CN-*0617-77 | Challenge Programs: Media Challenge Grants | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Challenge Grant | 7/1/1977 - 6/30/1980 | $205,000.00 | Sally | | Wells | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1977 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Media Challenge Grants | Challenge Programs | 0 | 205000 | 0 | 205000 | No project description available |
CP-30034-92 | Challenge Programs: Public Challenge Grants | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Challenge Grant for Program Endowment | 12/1/1990 - 7/31/1997 | $562,000.00 | Linwood | T. | Lloyd | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1992 | Media Studies | Public Challenge Grants | Challenge Programs | 0 | 562000 | 0 | 562000 | To support the endowment of a program fund for the initial research and development of humanities productions. |
ES-*1997-80 | Education Programs: Institutes for K-12 Educators | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Jumpstreet Humanities Project | 10/1/1980 - 6/30/1982 | $200,000.00 | Toby | H. | Levine | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1980 | African American Studies | Institutes for K-12 Educators | Education Programs | 200000 | 0 | 198930 | 0 | To support development of learning packages and a teacher training model to enhance the effectiveness of multicultural education in secondary school classrooms. The history of Black American music culture will be studied with the aid of the television series "From Jumpstreet -- A Story of Black Music." |
GI-234992-16 | Public Programs: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Vietnam War Expanded Engagement | 4/1/2016 - 12/31/2017 | $300,000.00 | Anne | | Harrington | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2016 | History, General | America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Implementation Grants | Public Programs | 300000 | 0 | 300000 | 0 | 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. |
GN-*0164-79 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Humanities Planning Grant - Jurisprudence | 1/1/1979 - 2/29/1980 | $17,690.00 | Elizabeth | S. | Brownstein | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1978 | Law and Jurisprudence | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 17690 | 0 | 17690 | 0 | Humanities planning grant.
To explore ideas for, and define approaches to, a television series on the philosophy of law and the evolution of legal institutions, with particular emphasis on the American legal system. |
GN-*1680-80 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Humanities Research and Development Grant/Jurisprudence | 5/1/1980 - 1/31/1981 | $40,000.00 | Elizabeth | S. | Brownstein | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1980 | Law and Jurisprudence | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 | 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. |
GN-10049-70 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | WETA | The Wolf Von Eckardt Project on National Capitols | 9/1/1970 - 8/31/1971 | $25,300.00 | John | N. | Robbins | | | | WETA | Arlington | VA | | USA | 1970 | Social Sciences, General | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 25300 | 0 | 25300 | 0 |
A 60-minute color T.V. program comparing and evaluating the architectural and socioesthetic environment of four major national capitols: Paris, London, copenhagen and Washinton, D.C. |
GN-10293-76 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | WETA | Hispanic-American Cultural Investigation for Public Radio | 7/1/1976 - 6/30/1977 | $10,000.00 | Peter | | Simmons | | | | WETA | Arlington | VA | 10029 | USA | 1976 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 10000 | 0 | 10000 | 0 |
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. |
GN-10433-77 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Humanities Planning Grant | 8/1/1977 - 7/31/1978 | $30,000.00 | Charles | B. | Hobson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1977 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 30000 | 0 | 30000 | 0 |
To plan a humanities project. |
GN-21653-83 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Africans (a nine-part television series on the history of Black Africa) (Planning: TV Documentary) | 7/1/1983 - 12/31/1983 | $15,000.00 | Charles | B. | Hobson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1983 | African History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 15000 | 0 | 15000 | 0 | To support planning of a series of nine 60-minute documentaries, examining the history of Subsaharan Africa through its indigenous, Islamic, and Western heritages. |
GN-21716-83 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Songs Jumping in my Mouth: Introduction to the Humanities for Children (Scripting: Radio) | 1/1/1984 - 11/30/1984 | $70,000.00 | Pamela | | Brooke | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1983 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 70000 | 0 | 70000 | 0 | To support scripting of thirteen 30-minute radio programs that will provide an introduction to humanities concepts and perspectives designed for children ages six to ten. |
GN-21787-83 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Architectural History for Children (Planning: TV Documentary) | 10/1/1983 - 12/31/1983 | $15,000.00 | Toby | H. | Levine | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1983 | Architecture | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 15000 | 0 | 15000 | 0 | 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. |
GN-22109-85 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Africans | 8/1/1984 - 12/31/1986 | $600,000.00 | Charles | B. | Hobson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1985 | African History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 0 | 600000 | 0 | 587419 | To support THE AFRICANS, a nine-hour documentary series on Africa for public television. |
GN-22373-85 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Songs Jumping in My Mouth: An Introduction to Language History (Script, Radio, Documentary, Children) | 7/1/1985 - 12/31/1985 | $46,745.00 | Pamela | | Brooke | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1985 | Linguistics | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 46745 | 0 | 46745 | 0 | 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. |
GN-22769-86 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Civil War | 8/1/1986 - 12/31/1990 | $1,649,100.00 | Ken | | Burns | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1986 | U.S. History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 1299100 | 350000 | 999100 | 350000 | To support the expansion of the five-hour CIVIL WAR series to nine or ten hours. |
