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Makers: Women in America is a three-hour special produced by Ark Media for PBS to air on Tuesday, February 26.

Over the last half-century, America has seen one of the most sweeping social revolutions in its history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy. It's a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, on grand stages like the Supreme Court and Congress, and humbler ones like the boardroom and the bedroom.

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THE ITALIAN AMERICANS (with Social Media Productions): The Italian Americans is a four-hour documentary series: the chronicle of four generations of Italian-American lives, from the massive late 19th century wave of immigration to the present day. This great sweep of history provides the backdrop for the stories of families, both ordinary and well-known: their departures and reunions, their struggles to stay connected to their homeland while making their way in America, their entry into labor, entertainment, politics, and war. The Italian Americans will tell stories of people both famous and ordinary. Their everyday struggles with family, work, identity, and belonging, mirror the experience of millions of immigrants, past and present. The film, distributed by WETA in Washington DC, is slated for prime-time national broadcast in 2014.

CANCER: Coming to PBS in spring 2014, “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.” Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, “Cancer” is a six-hour special on the past, present and future of our efforts to defeat this most feared disease.

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS: The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross is a six-part series scheduled for national, primetime broadcast on public television in the fall of 2013. It will be the first documentary film series to chronicle the full sweep of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent over four centuries of remarkable historic events right up to today–when America has a black President yet remains a nation deeply divided by race. Hosted by noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and drawing on some of America’s top historians and heretofore untapped primary sources, the series will guide viewers on an engaging journey across four hundred years and two continents to shed new light on the experience of being an African American.

The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross is a joint production of Kunhardt McGee Productions, WNET, and Inkwell Films in association with Ark Media.

 
 

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