2. PBS Frontline
PBS Frontline is the smallest and most selective of the free video options listed in this article. The site has over 150 documentaries and associated educational resources like study guides, transcripts, and additional interviews. The documentaries are all critical meaning that they deal with controversial and difficult topics: assisted suicide, the war on terror, religion, pornography, capital punishment, among others. Because it's PBS, the writing and technical quality of the films are top notch. You can search the films by category. My personal favorites on the site are Growing Up Online, The Persuaders, The Man Who Knew, and Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
Scott A. Lukas
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Scott A. Lukas has taught anthropology and sociology Lake Tahoe Community College for sixteen years and in 2013 was Visiting Professor of American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. He has been recognized with the McGraw-Hill Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology by the American Anthropological Association (2005), the California Hayward Award for Excellence in Education (2003), and a Sierra Arts Foundation Artist Grant Program Award in Literary–Professional (2009). In 2006, he was a nominee to the California Community College Board of Governors. He is the author/editor of The Immersive Worlds Handbook (2012), Theme Park (2008), The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nature, and Self (2007), Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films Remade, (co-edited with John Marmysz, 2009), Recent Developments in Criminological Theory (co-edited with Stuart Henry, 2009), and Strategies in Teaching Anthropology (2010). His book Theme Park was recently translated into Arabic. He appeared in the documentary The Nature of Existence and has provided interviews for To the Best of Our Knowledge, The Huffington Post UK, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, and Caravan (India).
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