documentary.

POV: Soldiers of Conscience

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.08] :. Soldiers' moral struggles tend to remain invisible, like the situations that drive them. Soldiers of Conscience shows the dilemmas and the costs of war.

POV: The Judge and the General

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Aug.08] :. The Judge and the General gives Guzmán the opportunity to reflect on his part in the process of Pinochet's regime and to define the perpetrators.

POV: Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.08] :. With his life and career in one of their several turnarounds, Cash is here an ideal documentary subject, self-aware, passionate, and glad to take the crew along on a tour of places and people that matter to him,

Wide Angle: 18 With a Bullet

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.08] :. Again and again, 18 With a Bullet reinforces this idea, that the rules are all important.

‘Antiques Roadshow’ is about the realities of our culture and values

by Tom Maurstad [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[27.Jun.08] :. When you hear the term “reality television,” chances are you think of wannabe pop singers, bug eaters and globe-trotters before - not art, culture, history and family values. But those...

‘NOVA ScienceNOW,’ airing Wednesday on PBS

by Verne Gay [Newsday (MCT)]

[25.Jun.08] :. Reason to watch: Neil deGrasse Tyson, who’s both brilliant and a wonderful guide. Plus, this may be TV’s most accessible science show. What it’s about: As fans well know,...

Independent Lens: Writ Writer

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jun.08] :. As recounted in Susanne Mason's fascinating documentary, Writ Writer, Fred Cruz's story is by turns tragic and inspiring, astonishing and all too typical.

Independent Lens: A Dream in Doubt

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.May.08] :. A Dream in Doubt observes the struggle to understand American justice and oppression as the story becomes increasingly complicated.

Return to Everest: In PBS documentary, storm survivor reflects on his decision to turn back

by Julie Hinds [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[12.May.08] :. Lou Kasischke has a gentle voice and a kind face. When he talks about surviving the Mt. Everest tragedy of May 10, 1996, it’s with the introspection of someone who’s spent a dozen years...

Independent Lens: Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.May.08] :. As Robert Cazimero notes more than once Nā Kamalei: The Men of Hula, his devotion to hula hasn't always been easy.

PBS jumps aboard the reality ‘actioner’ bandwagon with ‘Carrier’

by Diane Werts [Newsday (MCT)]

[25.Apr.08] :. “Our blood runs about a thousand miles an hour - you ready?” This TV sound bite comes from: A. A wrestling match. B. An action movie. C. A reality show. D. A PBS documentary. You...

Thoughts on the British Empire, both tragic and comic

by Maureen Ryan [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[18.Apr.08] :. Britain may have conquered much of the globe in its heyday, but at least it did so with a certain flair. So says “The Daily Show’s” British correspondent, John Oliver, in his...

American Experience: Walt Whitman

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Apr.08] :. Like its subject, Mark Zwonitzer's Walt Whitman is grand and particular.

Has HBO become edgy PBS?

by Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[27.Mar.08] :. It’s a new day at HBO, and right now nobody is more aware of that than Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth. The Bloodworth-Thomasons were the go-to couple for CBS in the early 1990s, producing...

Sweet Jane: `The Complete Austen’ comes to PBS

by Rick Porter [Zap2it.com (MCT)]

[11.Jan.08] :. As seems to happen every few years, Jane Austen got hot again in 2007, with one feature film (“Becoming Jane”) depicting her life and another (“The Jane Austen Book Club”)...

`The Jewish Americans,’ beginning Wednesday on PBS

by Verne Gay [Newsday (MCT)]

[8.Jan.08] :. Ten years ago this month, public TV aired a big, rich, generous six-hour tapestry on Irish Americans and their immigrant experience. Finally on Wednesday night, the big, rich, generous, six-hour...

Taking it personally: ‘The War’ hits home

by Eric Mink [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[27.Sep.07] :. Dec. 8, 1941, Camp Claiborne, La. My dearest Ethel: You undoubtedly want to know what’s been going on in the past day. Naturally, with Japan’s declaration of war, there was a lot of...

‘The War,’ documentary series beginning Sunday on PBS

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[23.Sep.07] :. At first, Ken Burns’ monumental new work, “The War,” looks and sounds familiar, and because of that, is almost comforting. There are recognizable Burns touches everywhere. The...

Ken Burns stays on march for PBS’ ‘The War’

by Sam McManis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[21.Sep.07] :. SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Another morning’s worth of interviews behind him, yet a whole afternoon and evening’s worth of personal appearances still ahead, Ken Burns turned away from the TV...

‘War’ stories: Ken Burns’ documentary brings all fronts into focus

by Chuck Barney [Contra Costa Times (MCT)]

[20.Sep.07] :. Acclaimed big-screen directors from William Wyler to Steven Spielberg have been drawn to it. Newsman Tom Brokaw gave voice to the generation that lived through it. And the History Channel has...

Documentary maker pays tribute to World War II veterans

by Gail Shister [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[16.Aug.07] :. The presence of Ken Burns’ father looms large in his son’s latest PBS epic. But viewers won’t know it. An unidentified photograph of Lt. Robert Kyle Burns Jr. is the first and...

‘The War’ versus our war

by Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers]

[17.Jul.07] :. LOS ANGELES—As the author of “The Greatest Generation,” former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw is perhaps the only person who has talked with more World War II veterans in the last 10...

‘The War’ finds greatness in lives of ordinary people

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.Jul.07] :. After a week now of TV critics mixing with producers, executives and stars, one production looms larger and larger over the fall landscape: Ken Burns’ seven-part film “The...

PBS documentary adds material after Hispanic outcry

by David Bianculli [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[12.Jul.07] :. LOS ANGELES - Pressure from Latino groups to include their perspective in “The War,” the upcoming 15-hour documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, has succeeded in adding their...

What’s the thinking person’s network thinking?

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[11.Jul.07] :. The Television Critics Association press tour kicked off this week with PBS, which was good, and in an odd way, not so good. The good part: we’re having some high-end talks about big things...

‘Frontline’ uses couple to expose government snooping

by Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.May.07] :. At first glance it may not seem like anything bad happened to Stephen Sprouse and Kristin Douglas, Kansas Citians who ran off to Las Vegas at the end of 2003 to tie the knot. But in his methodical...

How a Turkish ambassador’s son changed the music industry

by Neal Justin [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[30.Apr.07] :. The new documentary Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built, an “American Masters” installment, is required viewing for anyone who’s ever scanned the Billboard...

The Mormons, two-part documentary airing on PBS

by Hal Boedeker [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[30.Apr.07] :. Religion rarely receives any time in prime time. So four hours devoted to Mormonism are going to stand out on the TV landscape. PBS’ The Mormons deserves the attention because the...

Leiber and Stoller: They are music, and they write the songs

by Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[24.Apr.07] :. PASADENA, Calif.—You don’t expect that some of the world’s most definitive rock `n’ roll music would come from a couple of white Jewish boys who met when they were just 17....