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OUTSTANDING
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND NATURE PROGRAMMING The
American Experience PBS - The Pill The birth control pill was the first medicine ever designed for a purely social purpose. For over 40 years the Pill has been one of the most widely prescribed medicines in the world. But in the early 1950s the social, political and scientific climate was against it. By harnessing the female sex hormones into little white pills, two elderly women, one scientist, and one doctor unleashed a social revolution.
AND National
Geographic EXPLORER MSNBC - Wolf Pack "Wolf
Pack" chronicles the controversial reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone
National Park. Filmmaker Bob Landis and his crew braved harsh conditions
to follow the Druid Peak Pack, capturing images of wolf behavior never
even seen by biologists, let alone caught on film. "Wolf Pack" is
an honest record of the wolves lives in the park, and their impact on
other species. ABC
World News Tonight with Peter Jennings ABC - Iraq: Where Things
Stand Six
months after President Bush declared major combat operations over in Iraq,
ABC News and TIME magazine sent five teams of reporters to interview 600
Iraqis from all walks of life. The goal was to find out how things had
changed for the people of Iraq. NOW
With Bill Moyers PBS - Inside the Pentagon This
special hour-long edition of "NOW" takes a critical look at
the military-industrial-Congressional complex, showing Americans not just
how much of their tax dollars are being spent, but how and why. Pentagon
waste, the revolving door between the military and the defense industry,
and leasing controversies are all part of this report. INDEPENDENT
LENS PBS - Be Good, Smile Pretty Tracy
Droz Tragos debut film is both a personal documentary and a film about
the legacy of the Vietnam War. Tragos father died in Vietnam when
she was only three years old. The film documents her quest to learn
who her father was, and to break through "the wall of pained silence" constructed,
partly for Tracys own protection, by her mother. The film illuminates
one of the less well-known legacies of the Vietnam war: the 20,000
Americans who lost fathers there. Russia Land of the Tsars HISTORY CHANNEL How
do you squeeze 100 years of complex and confusing history into 180
minutes? Russia, Land of the Czars, shows how certain key events and
personalities illustrate and propel the course of the Russian Empire.
Ultimately, the film shows how incidents from the 10th through the
19th centuries made the Russian Revolution almost inevitable. Cinemax
Reel Life CINEMAX - In the Name of God: Scenes from the Extreme This
film explores the cult of the shaheedsmartyrs for Allahand the ethos
of the suhadamartyrdomcultivated in the Middle East over the past
decade. Followers of Islam, a religion of compassion and mercy, have
widely divergent views over the meaning of jihad and martyrdom. This
documentary takes the viewer deep inside the world of extreme minority
factions willing to throw life away in spectacles of mass destruction. OUTSTANDING
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: RESEARCH Cinemax
Reel Life CINEMAX - Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony "Amandla" examines
the role song has played as a major source of inspiration and hope
to black South Africans in the struggle against apartheid. Part of
the challenge of making the film was that so much of the music was
unrecorded, surviving only as an oral tradition. It was a challenge
the filmmakers met with years of research, resulting in this extraordinary
film. Blood
From A Stone HISTORY CHANNEL "Blood
From a Stone" begins when WWII veteran Sam Nyer tells Yaron Svoray,
an Israeli expert on international terrorism, about 40 stolen diamonds
he buried during his service in the army. Thus begins a quest that
leads these two men on parallel journeys of self-discovery. Four-time
Emmy award-winning cinematographer Scott Duncan brings their story
to life. National
Geographic ULTIMATE EXPLORER msnbc Killer
Cats of the Kalahari This film tells the story of two of the planets swiftest creaturesthe Cheetah and the Springbok, hunter and hunted, locked in a race for survival. To capture this drama, filmmakers Carol and David Hughes utilized extremely long lenses and, at key moments, high speed photography. While filming in the desert is a technical challenge, the Hughes years of experience observing these animals gave them the most important skill of all: knowing when to turn the camera on.
NOVA
PBS - The Elegant Universe with Brian Greene Hosted by the dynamic young physicist Brian Greene and based on his best-selling book of the same name, "The Elegant Universe" is a playful and imaginative exploration of string theory and the controversial - and often bizarre - perspectives that it opens on our world. With a talented host and pioneering graphics, this three-hour series brought a difficult, highly abstract academic field to the broadest possible television audience.
ABC
News Special Peter Jennings Reporting abc: The Kennedy Assassination:
Beyond Conspiracy Not
only does computer reconstruction allow viewers to become eyewitnesses
to the crime of the century and see it from all angles, but it also
acts as an investigative forensic tool, refuting the various conspiracy
theories that have thrived for forty years. The conclusion: Kennedy
was killed by a single sniper in the sixth floor window of the Texas
School Book Depository, firing three shots and scoring two hits Oswald
acted alone. OUTSTANDING
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: MUSIC AND SOUND April
1865 HISTORY CHANNEL The American Civil War is history with living connections to our present. For this program, based on Jay Winiks best-selling book of the same title, the music was designed to be both modern and sepulchral, its tonality lending a contemporary feel to the actions on screen, as well as eliciting the pall of over a half a million deaths.
Days
That Shook the World HISTORY CHANNEL - Hiroshima This film tells the story of the crew of the Enola Gay, ordinary American men burdened for almost 60 years with the responsibility of having physically dropped the bomb that instantly killed 100,000 people and obliterated Hiroshima from the earth. No archival footage exists of the events portrayed in the first-hand accounts of these men, so music and sound were critical to the films effectiveness. In-flight sounds mingle with orchestral elements, and one particularly brave moment in the sound design is the dissonant tone that marks the preparation to drop the bomb.
LBJ
vs. the Kennedys - Chasing Demons HISTORY CHANNEL In
addition to the unique challenges of lighting the Oval Office, the
filmmakers used set, prop, lighting and costume elements to match White
House still photographs in both black and white and color. Fifteen
other locations were used in and around the Virginia state capital
building, including the Governors mansion. Living
with Bugs: Close Encounters TLC This
quirky, comic, and sometimes harrowing film juxtaposes our human attitudes
toward bugs with their insects-eye view of our world. The visual style
combines important scientific interviews and dramatic theatrical set-ups,
which are in turn inter-cut with traditional verite filming of a victim
who, in one instance, sleeps with 10,000 bed bugs. The rich quality
of the images, combined with an altered perspective, pulls the viewer
into the surreal bug world. (United
Kingdom) ITN FOR CHANNEL FOUR NEWS WTVF
6pm News WTVF-TV - A Mother's Stand-Off Thanks to this report, the public learned the real story behind what could otherwise have made for a misleading headline: a police officer shoots a mother holding her three-year-old son. The mother, though, was an escaped convict who had stolen a police officers gun and was holding it to her own sons head, "fixing to be a murder-suicide." A police officer shot her non-fatally to rescue the child, and WTVFs photographer captured the entire standoff live.
KUSA
9 News at 6 KUSA-TV - One Time on I-25 In a drought, storm clouds are usually a welcome sight. But the rain that fell in Colorado on Friday, the 13th of September, created a new body of water on Interstate 25. The KUSA team allowed the people affected to tell their own stories, illustrated by the pictures their photojournalists captured in challenging conditions.
ABC
7 10PM News WLS - The Worst Case Scenario In October, 2002, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge warned the chemical industry that terrorists could turn a chemical facility "into a weapon," and advised companies to take their own security precautions. The ABC 7 Investigative team found this warning falling on deaf ears in Illinois, home to more plants containing large amounts of hazardous chemicals than any other state. They found several obvious security risks and questioned owners and managers about their weak security practices.
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