Welcome to Exploring Hate’s Legacy Archive Project.
Join us each month as we revisit the rich archive of The WNET Group, home of America’s flagship PBS station THIRTEEN, to unearth 50 documentary films and series focused on the Black experience, indigenous rights, antisemitism.
To see what we’re pulling out of the archives every month, click here.
In summer 2020, the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer awakened in Americans a renewed sense of urgency. Protests broke out across the United States in a demand for justice, police reform and accountability.
Famed actor and activist Ossie Davis narrates and acts in this nine-part series from 1965. The first episode focuses on the word “negro” — its origin, its meaning in society and the deep psychological scars left upon people by its…
A weekly public affairs program geared toward teens, led by University of Massachusetts history professor David Wyman with a group of high school students in a roundtable discussion. The focus for this episode was the Holocaust, the lessons of history,…
Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel discusses human behavior, the notion of indifference, trauma, faith, the importance of remembrance, and his love for Israel. In this exclusive interview Wiesel explains how a situation of absolute cruelty was allowed to…
With hate crimes and antisemitism on the rise, marginalized groups under attack, draconian laws in place restricting the right to vote, and the rescinding of human rights by the Supreme Court, this moment demands a close examination of how our…
A difficult but important look at the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, held by the Allies to bring to justice prominent Nazis who participated in the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity. The work of filmmaker Pare Lorentz, Part 1 of the…
The film offers an eye-opening impression of attitudes and beliefs about LGBTQ+ life at the time, a reference point for advances achieved in ensuing decades -- and a sense of the importance of continuing the struggle.
A rare glimpse into some of the debates that centered around homosexuality and equal rights in 1961.
"While official recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day and a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation are important and necessary symbolic steps, the Indigenous still face a very real threat from forces attempting to rewrite history."
A group of journalists sit down with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, a renowned author and humanist. The Nobel laureate discusses everything from the rise of antisemitism and the origins of hate to Jewish/Black relations and the importance of preventing future…
Author and activist James Baldwin meets with members of San Francisco's African American community in 1963. Escorted by Youth For Service's executive director, Orville Luster, Baldwin is intent on discovering "the real situation of Negroes in the city, as opposed…
Learn about the forced relocation of 6,000 Navajo through a 300-mile journey on foot into some of the most barren land in the Southwest. Elders share horrific accounts of hardship, starvation and death as the narrator translates.