The Clinton Years
Follows Bill Clinton's campaign for the presidency and his 8 years in office. Includes interviews with George Stephanopolous, Dee Dee Myers, and other key administration officials.
The Congress
Explores the history and promise of the country's most important and least understood institutions. The film chronicles the personalities, events and issues that have animated the first 200 years of congress.
The American President
Ten one-hour documentaries that focus on different aspects of character and governing style of the men who have served as president of the United States.
The Assault on Reason by
An indictment of the Bush-led radical Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making, and a reckoning with the degradation of the public sphere that facilitates their rule of unreason. .
Democracy in America by
In 1831, a young French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States officially to appraise the country's penal system—but with a higher personal goal in mind. Looking to America's unique democratic system as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, Tocqueville set about to study the culture, character, and institutions of the evolving nation. I confess that in America I saw more than America, he said; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress. His resulting work, the classicDemocracy in America, proved so insightful and prophetic that it continues to command the attention of historians, scholars, and politicians today.
