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American Experience is een Amerikaanse documentaire van de zender PBS. De serie ging in première op 4 oktober 1988.
Een serie met documentaires over de Amerikaanse geschiedenis. Onderzoekt de mensen, evenementen, technologie en natuurlijke hulpbronnen die het land hebben gevormd. Gehost door David McCullough tot 2002 en verteld door een aantal bekende persoonlijkheden. Het maakt gebruik van historici en auteurs, historische afbeeldingen en film, muziek, dramatische heropvoeringen en hedendaagse context om het podium voor zijn onderwerpen te bereiden.
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Een serie met documentaires over de Amerikaanse geschiedenis. Onderzoekt de mensen, evenementen, technologie en natuurlijke hulpbronnen die het land hebben gevormd. Gehost door David McCullough tot 2002 en verteld door een aantal bekende persoonlijkheden. Het maakt gebruik van historici en auteurs, historische afbeeldingen en film, muziek, dramatische heropvoeringen en hedendaagse context om het podium voor zijn onderwerpen te bereiden.
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From Enrico Caruso to the ordinary San Franciscan, this film presents vivid memories of those trapped in the terrifying...
While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nuclea...
As a child in 1899, Angie Debo was taken to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. She would become her state's most controversial...
A touching memoir beginning with life in a small Minnesota town and taking us through a young man's early days as pacifi...
An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-life "Rosies" about the...
A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families who have lived in Big Piney for six generations. Althoug...
An intimate portrait of the Kennedy brothers and their confrontation with Alabama Governor George Wallace when he defied...
The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one another. In 1886, 5,0...
An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-...
The evolution of rhythm and blues through the careers of singers Ruth Brown and Charles Brown, from the 1940s into the 5...
Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan, uses the new power of radio to become one of the first m...
The design and art of quilting yields intimate clues about the lives of 19th century women, who stitched their personal...
The journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Mississippi River area fro...
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty narrates the story of her own Southern childhood and early artistic developme...
From the late 1920s through the 1960s, Robert Moses held almost total power over the landscape of New York. He built bri...
A Gothic tale of sin and redemption in 19th century New England. A small town in Maine reacts to the unconventional beha...
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The first around-the-world air race, sponsored by the Army Air Service to prove that the airplane had a commercial futur...
Prohibition's effect on Detroit, Michigan, the first major American city to "go dry," where smuggling liquor across the...
Lise Yasui explores three generations of her Japanese-American family - from their immigration to Oregon in the early 19...
All lingering 19th-century notions of the romance of battle were replaced by the terrible reality of 20th-century mechan...
The tale of mavericks whose risk-taking, sweat and dreams changed an American industry. Starting with Spindletop, the fi...
There is hardly a city, town or village without a baseball diamond. More than a game, baseball is a tradition, rite of p...
They started selling watches. Then Richard Sears and Alva Curtis Roebuck started a revolution -- a "wish book" that made...
A stunning film portrait of Yosemite National Park. The film's narration is taken from using the 1851 diary of the first...
Affluent, handsome, light-skinned and blond, he could pass for white. But his message about "economics and jobs" would m...
A tribute to the twelve million people who emigrated to the U.S. between 1890 and 1920. A recapturing of the journey thr...
Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a pioneer folklorist who in the 1920s began a campaign to preserve mountain music and dance. H...
Born into slavery, she became a journalist and newspaper owner in Memphis, and was radicalized following the lynching of...
In the summer of 1940, as the German Luftwaffe began its assault on England, 10,000 British children were sent on a peri...
Before WWII, San Francisco's Chinatown was a separate world, closed to outsiders, ruled by rigid homeland customs. But i...
The first major battle for wilderness preservation erupted over the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Pa...
Men and women, black and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes out of slavery in the...
Frank Popiolek was 14 when he came to America in 1911, one of 2 million Polish immigrants who made the journey. He settl...
The tale of mavericks whose risk-taking, sweat and dreams changed an American industry. Starting with Spindletop, the fi...
