The Clout of the Media Giants Five multimedia conglomerates dominate the cross promotion and selling of popular culture to youth. Here are excerpts from FRONTLINE’s interviews with media critics discussing the impact of this power. The Symbiotic Relationship Between the Media and Teenagers Cultural/media analysts talk about the intense relationship existing between youth culture and [...]

A government researcher, sent to research the “menace” of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

“The story of Bradley Crowder and David McKay, who were accused of intending to firebomb the 2008 Republican National Convention, is a dramatic tale of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal. Better This World follows the radicalization of these boyhood friends from Midland, Texas, under the tutelage of revolutionary activist Brandon Darby. The results: eight homemade [...]

For 25 years, report after report has shown that American students are falling further and further behind the rest of the world intellectually. As the American public school system fails to adapt to this century, schools in China and India produce four times the number of high school graduates as the U.S. and educate these [...]

Plot Details: This opinion reveals major details about the movie’s plot. If “Goodbye Solo” (2008) were a Hollywood movie or a feel-good movie from abroad, the Senegalese immigrant Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane) who drives a cab at night in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and realizes that his septuagenarian tight-lipped white passenger William (Red West) is planning [...]

A former rapper guides his talented nine-year-old daughter through the music business

Biblioburro is the story of a librarian — and a library — like no other. A decade ago, Colombian grade-school teacher Luis Soriano was inspired to spend his weekends bringing a modest collection of precious books, via two hard-working donkeys, to the children of Magdalena Province’s poor and violence-ridden interior. As Soriano braves armed bands, [...]

Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to repossess their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm. imdb.com

A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife’s murder, big business, and corporate corruption.