WVPT’s Video On Demand On-line Resource

  Take a peek at WVPT’s online Video on Demand resource and view episodes or segments of some of your favorite series like: American Experience, Frontline, NOVA, Nature, The NewsHour and NBR – and even WVPT’s local series like Virginia Farming and WVPT Cooks.

Enjoy these programs and many more, on-line, on your own schedule – whenever you want to!

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American Experience: “We Shall Remain”

This groundbreaking mini-series establishes Native history as an essential part of American history. Five 90-minute documentaries spanning 300 years tell the story of pivotal moments in U.S. history from the Native-American perspective. Benjamin Bratt narrates.

American Experience: We Shall Remain airs over 5 consecutive Monday evenings, beginning April 13 at 9:00 p.m. on WVPT and WVPT-HD.

American Experience: The Alaska Pipeline

In the early weeks of 1968, after a decade-long search for oil in Alaska’s frozen wilderness, gas burts up out of an exploratory well on the North Slope with such force the crew thought it was about to blow. Geologists soon calculated that as much as ten billion barrels of oil lay below the frozen tundra of Prudhoe Bay — the largest oil find in North America.

The pipeline built to bring that oil to market was one of the greatest engineering feats of the 20th century. This American Experience program explores the impact the pipeline had on culture and society in Alaska as well as the environment, featuring the men and women who worked on the line as well as long-time Alaska residents, members of the Native Alaskan community, environmentalists, government geologists, congressional supporters and foes of the project, and local Alaska politicians.

Tune in Monday March 16th at 9pm on WVPT and WVPT-HD.

On The Next AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: “A Class Apart”

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: A CLASS APART  brings to life the heroic post-World War II struggle of the Mexican Americans to dismantle the Jim Crow-style discrimination targeted against them.
   
The story is built around the landmark 1954 legal case Hernandez vs. Texas in which an underdog band of Mexican Americans from Texas bring a case all the way to the Supreme Court – and win.
  
The film dramatically interweaves the story of its central characters – activists and lawyers, returning veterans and ordinary citizens, murderer and victim – within the broader history of Latinos in America during a time of extraordinary change.
   
In bringing to light this little known story, A CLASS APART will help inform a new civil rights movement reignited by the challenge of today’s burgeoning Latino population.

Tune in Monday night February 23rd at 9PM on WVPT and WVPT-HD.

On The Next American Experience: “The Lobotomist”

The lobotomy was hailed by The New York Times as a “surgery of the soul” and “history making,” a groundbreaking medical procedure that promised hope to the most distressed families and desolate mentally ill patients. Championed by a young and ambitious neurologist named Walter J. Freeman, what began as an operation of last resort was soon being performed at some 50 state asylums, often with devastating results. Only a decade after his rise to fame, Freeman was decried as a moral monster and the lobotomy as one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine. Through interviews with medical historians, psychiatrists who worked with Freeman and the desperate families who sought his help, this program tells the gripping tale of medical intervention gone awry. Campbell Scott narrates

Tune in Monday February 16^th at 9PM on WVPT and WVPT-HD.

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln on “American Experience”

On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. Over the next twelve days, as a fractured nation mourned, the largest manhunt ever attempted closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old renowned actor, John Wilkes Booth.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Barak Goodman (The Lobotomist, Boy in the Bubble, Kinsey). The 90-minute film features actor Will Patton (Numb3rs, A Mighty Heart) as the voice of the assassin, and is narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper (Seabiscuit, Adaptation). Interviews with the nation’s foremost Lincoln scholars recount a great American drama: two tumultuous months when the joy of peace was shattered by the heartache of Lincoln’s death.

Tune In Monday February 9th at 9PM on WVPT and WVPT-HD.

American Experience: Oswald’s Ghost

  As we approach the 45th anniversary of this tragic event in American history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 left a psychic wound on America that is with us still today. Few Americans then or now accept that a lone, inconsequential gunman could bring down a president and alter history. In that breach, a culture of conspiracy has arisen that points to sinister forces at work in the shadows. Drawing upon rarely seen archival footage and interviews with key participants, Oswald’s Ghost takes a fresh look at Kennedy’s assassination, the public’s reaction to the tragedy, and the government investigations that instead of calming fears lead to a widespread loss of trust in the institutions that govern our society.

Tune in for the fascinating story on American Experience.  Monday night November 17th at 9PM on WVPT and WVPT-HD.