CPB-Funded Programs & Projects
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A Tribute to Medgar Evers
Radio
MPB has recorded and produced a concert in February 2006 honoring civil rights martyr Medgar Evers. The project will reach a national audience with a gospel and symphonic music experience. The ...
American Creole: New Orleans Reunion
Television
A one-hour special about the efforts of New Orleans bandleader Don Vappie to "bring the music home" by convincing his extended family of professional musicians and his own bandmates to return for a ...
Audio History Project
Radio
This series will look at significant people and events in the 20th century. Possible topics include Gandhi, Billy Graham, and the U.S. Army's official hangman who carried out the Nuremberg sentences. ...
By All Means Necessary
Television
This film intends to take a critical look at how and why America came to deal with the rest of the world in the ways that it did during the administration of George W. Bush, including the origins of ...
Caliente Latin Jazz
Radio
This project will produce 4 one-hour programs focusing on the Latin elements in jazz music. The host is Latino jazz legend Eddie Palmieri, and his guests will include top names in jazz and ...
Campus Battleground (formerly Studying Hatred)
Television
This one-hour film examines concerns that a new form of anti-Semitism may be emerging on American college campuses since 9/11. Some experts have voiced concern that student organizations and ...
China from the Inside (formerly Mind of China)
Television
A series of four one-hour episodes about China's history and its place in the modern world. The series examines the problems of governing this vast and disparate country; China's history and move ...
Citizen Soldiers
Television
This is an hourlong film on the U.S. Army Reserves and their extraordinary contribution to the war on terror, which tells the story of the Bravo Company of the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment ...
Classical Advocates
Radio
Classical Advocates reinvents the presentation of classical music by weaving the perspectives of today's great artists into daily programming. Short comments from a small cadre of musicians, ...
Craft in America
Television
This three-part series of one-hour programs explores the vitality, history, and significance of the craft movement in the United States. Using both historical context and living artists, viewers are ...
Crossroads Entry Station Additional Per-Program Services
Television
WETA will provide production oversight, packaging and/or presentation services for as many as 13 additional Crossroads productions either fully or partially funded by CPB. The funds in this contract ...
Crossroads Entry Station Packaging and Presentation
Television
WETA will coordinate and support the development of 14 programs created through the Crossroads initiative and handle the packaging, promotion, and broadcast of eight hours of programming to air as a ...
Democracy in the Land of the Pharaohs? (formerly The Arab Democrats)
Television
This program is envisaged as a two-hour documentary about the struggles to establish democracy in the Middle East, which is a primary goal of American foreign policy since 9/11. There has been a ...
Dissonance & Harmony (aka Arabic Music in America)
Television
A group of top Arab singers visits the United States for the first time under the direction of Miles Copeland, who has managed internationally acclaimed performers Sting, The Police, The Moody Blues, ...
Europe's 9/11 (formerly Spain's 9/11)
Television
This film is a one-hour investigative documentary focusing on the train bombing in Madrid, its impact on the Spanish election, the investigation that followed, and a scarcely reported second bomb ...
Every Voice and Sing
Radio
This program is a series of five one-hour documentaries that trace the founding of the historically black colleges and universities and their choral music. The choral music tradition is still a ...
Hearing Voices
Radio
Some of public radio's top producers weave first person narratives from everyday people into sound-portraits for established national programs. Their stories document an America not so much divided ...
Hidden Kitchens 2
Radio
NASCAR cooking in the racing pits, the George Foreman grill as a street kitchen for homeless people, freighter food on Lake Erie -- this series presents sound, rich, evocative radio stories exploring ...
Homegrown: Religion in U.S. Prisons
Television
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced the indictment of several members of a radical Islamist group who planned attacks on California military installations and synagogues. Members of the ...
In Performance at the White House: The Dance Theatre of Harlem with Aretha Franklin
Television
A one-hour program for the In Performance at the White House series to celebrate the 37-year history of the Dance Theatre of Harlem with special guest Aretha Franklin, set against the splendor of a ...
Indonesia: Battleground for the Soul of Islam
Television
Many Americans may not know that Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation. In fact, more Muslims reside in Indonesia than in all Arab countries combined. It is also a fledgling democracy. ...
Inside the American Empire with Robert Kaplan
Television
The war on terror is taking place in countries far from Afghanistan and Iraq and outside of the coverage of most reporters. Author and Atlantic Monthly correspondent Robert Kaplan says the U.S. ...
Islam vs. Islamists (formerly Ideology of Terror)
Television
Islam vs. Islamist is a one-hour film about the war within the Muslim world. The documentary shows how moderate Muslims around the world are voicing their objections to the teachings of radical Islam ...
Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures
Television
A prime-time series of four approximately 60-minute programs featuring a "Cousteau for the 21st Century." The HDTV series explores marine ecology using a team of scientists, divers, filmmakers, and ...
