As digital technology gets smaller and less expensive, it is empowering people in unprecedented ways -- from villagers in rural India who use computers to monitor the quality of their food and water...
Alan Alda speaks with Paul MacCready, who stunned the world of aeronautical engineering by designing the first successful human-powered airplane. At 75, MacCready continues to build flying machines...
From a base in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family used charm, patronage, duplicity, and ruthlessness to amass wealth and power. The Medicis also ignited Western history's most important...
The long lost encryptor chip, the only computer component that can restore Motherboard to full power, unexpectedly appears on the popular cyberauction U-WANT, U-BID! To make matters worse, Hacker...
The story of Jesse James remains one of America's most cherished and wrong-headed myths. Less heroic than brutal, James was a product of the American Civil War; a Confederate partisan of expansive...
Treks in a Wild World combines an interest in ecology, anthropology, and history with action sports and outdoor pursuits. Brought to you from the producers of Globe Trekker - the most watched...
In 1918, at the end of the World War I, a flu pandemic ripped through the world with such speed and virulence that by the end of the following year an estimated 40 million people, four times more...
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book, this program tells the story of two turbulent days in October, 1967. In Vietnam, a US battalion marched into a Viet Cong trap killing sixty one young men....
Veteran actor-director Paul Newman makes his first Broadway appearance in four decades in this sold-out Westport Country Playhouse production of the Thornton Wilder classic. Newman plays the Stage...
In 1883, the young Cather was plucked from her luxurious home in Virginia and dropped into the tall grass prairies of Nebraska, an experience that exhilarated her and became the force behind all of...
