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At the end of World War II, undercover agents from the US and the Soviet Union engaged in a desperate race against one another to capture Hitler’s elite scientists and cutting edge technology. In an effort to gain a major advantage in the looming Cold War, they sought rockets, planes, nuclear bombs and the masterminds behind them. Now you can join the chase by watching the full episode of Secrets of the Dead: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists.
On May 19, 1935, British soldier T.E. Lawrence, known to the world as “Lawrence of Arabia,” died in England, six days after being injured in a motorcycle crash. Read more about Lawrence on the site of a PBS doc from 2003:
On May 15, 1937, Madeleine Albright, America’s highest-ranking woman in government and first female secretary of state, was born Maria Jana Korbelova in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Now a professor at the …
Thirteen is offering one of it’s programs captioned for the hearing impaired… online! The film Rolling produced for public television with Thirteen is now offering the full film online with captions and other accessible media features.
This 2-hour program, produced by David Brashears, traces the steps of the ill-fated 1996 Everest expeditions, in which 5 climbers died. Brashears takes a ‘Rashomon’-esque approach to the retelling of the tale, interviewing most of the survivors of the expeditions. See Frontline:
Five thousand years ago the Minoans, Europe’s first great civilization, flourished on the island of Crete. Yet in their heyday, they mysteriously disappeared. “Sinking Atlantis” digs deep into the Minoan soil and history, following archaeologists who are finding evidence of a massive tsunami that devastated the Minoans – and may have spawned the myth of Atlantis.
WLIW New York’s acclaimed Visions series makes an aerial pilgrimage to Israel, the world’s only Jewish state – home to approximately 7.2 million and the Holy Land of the three …
“A Walk to Beautiful” tells the stories of rural women who make their way to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, seeking treatment for obstetric fistula, a life-shattering complication of childbirth that was once common in the pre-industrial United States but that is now relegated to the poorest regions of the world.
All May, Thirteen is running special Asian programming for Asian Pacific Heritage month, telling stories from the entire Pacific Rim, from east to west, the islands of Fiji to expatriates in the U.S., stories from as far as India to as near as New York. See listings:











