Bill D. Moyers

Reveals the dangers facing our planet due to the lucrative and scandal-ridden business of trafficking in hazardous waste. Too often, the industrial world's worst poisons end up in countries where regulations are weak and seldom enforced. No country figures more prominently in this trade than the United States, which--as the world's top producer of hazardous waste--generates more than 500 million tons annually. In what amounts to the export of Love Canal, hazardous cargoes from America--used car batteries, dry cleaning fluids, banned pesticides, and the like--find dumpsites in the developing nations.

"A boon to computer users, broadband has meant fast Internet services for millions. But as the phone and cable giants that operate these networks consider the profits to be made by controlling the content and delivery of the Internet, Net Neutrality - and the easy sharing of ideas and opinions that goes with it - may soon become a thing of the past in America. In this program, Bill Moyers and journalist Rick Karr report on the struggle for the soul of the Internet as lobbyists and legislators reshape the telecom laws for the broadband era. Will democracy's high-tech forum for the exchange of ideas be destroyed by regulations that favor online entities with deep pockets?"--Container.

"Whether they want to or not, four out of five Americans will likely die in hospitals or nursing homes and the care they get will depend on who is footing the bill. Bill Moyers introduces crusading medical professionals--including staff members of the Balm of Gilead Project in Birmingham, Alabama--who have dedicated themselves to improving end-of-life care by changing America's overburdened health system."

Interviews with Chinua Achebe, Isaac Asimov, Mary Catherine Bateson, Robert Bellah, Peter Berger, Sissela Bok, T. Berry Brazelton, James MacGregor Burns, Noam Chomsky, F. Forrester Church, Henry Steele Commager, E.L. Doctorow, Peter F. Drucker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Northrop Frye, Carlos Fuentes, Willard Gaylin, Mary Ann Glendon, Vartan Gregorian, Joseph Heller, Michael Josephson, Leon R. Kass, Sara Lightfoot, John Lukacs, Forrest McDonald, Arturo Madrid, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Martha Nussbaum, Elaine Pagels, David Puttnam, John Searle, Maxine Singer, Barbara Tuchman, Derek Walcott, Steven Weinberg, August Wilson, William Julius Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Sheldon Wolin, Anne Wortham, C.N. Yang.

A poll from the American Research Group reported that more than four in ten Americans favor impeachment hearings for President Bush and more than half favored impeachment for Vice President Cheney. Unhappiness about the war in Iraq isn't the only cause of unsettled feelings. Bill Moyers gets perspective on the role of impeachment in political life from Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein and John Nichols, author of The Genius of Impeachment.

Web site program with Bill Moyers, one of the most recognized and respected journalists in America, who anchors an hour-long weekly news series offering fresh perspectives and analysis on today's events, issues and the ideas that are now shaping the world.

This record of the author's 13,000 mile journey across America last summer describes his impressions and reports on his meetings with "college presidents, student radicals, American Legionnaires, street people, union rebels, clergymen, drug addicts, black spokesmen, political candidates, unemployed executives, business, leaders, country doctors, hard-working cops, and ordinary citizens." Publisher's note.

"Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to the public library: the unmistakable, slightly musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly-discovered books. Today's libraries also function as de facto community centers, and offer free access to the Internet, job-hunting assistance, or a warm place to take shelter along with the endless possibilities that spark your imagination the moment you open the cover of a book. There are more than 17,000 public libraries in America. Over the last eighteen years, photographer Robert Dawson has traveled the nation, documenting hundreds of these institutions--from Alaska to Florida, New England to the West Coast. The Public Library presents a wide selection of Dawson's photographs, revealing a vibrant, essential, yet seriously threatened system. Essays, letters, and poetry by a collection of America's most celebrated writers--including E. B. White, Isaac Asimov, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Charles Simic, Dr. Seuss, and Philip Levine, as well as the voices of dedicated librarians working today--are woven with photographs of the majestic reading room at the New York Public Library; the one-room Tulare County Free Library built by former slaves, in Allensworth, California; the architectural wonder of Seattle's glass and steel Central Library; and the Berkeley, California tool lending library; among many others. A foreword by Bill Moyers and an afterword by Ann Patchett bookend this important survey of a treasured American institution"--

" In this program Bill Moyers and his team of investigative journalists untangle the web of relationships, secret deals and political manipulation - including thousands of e-mails, reports, and facts on the record - to open a disturbing window on the dark side of American politics. A roundtable discussion with Thomas Frank and Norman Ornstein follows the documentary."--Container.

Embark on a thought-provoking journey with Bill Moyers as he crosses America's landscape listening and talking with scientists, writers, artists, philosophers and historians, who share what is on their minds and in their hearts.

Looks at how the New Deal helped to create jobs during the Depression. Interviews former Civilian Conservation Corps workers who benefited from these programs.

This program examines the effect money has on free speech and political debate. In our society large corporations are increasingly able to drown out opposition by buying large amounts of air time, while their opponents are silenced by their lack of money. The program also investigates the consequences for our democracy as media outlets are increasingly coming under control of only a few corporations.

Jeanette Winterson talks about Weight, her new version of the story of Atlas and Hercules as well as the power of art to build a fulfilling inner life. Writer, actor, rapper Will Power talks about the challenges of "flipping" an ancient Greek drama, Seven Against Thebes, into a hip hop performance in the adaptation, The Seven.

Presents an online four-part series on improving end-of-life care, hosted by American television jouralist, Bill Moyers. Highlights the discrepency between the kind of care which terminal patients want and what they receive. A PBS Web site.

Moyers looks at the role of television advertising in presidential campaigns. He interviews Rosser Reeves and Tony Schwartz. Moyers looks at the role of television advertising in presidential campaigns. He interviews Rosser Reeves and Tony Schwartz. Includes ads used by Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon and Reagan.

"Presents intimate portraits of the new Chinese Americans who face a struggle common to so many immigrants: to reconcile some losses of their old culture in order to embrace their adopted American one. A follow-on interview with artist and architect Maya Lin supplements the program."--Container.

Interviews with Bharati Mukherjee, Maxine Hong Kingston, Peter Sellars, Leo Braudy, Patricia Smith Churchland, Jeannette Haien, Toni Morrison, Sam Keen, Evelyn Fox Keller, Richard Rodriguez, M.F.K. Fisher, Cornel West, Tu Wei-ming, Joanne Ciulla, Ruth Macklin, Ernesto J. Cortes, Jr., Michael Sandel, Jacob Needleman, Steven Rockefeller, Oren Lyons, Murray Gell-Mann, Robert Lucky, Louis Kelso, Mike Rose, Lester Brown, Jonas Salk, William L. Shirer, John Henry Faulk, and Robert Bly.