Ghosts of Rwanda marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide with a documentary chronicling one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. In addition to interviews with key government...
RFK, a biography of Robert F. Kennedy written and directed by David Grubin for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, takes as its theme lines from Aeschylus that Kennedy often used: "He who learns must suffer."...
The key to working with the learning disabled is to be adept at problem-solving, analyzing tasks, figuring out different ways to teach the same thing and tailoring the method to fit the child. Then...
Van Buren, Buchanan, Lincoln, LBJ: By the mid-19th century, politics had emerged as a vocation, a life's work for a worthy man. Each of these four presidents dedicated his life to cultivating the...
On November 20, 1945, the surviving representatives of the Nazi elite, including Hermann Goering, the former head of the Nazi air force, stood before an international military tribunal at the Palace...
Acupuncture. Herbal remedies. Magnet therapy. Consumers and patients have made alternative and "complementary" medicine a billion-dollar industry. But do these and other alternatives to traditional...
The Vietnam War was ending in 1975, when Mai Thi Kim sent her young Amerasian daughter to America in a controversial evacuation program called "Operation Babylift." Adopted and renamed Heidi, the...
Alda meets several kids who are growing up different and the doctors and researchers who are trying to mitigate the difficulties they face. Cochlear implants restore some hearing to a profoundly...
Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Investigative Journalism! Following 9/11, a power struggle was underway inside the Bush administration over when to use what was called "coercive interrogation."...
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book, this program tells the story of two turbulent days in October, 1967. In Vietnam, a US battalion marched into a Viet Cong trap killing sixty one young men....
