NOW
A weekly show including documentary reporting, in-depth one-on-one interviews and articulate commentary from a wide variety of media-makers and those behind the headlines. The series shed light on a wide range of issues confronting the nation, including the Enron scandal, corporate tax havens, conflict in the Middle East, and the Wars on Terror and Iraq. NOW also explored American culture through interviews with major authors, religious leaders, and artists. Bill Moyers, one of America’s foremost journalists, added his voice to insightful documentary reporting, breaking news analysis, and articulate commentary. Essential viewing for the engaged citizen, NOW viewers are informed and challenged by the series, which provides insight into the important issues facing the nation and the globe. Each week, NOW provided viewers with the necessary context to explore their relationship to larger issues and to make sense out of the events shaping our time. (2002-2004)
EXPLORE THE SERIES
August 23, 2002 | NOWThis episode features environmental insiders with the rug pulled out from under them, the varying lives of children around the world, Iraqi economic sanctions and changes afoot in Harlem.
The Earth Debate: A Special Roundtable From the UN Summit on Sustainable Development in JohannesburgAugust 30, 2002 | NOWPanelists discuss the state of the Earth, including population, poverty, hunger, health, energy, water and genetic diversity.
September 6, 2002The enormous potential disaster of a hurricane on New Orleans's weak protective barrier.
September 13, 2002 | NOWJust how far do we go in striking a balance between liberty and security?
September 20, 2002 | NOWThree years before Hurricane Katrina, this episode of NOW considers what would happen if New Orleans were struck by a massive hurricane. Bill Moyers also interviews author and activist Arundhati Roy.
October 4, 2002NOW's cameras travel with writer and insomniac Sherman Alexie as he navigates the streets of Seattle at night looking for inspiration.
October 11, 2002Bill talks to poet Naomi Shihab Nye about the comfort that can be found in poetry.
November 22, 2002 | NOWAs drug costs increase, are advertising agencies influencing the research behind your medication? And at one Mississippi high school, a former civil rights activist is using math to change his students' lives.
November 22, 2002 | NOWBill Moyers reflects on a new biography of the late great curmudgeon H. L. Mencken.
January 3, 2003 | Updated March 20, 2015 | NOWIf human history is replete with people committing atrocities against one another in the name of God, is our democracy strong enough to remedy these tendencies?
January 10, 2003 | Updated March 20, 2015 | NOWThis episode takes a look at the consequences of state budget cuts, and features interviews with republican strategist Grover Norquist and historian Howard Zinn.
January 17, 2003 | NOWNOW looks at the future of digital intellectual property, considers the ethics of the Estate Tax, and looks back at what prompted the Clear Air Act.
January 24, 2003 | NOWThe episode looked into the dangers of nuclear power plants, featured literary legend Doris Lessing and took a look at Gullah culture's contemporary challenges.
January 24, 2003 | Updated October 26, 2015In this wide-ranging 2003 interview with Bill, the Nobel-prize winning novelist Doris Lessing, who passed away Sunday, opens up about her fascinating life.
January 31, 2003 | NOWHow the US government convinces Americans – and other governments – that war is necessary, and considers a global warming bill in California.
