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PBS NewsHour | Students Speak Out on Gun Violence Prevention | PBS
Students Speak Out on Gun Violence Prevention, Find No 'Easy Answer' 03:29
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POV | Reportero | PBS (#2513)
Full Program: Journalists in Mexico risk their lives to cover the drug war. 55:12
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The Dust Bowl | Woody Guthrie: Okies | PBS
No matter their state of origin, all newcomers were dubbed Okies when they crossed the California border. Woody Guthrie talks about the extreme poverty he had seen across the country and sings "I... 02:20
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PBS NewsHour | Pediatricians Add Reading to Essential Health Check-Up List | PBS (#10493)
To Encourage Kids' Health, Pediatricians Add Reading to Essential Check-Up List 06:49
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PBS MediaShift | In Battleground of North Carolina, Social Media on the Minds of Voters | PBS
MediaShift videographer Josh Davis set out near his home in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to talk to voters about how they used social media (or didn't) to discuss politics and the... 04:43
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Secrets of the Dead | The Man Who Saved the World: Full Episode | PBS (#1201)
Full Program: Watch the full episode of The Man Who Saved the World 53:10
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FRONTLINE | "The Choice 2012" (full episode, English) | PBS (#3201)
Full Program: If you like this, support your local PBS station: www.pbs.org || to.pbs.org Visit FRONTLINE's website for an unprecedented collection of rare "artifacts" from the candidates' lives, as well as 25... 01:56:48
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American Masters | Film: The Day Carl Sandburg Died | PBS
Full Program: The life and times of American Master Carl Sandburg. 01:25:41
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The Impact of India's Caste System on Women | Independent Lens | PBS
Watch Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women - premiering October 1 & 2 on PBS! Urmi Basu, the founder of New Light, explains to America Ferrera the caste system in India and... 05:17
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PBS NewsHour | Weekly Poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey | PBS (#10446)
U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey reads "Elegy," a poem from her new book "Thrall." 02:20
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POV | Sound of Vision | PBS
Full Program: A man spends his waking and dream-swaddled days confronting the city he will never see 08:00
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Sesame Street | Song - Counting Backwards in Spanish with The Count | PBS
The Count sings about counting backwards in Spanish! For more fun games and videos for your preschooler in a safe, child-friendly environment, visit us at www.sesamestreet.orgSesame Street is a... 03:19
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PBS NewsHour | Reporting Live With Asperger's From Elementary School | PBS (#10439)
In Broomall, Pa., student journalists overcome obstacles of Asperger's through a newscast. 04:00
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PBS NewsHour | Author Walter Dean Myers: 'Reading Is Not Optional' for Kids | PBS (#10383)
Author Walter Dean Myers Says 'Reading Is Not Optional' for Kids 07:26
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Bob Dylan's Guitar | History Detectives | PBS
Bob Dylan made Rock 'n' Roll history when he plugged in an electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Now a New Jersey woman thinks she may have that very guitar in her attic. The HISTORY... 01:27
Video Collections
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American Experience
As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation.
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American Masters
AMERICAN MASTERS is an ongoing series of award-winning primetime specials examining the lives, works, and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural artists. Created in 1984 by Susan Lacy and produced by Thirteen/WNET for...
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Assignment Iowa
Assignment Iowa examines the issues and events that shape what it means to be an Iowan. Hosted by Iowa Public Radio's Todd Mundt, the series explores a wide range of timely topics and the ways they affect Iowa and Iowans.
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Assignment Iowa: The Digital Horizon
Web sites, blogs, podcasts, vidcasts, HDTV and more - how is the new digital media affecting the way we receive and enjoy entertainment? How is it changing learning styles in Iowa’s classrooms? And 65 years after the first digital...
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Bill Moyers Journal
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers returns to PBS with a weekly public affairs series that features interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects, including politics, arts and culture, the media, the economy and issues facing...
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Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century
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Dust Bowl
In this series, Ken Burns and producer Dayton Duncan chronicle the Dust Bowl in all its complexities and profound human drama. It is both an oral history, using interviews of 30 survivors, and an historical accounting of what happened...
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Dan Wardell's Video Blog
Watch these behind-the-scenes clips from the life of Dan Wardell!
