The BEST episodes of PBS Specials season 2001
Every episode of PBS Specials season 2001, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of PBS Specials season 2001!
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#1 - Evolution: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Season 2001 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/2001
Why does Charles Darwin's ''dangerous idea'' matter more today than ever, and how does it explain the past and predict the future of life on Earth? The first show interweaves the drama of Darwin's life with current documentary sequences, introducing key concepts of evolution.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Blast! An Explosive Musical Celebration
Season 2001 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/8/2001
A visual and auditory feast by the Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps. If your favorite part of a football game is when the marching band takes the field, then you're going to love Blast. Think of the most rousing, in-sync band that you ever saw, turn them way up, add cool costumes and a black-and-white checkered stage with colored spotlights, throw in a good helping of the Stomp vibe, and you've got Blast.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - A Flea Market Documentary
Season 2001 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/30/2001
A Flea Market Documentary is an all-American celebration of open-air shopping across the country. On any weekend, there may be no better place to find out what makes America great than at a flea market. A Flea Market Documentary is an unabashed celebration of the unusual people and the enticing things that can be found in parking lots, fairgrounds, drive-ins, sidewalks, and wherever else someone has posted a sign saying "Flea Market." It's capitalism mixed with craziness. It's amazing old stuff, great salespeople, the ancient tradition of the open-air market, and the possibility of finding a bargain, all uniting shoppers across the nation. Produced by WQED Pittsburgh, A Flea Market Documentary travels from the gigantic Rose Bowl Market in Pasadena, California, to the busy but modest- sized Eastern Market in Washington, DC, talking with organizers, vendors, food merchants and shoppers.
#4 - Welcome to the Club - The Women of Rockabilly
Season 2001 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/18/2001
Their stage antics were sassy, aggressive, almost raunchy. Their vocal styles featured distinctly "unladylike" growls, hiccups and moans. Their lyrics spoke of parties and hot rods, teen love and teen angst. They played everywhere from country fairs to honky-tonks to rock shows. They boldly strutted their stuff and were billed as "Little Miss Dynamite," "The Nation's Number One Party Girl" and "The Female Elvis." In the eye-opening film WELCOME TO THE CLUB - The Women of Rockabilly, we meet four of the most influential rockabilly women - Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee, Janis Martin, and Lorrie Collins.
#5 - Evolution: What About God?
Season 2001 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/24/2001
Of all species, we alone attempt to explain who we are and how we came to be. This final show explores the struggle between science and religion. Through the personal stories of students and teachers, it offers the view that they are compatible.
#6 - Evolution: Great Transformations
Season 2001 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/24/2001
What underlies the incredible diversity of life on Earth? How have complex life forms evolved? The journey from water to land, the return of land mammals to the sea, and the emergence of humans all suggest that creatures past and present are members of a single tree of life.
#7 - Evolution: Extinction!
Season 2001 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/24/2001
Five mass extinctions have occurred since life began on Earth. Are humans causing the next mass extinction? And what does evolutionary theory predict for the world we will leave to our descendants?
#8 - Evolution: The Evolutionary Arms Race
Season 2001 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/24/2001
Survival of the fittest: Raw competition? Intense cooperation? Both are essential. Interactions between and within species are among the most powerful evolutionary forces on Earth, and understanding them may be a key to our own survival.
#9 - Egypt's Golden Empire: The Warrior Pharaohs
Season 2001 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/4/2001
Egypt was occupied by foreigners except for a narrow strip of land around a town called Thebes. The capital and its royal family had fallen on hard times. But one local family was determined to revive it--the king of Thebes and his two young sons Ahmose and Kamose, who became freedom fighters, liberators of Egypt.
#10 - Egypt's Golden Empire: Pharaohs of the Sun
Season 2001 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/11/2001
When Amenhotep III became pharaoh in 1390 BC, Egypt controlled a vast empire and was rich, respected and free. But it faced the challenge of powerful new rivals.
#11 - Egypt's Golden Empire: The Last Great Pharaoh
Season 2001 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/18/2001
During the reign of Amenhotep III, Egypt was the center for culture and learning in the ancient world. Egypt had reached dizzying heights, but it stood on the brink of a devastating fall.
#12 - Route 66 Turns 75
Season 2001 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/8/2001
To celebrate the highway’s 75th birthday, Michael Wallis updates us on the people and places he’s come to know along America’s Main Street. Explore The world's most famous highway - Route 66 - with noted author and 'road warrior' Michael Wallis.
#13 - Evolution: Why Sex?
Season 2001 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/24/2001
In evolutionary terms, sex is more important than life itself. Sex fuels evolutionary change by adding variation to the gene pool. The powerful urge to pass our genes on to the next generation has likely changed the face of human culture in ways we're only beginning to understand.
#14 - Evolution: The Mind's Big Bang
Season 2001 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/24/2001
Fifty thousand years ago, something happened -- the modern human mind emerged, triggering a creative, technological, and social explosion. What forces contributed to that breakthrough? Where might our power of mind ultimately lead us?