Filmmaker David Sutherland insists that he's a portraitist, not a journalist, but in its intimate focus his work tends to reveal profound realities about poverty in rural regions of the United States. His 1998 "Frontline" documentary "The Farmer's Wife" examined the looming extinction of the family ...
Read More »Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Game of Thrones," "Shameless," "Vikings" and the back-this-week "Mad Men," but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week.
Read More »Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Shameless," "Girls," Californication," "Enlightened" and, this coming weekend, the Academy Awards, but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from t...
Read More »Two months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, PBS will delve into the continuing discussion of the tragedy, why it happened and what can be done to prevent it with a week of programming entitled "After Newtown," that deals with the shooting, the gun law debate, mental il...
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