PBS: Frontline Favorites

[Michelle420]

I watched these two last night it was pretty good.

[ame=http://youtu.be/9v2xqYmfcxo]FRONTLINE | Preview "Two American Families" | PBS - YouTube[/ame]

It's a central premise of the American dream: If you're willing to work hard, you'll be able to make a living and build a better life for your children.

But what if working hard isn't enough to ensure success—or even the basics of daily life?

"Two American Families", a special 90-minute FRONTLINE documentary more than two decades in the making, is a portrait of perseverance that raises unsettling questions about the changing nature of the American economy and the fate of a declining middle class.

Two American Families | FRONTLINE | PBS


[ame=http://youtu.be/Gp6pSpyX4lc]FRONTLINE | Preview "Poor Kids" | PBS - YouTube[/ame]

FRONTLINE explores what poverty means to children and to the country's future.

FRONTLINE spent months following three young girls who are growing up against the backdrop of their families' struggles against financial ruin. At a time when one in five American kids lives below the poverty line, Poor Kids is an is an intimate portrait of the economic crisis as it's rarely seen, through the eyes of children.

Poor Kids | FRONTLINE | PBS

 

[Ropey]

I found these two rather interesting.

 

[Michelle420]

This is one of the most requested programs in FRONTLINE's history. It is about an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had on their lives.

[ame=http://youtu.be/Ml7eEklNwNE]Frontline A Class Divided with Jane Elliot PBS1 - YouTube[/ame]


Watch The Program | A Class Divided | FRONTLINE | PBS

 

[Michelle420]

"By the most fundamental measure -- the number of people killed -- the perpetrators of mass murder since the beginning of the twentieth century have taken the lives of more people than have died in military conflict. So genocide is worse than war," reiterates Goldhagen. "This is a little-known fact that should be a central focus of international politics, because once you know it, the world, international politics, and what we need to do all begin to look substantially different from how they are typically conceived."

[ame=http://youtu.be/w7cZuhqSzzc]Genocide: Worse Than War | Full-length documentary | PBS - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Ropey]

This is one of the most requested programs in FRONTLINE's history. It is about an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had on their lives.

Frontline A Class Divided with Jane Elliot PBS1 - YouTube

Watch The Program | A Class Divided | FRONTLINE | PBS

I'm still touched as I was the first time I watched this.

The Reunion & Onward

^ Here's another link.

It was quite the lesson in nurture vs nature.

 

[Michelle420]

This is one of the most requested programs in FRONTLINE's history. It is about an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had on their lives.

Frontline A Class Divided with Jane Elliot PBS1 - YouTube

Watch The Program | A Class Divided | FRONTLINE | PBS

I'm still touched as I was the first time I watched this.

The Reunion & Onward

^ Here's another link.

It was quite the lesson in nurture vs nature.

It is still a classic. People often confuse racism and discrimination. She was able to demonstrate how a belief can affect an action, and how it feels when someone acts out on that belief.