This program honors the best of the Clio gold and silver winners for the year 2003. Entries include IKEA's "Lamp," Nike Shox NZ's "Streaker," Coca-Cola's "Supersub," Wrangler's "Cafe," BMW of North America's "Hostage," Verizon Wireless' "Ferret," Whiskas' "Bungee," Peugeot 206's "The Sculptor," Hewlett-Packard's "Digital Crime Fighting," Masterpack's "Watch," Labatt Breweries/Bud Light's "Ulterior Emotions," Renault's "Road," Prensa Libre's "Stadium,"...

Their names were linked to the two most powerful men during the Civil War. Their lives were both controversial and often times misunderstood, yet never before in American history were there two first ladies. This is the story of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the President of the United States, and Varina Davis, wife of the President of the Confederate States of America. Although they were two women from rival governments, they led parallel lives, struggling...

This program explores the characteristics that define a desirable audience, the history of audience ratings, and the ways in which audiences are assessed. Because the mass media is supported largely by selling time and space to marketers, it has evolved into the main delivery vehicle for advertising, in which the company offering a product or service is the true consumer and the attention of the viewer is the product that is being bought. With billions...

In the history of warfare, armed men on horseback were at a devastating advantage in the art of killing and fear was their primary weapon. Hordes of warriors could strike around, within, and behind the infantry with lightning speed. It was the cavalry charge that struck fear in the enemy when riders sat stirrup to stirrup, facing cannon fire, the sound of thunder building on the earth. History remembers the charge of the Light Brigade and Custer's...

An English translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic epic novel about the lives of five aristocratic families in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 to 1814.

With the 1860 election of anti-slavery candidate Abraham Lincoln, thirteen states from the South secede and form the Confederate States of America. Union military leaders, along with Lincoln himself, realize that ending the rebellion rests on controlling the Mississippi River. In February 1862, Union forces, led by an obscure general named Ulysses S. Grant, establish a foothold in southern Tennessee near a simple log structure known as "Shiloh Church."...