*DS001: “From Insects to Galaxies,” Parts I & II, Jerzy Neyman (1979), 109 minutes.

*DS002: “Mathematical Probability and Statistical Inference, Some Recollections from an Important Phase of Scientific Development,” Harald Cramer (1980), 86 minutes.

 DS003: “The Status of Statistics in 1940 as Viewed from Iowa State College and the Early Years of the Ph.D. Program at Ames,” William Cochran (1978), 52 minutes.

 DS004: “Reminiscences of a Mathematician,” E. J. G. Pitman (1981), 70 minutes.

 A four-part 1983 presentation by R. C. Bose:

• DS005: “The Early Years,” R. C. Bose (1983), 53 minutes.

• DS006: “The Middle Years,” R. C. Bose (1983), 46 minutes.

• DS007: “The Later Years,” R. C. Bose (1983), 34 minutes.

• DS008: “Recollections,” R. C. Bose (1983), 29 minutes.

 DS009: “The Teaching of Statistics in the Industrial Crisis that Confronts the Western World,” W. Edwards Deming (1981), 54 minutes.

 DS010: “Deming on Statistics in Industry: Implications for Statisticians and for Statistical Education,” W. Edwards Deming with Gary McDonald (Chair), Fred C. Leone, Churchill Eisenhart, and Lloyd Nelson (1981), 49 minutes.

*DS011: “Multivariate Analysis, Some Reminiscences on its Origin and Development,” C. R. Rao (1981), 60 minutes.

*DS012: “A Discussion with C. R. Rao,” C. R. Rao, F. Anscombe, H. Chernoff, R. Gnanadesikan, U. Koehn, and H. O. Posten (1981), 51 minutes.

*DS013: “The Importance of Practice in the Development of Statistics,” George Box (1982), 45 minutes.

*DS014: “Practice and Theory; Some Personal Experiences,” George Box, W. Hunter (1982), 43 minutes.

*DS015: “Nonparametrics: The Early Years--Impressions and Recollections,” Gottfried Noether (1983), 50 minutes.

*DS016: “Some History and Reminiscences on Survey Sampling,” Morris Hansen (1985), 53 minutes.

*DS017: "Censuses and surveys, 50 years,” Morris Hansen.

  DS018: “An Interview with Cuthbert Daniel,” Parts I & II, J. Stuart Hunter (1988), 78 minutes.

*DS019: “Broadening the Scope of Statistics and Statistical Education,” Fred Mosteller (1987), 52 minutes.

*DS020: “A Conversation,” John Tukey, Fred Mosteller (1987), 52 minutes.

*DS021: “The History of Sequential Analysis: Some Reminiscences,” Herman Chernoff (1989), 58 minutes.

*DS022: “A Conversation with Herman Chernoff,” F. Anscombe, W. Dumouchel, and A. Gelfand (1989), 58 minutes.

 DS023: “Churchill Eisenhart, A Statistician's Travel Through Space and Time: Recollections of Churchill Eisenhart,” (1989), 93 minutes.

 DS024: “Likelihood and Sufficiency,” David Blackwell (1988), 42 minutes.

 DS025: “Statistics in the Natural Sciences at the Laboratory,” Elizabeth Scott (1988), 57 minutes

*DS026: “Origins of Empirical Bayes,” Herbert Robbins (1990), 41 minutes.

*DS027: “A Conversation with Herbert Robbins,” Herbert Robbins, Carl Morris, and Milton Sobel (1990), 55 minutes.

 DS028: “From Observation to Inferences,” Oscar Kempthorne (1991), 60 minutes.

*DS029: “Two Centuries of Hypothesis Testing," Erich Lehmann (1992), 53 minutes.

*DS030: “Teachers, Colleagues and Students: A Conversation with Erich Lehmann” (1992), 50 minutes.

 DS031: “Variance Components,” Franklin A. Graybill (1992), 34 minutes.

 DS032: “A Conversation with Franklin A. Graybill,” Franklin A. Graybill and Naitee Ting (1992), 39 minutes.

 DS033: “Good Talking,” I. J. Good and Persi Diaconis (1993), 50 minutes plus three 7-minute encores.

 DS034 Part I: “A Discussion,” John Tukey, Ram Gnanadesikan, and David Hoaglin (1994), 57 minutes.

 DS034 Part II: "A Discussion,” John Tukey, Ram Gnanadesikan, and David Hoaglin (1994), 81 minutes.

*DS035: “Statistical Inference: Some Themes and Their Recent Development,” D. R. Cox (1994), 53 minutes.

*DS036: “A Discussion with Friends,” D. R. Cox, Nancy Reid, and P. McCullagh (1994), 49 minutes.

 DS037: "A Conversation with Norman L. Johnson,” Norman L. Johnson and Walter Smith (1995), 48 minutes.

*DS038: “R. A. Fisher and Multivariate Analysis,” by T. W. Anderson (1995), 58 minutes.

*DS039: “A Conversation with Ted Anderson,” (1995), 55 minutes.

 DS040: “A Conversation with Dr. J. Stuart Hunter,” J. Stuart Hunter (1996), 63 minutes.

*DS041: “The History and Development of Meta-Analysis,” Ingram Olkin (1997), 58 minutes.

*DS042: “A Conversation with Ingram Olkin,” Ingram Olkin (1997), 55 minutes.

 DS043: "A Conversation with Marvin Zelen,” Marvin Zelen (1997), 60 minutes.

 DS044: “A Conversation with Sam Greenhouse,” Sam Greenhouse (1997), 56 minutes.

*DS045: “A Perspective on the History of Statistical Education in the United States,” Bob Hogg (1998), 59 minutes.

*DS046: “A Conversation with Bob Hogg,” Bob Hogg (1998), 57 minutes.

 DS047: “A Conversation with Donald Fraser,” (1999) 90 minutes.

*DS048: “Politics and Federal Statistics,” Janet Norwood (2000), 57 minutes.

*DS049: “Federal Statistics: A Conversation with Janet Norwood,” Janet Norwood, (2000), 57 minutes.

 DS050:  “Reflections by Leslie Kish on a Lifetime of Survey Sampling,” Leslie Kish (2001), 44 minutes.

*DS051: “The Statistical Century,” Brad Efron (2001)

*DS052: “A Conversation with Good Friends: Brad Efron,” with Carl Morris and Rob Tibshirani (2001).

*DS053: “A Journey Through Random Process Data Analysis: One Type to the Next,” David R. Brillinger (2004), 45 minutes.

*DS054: “A Conversation with David R. Brillinger,” with Bill Williams and Kjell Doksum (2004), 55 minutes.

*DS055: “A Futuristic View on a Half-Century of Statistics and Applied Probability,” C. C. Heyde (2005), 55 minutes.

*DS056: “A Conversation with C. C. Heyde,” with Sidney Resnick and Steven Kou (2005), 56 minutes. 

*DS057: “Objective Bayesian/Frequentist Statistics: My Way with Quantiles,” Emanuel Parzen (2006), 54 minutes.

*DS058: “A Conversation with Emanuel Parzen,” with H. Joseph Newton and Grace Wahba (2006), 56 minutes.

*Filmed at the University of Connecticut, Storrs

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