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(Media Update) 29 Things You Can `Watch Now` on Wnpt.org
You have an extra day this year. What are you going to do with it? Since we’re excited about the launch of our new Video.Wnpt.org “Watch Now” video portal, we think Leap Day is a good opportunity to remind you about all the great shows and documentaries you can now access, and maybe catch up [...]
Screenings and Civil War Songs and More: an Amazing May at NPT
There’s always plenty going on here at NPT, both on and off-air, but May is particularly busy with screenings and special broadcasts. Here’s a quick round-up: May could easily be called “Freedom Riders Month” with the many events going on to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the historic rides. In addition to the national American [...]
Film on Freedom Riders to World Premiere at Sundance
Back in March of this year, we told you director Stanley Nelson was in town to interview several Nashville-based individuals who were involved with The Freedom Riders in 1961, among them the host of NPT’s A Word on Words, John Seigenthaler, Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Frederick Leonard and Reverend James Lawson. The interviews were being conducted [...]
Encore Broadcast of American Experience: The Kennedys Tonight at 7pm
To mark the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy, NPT will be rebroadcasting AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s “The Kennedys” tonight, August 26, 2009, from 7:00-10:00 p.m. We will pre-empt all of the currently scheduled prime time programming on our main NPT channel for this special program. We will move the regularly scheduled GREAT PERFORMANCES “Harlem in Montmarte,” WE [...]
American Experience at Bonnaroo
Bruce, Phish, Wilco, Elvis Costello, The Beastie Boys, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs … and American Experience! That’s right, in case you were worried, you can still get a little PBS at Bonnaroo. The American Experience film, “Earth Days,” directed by Robert Stone (“Oswald’s Ghost”) and scheduled to be broadcast on PBS stations in April 2010, [...]
The Audience for We Shall Remain: Americans
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxf5w6e5tvQ"] “The audience for this is not Native Americans, and it’s not non-Native Americans,” Ric Burns told Elizabeth Jensen in the New York Times about the PBS series American Experience: “We Shall Remain.” “It’s Americans.” Burns is the writer, producer and co-director — along with noted American Indian director Chris Eyre — of “Tecumseh’s Vision,” [...]
American Experience to Mark 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Riders
The year 2011 will mark 50 years since the Freedom Riders, groups of blacks and whites traveling together from Washington D.C. into segregated Southern states, made their courageous and inspiring journeys. The iconic PBS series American Experience is scheduled to commemorate the anniversary with a special episode that year. Producers from Firelight Media are in [...]
April is National Poetry Month
The USA Today reminds us that ” ‘April may be the “cruellest month,’ as T.S. Eliot wrote in the opening line of The Waste Land. But it’s also National Poetry Month.” Poetry will be celebrated in many ways throughout the nation, including in print, online and on air. PBS will launch a new poetry site [...]
