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TO THE CONTRARY EXTRA | Feb. 22, 2008 #2 | PBS
On this week's TTC Extra: Some brides are choosing revealing gowns for their big day. And make sure to tune into this week's edition of To The Contrary on your local PBS station (check local listing). ... 03:41
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Iron Ladies Of Liberia | PBS (#917)
With unprecedented access, this intimate documentary goes behind the scenes with Africa's first freely elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, president of Liberia. The film explores the ... 02:17
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MASTERPIECE | The Complete Jane Austen | Romance
A behind-the-scenes look at adapting Jane Austen's classic novels to television with screenwriter, Andrew Davies. Davies dishes on romance, the interplay between men and women during the Austen period, ... 02:16
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MASTERPIECE | The Complete Jane Austen | Men & Women
A behind-the-scenes look at adapting Jane Austen's classic novels to television with screenwriter, Andrew Davies. Davies dishes on romance, the interplay between men and women during the Austen period, ... 02:11
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FRONTLINE/World | Thailand: Women For Peace | PBS
An investigation into the Muslim separatist insurgency that has created violence and ethnic tension in the southern provinces near the Malay border, where the majority of Thailand's Muslims live, reported ... 03:32
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WIDE ANGLE | A Woman Among Warlords | PBS (#609)
In an Afghanistan emerging from decades of darkness, WIDE ANGLE follows Malalai Joya, a courageous woman who risked her life to win a seat in the country's first free parliamentary election. Through ... 02:48
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World War II Veteran: Phyllis Freymann Koopman
Phyllis served in the Waves as an Aviation Machinists Mate 3rd Class. The Navy opened to women in the summer of 1943, and Phyllis joined that fall, as soon as she turned 20.
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World War II Veteran: Mary Adams
Mary Adams rode to Fort Des Moines in the back end of an open pickup truck on a cold December day to join the army. After basic training, she worked on Cape Cod, Massachusetts making up the orders for ...
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WIDE ANGLE | Dishing Democracy | Excerpt | PBS (#604)
"Dishing Democracy" goes behind the scenes at Arabic television channel MBC in Cairo and its hit all-female talk show, KALAM NAWAEM. Similar in style to ABC's THE VIEW, the top-rated program is hosted ... 04:15
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Hillary Clinton and the AIDS Epidemic
During the Presidential Forum Senator Hillary Clinton states that if white women were affected by AIDS as much as black women it would be a major issue in America.
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John Edwards and the AIDS Epidemic
Senator John Edwards states that "African-American women are 25 times more likely to be infected with AIDS" and states his plan on how to fight the virus.
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World War II and the Home Front: Working at Maytag in Newton | Hollys "Pat" Harrison
Maytag was one of the Iowa firms that stopped producing consumer goods and started making war supplies.
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World War II and the Home Front: Jeanne Ersland and the Des Moines Ordnance Plant
As more men were sent away to fight, women were hired to take over their positions on the assembly lines. Before World War II, women had generally been discouraged from working outside the home. Now, ...
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World War II Veteran: Ruth Miller
After being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Ruth Miller was assigned to the 110th Evacuation Hospital and sent to Europe in 1944. The 110th's job was to set up near the battle front, bandage wounded ...
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World War II Veteran: Thelma Kardon
For some, joining the service was a chance to relocate. Thelma Kardon, formerly Sherman, was a 21 year-old native of Chelsea, Massachusetts who joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in November of 1942. ...