GN-23288-87 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Promotion for "Shoulder to Shoulder" | 10/1/1987 - 8/31/1988 | $25,000.00 | Mary | E. | Aladj | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1987 | Media Studies | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 25000 | 0 | 20970 | 0 | To support promotion for the rebroadcast of the six-part dramatic series, "Shoulder to Shoulder." |
GN-23871-89 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Radio Pioneers | 11/1/1989 - 5/31/1992 | $477,334.00 | Tamara | E. | Robinson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1989 | American Studies | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 477334 | 0 | 453044 | 0 | To support the production of a 90-minute documentary film examining the lives of Lee de Forest, Edwin Harvard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff who invented, manufactured, and created the world of radio. |
GN-24171-90 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Civil War Fillers | 4/1/1990 - 7/31/1990 | $29,913.00 | Tamara | E. | Robinson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1990 | U.S. History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 29913 | 0 | 25999 | 0 | To support filming two interviews with Ken BUrns, the producer of the "The Civil War" series. |
GN-24203-91 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History | 3/1/1991 - 9/30/1991 | $85,000.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1991 | U.S. History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 85000 | 0 | 84949 | 0 | To support the scripting of a one-hour documentary film on the life and work of Frederick Douglass, 1818-95. |
GN-24217-91 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Authors' America | 3/1/1991 - 9/30/1991 | $65,000.00 | Richard | | Richter | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1991 | American Literature | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 65000 | 0 | 57188 | 0 | To support scripting for a one-hour documentary film on the life and work of American novelist William Kennedy (born 1928). |
GN-24315-91 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | A. Philip Randolph | 9/1/1991 - 5/30/1993 | $90,000.00 | Tamara | E. | Robinson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1991 | U.S. History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 90000 | 0 | 90000 | 0 | To support scripting of a 90-minute documentary on the life and times of Asa Philip Randolph, 1889-1979, labor leader and civil rights activist. |
GN-24365-92 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Baseball | 8/1/1991 - 12/31/1994 | $2,000,200.00 | Ken | | Burns | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1992 | U.S. History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 200 | 2000000 | 200 | 500000 | To support the production of a nine-part 20-hour series on the history of baseball. |
GN-24440-92 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | William Kennedy's Albany | 2/1/1992 - 11/30/1994 | $647,398.00 | Richard | | Richter | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1992 | American Literature | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 647398 | 0 | 579784 | 0 | To support production of a one-hour documentary film that will examine the concept of place in the fiction of novelist William Kennedy. |
GN-24452-92 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | When the Lion Wrote History: The Life of Frederick Douglass | 5/1/1992 - 3/31/1995 | $803,718.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1992 | U.S. History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 803718 | 0 | 794963 | 0 | No project description available |
GN-24631-93 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The West -- A 10-Hour Documentary Film for Public Television | 2/1/1993 - 3/31/1997 | $2,500,000.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1993 | U.S. History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 500000 | 2000000 | 500000 | 1154005 | To support the production of a seven-part, ten-hour film series on the American West. |
GN-24743-93 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Interstate Highways and American Culture | 9/1/1993 - 2/28/1994 | $140,000.00 | Tamara | E. | Robinson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1993 | U.S. History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 140000 | 0 | 140000 | 0 | 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. |
GN-24765-93 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | A. Philip Randolph | 11/1/1993 - 2/29/1996 | $860,000.00 | Phylis | | Geller | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1993 | U.S. History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 755000 | 105000 | 755000 | 0 | To support the production of a 90-minute documentary film on the life and times of Asa Philip Randolph, 1889-1979. |
GN-24981-94 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Galileo | 9/1/1994 - 2/28/1995 | $70,000.00 | Tamara | E. | Robinson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1994 | Classical History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 70000 | 0 | 70000 | 0 | To support scripting of a two-hour documentary film, with dramatizations, on the life and times of Galileo Galilei. |
GN-25010-94 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Them Damn Pictures! The Tradition of American Political Cartoons | 9/1/1994 - 3/31/1995 | $90,000.00 | Tamara | E. | Robinson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1994 | U.S. History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 90000 | 0 | 90000 | 0 | To support scripting of a 90-minute documentary film on select moments in the history of political cartoons in America. |
GN-25132-95 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson | 6/1/1995 - 1/31/1996 | $40,000.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1995 | Art History and Criticism | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 40000 | 0 | 37532 | 0 | 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. |
GN-25259-95 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Revolutionary Roads | 10/1/1995 - 10/31/1997 | $415,000.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1995 | Media Studies | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 415000 | 0 | 414600 | 0 | No project description available |
GN-25342-96 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | JAZZ | 7/1/1996 - 6/30/2001 | $800,000.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1996 | U.S. History | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 800000 | 0 | 800000 | 0 | 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. |