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Freedom Riders: American Experience
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Frontline
As PBS' premier public affairs series, FRONTLINE's stature is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human, social and political experience.
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Frontline/World
Developed by FRONTLINE producers in conjunction with public television stations KQED San Francisco and WGBH Boston, FRONTLINE/World is a national public TV series that turns its lens on the global community, covering countries and...
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Family Literacy - English
These short video clips feature a family engaged in various reading activities. The message encourages families to read aloud, use the library, attend adult literacy classes and to use quality children's television programming to support...
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Great Performances
GREAT PERFORMANCES, the longest-running performing arts anthology on television, continues to feature the best in the performing arts.
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Healthy Minutes
Healthy Minutes, produced by IPTV, is a series of fun, fast-paced clips featuring Dan Wardell who shows young children how to make healthy choices about food, physical activity and hygiene.
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History Detectives
HISTORY DETECTIVES returns to explore the stories behind historic sites, artifacts and tall tales told in cities across the country, with the help of an inquisitive team of fact-finders with an uncanny talent for uncovering the truth.
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Human Spark
THE HUMAN SPARK explores one central question: what makes humans unique? Three and a half billion years of evolution have produced uncountable billions of living species. But only one -- humans -- can think in symbols; recombine those...
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Independent Lens
This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers. INDEPENDENT LENS...
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Intelligent Talk Television
Intelligent Talk Television showcases recent lectures given by guest speakers at colleges, universities, and libraries across Iowa. The collaborative effort between IPTV and participating institutions provides top-notch programs featuring...
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The Iowa Journal
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Ken Burns American Stories
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Living in Iowa
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Mark Twain
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Martha Speaks
"Martha Speaks" is an animated series that is designed to enrich the vocabulary of 4- to 7-year-olds. The series is based on the classic books by Susan Meddaugh that have charmed and captivated millions of children. Each episode uses...
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Masterpiece Classic
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Need to Know
NEED TO KNOW is an integrated broadcast and online current affairs project, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to newsgathering and reporting. It breaks through the limitations of the broadcast schedule by means of a...
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The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER provides in-depth analysis of current events with a news summary, live studio interviews, discussions, and both foreign and domestic on-site reports.
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NOW on PBS
This series engages viewers with documentary segments and interviews that probe the most important issues facing democracy, including media policy, corporate accountability, civil liberties, the environment, money in politics and foreign...
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The Open Mind XIX
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PBS Arts from Chicago: American Masters Bill T. Jones: A Good Man
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PBS NewsHour
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Politics and the Press: A Community Conversation
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POV
POV presents an array of groundbreaking and distinctive perspectives on contemporary life as chronicled by some of America' s and Europe's most visionary non-fiction filmmakers.
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Poetry Everywhere
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Secrets of the Dead
Part detective story, part true-life drama, SECRETS OF THE DEAD unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained events. Using the most up-to-date science in the laboratory...
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Sesame Street
SESAME STREET has garnered more than 100 awards, including 101 Emmys, two Peabodys, four Parents' Choice Awards and an Action for Children's Television Special Achievement Award. The series delivers academic and social education that...
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Speaking In Tongues
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Super Why!
This series focuses on the adventures of four fairytale friends who transform into reading-powered superheroes: Alpha Pig with Alphabet Power, Wonder Red with Word Power, Princess Presto with Spelling Power, Super Why with the Power...
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Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley, the first African American to have his own signature talk show on NPR, hosts a new late-night television talk show - a hybrid of news, issues and entertainment, featuring interviews with newsmakers, politicians,...
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To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe
This weekly news analysis program is the only woman-centered national news/talk show on television. Dedicated to the premise that women of all ethnic backgrounds and political persuasions are an important part of the national...
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The Principal Story
THE PRINCIPAL STORY follows the journey of two elementary school principals throughout a school year as they strive to improve student achievement and implement school reform.
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Women, War & Peace
WOMEN, WAR & PEACE is a new five-part series on the changing roles of women in war and peace. The vast majority of today's conflicts are not fought by nation states and their armies, but rather by informal entities: gangs, insurgent...
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WordGirl
"WordGirl "follows the adventures of mild-mannered fifth grader, Becky Bostford, who becomes WordGirl armed with a cape, vocabulary words and lots of definitions.









