Road to Civil War (2008-2009) The Road to Civil War is a proposed two-part series that traces the descent of the United States into Civil War between 1789 and 1861. The programs will present a panoramic look at the politicians and ordinary people, slave owners and African Americans, men and women, southern radicals and northern abolitionists who played major and minor roles in the shipwreck of the Union. Rethinking Cancer (2007-2008) Rethinking Cancer tells the remarkable stories of five men and women who had serious and terminal diseases, and who successfully turned to alternative, non-toxic biological means to treat and cure their illness. Delta Dreams (2007-2008) Delta Dreams is an Emmy nominated documentary that tells the story of the dying town of Helena Arkansas and its efforts to overcome its deeply troubled racial past, economic decline, and massive poverty in order to restore itself to health and vitality. The program also received top honors in the news and public affairs category of the national competition of the National Educational Telecommunications Association. Road to Removal (2006-2007) Road to Removal is an educational program that tells of the successful migration of the Cherokees into Arkansas after the American Revolution. Whites eventually forced them, to abandon the state and settle in Oklahoma- an event that served as a prelude to the “Trail of Tears,” the infamous removal of the Cherokee from their homelands east of the Mississippi. Hard Traveling (2007-2008) Hard Traveling tells the story of America’s hoboes, the army of drifting workers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century who provided much of the manual labor force on farms, in mines, logging camps, and other low paying jobs. The program will recreate their lives on the road, their subculture of poems and music, and their militant role in the I.W.W. union. Hubert's World (2006-2007) Hubert's World is a documentary film that examines the lives, hopes, and dreams of Hubert Bertrand, who, although mentally and physically disabled, struggles to find a job, love, and independence, in a world that all too often focuses on his handicaps, overlooks his abilities, and imposes unnecessary limitations on his life. Independence (2006-2008) Independence is a two-part PBS series, now in script development, that looks at the American Revolution from the perspective of Native Americans. As colonists struggled to win their independence from Great Britain, Native Americans fought to maintain their independence from colonial rule. This is the first NEH/PBS series to examine the American Revolution from this perspective. Scripting Lives in the Balance (2003-2007) Lives in the Balance is a three-part documentary film that follows a group of very bright, at-risk middle school children in Arkansas as they make their way through their middle school years, navigating the shoals of peer pressure and difficult family situations. The Man with Six Heads (2005-2008) The Man with Six Heads tells the story of Charles Maurice De Talleyrand Perigord, the great French diplomat whose extraordinary career bridged the transition from the reign of Louis XVI, through the French Revolution, to Napoleon and the beginning of the modern age. In research. The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (4 parts) (2002) The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow tells the dramatic story of the African American struggle for freedom against legal racial segregation, disfranchisement and lynching between 1865 to 1954. The series traces how blacks continued their quest for their full rights as citizens from the end of the Civil War to the dawn of the Civil Rights movement. Seven years in the making, the series has received national recognition including the Peabody Award and three Emmy nominations. The Elaine Riot: Tragedy and Triumph (2000) The Elaine Riot: Tragedy and Triumph is the story of a massacre of perhaps as many as two hundred black farmers in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 as they tried to organize a union and sue their white landlords for money rightly owed them. Twelve black farmers who were sentenced to death on the false charge of murder were saved and eventually released due to the efforts of Scipio Africanus Jones, a black lawyer in Arkansas working with the NAACP. Farmville: An American Story (1999) Farmville is a documentary in which former students narrate the story behind the famous student strike at the all-black Robert Russa Moton high school in Farmville, Virginia in 1951. The protest became one of the five cases that the United States Supreme Court reviewed in 1954 when it declared segregation in education unconstitutional. Lifers: Learn the Truth at the Expense of Our Sorrow (1991) Lifers: Learn the Truth at the Expense of Our Sorrow tells the story of men serving life terms in East Jersey State Prison trying to salvage, if not redeem, their own lives while helping young people in trouble stay out of jail. Fighting Ministers (1985) Fighting Ministers is the story of a group of main stream Lutheran and Episcopalian ministers in the Mon Valley region near Pittsburgh who, in trying to help the unemployed steelworkers and their families after the mills were shut down, found themselves becoming civil rights activists. Their militancy led to some being jailed and fired from their ministry. Joseph (1983) Joseph is the story of Joseph Sullivan, an autistic young man whose mother helped him overcome some of his difficulties through her dedication and courage. Dustin Hoffman was said to have modeled his character for The Rain Man on Joseph. Mount St. Helen/Searching For Dinosaur Bones (1982) Mount St. Helen was one of a series of three films made for the highly popular Channel Thirteen science series 3-2-1 Contact. The film showed how plant and animal life returned to the mountain after the devastating eruption of the volcano. Searching for Dinosaurs followed paleontologist Jack Horner in Montana as he searched for dinosaur embryos in the wilds of Montana. Growing Up in the Great Depression (1983) Growing Up in the Great Depression is a documentary that looks at the different childhood experiences of five people as they and their families struggled with the economic hardships of the Great Depression. The Other Side of Victory (1980) The Other Side of Victory is a dramatic film about a platoon of soldiers in the American Revolution who are faced with the question of remaining with the army or returning home at the end of the first grim year of the war. Bobby (1974) Bobby tells the story of a hyperactive 10 year-old-boy who is both a trial and a joy to his parents, who try to find ways to harness his sometimes destructive energy into constructive channels. Seasons Change (1968) Seasons Change captures the turbulent and terrible days of the Democratic Presidential Convention in Chicago in 1968, when the police unleashed a wave of terror against demonstrators. Toymakers (1967) Toymakers examines the lives of retarded children in a state institution, most of who have been abandoned by their families. The story focuses on a few children who are being prepared to leave the institution one day.