Li-Shin Yu

Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely examination of the relationship between the medical community, city powerbrokers and the Chinese-American community, Plague at the Golden Gate tells the gripping story of the race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from the deadly plague.

2015년 1월, 시한부 판정을 받고 올리버 색스는 “나의 생애”란 에세이를 뉴욕 타임즈에 기고하고, 삶의 마지막 순간을 담은 다큐멘터리를 제작하게 된다. 의학계의 시인, “아내를 모자로 착각한 남자”를 비롯한 베스트셀러 작가, 인간의 뇌라는 경이로운 우주의 탐험가 등 수많은 수식어들 사이에서 ‘이 아름다운 행성에 태어나 지각 있는 존재로 살아간 것에 대한 기쁨과 감사함’으로 삶의 마지막 순간까지도 눈물이 아닌 따스함을 남기는 올리버 색스의 경이로운 삶의 여정이 펼쳐진다.

A sweeping chronicle of the entire exclusion era - the latter part of the 1800s, when anti-Chinese agitation led to federal laws targeting Chinese abroad and those already in the country. Go far beyond the legislation with the survival and growth of Chinese American communities in the face of prejudice and outright violence, the “paper” sons and daughters who emigrated despite the seemingly impassable barriers, and the legal challenges that produced some of the most momentous decisions in Supreme Court history.

Examine the American whaling industry from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, the tragedy of the Essex, and the career of Moby Dick's Herman Melville, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.

Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art.

A six-hour documentary series chronicling the way the West was lost and won between 1845 and 1893, broadcast nationally on PBS in May 1995 as part of WGBH’s American Experience. The film looks at the final decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee.

A woman is hired to transcribe an ancient Chinese manuscript. She finds that little by little, the manuscript has powers that begin to take over her life.