Bill Moyers
2021
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Edith Becker, Kevin Burns
Robert Clotworthy, Jim Bloom
From the earliest versions of the script to the blockbuster debuts, explore the creation of the Star Wars Trilogy.
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Anyplace but Here
Maurice Murad
Bill Moyers
A documentary part of CBS reports. The plight of mental patients fit for discharge, but who find themselves thrust into communities unprepared to treat or accept them is the focus of this documentary narrated by Bill Moyers. The dilemma of being as scared of getting well as of remaining ill and facing a world with no home or job to go to is vividly portrayed as the film follows three patients as they move into rare transition programs.
Anyplace but here
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
Noam Chomsky, Mark Achbar
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Buying the War
Bill Moyers
In 2003, the United States pre-emptively attacked Iraq in a war that would last for eight years claiming an estimated 189,000 lives, costing over $2 trillion and causing untold economic and emotional devastation for the Iraqi people. In this 2007 documentary that originally aired on Bill Moyers Journal, Moyers investigates big media’s role as cheerleader in the clamor for war in the months preceding the March 19, 2003 invasion. How did the mainstream press get it so wrong in the run-up to the Iraq War?
Buying the War
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis
Bill Moyers
In the revealing 24 minutes of the PBS video documentary The Secret Government available for free viewing below, host Bill Moyers exposes the inner workings of a secret government much more vast that most people would ever imagine. Though originally broadcast in 1987, it is even more relevant today. Interviews with respected top military, intelligence, and government insiders reveal both the history and secret objectives of powerful groups in the hidden shadows of our government.
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis
Bill T. Jones: Still/Here
David Grubin
Bill T. Jones, Lawrence Goldhuber
Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones’s highly acclaimed dance Still/Here. At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths. They then transform their feelings into expressive movement, which Jones incorporates into the dance performed later in the program. For this documentary, Jones demonstrates the movements of his own life story: his first encounter with white people, confusion over his sexuality, his partner Arnie Zane’s untimely death from AIDS, and Jones’s own HIV-positive status.
Bill T. Jones: Still/Here
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Norman Lear, John Amos
Arguably the most influential creator, writer, and producer in the history of television, Norman Lear brought primetime into step with the times. Using comedy and indelible characters, his legendary 1970s shows such as All In the Family, Maude, Good Times, and The Jeffersons, boldly cracked open dialogue and shifted the national consciousness, injecting enlightened humanism into sociopolitical debates on race, class, creed, and feminism.
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
Janet Roach
Bill Moyers, John Huston
Bill Moyers interviews film director and actor John Huston who discusses his career and the process of filmmaking. Includes a documentary segment on Huston's life, excerpts from some of his films, and an the on-set production of his latest film.
Creativity with Bill Moyers: John Huston