Frank Popiolek was 14 when he came to America in 1911, one of 2 million Polish immigrants who made the journey. He settl...
A tribute to the twelve million people who emigrated to the U.S. between 1890 and 1920. A recapturing of the journey thr...
In the summer of 1940, as the German Luftwaffe began its assault on England, 10,000 British children were sent on a peri...
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Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad
16 januari 1990
16 jan. 90
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At 25, Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in Paris, the first man to fly across the Atlantic -- handsome, talented, and brave...
He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House and then brought hi...
He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House and then brought hi...
He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House and then brought hi...
Frank Popiolek was 14 when he came to America in 1911, one of 2 million Polish immigrants who made the journey. He settl...
On July 2, 1881, Charles Julius Guiteau shot and fatally wounded President James A. Garfield in the lobby of the Baltimo...
Few events shocked America more than the news in 1957 that Russia had launched the first satellite. It was an assault on...
In 1929, while the stock market was rising, there were few critics. It was a "New Era" when everyone could get rich. But...
A tale of high adventure, enormous human effort and engineering brilliance. On May 2, 1869, when the last railroad spike...
When French settlers, exiled from Nova Scotia, migrated to Louisiana in the 1750s, they mixed with African Americans, Af...
After the stock market crashed in 1929, thousands suffered unemployment and poverty in the Great Depression. The most de...
The story of Mexican American miners -- "los mineros" -- whose pitched labor battles, beginning with the first strike in...
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny spit of New York real estate...
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny spit of New York real estate...
Eugene Dennis fled to Moscow to avoid indictment and prison for his work for the American Communist Party in the late 19...
A tribute to the twelve million people who emigrated to the U.S. between 1890 and 1920. A recapturing of the journey thr...
In the summer of 1940, as the German Luftwaffe began its assault on England, 10,000 British children were sent on a peri...
Of all the alphabet agencies of the New Deal, none captured the public's imagination like J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. During...
Eugene Dennis fled to Moscow to avoid indictment and prison for his work for the American Communist Party in the late 19...
Of all the alphabet agencies of the New Deal, none captured the public's imagination like J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. During...
When French settlers, exiled from Nova Scotia, migrated to Louisiana in the 1750s, they mixed with African Americans, Af...
The tale of mavericks whose risk-taking, sweat and dreams changed an American industry. Starting with Spindletop, the fi...
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LBJ's career started in 1938 when he was elected a congressman, one of the youngest ever. He was elected to the Senate i...
Lyndon Johnson's ascension to the Presidency and the controversial events of his tenure such as the Great Society and th...
The first officially formed regiment of northern black soldiers who fought in the Civil War, the 54th's roster included...
James Michael Curley dominated Boston's politics for almost half a century, building a sophisticated political machine b...
By an abandoned earthen dam, at a mountain resort 14 miles up the valley, the leaders of industry and their families cre...
The shock of what happened on December 7, 1941 has made Pearl Harbor a synonym for deceit and unpreparedness. Produced f...
The rise of the FBI from a minor government bureaucracy to the premiere law enforcement agency in the world under the co...
At a time when black and white musicians rarely performed together, when black musicians were exploited by record compan...
When CBS premiered The $64,000 Question in 1955, the show was more than a hit; it was a national phenomenon. More quiz s...
Eugene Dennis fled to Moscow to avoid indictment and prison for his work for the American Communist Party in the late 19...
For years there was no federal law to protect the shrinking wilderness from encroaching industry and tourism, until thre...
P.T. Barnum was huckster, con man, promoter and entertainer. His American Museum featured ancient relics side by side wi...
In 1875, in St. Augustine, Florida, an ambitious experiment was conceived -- to teach Native Americans to become imitati...
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No family has had such a powerful hold on the American imagination. A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and perso...
No family has had such a powerful hold on the American imagination. A saga of ambition, wealth, family loyalty and perso...
