Shows

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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.
  • Crossroads with Charles Kuralt and Bill Moyers

    Bill Moyers and Charles Kuralt co-anchored this CBS-TV weekly news-magazine program also known as “The American Parade.” (1984) Continue reading

  • Earth on Edge

    This two-hour documentary provides a close look at five ecosystems around the world, and how human activity has changed them, as well as laying out the kind of behavioral changes that may restore them. But the time for change is running out. (2001)
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  • Election ’88

    In this three-part series, Bill Moyers takes a look at the 1988 presidential contest between Vice President George Bush and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. (1988) Continue reading

  • Facing Evil

    A conference on “Facing Evil” offers intimate testimonies of eloquent men and women — including Maya Angelou, Philip Hallie, Raul Hilberg, Sam Proctor, and Al Huang — as they discuss the force of evil and the discovery that exploring evil leads to revelations about goodness. (1988) Continue reading

  • Facing Hate with Elie Wiesel

    Nobel Laureate and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel talks with Bill about the sources of hate and his own reluctance to engage withl it. (1991)
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  • Facing the Truth

    This compelling program describes the efforts of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of South Africa as it investigate humans rights violations in an effort to heal the country and being its process of reinvention. (1999) Continue reading

  • Faith and Reason

    In seven hour-long episodes, Bill Moyers takes viewers on a rare journey deep into a writers work. Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Martin Amis and other draw on their own experience to explore new ways of thinking about the role of religion in shaping our world.  (2006) Continue reading

  • Families First

    Bill Moyers explores how the human services system in America is working to help families stay together. (1992) Continue reading

  • Fooling with Words

    A visit to the Dodge Poetry Festival, featuring readings by US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, Amiri Baraka, Stanley Kunitz, Coleman Barks, Lucille Clifton, Lorna Dee Cervantes and other leading poets. (1999) Continue reading

  • Free Speech for Sale

    Bill Moyers and key legal and public interest advocates examine how industries with deep pockets use their access to the media to overwhelm the public debate, from North Carolina’s hog industry to the defeat of the McCain Tobacco Bill to the passage of the Telecom Act of 1996. (1999) Continue reading

  • From D-Day to the Rhine

    In 1990, eight World War II veterans retrace their steps on the battlefields of their youth, from Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally the Rhine. (1990)
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  • Frontline

    Bill Moyers and Frontline have been coproducing hard-hitting documentaries since 1990s. Investigative pieces delve into the Iran-Contra scandal, campaign finance, toxic environmental threats to our children and the struggling middle class. (1983-present) Continue reading