EXPLORE AMERICA’S MOST INFLUENTIAL MONUMENTS, STREETS AND
MARVELS IN
“10 THAT CHANGED AMERICA, SEASON 2”
Available on Digital
HD July 11
Available on DVD August
14 from PBS Distribution
Click Here for
a Preview of the Program
Arlington,
Va. – July 3, 2018 – PBS Distribution announces the release
of “10 THAT CHANGED AMERICA, SEASON 2” available
on Digital HD July 11 and DVD August 14. This documentary series
takes audiences on a lively exploration of American architecture, design and
urban planning. Hosted by Geoffrey Baer and produced by Dan Protess, the series
illustrates how our built environment came to be and how our monuments, streets
and modern marvels reflect our nation’s history, values, ingenuity and hopes
for the future. Take a tour of the places where
American history was born!
“10
THAT CHANGED AMERICA, SEASON 2” will be available for digital download
on July 11 and on DVD($24.99 SRP) August 14, 2018., The program has a run time of approximately 162 minutes.
Episodes for this program include:
“10
MONUMENTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA”
Explore the stories behind ten wholly-original American monuments
and the historical moments that inspired them. From the Statue of Liberty to
Mount Rushmore, and from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the AIDS Quilt,
discover pivotal moments in the evolution of American monuments when daring
artists found new ways to honor our history.
“10
STREETS THAT CHANGED AMERICA”
Trace the 400-year evolution of Broadway in New York from a Native
American road to a poster child for the “complete streets” movement
of the future. Also visit the Boston Post Road, St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans,
and Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. It’s an episode about how streets have
connected the nation, divided communities, and changed the way Americans live,
work, and shop.
“10
MODERN MARVELS THAT CHANGED AMERICA”
Meet arrogant engineers who have scoffed at the laws of nature and
defied naysayers by undertaking amazing feats of engineering. Each story in
this episode includes a fun physics lesson and a tale of human folly,
from the Hoover Dam and the Interstate Highway System, to the Holland
Tunnel and Eads Bridge. Find out which 10 modern marvels made the list!
About Geoffrey
Baer (Host)
An
Emmy-winning producer, writer and host known for his masterful storytelling,
conversational style, and contagious enthusiasm. Nationally, Geoffrey hosted
the acclaimed 2013 production 10
Buildings that Changed America as well as documentaries on architects
Michael Graves and Robert A. M. Stern, along with Saved from the Wrecking Ball, about Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth
House. Geoffrey is also familiar to Chicago viewers as the host and writer of
numerous extraordinarily popular feature-length WTTW “TV tours” of the Chicago
area’s architecture and history, which he has conducted by boat, by ‘L’ train,
by bicycle, by car, through a magical “time machine,” and on foot. His special The Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History
was nominated for a James Beard Award. Geoffrey appears regularly on WTTW’s
flagship nightly newsmagazine program Chicago
Tonight, answering viewers’ questions about Chicago architecture and
history in a segment called “Ask Geoffrey.” He has been a docent tour guide for
the Chicago Architecture Foundation since 1987.
About
Dan Protess (Producer, Writer, Executive Producer)
Dan Protess has served as the
Executive Producer, Producer, and Writer of the PBS primetime series 10 that
Changed America. His other recent productions include the digital series FoodPhiles,
and Urban Nature, for which he won a prestigious Peter Lisagor Award.
Dan has also produced the feature length architecture and history specials Chicago’s
Loop: a New Walking Tour, Biking the Boulevards and Chicago’s
Lakefront. He wrote and produced the Emmy-winning, James Beard-nominated The
Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History. Dan previously produced candidate
forums and feature stories for Chicago Tonight, the station’s nightly
newsmagazine program, for which he received a previous Peter Lisagor Award. He
began his career at WTTW Chicago in 1999 as an associate producer of arts and
architecture programming, and soon after served as the associate producer and
writer of A Justice That Heals, a documentary about a teenage murderer
and his young victim that was shown on ABC’s Nightline. Dan went on to
produce and write numerous documentaries for Chicago Stories, an historical
series, including Jewish Chicago, Chicago’s First Mexican Church,
Chicago’s 1919 Race Riots, and numerous profiles of local luminaries
such as Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, arts maven Lois Weisberg, and priest-turned-romance
novelist Andrew Greeley. He began his career at public television station
WHA-TV in Madison, Wisconsin.
About PBS
Distribution
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10 THAT CHANGED AMERICA, SEASON 2
Street Date: August
14, 2018
Genre:
Documentary
Run
Time: Approximately 162 minutes on 1 disc
SRP:
DVD, $24.99
Format:
DVD and Digital HD
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