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 Alaska to Wyoming with related lesson plans.

 

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 Thinhttp://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 America http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/film/index.html

 

Well-Founded Fear http://www.pbs.org/pov/wellfoundedfear