Of all the 19th century pioneer stories, none exerts so powerful a hold on the American imagination as this, during the...
He was bumbling, yet ambitious. He volunteered to serve his country, but insisted on being reimbursed for expenses. He w...
In 1876, when the U.S. Army planned its biggest Indian campaign yet against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, General George...
John Phillip Sousa became America's favorite bandmaster, but band music wasn't Sousa's only passion. He was the first to...
Thirty years after the Supreme Court's "separate but equal" ruling, lawyer Charles Hamilton took over Howard University'...
When he died in 1931 in a plane crash on his way to Hollywood to sign a film contract, the President called it a "nation...
In 1936, Walter Reuther led one of the bitterest, bloodiest battles ever fought in the history of the American labor mov...
She had been a biologist for the federal government when she first took note of the effects of the unregulated use of pe...
In Tulsa, the community of Greenwood was a place where blacks had some measure of financial, social and political indepe...
When French settlers, exiled from Nova Scotia, migrated to Louisiana in the 1750s, they mixed with African Americans, Af...
In Tulsa, the community of Greenwood was a place where blacks had some measure of financial, social and political indepe...
In Tulsa, the community of Greenwood was a place where blacks had some measure of financial, social and political indepe...
When "Ishi," the last surviving member of a small Indian tribe, walked into the small California town of Oroville in 191...
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The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart was one of America's first celebrities. After only a few...
Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, was the culmination of years of bloody incidents along the border. For Amer...
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a decorated general, a skillful politician, a tough Cold War adversary and one of America's lea...
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a decorated general, a skillful politician, a tough Cold War adversary and one of America's lea...
If any man expressed the anger, struggle and insistence of black people for freedom in the sixties, it was Malcolm X. In...
Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust, from Kristallnacht in 1938 through the...
It was truly a "battle of the world," a pivotal turning point in history, and the most dramatic single event in WWII. A...
The Hurricane of '38 chronicles the lives of fishermen, residents and vacationers on the day before the storm, following...
Archival footage and the voices of people who participated provide a unique perspective on the World War II Allied invas...
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The portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt concludes with his years as preside (1932 until his death in 1945), how he dea...
For 40 years, a new religion called spiritualism affected the nation as no other ever had. Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum,...
The little-known story of a black independent film industry that thrived outside of Hollywood and produced close to 500...
The history of World War II's "Battle of the Bulge", when the German army launched a major surprise counteroffensive aga...
In the summer of 1964, two groups converged in Mississippi: one mostly young, white and well educated from out of state;...
In the late 1980s, Iowa farmers Russ and Mary Jane Jordan faced a $200,000 debt and a bottom-line oriented bank. This is...
From Elizabeth Cady Stanton's electrifying call to arms at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the last battle for passage of the N...
From Elizabeth Cady Stanton's electrifying call to arms at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the last battle for passage of the N...
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The Way West (1): Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1845-1864)
8 mei 1995
8 mei 95
A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gas...
A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gas...
A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gas...
A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gas...
A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gas...
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The Way West (1): Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1845-1864)
8 mei 1995
8 mei 95
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In 1906, the murder of Stanford White, New York architect and man-about-town, by Harry K. Thaw, heir to a Pittsburgh rai...
In 1878, Thomas Edison announced his intention to harness Niagara Falls and produce a safe, electric light system. He sa...
While America was reeling from the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King and public outcry against the...
In the mid 19th century, thousands of children roamed the streets of New York in search of money, food and shelter. In a...
In the summer of 1964, two groups converged in Mississippi: one mostly young, white and well educated from out of state;...
Richard J. Daley was born on a street he would never leave and christened in the small church in which he would be burie...
A thinly-veiled portrait of the immensely powerful newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the movie created a buzz l...
Theirs is a quintessential American story of two midwestern boys who believed they could break the barrier of the air, s...
In the spring of 1960, Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Overnight, this top-secre...
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TR is born into a wealthy New York family that has a strong sense of social justice. He fights his severe asthma through...
