WGBH International Newsletter Winter 2008

WGBH International Newsletter Winter 2008

NEW RELEASES NEW SPRING 2018 The world is full of inspiring places just waiting to be discovered and explored. This new, epic series BE SURE TO VISIT US AT goes on a timeless journey around the planet, revealing the world’s greatest cities, natural wonders, MIPTV 2018 animal encounters, journeys and adventures, monuments, and islands. 36x60 HD STAND P-1.G66 © SEQOYA FOR SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Donald Trump’s frst year as p resident has been marked by unprecedented turmoil that divides the United States. In Trump’s On an unlucky day 13,000 years ago, a slightly built, malnourished Takeover, FRONTLINE investigates how an outsider and novice teenager missed her footing and tumbled to the bottom of a 100-foot politician came to Washington on a promise to “drain the swamp” pit deep inside a cave in Mexico’s Yucatan. NOVA takes you on a and infamed a high-stakes struggle for control of the Republican spectacular and risky underwater expedition to recover her bones Party. Through interviews with senior White House ofcials, and explores one of science’s most controversial riddles: the origins of Congressional leaders, close Trump confdantes and longtime the First Americans. From the stunning Mexico cave to the wilderness Republican Party ofcials, Trump's Takeover examines how of the Yukon, from the genetics lab to the latest in forensics, NOVA ambitions for unifed Republican control in Washington collided pursues tantalizing new clues that are rewriting the story of the with the realities of a deeply divided party. 1x60 HD forgotten frst people who ventured into the Americas. 1x60 HD © REUTERS/CARLOS BARRIA FRANCIS CORDERO RAMIREZ CURRENT AFFAIRS, SOCIAL ISSUES © 2018 ERIC VAN DEN BRULLE #MeToo, Now What? The #MeToo movement shattered the silence and pushed sexual harassment and the lived experiences of so many women to the forefront of the global conversation. Now it’s time to take NOVA Wonders journeys to the frontiers of science, where researchers are tackling some of the that conversation to a deeper level, engaging biggest questions about life and the cosmos. From the mysteries of astrophysics to the secrets women and men from all generations and walks of the body, to the challenges of inventing technologies that could rival—and even surpass—the of life. #MeToo, Now What? asks: How did we abilities of the human mind, this series reveals how far we’ve come in our search for answers, get here and how can we begin to efect positive how we managed to get here and how scientists hope to push our understanding of the and lasting change? This fve-part series aims to universe even further. 6x60 HD create a space for authentic and honest dialogue among women and men towards understanding, What Are Animals Saying? Are We Alone? healing and reconciliation. Host Zainab Salbi NOVA Wonders travels around the globe, From the Kepler mission’s astounding discovery leads the conversations—refecting on the times where researchers are deciphering an of thousands of extrasolar planets, to the in which we as individuals and as a society have amazing array of clues that reveal how animals exhilarating probing of planetary ecosystems been complacent, as well as the times in which share information critical to their survival— within our own solar system, to the high-tech we may have been complicit. 5x30 HD from a cacophony of ultrasonic bat squeaks to telescopes under development, the prospects spider thumps and mice mating songs. Will we for fnding life beyond Earth have never been HISTORY one day be able to write the bat dictionary, or stronger. Still, there are daunting hurdles to decode the hidden sign language of chimps? surmount. This episode follows explorers now And what can these fndings tell us about the searching the galaxy for life and intelligence on roots of our own language? 1x60 HD other planets—and asks, if we do fnd other life in the universe…then what? 1x60 HD Can We Build a Brain? The world’s brightest computer programmers Can We Make Life? are trying to build brighter machines by New tools allow researchers to use cells to reverse-engineering the brain and by create their own DNA and edit it into existing inventing completely new kinds of computers genomes with more ease and less cost than with exponentially greater speed and ever before. Along with renewed hopes for processing power. NOVA Wonders looks treating some genetic diseases, there’s serious at how far we’ve come and where machines talk of using the newest technologies to bring SHUTTERSTOCK.COM/SUFI are headed as their software becomes ever long-extinct animals back from the dead— more…cerebral. 1x60 HD like the team hoping to resurrect the woolly mammoth. Science fction is quickly becoming What’s Living in You? science fact. What are the potential rewards— Research reveals our bodies are like an and dangers—of tinkering with nature? 