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EDITORS' PICKS

  • Pure Pete Seeger
    In these clips from interviews with Bill Moyers, Seeger discusses dissent, environmentalism and his hope for a better world.
  • Maya Angelou on Facing Evil
    In this second of two programs celebrating the life and work of the late writer, Bill Moyers revisits a 1988 conference on evil.
  • Keeping Faith in Democracy
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson talks to Bill about what the title character of her new book Lila, says about the state of democracy in America.
  • Arts & Culture
    Filmmaker David Puttnam (Part One)
    September 12, 1988 | A World of Ideas
    A conversation with the filmmaker behind The Killing Fields, The Mission and Chariots of Fire explains how he sees American movies as the reflection of a nation at odds with itself.
  • Ep. 5: The Power of Myth - 'Love and the Goddess'
    June 25, 1988 | Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth
    Joseph Campbell traces the beginning of love, as we think of it today, to twelfth-century troubadours.
  • Ep. 4: The Power of Myth - 'Sacrifice and Bliss'
    June 24, 1988 | Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth
    Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell discuss where heroism can be witnessed in modern society.
  • Ep. 3: The Power of Myth -- 'The First Storytellers'
    June 23, 1988 | Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth
    Joseph Campbell explains how ancient myths bring humans to understand and accept birth, growth and death.
  • Ep. 2: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth -- 'The Message of the Myth'
    June 22, 1988 | Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth
    In this episode of The Power of Myth Bill and mythologist Joseph Campbell compare creation myths from the Bible and elsewhere.
  • Ep. 1: The Power of Myth - 'The Hero’s Adventure'
    June 21, 1988 | Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth
    Joseph Campbell encourages the audience to discover what excites them, and to make that the basis for their personal journeys.
  • Faith & Reason
    Facing Evil with Bill Moyers
    March 28, 1988 | Facing Evil
    Maya Angelou, Philip Hallie, Raul Hilberg, Sam Proctor and Al Huang -- on the forces of evil and goodness.
  • Society
    Bill Moyers Essay: The Nutcracker and the Loss of Childhood
    December 28, 1984 | Bill Moyers Commentaries
    Bill Moyers reflects on The Nutcracker's power of enchantment, and laments society's blurring of the lines between childhood and adulthood.
  • The Second American Revolution (Part One)
    April 18, 1984
    Bill Moyers is joined by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee who re-create the world of 20th-century black America. This episode covers 1900 to 1920.
  • Come to the Fairs
    April 4, 1984 | A Walk Through the 20th Century
    From the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 to the 1982 celebration in Knoxville, a look at the ways these global festivities have reflected America’s changing views about the future.


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