"The four-time winner of the Emmy for outstanding reality series, RuPaul's Drag Race never set out to win over conventional America or climb the ladder of mainstream pop culture success. Its first season was classic counterculture, developed and filmed while President G.W. Bush was in office but launched at a time when Obama fever was at a national high. Over thirteen years and about 160 drag queen contestants later, everything from its language and...

Argentine novelist and screenwriter, Manuel Puig, talks with host Joaquín Soler Serrano in this 1977 interview for Spanish television about his conflicted youth on the dry pampas of his hometown, General Villegas, his escape into movies and unsuccessful attempts at screenwriting while studying in Rome. Finding at last his authentic voice and characters from that machismo culture, he incorporated elements of cinema and popular culture in his novels,...

Everything that was 'too big to fail' in 2008 is bigger and more dangerous today, says bestselling author James Rickards in this discussion with Reason magazine covering the future of money and a return to the financial stability of the gold standard. In his latest book, "The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System," Rickards predicts the crash of the global currency market and the insolvency of the U.S. dollar. "We're...

This program features a conversation between the eminent playwright Arthur Miller and the younger successful writer Israel Horovitz about theater, the writer, playwriting and politics, and the responsibility of the playwright to society.

In this program, actors Murray Hamilton, James Earl Jones, Jack Klugman and Rip Torn give advice to young and would-be actors. They discuss the lack of good roles, the place of television, Hollywood vs. Broadway, the importance of regional theater, the necessary mobility of an actor, and about why they went into acting and why they think others do.

On this episode of Camera Three, James Macandrew interviews novelist and playwright Max Frisch. Robert F. Lyons, Paul Stevens, Goerge Voskovec, Thayer David, and Boris Tumarin perform excerpts from the play Andorra, and a dramatization of the novel, I'm Not Stiller.

For five seasons, The Wire brought the poorly understood world of the inner city into living rooms across the country. In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers is joined by the creator of that critically acclaimed drama series, David Simon-an award-winning screenwriter who is also a former police reporter at The Baltimore Sun and the author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. Together they talk about urban crime and politics, the art and...

In a 1976 interview for Spanish television, Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante talks with host Joaquin Soler Serrano about Havana under the Battista regime and the Cuban Revolution, themes he explores in his novels and short stories. He discusses his functions as journalist and movie critic under the pseudonym Gain, his eventual break with the Revolution and self-exile in London. His experimental novel 'Three Trapped Tigers' is his best known...

In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill speaks with Lawrence Lessig and Zephyr Teachout, two college professors who left academia to run for political office in the turbulent midterm elections of 2014. Although they did not win the elections, they share their experiences and the hard-fought lessons learned about the state of American democracy.

In this 1977 interview for Spanish television, host Joaquin Soler Serrano talks with Mexican writer, Carlos Fuentes, who shares his thoughtful ideas about the impact of the Spanish Conquest on the history of Latin America, missed opportunities for democracy, the cultural gift of Spanish emigrants after the Civil War, and the fate of socialism under the Soviet Union. Fuentes discourses on language, English literature and Latin American writers, and...