GN-26195-01 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Reporting America at War | 10/1/2001 - 3/31/2004 | $500,000.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2001 | Media Studies | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 500000 | 0 | 380000 | 0 | Production of a three-hour documentary film series examining American press coverage of major military conflicts in the 20th century. |
GN-50260-04 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The War | 6/1/2004 - 12/31/2007 | $1,200,000.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2004 | Media Studies | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 700000 | 500000 | 624214 | 500000 | 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. |
GN-50261-04 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | History Through Deaf Eyes | 7/1/2004 - 8/31/2007 | $500,000.00 | Karen | A. | Kenton | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2004 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 400000 | 100000 | 400000 | 100000 | Production of a two-hour television documentary film exploring almost 200 years of the experience of the deaf community in the United States, from 1814 to the present. |
GN-50303-04 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Benjamin Henry Latrobe: Architect of the New Republic | 7/1/2004 - 3/31/2010 | $800,000.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2004 | Art History and Criticism | Humanities Projects in Media | Public Programs | 800000 | 0 | 800000 | 0 | 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). |
GZ-*1465-80 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects for Youth | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Songs Jumping in my Mouth | 7/1/1980 - 1/31/1984 | $124,205.00 | Pamela | | Brooke | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 1980 | History, General | Humanities Projects for Youth | Public Programs | 85000 | 39205 | 85000 | 39205 | To support production of a series of radio programs, related writing and research projects for children, a curriculum guide for teachers, writing contests for children, and family and community activities. The project will integrate culture, history and ideas with children's own experiences. |
TD-50020-08 | Public Programs: America's Media Makers: Development Grants | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Ordered Liberty | 8/1/2008 - 4/30/2009 | $75,000.00 | Jeff | | Bieber | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2008 | Media Studies | America's Media Makers: Development Grants | Public Programs | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | 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. |
TD-50032-09 | Public Programs: America's Media Makers: Development Grants | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Latino Americans | 4/1/2009 - 12/31/2009 | $75,000.00 | Jeff | | Bieber | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2009 | Latin American Studies | America's Media Makers: Development Grants | Public Programs | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | Development of two one-hour scripts for an eight-part film series to be broadcast nationally, with a companion radio series on National Public Radio and an accompanying website that would examine the history of Latino Americans through the lens of immigration.
"The Latino Americans" will be an eight-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 1800-2008. WETA, the Washington, DC PBS station, will join forces with Latino Public Broadcasting to co-produce this project. The series will be created for national PBS broadcast, with a companion radio series on National Public Radio (NPR), and will include a major outreach and promotional campaign. All programs and outreach will also be distributed via Spanish language media (broadcast, radio and web) to connect with Latino communities nationwide. |
TD-50688-14 | Public Programs: Media Projects Development | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Asian Americans | 8/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 | $75,000.00 | Jeff | | Bieber | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2014 | Asian American Studies | Media Projects Development | Public Programs | 75000 | 0 | 75000 | 0 | 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. |
TD-50689-14 | Public Programs: Media Projects Development | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Rosalynn Carter: Political Partner | 9/1/2014 - 12/31/2014 | $60,000.00 | James | | Corbley | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2014 | U.S. History | Media Projects Development | Public Programs | 60000 | 0 | 60000 | 0 | Development of a one-hour television documentary on the life and impact of former first lady Rosalynn Carter as part of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions' "Modern First Ladies" series.
"Rosalynn Carter: Political Partner" is a one-hour television documentary exploring the life and impact of former first lady Rosalynn Carter. "Rosalynn Carter: Political Partner" will be the fourth program in "The Modern First Ladies" series of documentaries produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and broadcast nationally on PBS. Built primarily around an in-depth interview with the former first lady, as well as archival material from the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, private photo collections, home movies, news clips, and other image sources, "Rosalynn Carter: Political Partner" will create a complex portrait of this transformational first lady within the context of a post-Watergate White House and a resurgent women's movement. |
TI-50004-06 | Public Programs: Media TV Production | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Jewish Americans | 7/1/2006 - 4/30/2008 | $550,000.00 | Jeff | | Bieber | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2006 | U.S. History | Media TV Production | Public Programs | 400000 | 150000 | 400000 | 150000 | 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. |
TR-228365-15 | Public Programs: Media Projects Production | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Vietnam War | 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2017 | $1,000,000.00 | Anne | | Harrington | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2015 | U.S. History | Media Projects Production | Public Programs | 1000000 | 0 | 1000000 | 0 | Production of a ten-part, 18-hour television series exploring the Vietnam War from a range of U.S. and Vietnamese perspectives.
