Columbus and the Age of Discovery

Zvi Dor-Ner, Executive Producer

Seven one-hour programs

Program 1. Columbus's World

Program 2. An Idea Takes Shape

Program 3. The Crossing

Program 4. Worlds Found and Lost

Program 5. The Sword and the Cross

Program 6. The Columbian Exchange

Program 7. In Search of Columbus

Television premiere: 1991, PBS Three-hour special: "Columbus and the Age of Discovery: A Magnificent Voyage," October 11, 1992, PBS

Series Rebroadcast: Thursdays, October 15-November 26, 1992; PBS

Produced for PBS by WGBH/Boston in coproduction with the BBC/United Kingdom, SEQC and TVE/Spain, RAl/ltaly, RTP/Portugal, NHK/Japan, and NDR/Germany.

Funding provided by Xerox, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, George D. Smith Fund, National Endowment for the Humanities, Lowell Institute, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.

Scholarly advisors include: Juan Gil, University of Seville; Franklin W. Knight The Johns Hopkins University; William H. McNeill, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago; Mauricio Obregon, Colombian diplomat and author; and Consuelo Varela, University of Seville.

A 32-page Teacher's Guide is available.

Companion volume: Columbus and theAge of Discovery, by Zvi Dor-Ner with William Scheller. William Morrow, 1991. 372 pages, 224 color photographs, 96 b&w photos.

Educational video distribution: The WGBH Collection, (800) 828-WGBH.

The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World

Michael Gill, Executive Producer

Peggy Liss, Series Originator

Five one-hour programs

Program 1. The Virgin and the Bull

Program 2. Confllct of the Gods

Program 3. The Age of Gold

Program 4. The Price of Freedom

Program 5. Unfinished Business

Spanish and English versions

Television premiere: 1992, The Discovery Channel

Series rebroadcast October 11, 1992, The Discovery Channel, noon to 5 p.m.

Produced by Michael Gill of Malone-Gill Productions for Sogetel, S.A., in association with the Spanish Quincentenary Commission in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution.

Companion book: The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World, by Carlos Fuentes. Houghton Mifflin, 1992.

A Viewer's Guide, written by Peggy Liss, provides an overview of the content and objectives of the series, and includes key names and phrases, bibliography, etc.

Educational video distribution: Films Incorporated Video, Education Division, 5547 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, IL 60640-7300; (800) 323-4222, ext 43; fax (312) 878-2895.

Surviving Columbus

George Burdeau and Dale Kruzic, Executive Producers

Diane Reyna, Director

A two-hour special

Television premiere: October 12, 1992, PBS

A coproduction of KNME-TV/Albuquerque and the Institute of American Indian Arts and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development

Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Public Broadcasting Service, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium, Inc.

Scholarly advisors include: Tomas Atencio, University of New Mexico; Edmund J. Ladd, New Museum of Indian Arts and Culture; Alfonso Ortiz, University of New Mexico; and Rina Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo.

Americas

Judith Vecchione, Executive Producer

Ten one-hour programs; 13-part telecourse

Program 1. The Garden of Forking Paths

Program 2. Capital Sins

Program 3. Continent on the Move

Program 4. Mirrors of the Heart

Program 5. In Women's Hands

Program 6. Miracles Are Not Enough

Program 7. Builders of Images

Program 8. Get Up, Stand Up

Program 9. Fire in the Mind

Program 10. The Americans

Television premiere: January 1993, PBS

Produced for PBS by WGBH/Boston and Central Television Enterprises for Channel 4/United Kingdom, incooperation with Columbia University, Florida International University, and Tufts University.

Major funding provided by the Annenberg/ CPB Project with additional funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Public Broadcasting Service.

Academic Advisory Board: Chair: Alfred C. Stepan, Columbia University

Project Education Director: Mark Rosenberg, Florida International University

Project Academic Director: Peter Winn

Scholarly advisors include: Margaret Crahan, Occidental College; Maria Patricia Fernandez Kelly, The Johns Hopkins University; Albert Fishlow, University of Califomia, Berkeley; Cornelia Butler Flora, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Jean Franco, Columbia University; Franklin W. Knight The Johns Hopkins University; Marysa Navarro-Aranguren, Dartmouth College; Alejandro Portes, The Johns Hopkins University; Ruben Rumbaut San Diego State University, Helen Safa, University of Florida; Thomas Skidmore, Brown University; Peter H. Smith, University of California, San Diego; Kay Barbara Warren, Princeton University; and John Womack, Harvard University.

Accompanying publications: Americas (trade book), by Peter Winn, Pantheon Books, 1993; Americas: New inJerpretive Essays, edited by Alfred Stepan, Oxford University Press, 1992; Americas: An Anthology, edited by Mark Rosenberg, A. Douglas Kincaid, and Kathleen Logan, Oxford University Press, 1992; Modern Latin America (textbook), by Thomas Skidmore and Peter Smith, third edition, Oxford University Press, 1992; Americas Study Guide, Oxford University Press, 1992.

A 13-unit college-level television course on Latin America and the Caribbean will be distributed through CPB/Annenberg.