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Destination America - 4 hours "David Grubin's richly textured four-hour PBS documentary on immigration takes in, among many others, migrant workers from south of the border; modern dancers from Taiwan; and women who flee second-class citizenship or servitude in Guatemala, the Middle East, and even Italy. This is the sort of television that puts faces on stats, but it's also almost elegiac: These are the doors we are bolting behind us." New York Magazine RFK - 2 hours "Grubin and his editors arrange their material delicately and poetically...one gains a rare sense of a man's personal evolution from politician to statesman." The Star Ledger "Vibrates with emotional truth." The New York Sun "RFK provides a moment to ponder where this country has been and what it has become." The Columbus Dispatch KOFI ANNAN: CENTER OF THE STORM - 1.5 hours "Compelling..." TV Review "Beautifully Crafted..." Houston Chronicle "Fascinating..." Boston Herald YOUNG DR. FREUD - 2 hours "Top drawer filmmaking. A remarkable primer on a brilliant mind." Toronto Globe and Mail
"Here is television that can change your view of the world." Orlando Sentinel
"Smart...well-edited...cleverly filmed..." New York Times AMERICA: 1900 THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - 3 hours "Genealogy at a national level...television at its best." Associated Press "Deeply researched and beautifully edited." The Dallas Morning News "What a year, what a show. History is the story that PBS tells best, and the creamiest of its social historians is 'The American Experience,' whose chronicling of the United States is consistently as rich, deep, and captivating as anything on television...David Grubin's 'America 1900'...is dazzling." The Los Angeles Times "The historical documentary has never been better." The San Francisco Chronicle "It's difficult to imagine any other millennial documentaries being better than 'America 1900'...a mesmerizing look at the way we were that last time a new century dawned." Sacramento Bee "Wholly absorbing." New York Magazine "Wise and lively." The Chicago Tribune "What Grubin has done...is paint a portrait of America's contradictory impulses." Newsday "Overflowing with rich black-and-white film and photographs, creating what feels like a total immersion in the period." The New York Times TRUMAN THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - 4 1/2 hours "Penetrating portrait of the 33rd president...likely to bring PBS and David Grubin many awards." The Wall Street Journal "David Grubin was competing with himself." The New York Times "Superb...Grubin does a marvelous job of mixing the personal and the epic, the humorous and the painful." Orlando Sentinel "Has a flesh-and-blood feel to it." Newsday "Terrific." Kansas City Star "Riveting...incredibly moving." The Oregonian "Splendid." Boston Globe "Extraordinary...marvelously intimate and unfailingly absorbing. This is the form at its most accomplished and distinguished." USA Today "Thoroughly researched and totally engrossing." Chicago Sun-Times "Striking and imaginative." Atlanta Constitution "Superb." Newark Star Ledger "Unusually compelling." San Francisco-Chronicle TR: THE STORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - 4 hours "Brilliant." Houston Chronicle "The great achievement of TR is the grace and even the poetry of the filmmaking...Grubin has fashioned a work of nonfiction art that simply must be seen." New York Daily News "It is a magnificent portrait that should easily rank as four of the most entertaining hours - commercial or non-commercial - on television this season." Newsday "The man and his times come vividly to light." Los Angeles Times "A bully look at Teddy." San Francisco Examiner "David Grubin, who did similarly excellent work on Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, seems to have swallowed Roosevelt whole, digested him, and now comes to tell us what really mattered about the man." Atlanta Journal & Constitution "Bully...rousing entertainment." Denver Rocky Mountain News "Artful and deeply moving." Oregonian "If TR were a book, the initials would stand for 'terrific read.' Dig in." USA Today "A television biography of remarkable depth." Wall Street Journal "TR documentary is engrossing and timely." The Seattle Times "A probing and perceptive portrait." Hollywood Reporter "Superb." San Francisco Chronicle "Splendid, delightful, bully." George F. Will FDR
THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - 4 and 1/2 hours "Grubin has the eye of a poet and the ear of a musician...a passionate, unblinking, evocative and surprisingly melancholy film." Daily News "Unrivaled both in its frankness and depth...an impeccable, often startlingly vivid portrait of the political career of the century." Wall Street Journal "With its passion for the telling anecdote that illuminates the whole...FDR is an enduring achievement, making known the life not only of a man but of a generation." Hollywood Reporter "Nothing short of stunning." Daily Variety "A beautiful piece of work, nearly flawless." New York Post "A fascinating, meaningful rendering of history...an irresistible narrative." Los Angeles Times "Grubin's fluent filmmaking tells the story with verve and...immediacy." American Heritage "Intimate and dramatic, reverent of its subject's place in history yet critical of his political and personal flaws...FDR is another masterful documentary film by David Grubin." USA Today "Deeply moving." The New York Times "An exhilarating flashback." Associated Press "Compelling...revealing." The Boston Herald "Fascinating." Columbus Dispatch LBJ
THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - 4 hours "A triumph, unblinking but evenhanded, fascinating from first reel to last." American Heritage "Grubin demonstrates the mastery of the television documentary...he manages to quickly, deftly, pungently get at the political style of a formidable practitioner...it is a powerful story, powerfully rendered." The New York Times "LBJ made riveting television. It was as if someone had taken a can-opener to memories long buried. I had forgotten what an interesting and complex man LBJ was. Hindsight had compressed him into a dark shadow between Kennedy and Nixon, turned him into a monster caricatured by the slogan 'Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids you kill today.' Mr. Grubin's film restored the man to life, showed him at his insecure, idealistic, energetic best, and traced the tragedy which engulfed his administration and traumatized his country." London Observer "Visually arresting, beautifully written, and ever-engrossing, it may be the best program on public television this season. Or anywhere else for that matter." Dallas Morning News "Documentary television at its best. A superb evocation of a troubling past." Washington Post "Masterful...an oral and visual storytelling feast, vigorously re-imagining a seminal, larger-than-life personality." USA Today "Grubin captures Johnson's Sophoclean rise and fall masterfully. One watches on the edge of the seat." Boston Globe "LBJ is historical filmmaking at its deepest and classiest, a full, warm-blooded, ten-gallon sized portrait." Los Angeles Times "A model screen biography." London Times "The best straight documentary of the year." New York Newsday "A protagonist of Shakespearean proportions." Los Angeles Daily News "Ranks up there with PBS's finest - "Eyes on the Prize" and "The Civil War" - it's equal parts storytelling, filmmaking, and scholarly research." Houston Chronicle "A stunning biography...superb television, not to be missed." Newark Star Ledger "Gives us an LBJ of Shakespearean complexity." Chicago Tribune "The finest documentary to come along since last season's gem "The Civil War." It is thoughtful, incisive, and enormously entertaining...a television program of remarkable substance and depth, a breathtaking, beautifully produced film that is more than one man's political biography. It is also a historical journey, a fascinating look at a colorful, distinctly American man whose greatness was our greatness and whose tragedy became our tragedy." Austin-American Statesman "Superb...a compelling, provocative portrait of an audacious American original. Four stars." Detroit Free Press "A gem...Grubin's research is balanced and thorough, capturing not only the events but the emotions behind them...LBJ is fascinating, thought-provoking TV." Variety "Brilliant biography of a tragic hero...it is more than history. It is a fascinating story of a life as rich and colorful as fiction...LBJ is a gorgeous piece of cinema." Associated Press "A rich chronicle of Lyndon Johnson's career and, what may be more important, of his times...a stirring ride." Wall Street Journal "When they rewrite the history books, they should use David Grubin's LBJ as a guide...this is a documentary that will be hard to top." Hollywood Reporter DEGENERATE ART - 1 hour
"Extraordinary TV. The documentary itself is a work of art." Daily Variety "A startling, enthralling film." Entertainment Weekly "Compelling. Hauntingly depicted." Associated Press "A film of indisputable power." Wall Street Journal "Bitingly smart." New York Magazine "Thorough, moving...a potent, timely reminder." Los Angeles Times "An evocative documentary that brings back the poisonous spirit of the times." The New York Times "A rich and engrossing art-history lesson and a modern morality tale." Philadelphia Times THE WYETHS: A Father And His Family
Smithsonian World
"A spare film that glows with the unadorned glory of truth and simplicity...destined to become a classic." Christian Science Monitor "Rich, layered, and fairly bursting with life." The New York Times AMERICAN DREAM AT GROTON Smithsonian World "An absorbing study." TV Guide "A thinking viewer's glimpse of a famed American institution trying to change with the times." LA Daily News THE WAY WE WEAR Smithsonian World Critics' Choice Time Magazine "Refreshingly treats fashion as a serious field of investigation." The New York Times ZOO Smithsonian World "Engaging special." Daily News THE LIVING SMITHSONIAN Smithsonian World THE PROMISE OF THE LAND Smithsonian World THE GREAT AIR RACE OF 1924 The American Experience "This is a great yarn, rivaling the fictional exploits of Indiana