After McKinley's assassination, Roosevelt becomes an "accidental" president. Seeing himself as a crusader, TR uses the p...
A look at the poor emigrant boy who built a fortune in railroads and steel, and, unlike any industrialist of his time, b...
Liliu'okalani moved easily between two worlds -- she had dined at the White House, had been a guest at Buckingham Palace...
At first rented only "to persons of good breeding," seen as an expensive luxury for doctors and businessmen, within a de...
The little known story of Philo T. Farnsworth, a Utah farm boy who first sketched out his idea for electronic television...
It began with the blizzard of 1888 -- mountains of snow twenty feet high, horse cars and omnibuses abandoned, the city p...
A story of the realities leading to the vanishing role of the family farm in the United States.
At the age of nineteen, Nellie Bly talked her way into an improbable job on a newspaper, then went on to become "the bes...
The 1890's in America were desperate times. A depression brought bank and business failures and forced millions of men a...
"Vietnam: A Television History" begins by tracing the "Roots of a War" to French colonialism.
"America's Mandarin" look...
LBJ Goes to War (1964-65) examines the escalating American involvement following the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Interviewed...
In "America Takes Charge (1965-67)," GIs recall combat experiences during the years of U.S. military escalation. Also: a...
As "Vietnam: A Television History" continues, "America's Enemy (1954-67)" examines the escalating war from the point of...
Vietnam: A Television History": TV-news footage graphically recalls "Tet 1968," the bold North Vietnamese and Vietcong o...
"Vietnam: A Television History": The gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops and their replacement by the South Vietnamese are...
America's involvement in—and secret bombing of—Cambodia and Laos are chronicled as "Vietnam: A Television History" conti...
"Vietnam: A Television History": "Peace Is at Hand (1968-73)" recalls the peace negotiations in Paris, including Henry K...
"Vietnam: A Television History - Homefront U.S.A.," traces the widening rift between supporters and opponents of the war...
"Vietnam: A Television History" concludes with "The End of the Tunnel," which recalls the 1973 Paris accords and the sub...
Ten years after American ground troops arrived in South Vietnam, communists seize Saigon in a lightning attack that brin...
TR is just 46 years old when he is inaugurated as president. He builds the Panama Canal, wins the Nobel Prize for Peace,...
TR opposes his old friend Taft for the 1912 Republican nomination. When Taft wins, TR runs for president with his own Pr...
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T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (1): The Long Campaign
6 oktober 1996
6 okt. 96
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T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (2): The Bully Pulpit
6 oktober 1996
6 okt. 96
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Vietnam: A Television History (11): The End of the Tunnel
28 juli 1997
28 jul. 97
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Vietnam: A Television History (11): The End of the Tunnel
16 december 1997
16 dec. 97
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T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (3): The Good Fight
7 oktober 1996
7 okt. 96
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A study of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president. Part 1 covers his service during World War I; his accomplishments as a s...
Harry S. Truman recalls his post-WWII economic policies; his 1948 presidential campaign; the Korean War; and his celebra...
Chronicling the efforts of historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to gather facts about early American life through the diarie...
Recalling the life of Carl Fisher, the entrepreneur who “sold the glamour of Florida” and turned a swampland into Miami...
Chronicling the epidemic of the Spanish flu in 1918, which claimed “more than 600,000 lives.” Included: futile attempts...
The life and legacy of Ronald Reagan are examined in a two-part study, beginning with his impoverished childhood; his st...
The conclusion of a biography of Ronald Reagan focuses on the president's second term and includes his defense-spending...
Children of 1930s Plains farmers recall the Dust Bowl, the eight-year drought that was made far worse by the 30 years of...
During the Depression-era 1930's, tens of thousands of teenagers hopped freight trains in search of a better life elsewh...
America's involvement in—and secret bombing of—Cambodia and Laos are chronicled as Vietnam: A Television History continu...
Vietnam: A Television History: Peace Is at Hand (1968-73) recalls the peace negotiations in Paris, including Henry Kissi...
Vietnam: A Television History - Homefront U.S.A., traces the widening rift between supporters and opponents of the war,...
Vietnam: A Television History concludes with The End of the Tunnel, which recalls the 1973 Paris accords and the subsequ...
Chronicling the efforts of historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to gather facts about early American life through the diarie...
Recalling the life of Carl Fisher, the entrepreneur who “sold the glamour of Florida” and turned a swampland into Miami...
Chronicling the epidemic of the Spanish flu in 1918, which claimed “more than 600,000 lives.” Included: futile attempts...
The life and legacy of Ronald Reagan are examined in a two-part study, beginning with his impoverished childhood; his st...
The conclusion of a biography of Ronald Reagan focuses on the president's second term and includes his defense-spending...
Children of 1930s Plains farmers recall the Dust Bowl, the eight-year drought that was made far worse by the 30 years of...
During the Depression-era 1930's, tens of thousands of teenagers hopped freight trains in search of a better life elsewh...
During the Depression-era 1930's, tens of thousands of teenagers hopped freight trains in search of a better life elsewh...
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Vietnam: A Television History (11): The End of the Tunnel
16 december 1997
16 dec. 97
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Over one hundred years ago, Americans looked forward to the uncertainty of a new century with a mixture of confidence, o...
At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build a weapon even more...
Rising more than 700 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, it was called one of the greatest engineering w...
In June 1934, Richard Byrd lay alone in a small hut within the polar ice, hovering near death. No one before Byrd had ev...
On January 23, 1909, two ships -- one carrying Italian immigrants to New York City, the other, American tourists to Euro...
At 4:00am on March 28, 1979, a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power facility near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania sud...
In the summer of 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran led the first expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand...
Part 1 of a two-part biography of Douglas MacArthur takes "America's first soldier" from his brilliant WWI service into...
The conclusion of "MacArthur" focuses on his "return" to the Philippines in 1944, his years as Supreme Allied Commander...
During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military. Wives, mothers, actresses and debutante...
The conclusion of "MacArthur" focuses on his "return" to the Philippines in 1944, his years as Supreme Allied Commander...
During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military. Wives, mothers, actresses and debutante...
Part 1 of a two-part biography of Douglas MacArthur takes "America's first soldier" from his brilliant WWI service into...
The conclusion of "MacArthur" focuses on his "return" to the Philippines in 1944, his years as Supreme Allied Commander...
During the Depression-era 1930's, tens of thousands of teenagers hopped freight trains in search of a better life elsewh...
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The Country and the City, 1609-1825: New York, notes narrator David Ogden Stiers, "was a business proposition from the...
"Order and Disorder: 1825-1865" recalls a period of tremendous growth and ferment. Most of the new arrivals were Irish i...
"Sunshine and Shadow: 1865-1898" During the Gilded Age, New York "was home to the greatest concentration of wealth in hu...
"The Power and the People: 1898-1914" recalls the era of mass immigration. "The entire world would arrive on the city's...
"Cosmopolis: 1914-1931" recalls the WWI years and the "Roaring '20s" in the city that F. Scott Fitzgerald called "the la...
Profiling Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), the wife of one president, the niece of another and, says historian Geoffrey Wa...
Mandy Patinkin narrates a biography of Harry Houdini (1874-1926) that focuses on his amazing feats (later ones are seen...
Charting the tortuous three-year gambit that led to Richard Nixon's historic February 1972 visit to the People's Republi...
The duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, narrator Linda Hunt says, was an 1804 gunfight between “the founder...
John Brown could be seen as a hero or a madman (perhaps both), but either way, there's no doubt he played a role in igni...
A haunting two-part profile of George Wallace, who, says narrator Randy Quaid, "divided a nation and launched a conserva...
The conclusion of a two-part profile of George Wallace (1919-98) focuses on his Presidential campaigns and the 1972 atte...
Former slaves spread the gospel of African-American music in an inspiring 2000 chronicle of the 1870s Tennessee vocal gr...
