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May 22, 2008
Best of FORA.tv
Sorry, but the FORA.tv video library was taken down as of August 31, 2018, so these videos are no longer available, unless you can find them on YouTube.
FORA.tv offers over 2000 free videos from over 115 different partners covering the world’s most interesting political, social and cultural issues. Their partners include bookstores, think tanks, colleges, institutes, and many other public forums (the word fora is simply the plural of “forum”). At LearnOutLoud we combed through these free resources and picked out 500 of the top titles that FORA.tv offers.
We’ve added these 500 free titles to our site and have embedded the videos onto our pages so you can watch them directly on LearnOutLoud.com. FORA.tv has also provided the ability to download the audio of their videos on MP3 for almost all of their titles, making it easy to take FORA.tv programs with you. On our product pages we’ve provided links to the FORA.tv pages where you can download the MP3 files.
We’ve divided the FORA.tv titles up according to their providers. Here are the top providers you can browse with some highlights of the titles they offer:
Joseph Stiglitz: The Economics of Information
President’s Forum with Thich Nhat Hanh
The Clash Between Faith and Reason by Sam Harris
A Conversation with Lance Armstrong
A Conversation with Richard Branson
Karl Rove in Conversation with Walter Isaacson
Death Experiences: Stan Grof and Scott Eberle
John Gray: Why Mars and Venus Collide
Joyce Carol Oates: The Gravedigger’s Daughter
Madeleine Albright: The Mighty and The Almighty
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong
Made to Stick by Chip Heath
Immigration Reform: Prospects and Possibilities
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons?
Andrew Sullivan: The Conservative Soul
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End
John McCain: The Myth of a Maverick
Ban Ki-moon: Why the UN Matters Today
Boosting the Brain’s Power Into Old Age by Dharma Singh Khalsa
Music: Heart, Soul and Dollar – Robert Greenberg
Nutrition and Physical Activity for a Lifetime by Christina Economos
Chris Elliott in Conversation with Dave Eggers
Eric Schlosser, Author of Fast Food Nation
Jared and Susan Diamond in Conversation
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood
Shelby Steele on Why Barack Obama Cannot Win
A Conversation with Benazir Bhutto
Hillary Rodham Clinton at Council on Foreign Relations
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Gay Marriage Debate with David Blankenhorn & Evan Wolfson
The Joke’s Over: Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson
Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival
President George W. Bush at the NAACP
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
Tom Wolfe: What’s Southern Today?
The President, The Pope and The Prime Minister by John O’Sullivan
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Policy in Northeast Asia
Harvey Mansfield: Anger and Self-Importance
Norman Podhoretz: World War IV
Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Battle of Ideas: Debating Darwin
Debating Matters: Human Genetic Engineering
Bruce Sterling on The Singularity
Francis Fukuyama: The End Of History Revisited
An Evening with John Pilger and Amy Goodman
Film Historian David Thomson on Hollywood
Dave Barry’s History of the Millennium (So Far)
Tom Brokaw: Boom! Voices of the Sixties
Hamas and the National Unity Government
A Conversation with Ted Turner
Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U
Journeys of a Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes
And about 120 titles from their other providers we’ve consolidated under the publisher FORA.tv:
The 20th Century on Trial: Norman Mailer
Al Gore: The Global Environmental Crisis
Al Sharpton and Christopher Hitchens Debate
Bill Clinton: A Call to Action
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
Fritjof Capra: The Science of Leonardo
Garrison Keillor on Life, Cheerfulness and Aging
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Malcolm X: Address to the Ford Hall Forum
Mind Set! Reset Your Thinking and See the Future by John Naisbitt
Vietnam and the Rise of the New Left by Michael Medved
Enjoy the offerings from this brilliant ideas network for discourse and debate.