Vulcan Productions

In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten,...

"Nine unforgettable girls - striving beyond circumstance, pushing past limits - spotlighted in a film about the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world. With stories by nine celebrated writers, voiced by nine renowned actresses ..., Girl Rising introduces Sokha, an orphan who rises from a Cambodian dump to become a star pupil; Suma, who writes music to endure forced servitude in Nepal; Ruksana, an Indian 'pavement-dweller'...

This program explores ways to improve our social relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals in these difficult times.

On June 21, 2004 Spaceship One developed by Burt Rutan and his company, Scaled Composites, became the world's first commercial manned space vehicle. This is the sequel to the story of the development of Spaceship One. Describes Burt Rutan's quest to capture the elusive X Prize, a $10 million award for the first privately funded, non-governmental group to build a spacecraft capable of carrying three 6'2", 198-pound adults to an altitude of 62 miles...

"Thai activists risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find justice and freedom for enslaved fishermen who feed the world's appetite for seafood. Bangkok-based Patima Tungpuchayakul has committed her life to helping these "lost" men return home. Facing illness, death threats, and corruption, Patima's fearless determination for justice inspire the world."--Container

In July 1945, a Japanese submarine sinks the USS Indianapolis. Indianapolis₂ final resting place remains a mystery for more than seven decades, until an expedition launched by philanthropist Paul G. Allen discovers the ship in August 2017. Now the story of USS Indianapolis is told as PBS reconstructs the ship's heroic legacy, its dramatic final moments, and the discovery of the wreck site.

Once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, Paul Gold now lies in a coma. He is attentively nursed by his mother Esther, who dotes on her son to the point that her husband and daughter, Julie, feel very left out. Meanwhile, Jim Train is a workaholic lawyer who is closer to his tortes than to his spouse Susan. Their son Jake has taken a morbid fascination with his sister's baby doll. At the same time, Paul's former lover Annette Jennings is trying to...

Captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, in a landmark battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools. In 2004, the Dover school board ordered science teachers to read a statement to their high school biology students about an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution called intelligent design. This idea states that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and so must have been designed by an intelligent...

One hundred years ago, the blues was discovered as a musical form. To celebrate, more than 50 musicians gathered in New York City for a benefit concert.