1x60 HD ecosystem with tons of microbes living in us, 1979: The Siege of Mecca on us and even having sex literally right under What’s the Universe Made Of? The year 1979 began with Ayatollah Ruhollah our noses. But not all bugs are detrimental The universe is hiding something: 95% of the Khomeini’s return to Iran and the Islamic or just nasty hitchhikers; some are actually it is made up of two mysterious components: revolution, and ended with the Soviet invasion of crucial to our survival. Evidence suggests that “dark matter” and “dark energy.” Now, scientists Afghanistan. In between, Egypt signed a peace a damaged microbiome may contribute to endeavor to shed light on the so-called “dark treaty with Israel to the outrage of the Arab obesity, allergies, even mental disorders—but sector” as the latest generation of detectors rev countries, Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq scientists are just scratching the surface of this up, and powerful telescopes peer deeper into and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Zulfkar Ali biological frontier, opening up a new world of the cosmos than ever before to observe how it Bhutto was hanged by Mohammed Zia ul-Haq microbial forensics. 1x60 HD behaves. Find out how scientists are discovering who began the nuclear proliferation with India. new secrets about the history of the universe, This flm lifts the veil on one of the best-hidden and why they’re predicting a shocking future. secrets of modern history: the 1979 siege of the WHITEMOCCA FOR SHUTTERSTOCK.COM 1x60 HD Grand Mosque in Mecca. 1x60 HD 2 pbsinternational.org ARTS & CULTURE, HISTORY HISTORY CURRENT AFFAIRS NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH MILITARY HISTORY COURTESY OF BOB HOPE LEGACY, LLC This Is Bob Hope… Jewish Soldiers of WWII During his eight-decade career, Bob Hope was FRONTLINE (working title) the only performer to achieve top-rated success Jewish Soldiers of WWII tells the profound and in every form of mass entertainment: vaudeville, unique story of the 550,000 Jewish men and Broadway, movies, radio, television, popular The Gang Crackdown women who served in World War II. They were song and personal appearances, including In The Gang Crackdown, FRONTLINE held as POWs and awarded honors for merit hosting the Academy Awards a record 19 times investigates how a slew of gruesome killings and valor. Thousands were wounded and and his annual USO Christmas military tours. on Long Island allegedly by the MS-13 gang 11,000 were killed in action. Ten thousand With unprecedented access to Hope’s personal led to a sweeping dragnet of immigrant Jewish women joined up as well, disregarding archives, including writings voiced by Billy kids—many of whom have been accused of their parents’ warnings that the military “was no Crystal and clips from his body of work, This Is having gang afliation with little evidence, and life for a nice Jewish girl.” In the midst of it all, Bob Hope… reveals a gifted and very human held in detention without charge for months. they fought a second, more private battle individual who recognized the power of fame As President Trump declares war on MS-13 against anti-Semitism within the ranks. They and handled celebrity with extraordinary wit and and points to the killings on Long Island to endured slurs and even violence from their grace. The documentary features interviews justify eforts to ramp up deportations, the flm fellow servicemen, and often felt forced to with Woody Allen, Dick Cavett, Margaret Cho, investigates the fraught relationship between prove their courage and patriotism. Jewish daughter Linda Hope, Kermit the Frog, flm critic/ immigrant communities and law enforcement, Americans earned their citizenship by shedding historian Leonard Maltin, Conan O’Brien, Tom and whether the crackdown is making Long blood, leaving their outsider status behind. Selleck, Brooke Shields, Connie Stevens and Island safer. 1x60 HD 1x60 HD biographer Richard Zoglin. 1x77, 1x114 HD A dangerous power struggle between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for dominance and control plagues the Middle East today. In a special three-hour series, FRONTLINE traces the modern history of this struggle from the 1979 Iranian revolution to the present day and investigates how the continued enmity of the two rivals is playing out in proxy wars from Iraq to Syria to Yemen and Lebanon. Filmed in seven countries over two years, the series examines how sectarian diferences between Shia and Sunni Islam have been manipulated and deployed to sustain conficts, all with devastating results. Bitter Rivals is a sweeping view of a region on fre with no end in sight. 3x60 HD BITTER RIVALS PHOTO CREDIT: COURTESY OF REUTERS/MORTEZA NIKOUBAZL & BANDAR ALGALOUD/COURTESY OF SAUDI ROYAL COURT/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS pbsinternational.org 3 As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 300,000 Allied troops were ALSO AVAILABLE FOR WWII: trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk.

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