History and Culture
Secrets of the Pharaohs
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/pharaohs/
Join in as scientists discover a lost city and learn the secrets of its
forgotten inhabitants. Examine 7,000 year old DNA and find out what it
reveals about the mysterious past.
Ralphe Bunch: An American Odyssey
http://www.pbs.org/ralphbunche/
Ralph Bunche was the first African American and the first person of color
to win the Nobel Peace prize—an honor he received in 1950 in recognition
of his successful mediation of the Armistice Agreements between four Arab
nations (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) and Israel. Bunche was celebrated
worldwide for his contributions to humanity, particularly in the areas
of peacekeeping, decolonization, human rights and civil rights.
Wonders of the African World
http://www.pbs.org/wonders/
Join Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he travels the continent of Africa, exploring
its rich history and introducing you to contemporary African people and
cultures.
NOVA: Secrets of Lost Empires
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/
NOVA brings together a team of Egyptologists, engineers, stonemasons,
and timber framers to probe the mystery of how the ancients shaped, transported,
and erected their elegant obelisks.
NOVA: Treasures of the Sunken City
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sunken/
This site chronicles the underwater discovery of the fabled Pharaoh's
lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, just offshore
from the modern city of Alexandria in Egypt.
NOVA: Mysteries of the Nile
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/
With real-time dispatches and digital photos filed from the Nile in March
1999 and from a quarry in Massachusetts in August and September 1999,
the adventure chronicles both NOVA's search for archaic clues to obelisk-raising,
and its attempt to erect one of these pillars of stone itself. Learn what
happened, meet the team, and try to lever your own obelisk.
NOVA: Pyramids: The Inside Story
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
Have you ever dreamed of exploring the pyramids of Egypt? If so, enter
here, wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid,
and learn about the pharaohs for whom these monumental tombs were built.
You can also follow the 1997 field season of a team of archaeologists
as they excavated the bakery that fed the pyramid builders.
Contemporary African Issues and People
Hopes on the Horizon
http://www.pbs.org/hopes/
This documentary Web site examines Africans' struggles for democratic
renewal during the 1990s. In stories from six different nations, the program
takes the pulse of a continent in transition during a turbulent decade—the
most important one for Africa since the heady independence decade of the
1960s.
Journey To Peace
http://www.pbs.org/journeytopeace/
This is the story of the history-making journey of two extraordinary men—Archbishop
Desmond Tutu and Dr. John Hope Franklin, leader of President Clinton's
Advisory Board on Race—and a multi-ethnic group of 21 teenagers.
They come together for the first time on the infamous island of Goree,
a former slave port off the coast of Senegal to talk frankly about issues
of race and imperialism.
The New Americans
http://www.pbs.org/newamericans/
Meet Barine Wiwa-Lawani, a refugee from Nigeria and sister of Ken Saro-Wiwa,
a writer and activist who was executed by the Nigerian government in 1995.
Join Barine as she returns to Nigeria for the first time in several years
to attend her brother's long-delayed funeral.
Frontline: Ambush at Mogadishu http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/
On October 3, 1993 elite units of the US Army's Rangers and Delta Force
were ambushed by Somali men, women and children armed with automatic weapons
and rocket-propelled grenades. The Rangers were pinned down in the most
dangerous part of Mogadishu, Somalia and taking casualties. What had started
out as an operation to capture warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid turned into
a tragic firefight that lasted seventeen hours, left eighteen Americans
dead, eighty four wounded and continues to haunt the US military and American
foreign policy.
Frontline: The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/
Explore the life of one of the 20th century's greatest activists and statesmen.
Frontline: The Triumph of Evil
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/
"The Triumph of Evil" is a vivid and revealing report on how the 1994
Rwanda genocide could have been prevented. Drawing on dramatic footage,
previously confidential cables and interviews with U.N. and U.S. officials,
Frontline investigates how months earlier the U.S. and U.N. had been warned
by a key Rwandan informant about the coming slaughter. Despite the warning,
the West didn't try to prevent it.
