Audubon Through Deaf Eyes
Niagra
Ohio
Ohio
The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced
Imagining Robert
Radiance
Divided Highways
The Boyhood of John Muir
The American Civil Liberties Union
Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish
Tell Me Something I Can't Forget
Tuberculosis In America
The Wilderness Series Part One: The Wilderness Idea
The Wilderness Series Part Two: Wild by Law
Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America
Sentimental Women Need Not Apply
The Adirondacks
Niagra Falls
The Garden of Eden
The Old Quabbin Valley


Through Deaf Eyes is a two-hour PBS documentary that explores almost 200 years of American history: the experience of the Deaf community in the United States from 1814 to the present. The program aligns the broad sweep of U.S. history with the experiences of deaf people, showing how major social, economic, medical, and technological shifts in America have changed deaf lives. It is propelled by the stories of people, both eminent and ordinary, and conveys a broad range of perspectives on what it means to be deaf.
The film tells the surprising story of a people who were misunderstood and repressed -- but joined together, grew in strength, and won great victories at last. The film is not so much a celebration, but rather an exploration of a history that includes culture, language, technology, politics and some very loud
rock and roll. The film was produced and directed by Lawrence Hott and edited by Diane Garey, of Florentine Films/ Hott Productions, Inc. Six filmmakers, all deaf, produced short films that are incorporated into the production: Wayne Betts, Rene Visco, Tracey Salaway, Kimby Caplan, Arthur Luhn, and Adrean Mangiardi.
From left: Larry Hott, film producer; Ed Chevy, lead guitar for the band "Beethoven's Nightmare"; Bob Hiltermann, drummer; Steve Longo, bass; Allen Moore, cinematographer.

I. King Jordan, retired president of Gallaudet University, with film producer Larry Hott.
Reading class at Clarke School for the Deaf, Northampton, Massachusetts

The film is a production of WETA Washington, D.C., and Florentine Films/Hott Productions in association with Gallaudet University. It was written by Ken Chowder, with cinematography by Allen Moore, Michael Chin, Stephen McCarthy and John Baynard, and music by Judy Hyman and Jeff Claus. Karen Kenton and Dalton Delan are the executive producers for WETA; the project director for Gallaudet is Jean Bergey, and the project senior advisor is Harry Lang of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

The film was funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, The Annenberg Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts Sign Language Associates.

More information is available at www.pbs.org/weta/throughdeafeyes/. You can purchase a copy of the film at www.shoppbs.org.

Awards

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award

Alice Cogswell award from the Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund

The Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians

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