Building Big
Filmed on four continents and hosted by renowned author/illustrator David Macaulay, Building Big is a unique five-part series about history’s largest and most complex structures and the architects, engineers and…
Hoop Dreams
Nearly ten years ago, film makers Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert began documenting life on an around Chicago’s playground basketball courts. Their camera focused on William Gates and…
The New Explorers
Now entering its fourth season, The New Explorers represents a unique partnership among government, major corporations, science institutions, WTTW, and Kurtis Productions, Ltd. This collaborative effort has yielded an unprecedented…
Reading Rainbow: The Wall
While the Reading Rainbow series targets beginning readers, this stirring episode has equal appeal to all ages. In “The Wall,” the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. is explored and…
Journey’s End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and Family
Anyone who has spent even a short amount of time in Vermont knows that it is an exceptional state. The inhabitants of Vermont tend to be individualistic in their thinking,…
Snipets
A Peabody Award to Kaiser Broadcasting for Snipets, a unique series of one-minute vignettes. Designed for use in children’s programs, each sixty-second segment emphasizes a positive human value such as…
The Turned On Crisis
In broadcasting three related series directed to different audiences and building these programs into a planned campaign against drug abuse, station WQED-TV demonstrated how to secure community involvement in a…
ARRAY
Founded in 2011 by filmmaker Ava DuVernay, ARRAY is as much a center for disruptive institutional and narrative change as it is a production house. Indeed, its creative campus in…
NPR Critic Eric Deggans’ TV Predictions for 2022 Story
Welcome to Peabody Finds, the weekly newsletter for the Peabody Awards, offering our recommendations for powerful and thought-provoking media you should consider engaging. The newsletter offers deeper dives into Peabody-recognized programming (and…
The Best Podcasts to Listen to Right Now Story
Welcome to Peabody Finds, the weekly newsletter for the Peabody Awards, offering our recommendations for powerful and thought-provoking media you should consider engaging. The newsletter offers deeper dives into Peabody-recognized programming (and…