Jihad: The Untold Story of Islamist Terrorism
Television
Jihad is a definitive television history of Islamist terrorism. The filmmakers examine the history and nature of this movement by focusing on radical Islam's relationship to violence and the social ...
Katrina Webcast
Web
This project combines community access, outreach, and a native filmmaker's take on post-Katrina New Orleans as it transitions from a city underwater to a city reborn. The five-minute films will be ...
Lightning Out of Lebanon Research and Development
Television
Grant to research and develop a show that provides viewers with an inside view of a Hezbollah cell in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Martha Speaks
Television
A series targeted at 3- to 6-year-olds, with the primary educational goal of bolstering children's vocabulary development -- one of five key elements of reading success and one of the areas where the ...
Memorial Day and Capitol Fourth Concerts
Television
Funding for the National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth Concert on the Capitol grounds and the Mall.
Musicians In Their Own Words
Radio
The Musicians in Their Own Words project features a diverse range of performers -- classical, jazz, and beyond -- in intimate, first-person stories. The project aims to enrich listeners' experience ...
Native America Calling and National Native News
Radio
This project will continue development of Native America Calling and National Native News in order to increase public radio's importance to minority audiences. Grant support from CPB in 2004 allowed ...
Noticiero Latino
Radio
This project will support the continued operations and expansion of Noticiero Latino, the only national news and information service in the United States providing Spanish-speaking listeners with ...
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Television
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience will bring to the screen the writings of American troops who have served the nation on the frontlines in Iraq and Afghanistan. The writings -- ...
StoryCorps
Radio
This grant will support continuation of StoryCorps, the revolutionary public radio initiative to instruct and inspire Americans to record one another's stories in sound. Edited excerpts from these ...
StoryCorps Griot
Radio
The StoryCorps African American Initiative will construct and launch a mobile recording booth that will travel the country for one year to capture the voices, experiences, and life stories of African ...
Super Why!
Television
A series that will help teach and reinforce early literacy skills for preschoolers, with educational goals that include recognition of letters and of the sounds and symbols of words. The series ...
Texas Ranch House
Television
Eight one-hour episodes that send 17 modern-day people back to 1855. Over a four-month period, these people follow in the footsteps of the visionary, trailblazing ranchers who along with their ...
The Case for War
Television
This is a one-hour documentary in which Richard Perle argues the case for pre-emptive war against terror. The film provides background on the controversial "neo-con" and allows him to develop his ...
The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Television
Funding for the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor which recognizes an individual who creates humor from his or her uniquely American experience.
Funding in 2006 provided advanced funding ...
The Muslim Brotherhood
Television
Newsweek investigative reporters Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball expose the Muslim Brotherhood -- the secret society that spawned modern Islamic terrorist groups from al Qaeda to Abu Sayeff.
The Muslim Brotherhood Research and Development
Television
An America at a Crossroads Research and Development project investigating the Muslim Brotherhood, a secret society that spawned modern Islamic terrorist groups from Al Qaeda to Abu Sayeff.
The NewsHour Special Coverage of Election 2006
Television
Special coverage of the run-up to the 2006 midterm elections comprising eight mini-documentaries, reported by the program's senior correspondents from different regions of the country, a one-hour ...
The Powder and the Glory: Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein: American Rivalry, American Dream
Television
A 60-minute documentary on Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, whose 50-year rivalry in the cosmetics business is a great American story that encompasses immigration, women's roles, reinvention ...
The Story of India
Television
A series hosted by Michael Wood uncovering the sights and sounds, the dazzling achievements and the dramatic history of one of the world's oldest, richest, and most influential civilizations.
The Transatlantic Paradox
Television
This documentary examines the history of anti- Americanism in Europe, and the way European attitudes toward the United States have been affected by the war on terror. The filmmakers compare popular ...
The Trouble with Islam
Television
This 60-minute film is loosely based on the best-selling book, The Trouble with Islam. The film features author Irshad Manji, an energetic and charismatic figure, who has concluded that the trouble ...
Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg "After Katrina"
Television
A two-part Think Tank special edition of 30-minute episodes concerning policy questions surrounding Hurricane Katrina and the storm's after-effects, and how much authority the federal government has ...
This Far By Faith
Television
Completion funding for a 1998 Program Challenge Fund project, six-hour stories on the American religious experience.
To Market, To Market
Television
A one-hour program celebrating the great old marketplaces around the country, where farmers and families have been selling fresh produce, prepared foods, and exotic specialties for generations. ...
Uncrowned Queens: Profiles of African American Women
Radio
Uncrowned Queens is a program that gives voice to women of color. The program will start locally in Buffalo, then WNED will provide a program template, and local stations will produce their own ...