To support the endowment of a program fund for the initial research and development of humanities productions.

Implementation of public programs and discussions nation-wide to accompany the eighteen-hour documentary series by Ken Burns, The Vietnam War.

This proposal requests support for a national engagement campaign to accompany The Vietnam War, an eighteen-hour documentary film series about the history and meaning of the Vietnam War, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick of Florentine Films, co-produced by WETA, and slated for PBS broadcast in 2017. As the first major documentary assessment of the subject since the early 1980s, the time for this national conversation is overdue. The dialogue will take place in many venues: across generations and throughout America, between pro and anti-war factions, between veterans of different wars, among policy makers and leaders, through social media and online, between military and civilian communities and within the military itself, in high school and college classrooms, and across America’s many racial and ethnic divides. The national engagement effort will be focused on three key areas: community engagement, digital and new media, and educational initiatives.

To support a pilot script development for a television series on the law that will increase the public's understanding and awareness of the historical, philosophical and social bases of the American legal system.

To examine the feasibility of creating a series of programs for Public Radio based on the contribution by Hispanic American peoples to the historical and cultural development of the U.S.

To support planning of a series of nine 60-minute documentaries, examining the history of Subsaharan Africa through its indigenous, Islamic, and Western heritages.

To support planning of a 60-minute television program to introduce young people, ages ten to fifteen, to architectural history and history by featuring historic buildings in and around Washington, D.C.

To support the scripting for a series of six 30-minute radio programs to intro-duce the history, development, and evolution of American English to an audienceof children, ages six to ten, and their families.

To support promotion for the rebroadcast of the six-part dramatic series, "Shoulder to Shoulder."

To support filming two interviews with Ken BUrns, the producer of the "The Civil War" series.

To support scripting for a one-hour documentary film on the life and work of American novelist William Kennedy (born 1928).

To support the production of a nine-part 20-hour series on the history of baseball.

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To support the scripting of a three-hour documentary film series about the interstate highway system: the individuals who made it possible, how it transformed the landscape, and its effect upon people and communities.

To support scripting of a two-hour documentary film, with dramatizations, on the life and times of Galileo Galilei.

To support the scripting of a one-hour documentary film that examines the personal and artistic odyssey of the American artist, William H. Johnson, 190l-1970, and the revival of his work.

To support the production of an eight-part, 12-hour documentary film series on the history of jazz within the social and cultural context of American life from 1890-1990.

Production of the first two episodes of a proposed ten-hour documentary television series about the American experience of World War II from 1941 to 1945.

Production of a two-hour documentary film on the life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe and his contribution to the architecture of the new American Republic (1764-1820).

Development of a two-hour film that would examine the history of the conservative movement in 20th-century America.

We are requesting development funding for "Ordered Liberty," a two-hour film history of the Conservative movement in the United States. The film will be broadcast nationally on PBS and will be accompanied by outreach materials, teaching materials, website and companion book.

Development of a four-hour documentary film series about Asian Americans in the United States from the mid-19th century to the present.

"The Asian Americans" is a proposed four-hour film series about the unique and evolving identity, contributions, and challenges experienced by Asian Americans in the United States over the past 150 years. Through the stories of Asian Americans, we will see the United States expand into the West and onto the world stage. We will explore the familiar immigrant experience of hope and disappointment, opportunity and struggle--but also a new one: legal exclusion. Through the eyes of Asian Americans, we will witness three wars fought in Asia in a single century; and rethink America's global position as Asian nations continue to rise economically and militarily. Through the exploration of this complex history, the series will reveal the contradictory responses our nation has had to its growing diversity: resentment and racism as well as embrace and inclusion, while raising questions about the future for Asian Americans and our nation as a whole.

Production of a four-part film series about Jewish immigration to North America and about the integration of Jews into the fabric of American life.

Production of a two-part, four-hour television series about the Korean War that places the international conflict in historical context and considers its geopolitical and military legacies.

The 38th Parallel is a proposed four-hour documentary series about a war that Americans have long underestimated, misunderstood, and misrepresented. The Korean War was a gigantic global event: twenty-four nations took part in a conflict that lasted three full years. The war killed four million people. Even so, Korea has been almost-famously forgotten by the American public. Bookended by World War II and Vietnam, the Korean War marked little that anyone in this country wanted to remember and a great deal that everyone wanted to forget. It was a brutal conflict that put the first dent in the myth of American exceptionalism and brought the world close to a nuclear war. But the Korean War needs to be remembered. It determined American military and foreign policy for the next 60 years; the world we live in today, where the US all but routinely intervenes in far-off conflicts, was born with Korea. The Korean War changed everything.

Production of an eight-hour documentary series exploring the American criminal justice system from the seventeenth century to the present. 

Crime and Punishment in America is the first documentary ever to offer a truly comprehensive look at the American criminal justice system from its origins in the colonial era to present day mass incarceration. It is an eight-hour, eight-episode PBS documentary film series, created by a diverse and inclusive team led by acclaimed filmmaker Lynn Novick, and advised by the leading scholars in the field. It is slated for national primetime premiere on PBS in 2026, the year we will mark and reflect upon the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. Seeking to answer the seemingly simple question, “How did we get here?,” this series will inform, educate and engage audiences with an expansive and original new telling of 400 years of American history through the lens of crime and punishment.

Production of the first two one-hour episodes of a six-part television series examining the history of Latino Americans, accompanied by a radio series and a website.

The Latino Americans will be a six-hour film series, the chronicle of the arrival and lives of Latinos in the United States in the last 200 years -- a story of people, politics, and culture from 1800 to 2000.?? It is a long and diverse story, as any history of the immigration of a major population and its aftermath must be -- especially a story that hopes to describe what the U.S. Census now counts as the largest ethnic bloc in the United States. Immigration is at the heart of American experience and our series intersects much that is central to that history including Manifest Destiny, the Wild West and multiple wars (including Mexican-American, Spanish-American and World War II). With most Americans unfamiliar with this history, The Latino Americans will be a landmark media event that is long overdue.

Production of a 14-hour documentary film series that would examine the history of the Roosevelt family, focusing on Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

This 14-hour, 7-part film series will present the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their influence as the most prominent members of one of the most important families in our nation?s history. The Roosevelts will illuminate over 100 years of the American experience, refracted through numerous prisms?of politics and reform; isolation and global responsibility; government intervention; ethics; jurisprudence; social and economic history. The series will be broadcast nationally in prime time on PBS in 2014, and will be accompanied by extensive educational outreach activities and a major promotional campaign to drive tune-in. In addition, a web site will be created for the film to be housed at pbs.org.