Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose. Bill moyers is here, we had a knighthood for journalism he will be sir bill, for more than 40 years he has been one of the most respected voices on television and television every where. He has over 30 emmies and 9 peabody awards. He once described himself as a beach comber on the shore of other peoples experience. In books, documentary films and news shows he has explored everything from democracy and poetry to the power of myth. He returns to one of his most important subjects, the middle class and the American Dream. Here is the trailer for frontlines two American Families. Next time on frontline, the unforgetable story of two American Families. The newmans this is a very stable job. And the stanleys. When i got laid off, i thought i will find me a job. Filmed over 20 years. A lot of people lost their houses. My mom being one of them. Bill moyers follows these two families chas
Think with the look in his face, you know that he had won. He beat the odds. He made it. One of chucks outstanding attributes of character is courage, and i think he has the courage to do things that perhaps other people wouldnt attempt. The idea of doing a western was not popular. And a friend of mine, whose name was tommy grise, was a directorwriter. And tommy had written about 30 pages of a western screenplaynot cowboys and indians, not shootemup, but a story of overage cowboys, one particular overage cowboy. And i was knocked out by it, because i felt it was a very honest and a very forthright and a very unusual picture of the west. And it kind of caught my fancy, and i gave the 30 pages to chuck and said, well, read them and tell me what you think. He came back the next morning and he said, lets do it. Well get George Stevens to direct. I said, whoa, hold it, forget it. We wont get George Stevens to direct, because if we want to get this, tommy grise, whos writing it, wants to dir
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose. Bill moyers is here, we had a knighthood for journalism he will be sir bill, for more than 40 years he has been one of the most respected voices on television and television every where. He has over 30 emmies and 9 peabody awards. He once described himself as a beach comber on the shore of other peoples experience. In books, documentary films and news shows he has explored everything from democracy and poetry to the power of myth. He returns to one of his most important subjects, the middle class and the American Dream. Here is the trailer for frontlines two American Families. Next time on frontline, the unforgetable story of two American Families. The newmans this is a very stable job. And the stanleys. When i got laid off, i thought i will find me a job. Filmed over 20 years. A lot of people lost their houses. My mom being one of them. Bill moyers follows these two families chas
Really going on out in milwaukee. And it was the fact that the manufacturing jobs were beginning to disappear at a faster and faster rate. So two talented team of producers, cathry hughes and tom kashoto, husband and wife, went out for us. We found these two families who seemed to be representative of what was happening to thousands of working families in milwaukee. They were losing their manufacturing jobs, the chief breadwinner was losing their manufacturing jobsment and they were struggling to find their way in the economy that was then beginning to radically change. And we came back to them three times in the 1990s. Did a fourth broadcast in 2001. And then this is the final broadcast we have done in following these two families for all these years. 21 years. And the theme is . The theme is that once upon a time there was nothing more american than the belief that if you work hard and try, and play by the rules, you will get aheadment you can make a decent living and make a Better F
Today. And activists on the ground reporting at least 16 people have been killed so far in a heavy government shelling near the capital. Now, most are believed to have been members of the opposition. Greg will be reporting live from the region in just a moment. But, first, we go to molly live in washington. Good afternoon. The European Union said it today, the french government said it yesterday, they want to wait for United Nations inspectors to release their report on the august 21st alleged chemical weapons attack in syria before supporting any kind of military attack. But secretary kerry made it clear that the u. S. Has not decided to wait on the u. N. Report. Hes in france now after arriving in lithuania earlier to meet with his European Union counterparts. They agreed in a statement that there is, quote, strong evidence that the Syrian Government is responsible for the chemical attack. In the face of the cynical use of chemical weapons, the International Community cannot remain i