America Rebuilds tells the stories of the men and women passionately involved in the clean-up and recovery effort, many of whose voices were largely ignored by the news media: lower Manhattan residents whose community was destroyed on 9/11, workers and engineers who labored for eight months to clean up the site, victims' families committed to memorializing their loved ones, and the builders who will reconstruct the site.

Unlike most of the 9/11 anniversary shows, America Rebuilds did not look back, but instead looked ahead to the future, investigating the engineering, business, and politics of reconstruction at the World Trade Center site. Time's James Poniewozik wrote, "We could have used more coverage that looked forward, like the PBS documentary America Rebuilds." The Arizona Republic said the show "neither exploits the tragedy … nor allows us to forget its impact." New York Newsday's Marvin Kitman called it "the one show I will be watching."

For more information visit www.pbs.org/americarebuilds

In a four-part PBS series, Great Projects tells the epic stories of engineering projects that changed America. Stacy Keach narrates the four one-hour films that show the vision and ambition behind four of the greatest physical achievements in modern America.

Part One, A Tale of Two Rivers, is about flood control of two of America's greatest rivers, the Mississippi and the Colorado. The centerpieces of the film are the 1927 Mississippi flood, which helped put Herbert Hoover in the White House and Frank Crowe's mammoth Hoover Dam project, which tamed the Colorado.

Part Two, Electric Nation, describes the electrification of America, in three stages: Edison's groundbreaking 1882 illumination of Lower Manhattan; the development of the modern business model for selling electricity by visionary Samuel Insull, who brought it to the working class; and the entry of the Federal Government into the electric power business with the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority to provide electricity to rural America.

Part Three, Bridging New York, is the story of two engineers, Austrian-born Gustav Lindenthal, and his Swiss protégé, Othmar Ammann, who would eventually part ways over the George Washington Bridge in New York.

Part Four, The Big Dig, tells the ongoing story of the most ambitious, expensive urban highway project in the world. "The Big Dig" is Bostonians' nickname for the underground relocation of a major urban freeway while cars continue to use it.

Lynn Elber of The Associated Press said the programs "show the sweep and social impact of engineering, and even the romance." The Boston Herald said Great Projects "really does instill civic pride…full of vision and daring. Detailed and fascinating…this show allows you to stop and admire the sheer scale of the thing…exciting." Engineering News-Record wrote, "The films show the great visions of engineers and the spectacle of construction, taking viewers to places where most people usually can't go. We should all be watching."

For more information visit www.pbs.org/greatprojects

Emmy-nominated Resistance tells the overlooked story of armed Jewish resistance to Nazis during World War II. The one-hour documentary is a first-hand account by 11 Jews who fought the Nazis as partisans in Eastern Europe. The program originated as a project of political consultant David Garth, who is the executive producer. Resistance shatters the myth that Jews offered little resistance to the Holocaust. In Eastern Europe alone twenty to thirty thousand Jews took to the forests and joined or formed partisan brigades.

"Our aim was not to defeat the German Army because this was ridiculous," says Miles Lerman, who would found the US Holocaust Museum. " We had a limited amount of simple weapons...and we were going on the most dangerous missions." When partisans encountered the Russian army, near the end of the war, "There was kissing and a lot of excitement because Jewish soldiers of the Red Army met up with Jewish partisans. They thought that there were no Jews left in the world, and we, too, thought that we were the last Jews in the world."

Newsday's Noel Holston called Resistance "remarkable…striking." The New York Post said, "The past comes alive" (4 stars). Entertainment Weekly gave it an "A" and called it a "grim, searing documentary. Telling their story rights a long-perpetuated wrong." The Bergen Record's Virginia Rohan called it an "amazing…powerful story".

Incident at Morales is a 36-minute fictional drama, commissioned by the National Institute for Engineering Ethics, about a young engineer confronting ethical dilemmas while working on a new chemical plant in Mexico.

Fred Martinez, a licensed professional engineer who has recently signed on to work for Phaust Chemicals, a US division of a French multinational corporation, is tasked to design a new plant in Morales Mexico. His challenge is to reformulate a new paint-stripping product to meet new environmental regulations and to compete with a rival's product. He believes he has fulfilled his ethical responsibility to design a safe and efficient plant, but he and his colleagues are told by corporate headquarters to both cut budgets and get the plant on line faster. Fred identifies environmental and technical problems that could put the safety of workers and residents in jeopardy. In the climax of the film, the viewer sees the impact of his decisions.

Incident at Morales presents the ethical dilemmas faced in the commercial world for audiences of students and professionals who confront these situations daily and somehow must make the right choices. The video and DVD will be used in engineering schools nationwide.

For further information, contact www.niee.org