Divers and snorkelers can tour six shipwrecks on the Maritime Heritage Trail in Biscayne National Park. In 1905, a steamer named Alicia ran aground on Long Reef. Alicia's cargo was valued at well over one million dollars. It included such fine items…
Separated by 1500 miles from the nearest large land mass, Guam saw the first human migrants 3500 or more years ago. These colonists participated in the longest over-water migration in human history up to that point and became the native Chamorros of Guam…
Bristol, UK, a city more than 1000 years old, was bombed six times during World War II. Bombing in the night of 24 November 1940 destroyed the city center. A combination of oral history and archival footage captures the meaning of a city transformed through conflict…
Filmed on location at Pyramid Lake, Nevada, Northern Paiute Elder Ralph Burns tells the traditional story of Stone Mother, a tufa rock formation on the east side of the lake, first in Paiute and then in English. This is a restricted sacred site; filming was done with the permission of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe…
Visitors to the Maritime Historic Trail are invited to explore a series of shipwrecks in the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay National Park in southeastern Florida. The waters of Biscayne National Park now safeguard the ghosts of over 400 years of maritime traffic…
Legendary in the ancient world for their wealth, spirituality, and the exceptional freedoms for women, the Etruscan civilization has been shrouded in mystery. The early Mediterranean dynasty of Etruria flourished for a thousand years and vanished, leaving beguiling art and artifacts…
The Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation, headquartered in Ramallah, Palestine, for more than two decades has used architecture to restore more than 100 historic sites in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Riwaq sees architectural restoration as a social and economic incubator…
The Chinle Valley Singers are a Navajo family group who believe strongly in preserving tradition through sharing their rich Navajo tradition in story-telling and in songs and dances which they have adapted from ceremonial contexts for use in Navajo social and entertainment contexts…
This film features the life of Lacey V. Murrow, who was the Director of Highways for the State of Washington from 1933 to 1940. The brother of broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, Lacey Murrow is best known for his accomplishment of building the historic Lake Washington Floating Bridge…
Archaeology student Rebecca Kellawan journeys to uncover the use of a crumbling and abandoned World War II American military complex on the grounds of a Victorian estate. While awaiting archival documents, the subject and filmmaker turn to the local population to find answers in memory…