This is a list of PBS Web sites that have steaming video
available:
Arts:
Mark Twain (making of) http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/filmmakers/making_choosing.html
NewsHour arts-related video clips http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/arts_literature/index.html
Secret Life of the Brain:Learning to Read http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/episode2/video.html
American Field Guide http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/
- hundreds of clips from
Amato Opera http://www.pbs.org/wnet/amato/ -
videos in About the Amato Opera and Meet Tony Amato (excerpts and interviews)
American Family http://www.pbs.org/americanfamily/
- Cisco's Journal (click on the transmitter icon in the nav)
has several entertaining and educational archival footage of Mexican culture
pieces ... my favorite is "Pachanga"
And Then One Night: The
Making of Dead Man Walking http://www.pbs.org/kqed/onenight/
- lots
of interview clips in Creative Process and Sister Helen Prejean
sections; provocative thoughts on the death penalty
Egg the arts show http://www.pbs.org/wnet/egg/ - clips
for each subsection of each episode, just click down a few levels and click on
"video"
PBS Hollywood Presents: Old
Settler and Collected Stories http://www.pbs.org/hollywoodpresents/
- both of these sites have clips in In-Depth Interviews, Production Roles, and
Key Scenes sections
Ralph Bunche
http://www.pbs.org/ralphbunche/ -
interviews with family members and scholars sprinkled throughout
Stage on Screen: Tantalus http://www.pbs.org/wnet/stageonscreen/tantalus/
- many
clips enrich the Tantalus Production Scrapbook in "Backstage"
Health:
Frontline “Medicating Kids” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/watch/
NOVA “Dying to be Thin” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/program.html
Senior Year (each character
has video) http://www.pbs.org/kcet/senioryear/kids/jean.html
Juggling Work and Family http://www.pbs.org/workfamily/clip.html
NOVA: Life’s Greatest Miracle
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/program.html
NOVA: Cancer Warrior http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cancer/program.html
Parent Tales http://www.pbs.org/parenttales/index.htm
Secret Life of the
Brain: addiction http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/episode3/video.html
(also
sections on a Baby’s Brain, memories, etc. in other episodes)
Math:
XY Encounter http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/xyencounter/
NCTM Standards video
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/lessonplans/search_6-8.shtm
Specific episodes of Mathline
Science:
Nature videodatabase
(searchable) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/database.html
Scienceline clips Pick
one from http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/scienceline/video.shtm
American Field Guide
http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/
Evolution:
Videos for teachers and
students at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/index.html
Scientific American Frontiers
http://www.pbs.org/saf/archive.htm
NewsHour video clips
(science-related) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/science_technology.html
NOVA: Cracking the Code of Life http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/program.html
Social:
Bill Moyers
in Conversation (Sept 11) http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/moyers.html
Frontier House video diaries http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/families/video_diaries.html
Frontline: Jefferson-Hemings http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/view/
Frontline: Inside an Admissions Screening Session http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sats/etc/inside.html
(*lots of Frontline video clips—go to FL site and search on “video”)
Ken Burns—Lewis and Clark
(making of) http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/forum/index.html
(also
lots of streaming audio with historians on this site)
Media Matters http://www.pbs.org/wnet/mediamatters/
NewsHour social studies video clips http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/social_studies.html
Not For Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/index.html
(flash-based, but includes lots of video—chronology of women’s suffrage)
People Like Us: Social Class in
Well-Founded Fear http://www.pbs.org/pov/wellfoundedfear