Wonders of the African World
http://www.pbs.org/wonders/
Join Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he travels the continent of Africa, exploring
its rich history and introducing you to contemporary African people and
cultures.
Going Places: South Africa
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/goingplaces3/southafrica/
Get travel and cultural information, including a virtual slide show and
interactive map features on the Web site.
African Wildlife
Sahara
http://www.pbs.org/sahara/
From beetles to bustards and hyenas to hedgehogs, meet the wildlife that
populates this fantastic land.
The Living Edens: Etosha
http://www.pbs.org/edens/etosha/
Southern Africa's Etosha is a vast and ancient land of seasonal paradox.
During the blooming of the wet season, this an Eden of glorious abundance
in which spring boks, elephants, lions, leopards, cheetahs, jackals, zebras,
and giraffe thrive.
The Living Edens: Namib
http://www.pbs.org/edens/namib/
Namib is a two thousand kilometer strip of land on the southwestern coast
of Africa where the cold Atlantic sea and searing Namibian desert join.
With few watering holes, animals must roam the beach and seek nourishment
from the bountiful marine life.
The Living Edens: Ngorongoro
http://www.pbs.org/edens/ngorongoro/
Travel to Ngorongoro to learn about craters, cheetahs, wildebeests, jackals,
and more.
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure: Africa
http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/africa.html
Retrace Hemingway's footsteps on a Kenya safari.
Nature: Serengeti
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/serengeti/
Sample the safari game, race with cheetahs, and learn about the life of
a wildlife photographer.
Nature: Cheetahs in a Hot Spot
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/cheetahs/
Travel to Namibia, one of the world's richest cheetah habitats, for a
remarkable look at these graceful hunters. Follow six gangly young cheetahs
as they come of age in the desert wilderness of Etosha National Park,
where they learn the essential hunting and social skills that will enable
them to rear families of their own.
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Don't miss this program airing in February!
Nature: Cheetahs in a Hot Spot
Airs Sunday, February 25 at 8:00/7:00 p.m.
www.pbs.org/nature
This episode focuses on both the cheetahs' struggle with the natural world
and their confrontation with humans, and follows the work of some conservationists
and farmers who take a more compassionate approach to the problem of cheetahs
versus farm animals. In Etosha National Park, cameras trail a family of
seven cheetahs as they cope with the harsh wilderness and, at the height
of summer and drought, scarce food.
Secrets of the Pharaohs
Airs Tuesdays, February 13, 20, 27 at 7:00 p.m.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/pharaohs/
When Howard Carter found the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun in 1922,
he also found the remains of two fetuses buried in the pharaoh's tomb.
Who were they? Might their premature deaths be linked to the end of Tutankhamun's
family, the great 18th Dynasty that ruled Egypt during the second millennium
BC? Tutankhamun was the last of the line. Why did the family die out?
Had they become so inbred that they were struck down by a genetic disease?
In a bid to answer those questions and draw up a complete dynastic family
tree, two American scientists have been allowed to take DNA samples, for
the first time, from the royal mummies and from the fetuses. Meanwhile,
excavating in the shadow of the pyramids, archaeologists have now made
some extraordinary finds—the tombs of the pyramid builders, together
with large sections of the "town" where they lived. From this wealth of
information has come a new understanding not only of how the pyramids
were built, but why.
Reading Rainbow: Mummies Made in Egypt
Airs Wednesday, February 21 at 2:30/1:30 p.m. MT/PT
http://gpn.unl.edu
This episode describes the techniques and the reasons for the use of
mummification in ancient Egypt. LeVar explores mummies and learns about
the art of conserving Egyptian artifacts at the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston. Then CT scan technology provides an inside look at a mummy thousands
of years old, and a forensic expert recreates the head of a mummy using
intricate skull dimensions.
Reading Rainbow: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
Airs Thursday, February 22 at 2:30/1:30 p.m. MT/PT
