Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., uses genealogical research and DNA analysis to investigate the family histories of eight prominent African-Americans, including Whoopi Goldberg, Mae Jemison, Quincy Jones, and others.
Discusses the relationship between humans and the garbage they create everyday. Examines whether our technology can sort it out, recycle it and bury it before it buries us.
Dramatizes the true story of Coach Don Haskins of Texas Western University who, in the 1965-66 season, bucked convention and consequences to introduce the first all-African-American starting lineup in the history of college basketball.
Two 19th-century English sisters of opposite temperaments who have recently fallen upon hard financial times go through the joys and heartaches of romantic love.
At the beginning of the Khmer Rouge reign in Cambodia, New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant Dith Pran report on the atrocities. Dith saves Schanberg but is sent to the labor camps and presumed dead until four long years later.
Tulio and Miguel, two Spanish rogues, are mistaken by the Aztecs for gods. When the people of El Dorado are threatened, the pair must decide to escape with their riches or stay and help their new friends.
Scientists investigate a series of global mysteries, piecing together how seemingly disparate events are connected and revealing their effects on the planet and its life forms.
Scientists investigate a series of global mysteries, piecing together how seemingly disparate events are connected and revealing their effects on the planet and its life forms.
