The Last Speakers
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The Last Speakers David and Greg are linguists trekking through the swamps of Southwest Siberia in pursuit of the few who know a centuries-old language. A surprising twist reveals the forces that wipe out languages. The Last Speakers traverses the globe to meet the people who are fighting back. Q'orianka Kilcher narrates. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 0452417 and 0438121 and the Nonprofit Media Group.
America Rebuilds II: Return to Ground Zero Following the critically acclaimed PBS documentary America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero, which aired on the first anniversary of 9/11, America Rebuilds II explores how people—builders, developers, victims' families—are moving forward. Its PBS premiere on September 11, 2006, marked the fifth anniversary of 9/11.
Two Valleys Two Valleys dances delicately between the war-torn Jordan Valley, where a nascent Palestinian democracy seems ripe for the introduction of a digital infrastructure, and a struggling Silicon Valley, where planners wrestle with the blueprints. With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, Two Valleys surveys the treacherous terrain for the Middle East's information superhighway.
Counted documents Seth Kramer's self-imposed task of counting six million grains of rice to honor victims of the Holocaust. It follows Seth's 1994 short Untitled, a humorous and haunting log of the first million grains.
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