Discover how the ancestors of business mogul Richard Branson and architects Maya Lin and Frank Gehry took audacious risks to create opportunities, and how their luck, ingenuity and chutzpah was passed on to these three visionaries.

The Making of 6 Billion Others takes us behind the scenes of a most intriguing series. The idea of for this series came from Yann Arthus-Bertrand, an award-winning filmmaker who was filming Earth from Above in Mali. One day when the helicopter that he was filming from was out of commission, he tried to draw a portrait of contemporary humankind by asking questions about universal values. What is happiness, love, fear, success, family? What lessons...

After the New Cross fire and the Black People's Day of Action, tensions between the community and the police escalated when a massive stop-and-search operation was launched, targeting black people on the streets of Brixton. In April, the situation boiled over into one of the biggest riots in British history. Buildings were burned down and hundreds of police injured. Riots then flared up all over the country, from Southall to Toxteth, but by the year's...

Since the beginning of civilization, humans have paid homage to the spiritual realm by erecting beautiful structures on Earth. In this program, Dan Cruickshank visits Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai desert, built where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments; China's Hanging Temple, a Taoist monastery that clings precariously to the sheer face of a cliff; two 16th-century wooden churches in the Russian wilderness that still serve...

This video explores the ideas of value, privilege, identity, and shame through a look at hair, facial features, skin color, and other factors that can lead to class distinctions, pressure, and conformity within a cultural group.

A panel of historians and activists reflects on the historic 1963 March on Washington and the enduring significance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech.

The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case desegregated America's public schools, but most minority students still attend schools where they are the majority. Gwen Ifill talks to four experts (Sheryll Cashin, John McWhorter, Franklin Raines, Roger Wilkins) about the ways the landmark decision has brought about change, and the ways it has failed to do so.

An epidemic of petrol sniffing has devastated the remote Aboriginal community of Maningrida. In this video clip, meet Albert Mileran, who went from sniffing every night to becoming a respected health worker helping people turn away from substance abuse. In Aboriginal communities there is no traditional knowledge about petrol sniffing, and in a startling failure of modern medicine, science has been unable to effectively test racial difference in substance...

While demonstrations spread across the Middle East, there is calm in what has long been one of the region's flashpoints, the West Bank. Credit is being given to a previously little-known U.S. program that has fostered unprecedented cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians.

A dangerous idea has threatened the American Dream: the belief that some are inherently superior to others and more deserving of fundamental rights. Such biological determinism provided an excuse for America's most shameful history. Now it's back.