Jones." Chicago Sun Times "Real and involving, the way television journalism should be. It is wonderful viewing, an exciting way to look at history." Newark Star Ledger "A rousing chronicle, of the first serial circumnavigation of the globe." TV Guide "A slice of America's past brought vividly to life." Daily News THE POWER OF THE PAST: FLORENCE "90 glorious minutes." Daily News "Part inspiring history lesson, part lift-your-spirits travelogue." Miami Herald "This special makes [Michelangelo's] David and the dome as visceral a part of daily life as a Martin Scorsese movie." Boston Globe "An exquisite wrapping of magnificent art, insightful recollections and the rich, appreciative faces of Florentine people of today." Variety HEALING AND THE MIND with BILL MOYERS "Grubin is perhaps television's finest documentarian." Star-Ledger "Fascinating, thought-provoking television." Washington Post "An example of...TV that contributes to life, rather than isolating us from it." San Francisco Chronicle "Absorbing, surprising and moving...an important, stimulating series." Variety "An extremely provocative show...well researched and more than a little bit thought-provoking." L.A. Life "A compelling, heartening journey into the uncharted territory where body and mind are one." Chicago Sun-Times "Uniquely succeeds...in redefining medicine and treatment in such a way that science becomes meaningful and understandable...Watching makes you feel healthier." Los Angeles Times BILL T. JONES: STILL/HERE with Bill Moyers "It's an extraordinary peek into the creative process...a brand new way to navigate from the dancer to the dance." Miami Herald "Riveting. Revelatory. Amazing." Daily News "Invaluable." The New York Times "An exhilarating view of life in the deep shadow of death." Hollywood Reporter "Engrossing. The film...brilliantly shines a light on people struggling with life's most fundamental mystery: mortality." Los Angeles Times "Award-winning producer David Grubin molded 116 hours of material into a powerful one-hour film. It'll give you goose bumps." Orange County Register "A fascinating look at the process of creating." USA Today "An extraordinary artistic adventure." Westchester Gannett Newspapers "It'll give you chill bumps. And it will give you something to remember." Newark Star-Ledger THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE with BILL MOYERS Welcome To The Mainland Love's Confusing Joy The Field Of Time Some Can Sing Here In The Mind Swirl Like A Leaf The Heart Of Things Come Celebrate With Me "Amazing." CBS Sunday Morning "The poetic sensibility come alive on TV." USA Today "Soul-stirring." Variety "Language - real language - is having a come-to-meeting, hand-clapping revival." The New York Times "The series itself...is pure poetry, a beautifully woven tapestry of spoken words and pictures. It's not easy keeping poetry readings alive visually without going crazy with visual gimmicks. But Grubin does it." New York Newsday THE POWER OF THE WORD with Bill Moyers The Simple Acts of Life The Living Language Ancestral Voices Voices of Memory Dancing on the Edge of the Road Where the Soul Lives "One of the most enthralling, exciting - and yes, even sexy - hours I've seen in a long time." Daily News "Pierces the veneer of the seemingly arcane and serves up a feast that is delicious." Christian Science Monitor "Exciting and fresh." Newark Star Ledger A LIFE TOGETHER: Donald Hall And Jane Kenyon CREATIVITY with BILL MOYERS "Some of the warmest, most incisive profiles ever seen on the tube." United Press International "T.V. journalism at its best." Associated Press A Portrait of Maya Angelou "A lustrous premiere." Los Angeles Times Samson Raphaelson "A finely etched portrait of a talented, honorable, self-examining man." Village Voice The Inventors The Olympics of the Mind Garbage: Another Way of Seeing A WALK THROUGH THE 20TH CENTURY with BILL MOYERS "An admirable and sophisticated series." The New York Times Marshall, Texas, Marshall, Texas "I'd be surprised if there were a more interesting documentary on public television this season, or one filled with more vivid and compelling human history." American Heritage The Arming of the Earth "The finest anti-war program we have ever seen." Daily News The Reel World of News "A first-rate segment in a first-rate series." The New York Times World War II: The Propaganda Battle The Imagemakers The 30 Second President BILL MOYERS JOURNAL The World of David Rockefeller The Other Dissident: Georgi Vins See How They Run Harvest Bullish on America FROM D-DAY TO THE RHINE with BILL MOYERS "Emotional, educational, inspiring, and entertaining." Philadelphia Inquirer FACING EVIL with BILL MOYERS "Full of exhilaration. An absolute triumph." The New York Times "For 90 minutes, one is constrained to feel, to leak embarrassed tears, to laugh, to wonder." Village Voice "It is tremendously uplifting. Like a great sermon, it may fill your eyes with cathartic tears." Minneapolis Star Tribune CAMBODIA CBS CLAUDE LANZMAN on SHOAH WNET DOGFIGHT OVER NEW YORK WGBH THE COLORS OF HOPE Amnesty International "Bright and effective." NY Post "Simple and elegant." WKCR |