An atmospheric profile of Joe DiMaggio (1914-99), baseball's "Yankee Clipper," explores how and why he played what narra...
Profiling George Eastman (1854-1932), whose Kodak and Brownie cameras "forever changed the way people see their world,"...
In the chaotic decade following the Civil War, a group of young ex-slaves in Nashville, Tennessee, set out on a mission...
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A dramatic two-part profile of the Rockefellers, a family whose name is synonymous with wealth, begins. Part 1 traces ho...
The conclusion of a profile of the Rockefellers explores how John D. Jr. accomplished "the seemingly impossible task of...
Charting the life on the Mississippi of James B. Eads (1820-1887), "one of the greatest engineering geniuses of all time...
Vietnam POWs recall their ordeals -- at times with great poignancy -- in a first-person history that supplements the com...
Recalling the stainless steel trains that crisscrossed the country in high style (and at speeds of greater than 100 mph)...
Recalling racial-pride advocate Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), whose grand (some said grandiose) vision included an Africa r...
Part 1 and 2 of a six-part chronicle of the Abraham Lincoln-Mary Todd relationship begins with their childhoods and cour...
When the Lincolns arrive in Washington, D.C., in 1861, the president-elect is deemed untested and is mistrusted; Mary, m...
The third part recalls 1863, when opposition to the Civil War spread among Northerners: some see the high level of casua...
Following the 17-year struggle to free nine blacks falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. The str...
Recalling the tidal wave of racial conflict that followed in the wake of the surging Mississippi as it inundated the del...
A profile of quintessentially American composer Stephen Foster features interviews with historian Fath Ruffins, biograph...
Tormented by her grief and losing grip on sanity, Mary Lincoln turns to spiritualists for comfort. Though bowed down wit...
As 1863 begins, Northerners resent fighting to free black slaves; others are furious with Abraham Lincoln for the devast...
Following the Union victory at Gettysburg, and the surrender at Appomattox, the president tells Mary Lincoln they can fi...
Recalling the stainless steel trains that crisscrossed the country in high style (and at speeds of greater than 100 mph)...
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"City of Tomorrow (1929-45)" focuses on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who used his close ties to FDR to make the city "a gig...
Conclusion. "The City and the World" begins in 1945, with New York "at the pinnacle," says historian David McCullough. B...
War letters from the American Revolution to the Gulf War are read by 15 actors (including Joan Allen, Edward Norton, Kev...
A two-part profile of Woodrow Wilson in which news clips, atmospheric re-creations and readings (Rene Auberjonois and Bl...
Woodrow Wilson reluctantly enters World War I in an effort to "make the world safe for democracy" as this two-part profi...
Chronicling the 16-year struggle (1925-41) to fashion Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills, and profiling sculpt...
Recalling the 80-year history of the Miss America Pageant and what narrator Cherry Jones calls "a barometer of America's...
"Zoot Suit Riots" recalls a week of violence that rocked Los Angeles in June 1943, pitting Mexican-Americans against Ang...
Recalling the "epic battle" over evolution waged in 1925 by fundamentalist titan William Jennings Bryan and freethinking...
John Dillinger may have been "Public Enemy No. 1" in 1933 and '34, but Americans didn't reflexively hate him, and this h...
Ric Burns' profile of the photographer whose connection to Yosemite is such that a mountain near the park is named for h...
Mathematics genius John Nash recalls his bout with schizophrenia (the subject dramatized in the Oscar-winning film "A Be...
A moody two-part biography of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85). Part 1, "Warrior," quickly sketches his largely unsuccessful p...
The conclusion of this biography of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) covers the last 20 years of the life of "the most popular...
A profile of Ulysses S. Grant, chronicling how he rose from obscurity to become a Civil War hero whose exploits earned h...
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An evocative two-part profile of Jimmy Carter explores how his career has been shaped by what former speechwriter Hendri...
