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 A Letter Without Words -- Filmmaker Lisa Lewenz retraces the steps of her Jewish grandmother who dared to film life in Berlin during the rise of Nazi Germany. ITVS documentary.
American Visions with Robert Hughes -- Web companion to the 1997 PBS and BBC Television series on American art and culture, hosted by Robert Hughes.
And Baby Makes Two - ITVS -- Single motherhood is no longer the exclusive province of teenagers; white middle class women in their 30''s and 40''s are now joining its ranks, forcing us to look anew at the nuclear family.
BBC America: Life and Style -- BBC documentaries are featured on BBC America.com, along with Britpop headlines, dramas, Britcoms, BBC movies, games, and general content relating to British entertainment and culture.
Bravo -- Bravo - the Film and Arts Network
Cadillac Desert -- This PBS companion site follows the struggle for water in the modern American West, and offers audio and video clips and links to water conservation sites.
Culture Shock -- Companion site to the PBS series about art, cultural values, and freedom of expression.
Discovery Online -- Home of the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and The Learning Channel. Many Science and Nature documentaries.
Documentaries with Bill Kurtis -- A&E.com''s coverage of these cutting-edge documentary programs features detailed highlights, complete television listings, and an entire section dedicated to the Emmy Award-winning host, Bill Kurtis.
Films by François Rosolato -- The films made by François Rosolato, a french filmaker. Mostly documentaries. Also director of photography.
Forgotten Fires -- Forgotten Fires investigates the burning of two black churches near Manning, South Carolina, by a young convert to the Ku Klux Klan.
Frontline -- Frontline is a weekly one-hour series that airs long-form documentaries on various subjects, including politics, society, and even personal stories. Each Frontline program has its own unique web site full of indepth content, that can be accessed from the main page.
Girls in America - ITVS -- From rugby fields to beauty pageant runways, teenage girls tell their own stories about what its like growing up female in America today. An ITVS documentary.
Golden Threads -- Documentary profiling the life of lesbian activist Christine Burton.
Grierson Trust Award -- Full details of the annual Grierson Awards for the best documentary of the year. Included full text of out-of-print "Researcher Guide to John Grierson." Also stills from Grierson''s classic "NIGHT MAIL", including a piece of the famous verse sound track of W.H.Auden''s with Benjamin Britten music.
In My Corner -- IN MY CORNER, an intimate and explosive award-winning documentary explores the way caring, committed adults can rebuild the lives of kids on the edge.
International Documentary Television Corp. -- The films and work of documentary film-maker Robert Duncan and his company.
Ken Burns Information Site -- This site provides news on Ken Burns the documentary filmmaker of famed PBS documentary series including Frank Lloyd Wright, Lewis and Clark, Thomas Jefferson, Baseball, and The Civil War.
Kontum Diary The Journey Home -- North Vietnamese army veteran Nguyen Van Nghia journeys to the U.S. in a trip sponsored by his former enemy, American veteran Paul Reed.
Learning Adventures in Citizenship: From New York to Your Town -- The educational Web companion to the series New York: A Documentary Film on PBS.
NOVA -- Scientific documentary series which airs on PBS. Informative shows, with an equally informative web site.
National Geographic Television -- Online home of the world renowned documentary show ''National Geographic Explorer.
Nerds 2.0.1 -- Nerds 2.0.2 is a documentary on the history of the Internet. The web site includes excellent content which supplements the information provided in the documentary.
New York: A Documentary Film Online -- Featuring a virtual tour of the city, interviews and episode guides, an interactive trivia game, and an educational component encouraging kids to get involved in community issues.
On the Bridge to Freedom -- “On the Bridge to Freedom”©: about Scientology’s view on children and families. Interviews with ex-scientologists from Denmark, Sweden, Germany and USA.
P.O.V. -- A summer series on PBS, P.O.V. shows documentaries that are produced entirely independently, and not within the PBS system. P.O.V. has a very interactive website, and when the films are showing in the summer season, discussion groups, among other features are offered over the web.
Production of documentaries -- Documentaries about Jacob A Riis, H. C. Andersen etc
Richard Goodwin''s Barging Through France -- A lively look at french culture and cuisine through the eyes of Richard Goodwin, film producer. The site has overviews of all episodes, plus recipes and details on how to buy copies of the videos.
Richard Wright - Black Boy -- In-depth look at the "influential and infamous" African-American author. Site includes information on new documentary on the writer, a chronology of Wright''s life, interviews, and a select bibliography.
School Prayer: A Community at War - ITVS -- A Mississippi mother of six sues her school district to remove prayer and religious instruction from public schools.
Sing Faster: The Stagehands'' Ring Cycle - ITVS -- A documentary of Richard Wagner''s "Ring Cycle" opera from the point of view of the union stagehands at the San Francisco Opera.
THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Eleanor Roosevelt -- An in-depth look at one of the 20th century''s most influential women.
The American Experience: Houdini -- "Houdini" follows the transformation of Jewish Hungarian immigrant Ehrich Weiss to the world’s greatest escape artist—Harry Houdini.
The Jew in the Lotus -- Buddhism and Judaism meet head-on when eight rabbis travel to Dharamsala, India for a meeting with the Dalai Lama. Having witnessed the systematic oppression and persecution of his people since his exile in 1959, the Tibetan holy man invited the Jewish leaders to share the secret of spiritual survival in exile. When writer Rodger Kamenetz goes along to chronicle the event, we are reminded that the lessons of spiritual survival apply as much to a troubled individual as they do to a troubled nation.
Travis -- TRAVIS is the story of the fight to save the life of a remarkable young boy living with AIDS.
Walking with Dinosaurs -- All about the BBC''s hit new dinosaur documentary series
Wannabe: Life and Death in a Small Town Gang - ITVS -- The gang-related murder/suicide of four teenagers in Appleton, WI in May 1995.
With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America -- An ITVS documentary about the conservative Christian political movement from the 1950s to today.
X Act Project, Inc. -- X-Philes is an X-Files documentary film featuring interviews with David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, fans of the TV show, Chris Carter and more. This film explores the phenomenon of the X-Files.

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