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Documentaries are tricky. You either come out of the theater feeling over-whelmed by some subject you knew nothing about, or you come out bored. Most of the time, you probably just catch one on PBS while channel-surfing on a lazy afternoon...
...killed on his way to the summit or on the way down after successfully reaching the top. Mallory and his fellow climber Andrew Irvine might turn out to have been the first to summit Everest, long before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did so in 1953. The PBS show "Nova" is documenting the current expedition, which is searching not just for Mallory's remains but also for any shreds of proof that he made...
Bill Moyers' upcoming PBS specials will include Free Speech for Sale on June 8 and Fooling with Words in the fall
...Hollywood, in such films as Glory, Amistad and Beloved, has helped depict a more complex picture of race relations in early America. Combined with new literature and scholarship on the African American experience such as John Hope Franklin's Runaway Slaves, the companion to the four-part, six-hour PBS series Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, and Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, the Encarta Africana, there is respect and understanding for the lives of African ancestors...
...TIME 100 series has become a true multimedia project. A CBS News special hosted by Morley Safer will air this Thursday, March 25, at 10 p.m. E.T. A panel with some of our experts was moderated by Charlie Rose for his PBS television show, which airs Monday, March 22. We have a place on our website www.time.com where you can express your own opinions. CBS Radio has been broadcasting short profiles on each selection. A book series is available (800-692-1133), and we are hoping to produce a coffee-table volume for Christmas. And Madame Tussaud's wax museum...