"The Vietnam War" is a 10-part documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that brings to life one of the defining events of 20th-century American history. Airing on PBS in 2017, it will present a groundbreaking narrative of the war intended to inspire a long overdue conversation about this watershed in our history. The film is informed by the best and most recent scholarship about the war, and built around interviews with nearly one hundred American and Vietnamese witnesses, as well as exhaustively researched archival material from around the globe. It addresses wide-ranging themes including colonialism, nationalism and the Cold War; the nature of leadership; propaganda and the creation of media; diversity, class and ethnicity; the changing American cultural landscape; and religion, ethics and morality. The attached proposal describes plans for the production of the film, its comprehensive website, and an outreach campaign designed to engage a broad and diverse audience. |
TR-250079-16 | Public Programs: Media Projects Production | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The 38th Parallel | 10/1/2016 - 6/30/2019 | $550,000.00 | Jeff | | Bieber | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2016 | U.S. History | Media Projects Production | Public Programs | 550000 | 0 | 550000 | 0 | 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. |
TR-256166-17 | Public Programs: Media Projects Production | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | College Behind Bars | 8/1/2017 - 1/31/2020 | $200,000.00 | Anne | | Harrington | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2017 | Social Sciences, Other | Media Projects Production | Public Programs | 200000 | 0 | 200000 | 0 | Production
of a two-hour documentary that chronicles the intellectual and personal
journeys of men and women who participate in a rigorous liberal arts college
program as inmates of New York state prisons.
College Behind Bars is a two-hour documentary directed by Lynn Novick and produced by Sarah Botstein, which brings to life the practice of liberal arts education among inmates in American prisons. The project is a co-production of WETA, the leading public broadcasting station in the nation’s capital and the second-largest producing station of PBS programming, and Skiff Mountain Films, a documentary production company based in New York City. Novick and Botstein are longtime filmmaking partners of documentarian Ken Burns, who is serving as Executive Producer. The project is produced in association with Burns’ production company, Florentine Films. Slated for national broadcast on PBS in 2018, College Behind Bars will be accompanied by a multi-platform digital media campaign. |
TR-293231-23 | Public Programs: Media Projects Production | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Crime and Punishment in America | 4/1/2024 - 3/31/2027 | $600,000.00 | John | | Wilson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2023 | U.S. History | Media Projects Production | Public Programs | 600000 | 0 | 600000 | 0 | 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. |
TR-50099-10 | Public Programs: America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Prohibition | 4/1/2010 - 4/30/2012 | $500,000.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2010 | U.S. History | America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Public Programs | 500000 | 0 | 500000 | 0 | Production of a three-part, six-hour documentary with a companion website about the rise, rule, and repeal of the 18th Amendment in its social, cultural, and political contexts.
PROHIBITION is a six-hour, three-part documentary film series that will explore the rise, rule, and fall of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. The series will examine the social, political, and cultural forces that converged to make the Amendment's passage possible, the far-reaching impact of Prohibition on American life, and the country's eventual disillusionment with the edict, which culminated in repeal. The series will be broadcast nationally in prime time on PBS in 2011, and will be accompanied by extensive educational outreach materials and a major promotional campaign to drive tune-in. In addition a web site will be created for the film to be housed on pbs.org. |
TR-50103-10 | Public Programs: America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Latino Americans | 9/1/2010 - 2/28/2014 | $400,000.00 | Jeff | | Bieber | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2010 | U.S. History | America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | 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. |
TR-50238-11 | Public Programs: America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Dust Bowl | 5/1/2011 - 3/31/2013 | $500,000.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2011 | U.S. History | America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Public Programs | 500000 | 0 | 500000 | 0 | Production of a two-part, four-hour documentary film series on the Dust Bowl, the southern Plains states' decade-long natural catastrophe and man-made ecological disaster in the 1930s.
THE DUST BOWL is a 2-part, 4-hour documentary film series that will explore a decade-long natural catastrophe of Biblical proportions and the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, a collective tragedy that nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. The series will be broadcast nationally in prime time on PBS in 2012, and will be accompanied by extensive educational outreach materials and a major promotional campaign to drive tune-in. In addition a web site will be created for the film to be housed on pbs.org. |
TR-50287-11 | Public Programs: America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | The Roosevelts | 10/1/2011 - 9/30/2014 | $750,000.00 | David | S. | Thompson | | | | Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association | Arlington | VA | 22206-3440 | USA | 2011 | U.S. History | America's Media Makers: Production Grants | Public Programs | 750000 | 0 | 750000 | 0 | 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. |