"Hostage," the conclusion of a two-part Jimmy Carter biography, covers his presidency and post-presidency. Human rights...
A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making...
A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making...
A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making...
Recalling the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old black youth in the Mississippi delta, an incident that could very well have l...
Charting the race between the Union Pacific and Central Pacific to construct a transcontinental railroad to link the U.S...
Chronicling the unlikely partnership between a white surgeon and a black "technician" that led to a procedure to correct...
Charting the development of an oral contraceptive during the 1950s and its effect on "the sexual revolution" of the '60s...
"Daughter from Danang," an Oscar-nominated documentary, chronicles the tearful reunion of an Amerasian refugee with her...
"Seabiscuit" recalls the squat and ugly racehorse that riveted the nation in the late 1930s. Interviewees include author...
"Bataan Rescue," narrated by Scott Glenn, recalls the daring January 1945 commando raid that freed 513 survivors of the...
Historian Simon Schama ("A History of Britain") plays sleuth -- searching, he says, "not for literal truth, but for poet...
A profile of former president Jimmy Carter. In 1980, after one term, he lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan, receiving...
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Chicago: City of the Century (1): Mudhole to Metropolis
13 januari 2003
13 jan. 03
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Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun
14 januari 2003
14 jan. 03
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Filmmaker Ric Burns adds a poignant postscript to his series "New York: A Documentary Film" with this chronicle of the W...
"Reconstruction: The Second Civil War," a two-part report, follows political leaders and ordinary Americans alike as it...
"Reconstruction" concludes by following whites and blacks in Georgia, South Carolina and Louisiana between 1867 and 1877...
"Citizen King," a reverential chronicle of the final five years of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, employs eyewitnes...
"Remember the Alamo" recalls the contributions of Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) to the struggle for Texan independence. It p...
"Modern dishes for modern living" (and they "burped," no less), sold by women at "home parties." This slice of 1950s Ame...
Recalling Emma Goldman (1869-1940), the fiery and formidable radical whose life, says narrator Blair Brown, was "dedicat...
"Patriots Day" follows Revolutionary War re-enactors as they prepare to re-fire those shots heard 'round the world on Ap...
Recalling the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, a "graceful leap over an unprecedented space," as narrator David O...
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Events surrounding the loss of the South Vietnamese city and the struggle of those who lived there.
A shy, if driven man, Robert Kennedy "wasn't built for the spotlight, he was built for the wings," says journalist Jack...
"The Fight" recalls the June 1938 heavyweight title bout between Joe Louis and the German Max Schmeling, and assesses it...
Fidel Castro's march through Cuba and the second half of the 20th century is chronicled by filmmaker Adriana Bosch. Here...
Recalls the construction of the 1500-mile "shortcut to Tokyo" through Canada in 1942 by 11,000 U.S. troops (4,000 of the...
Profiling Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the Indiana University zoologist whose "revolutionary picture of American sexuality" rocked...
Profiling Mary Pickford, the silent-screen "sweetheart" who blazed the trail to Hollywood and became "America's first su...
Cyrus Field's struggle to lay telegraph cables across the Atlantic in the 1850s and '60s is chronicled. When Field final...
"The Massie Affair" chronicles a 1931 Honolulu rape case involving a young white Navy wife that became even more serious...
Recalls "the first family of country music" in interviews with Carter relatives, music writers, and singers Gillian Welc...
After Nov. 22, 1963, \"we saw [RFK] grow,\" says civil-rights veteran John Lewis. Kennedy's famously tense relationship...
The Fall of Saigon is the final episode of the multi-award-winning 1983 series Vietnam: A Television History. Told in ne...
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"Two Days in October" recalls two 1967 events -- a Vietcong ambush and a violent antiwar demonstration at the University...
"Race to the Moon" chronicles Apollo 8, the first voyage to the moon. "It was an event beyond all other events," says Wa...
The story of the gambling mecca is told via news clips and reminiscences. Part 1 of 2
News clips and reminiscences tell the story of the gambling mecca, from a dusty railroad town to a leading tourist attra...
