TV Show Details
Air Date:October 1st, 1992
Last Air Date:December 3rd, 1992
Network:PBS
Status:Ended
Genres:Documentary
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Pacific Basin Institute
The Pacific Century on the Web:Official Website
The Pacific Century (1992)
TV ShowPBS
Documentary
StarringPeter Coyote
Plot
The Pacific Century was a 1992 PBS Emmy Award winning ten part documentary series narrated by Peter Coyote about the rise of the Pacific Rim economies. Alex Gibney was the writer for the series, and Frank Gibney, his father, wrote the companion trade book, The Pacific Century: America and Asia in a Changing World. The companion college telecourse, Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia, was written and edited by Mark Borthwick. The series was a co-production of the Pacific Basin Institute and KCTS-TV in Seattle. Principle funding was provided by the Annenberg Foundation.