This program documents how Japan and Korea managed to rise above the strife of war to develop into world economic powers, setting the global pace for competition in the late 20th Century. As the tiger economics of East Asia turned from boom to bust in the 1990s, the general public was amazed, yet many economists nodded their heads knowingly. This program focuses on the plights of Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, where nepotism, cronyism, corruption, suppression, and the exploitation of cheap foreign labor brought about a financial crisis of enormous proportions. Using three communities as examples, the need for continuous planning is demonstrated to both keep growing cities on track and to revitalize languishing ones.
Emphasis is placed on the importance of a downtown area and a sense of community.
Ken Burns' series examines the history of baseball from the mid- 19th Century to the present day. Archival footage, photographs, interviews, and early radio broadcasts create a panorama of an era of social change in American history. Reviews American relations with the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 to the Roosevelt Administration. This program also explores early U.S. policy in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America as pan-American relations deteriorated until, in 1933, President Roosevelt abolished the Monroe Doctrine of intervention. NOVA explores El Nino's myths, reveals its devastation, and explains its fascinating origins.