Documents a reunion of Iowa teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade class of 1970, subjects that year of an ABC News television documentary entitled "The eye of the storm". Shows how her experimental curriculum on the evils of discrimination had a lasting effect on the lives of the students. Includes scenes of her lesson being used in a prison setting.

Describes the Union disaster at Fredericksburg, Lee's victory at chancellorsville but with the loss of Stonewall Jackson, Grants Siege of Vicksburg.

Describes the Battle of Gettysburg, the fall of Vicksburg, the use of black troops, and the battles at Chickamauga and Chattanooga.

Follow an explosive trail through the ages, starting in ninth- century China, and continuing through the discovery of the atomic bomb in the twentieth century.

"Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we've gained? In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means...

Contemporary Americans and Britons spend five months on an isolated stretch of the Maine coast recreating the life of American colonists in the year 1628. The modern colonists struggle to create a functioning and profitable colony using only the tools and technology of that era. Extensive research went into recreating this 17th-century environment in which the colonists negotiate personal and communal challenges as they deal with the demoralizing...

Explores the mysteries of the human brain, including the processing of visual information and current research on time perception and synesthesia.

"Searching for paradise" delves into the history of California and its rich and diverse ecosystem that is isolated by desert and mountains. From its earliest settlers, the Chumash Indians to the recent mass migration of population, trace the rush to the Golden State and learn how the search for solutions to environmental problems in California exemplifies the progress and struggle of today's environmental movement.

Scientific genetics, little more than a century old, holds at once the promise of eradicating disease and the threat of altering the very essence of what it means to be human. It traces the dizzying evolution of this new science as researchers race to identify treatments for genetic diseases, such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, and to perfect tools for rewriting DNA.