Ten Years of Social Struggles. Who We Are
Description
Television has emerged as a dominant teaching tool in the area of complex contemporary social issues-a modern-day civics text. The range of subjects is as diverse as our culture: welfare, the farm crisis, the state of the American family, abortion, race relations. Yet documentaries are a threatened species because they take so long to research, report, shoot, and edit. Still, news of the documentary's death has been exaggerated; each of the excerpts in this program is an eloquent testimonial to the triumph of the television documentary form. Narrated by Peter Jennings.
Runtime
30 min
Series
Subjects
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c1994
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
Similar Films
Making the Oprah network profitable
Jon Stewart on humor and an informed public
Inside NFL Films. The Idol-Makers
CNBC Titans. Ted Turner
Legends of Comedy
60 minutes. BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation]
Vying for viewers. Cable news war
The Electronic Battalions, 1975-1988
The ESPN juggernaut powers on for Iger and Disney
The History and Future of Television
That's news to me. Transformation of journalism in a wired society
AM Radio
Modern Marvels. Television, Window to the World
Covering the world. Reports without borders