See inside the catacombs and crypts of Brooklyn’s historic and sprawling Green-Wood Cemetery, and read more about the man who designed it.
This hour-long program examines what policymakers in Washington, including President-elect Obama, mean when they say that rebuilding our crumbling highways and bridges, leaky water systems and other vital lifelines will stimulate the economy and generates jobs. Will fixing our infrastructure save the economy? Watch now.
When Peter Friedman’s friends Tom Joslin and Mark Massi died, he accepted an extraordinary inheritance: 40 hours of tape documenting the couple’s bout with AIDS. His film, Silverlake Life: The View From Here is one of the most wrenching and candid documents about the epidemic. The award-winning film from 1993 will be watchable online through Feb. 22, 2009. Watch now. A 2006 postscript/follow-up to the film is here. (Originally aired: 6/15/1993)
The fall 2008 CINE awards have just been announced, and PBS and Thirteen/WNET won a few…and most are watchable online. See list and watch!
An infrastructure megaproject, Boston’s Big Dig carved out new highway tunnels/routes to ease downtown traffic congestion. The project was greenlit in 1982, but construction didn’t start until 1991. On December 31, 2007, and costing over 14.6 billion dollars, the Dig was finally done. Read/watch more…
After four decades of fly-by probes, orbiters, landers, and rovers, the quest for life on Mars is as tantalizing as ever. NOVA goes behind the scenes of the latest NASA missions to the Red Planet to reveal new clues about Mars. Watch now. (Originally aired: 12/30/2008)
How is the star film composer of Hollywood’s Golden Years virtually unknown to moviegoers today? The name Franz Waxman doesn’t usually ring a bell, but the movies he worked on—“Philadelphia Story”, “Rebecca”, more…are classics. Read more about this composer’s life and work:
On December 30, 1924: Astronomer Edwin Hubble announced he believed he had confirmed the existence of other galaxies, through his research examining the Andromeda system. Read more about Hubble from WNET and WGBH:
Hubble’s Law
Hubble’s Work
Hubble’s Bio
This month Great Performances will air The Metropolitan Opera’s premiere of Doctor Atomic, composer John Adams’ powerful portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist presiding over the creation …
