The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2004

Through the momentous weeks of the 2004 Presidential Campaigns, Jon Stewart and cohorts provided the kind of cathartic satire that deflates pomposity on an equal opportunity basis. Somehow this sharp…

POV: Flag Wars

As Flag Wars so powerfully demonstrates, the course of gentrification in the United States is rarely without a human cost, compounded in this instance by historical racial and economic divisions….

The Office

With no predictable jokes, no easy punch lines, no laugh track, and no known stars, The Office still manages to make audiences laugh out loud for thirty minutes at a…

Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry

Poetry on television. Poetry spoken and performed, not read from the page. Poetry that draws a live audience into the intricacies of language, the humor of a varied inflection, the…

Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers, based on Stephen E. Ambrose’s book, is among the most memorable undertakings in television history. The commitment of time and resources from Home Box Office is put…

Blue’s Clues

Built on the philosophy that television can educate while it entertains, Blue’s Clues is a “play-along, think-along” series whose inventive approach to problem solving offers children a sense of personal…

Endgame in Ireland

For years, peace in Northern Ireland seemed to be a perplexing illusion. For each step forward, there seemed to be one step back. Negotiations continued, however, and finally on April…

1900 House

The premise of the series 1900 House is deceptively simple: see what happens when a modern family is transported 100 years back in time to live for three months in…

The Corner

This landmark six-hour miniseries is a raw, provocative drama about the seedy, destructive junkie subculture on one of America’s mean streets, West Baltimore’s Fayette Street, in the early 1990s. Based…