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Bill Moyers has produced hundreds of hours of television in his forty-plus year career. Watch this space for new archived video and transcripts on an on-going basis. For a complete list of every Bill Moyers program, view our timeline of productions.
  • The Man Who Beat the Blacklist: John Henry Faulk

    Studs Terkel and Bill Moyers mark the life of John Henry Faulk, the blacklisted Texas humorist who was a champion of the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights. (1990) Continue reading

  • The Language of Life

    The magic of the spoken word takes center stage in this exhilarating eight-part series that showcases contemporary poets and their work. Produced by David Grubin, 18 writers – including greats such as Robert Bly, Adrienne Rich, and Gary Snyder – read aloud before a live audience and join Bill Moyers in lively conversation. (1995) Continue reading

  • The Home Front

    Bill Moyers examines the domestic problems of recession, unemployment, drugs, violence, the AIDS epidemic and urban decay that plagued the United States at the same time that the nation was focused on the Persian Gulf War. (1991)
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  • The Great Health Care Debate

    Bill Moyers investigates the role of public relations, advertising and lobbying in shaping the health care debate — raising important questions about how democracy works. (1994) Continue reading

  • The Arab World

    Bill Moyers investigates the cultural, historical and political heritage of the Arab world in five half-hour conversations with leading writers, thinkers and experts. (1991) Continue reading

  • Surviving the Good Times

    Filmed over the course of two decades, Surviving the Good Times tell the dramatic story of two blue-collar Milwaukee families, the Neumanns and Stanleys, as they struggle to find their place in the new economy. Living from paycheck to paycheck through good times and bad, the families confront choices that have far-reaching consequences for the American way of life. (2000) Continue reading

  • Sports for Sale

    Bill Moyers examines big-money sports on college campuses and how university athletics and academic studies appear to be flat-out incompatible. (1991) Continue reading

  • Spirit & Nature

    At a Vermont conference, voices from the world’s major religions– including The Dalai Lama, Sallie McFague, Audrey Shenandoah, Ismar Schorsch, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and Ronald Engle — address our responsibilities to the environment. (1991) Continue reading

  • Sounds of Poetry

    In this series of nine half-hour programs, Bill Moyers features poets from the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in performance and conversation. (1999) Continue reading

  • Solutions to Violence

    This four-part documentary series explores violence by and against young people, focusing on how different communities are working together to keep their children safe. (1995) Continue reading

  • Six Great Ideas with Bill Moyers and Mortimer Adler

    A compelling assertion – “philosophy is everybody’s business” – opens the exploration of Western Civilization’s greatest ideas, as Mortimer J. Adler, leads an exploration with journalist Bill Moyers of truth, beauty, goodness, liberty, equality and justice, in this six-part series. (1982) Continue reading

  • Pure Pete Seeger

    The wit, wisdom, and song of one of America’s best-known bards comes to life in this program, which offers a rousing musical portrait of the beloved and often controversial folk singer, songwriter, storyteller and activist Pete Seeger. (1994) Continue reading