An engrossing portrait of the second U.S. president and first lady, costars Simon Russell Beale and Linda Emond. Include...
A gripping study of the groundbreaking prosecution, which began Nov. 20, 1945, as Nazi Germany's leaders were held accou...
A striking profile of the outlaw (1847-82) is told through reenactments, comments from historians and archival photograp...
A look at the coordinated hijacking of four jetliners in 1970 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whic...
An absorbing profile of the esteemed playwright (1888-1953). Included: excerpts from his plays are performed by Al Pacin...
The absorbing story of David Vetter (1971-84), who had severe combined immunodeficiency and lived inside a sterile plast...
The history of the Alaska Pipeline, which was built in the 1970s to transport oil across 800 miles of pristine wildernes...
An on-target profile of the sharpshooter (1860-1926) who was “the first American woman ever to become a superstar.” Incl...
A profile of Joseph Goebbels (1897-45), who helped launch Hitler's rise to power. Kenneth Branagh provides voice-over re...
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Las Vegas: An Unconventional History (2): American Mecca
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Eyes on the Prize (1 & 2): Awakenings 1954-1956 / Fighting Back 1957-1962
2 oktober 2006
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Part 1 of 3 of the award-winning 1987 documentary "Eyes on the Prize." Included: profiles of Mose Wright and Rosa Parks;...
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Eyes on the Prize (3 & 4): Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961/No Easy Walk 1961-1963
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Part 2 of the 1987 documentary "Eyes on the Prize." Included: the 1960 Greensboro, N.C., lunch-counter sit-in; the Stude...
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Eyes on the Prize (5 & 6): Is This America? 1963-1964 / Bridge to Freedom 1965
16 oktober 2006
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Conclusion of the 1987 documentary “Eyes on the Prize.” Included: events of 1963 and '64, when Mississippi became a batt...
History of in vitro fertilization, traces IVF from an early success with rabbits to the present. Included: controversy a...
The history of yellow fever, and how it was determined that the disease was transmitted by mosquitoes. Included: the wor...
A vibrant retelling of the mania that followed the discovery of gold in San Francisco in 1848. "Next to the Civil War in...
One of the first skirmishes of the Cold War, the 1948-49 Soviet blockade of rail and road traffic to and from West Berli...
"The Living Weapon" explores the history of America's biological-weapons program, which began in 1942 with a group that...
A history of New Orleans, from its origins as a French settlement to its post-Katrina present. Included: archival photos...
A profile of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), a popular Pentecostal evangelist during the 1920s and '30s. Incl...
Examines the story behind the November 1978 mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 people were le...
In 1967, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district became a mecca for young people seeking free music, free love and cosmi...
Historian Sarah Barringer Gordon says of the LDS Church "that from the moment of its birth, Mormons were under a kleig l...
An examination of the modern-day LDS Church, including its missionary program; how its followers have entered into the A...
A profile of Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first treasury secretary and a leading force in the post-Revolutionary War...
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Eyes on the Prize (1 & 2): Awakenings 1954-1956 / Fighting Back 1957-1962
2 oktober 2006
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Eyes on the Prize (3 & 4): Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961/No Easy Walk 1961-1963
9 oktober 2006
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Eyes on the Prize (5 & 6): Is This America? 1963-1964 / Bridge to Freedom 1965
16 oktober 2006
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Few Americans then or now accept that a lone, inconsequential gunman could bring down a president and alter history. In...
In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely...
After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insistent call for power. Ma...
A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd Street that forever cha...
The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins electio...
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Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?
17 februari 2008
17 feb. 08
A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize black America. World heavyweight champion Cassius Clay challenges...
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Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement
24 februari 2008
24 feb. 08
In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. I...
An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American...
In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in New York City. It was one of the most elabor...
In 1897, renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedition. At the request...
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a...
Roberto Clemente is an in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial...
When George. H.W. Bush left the Oval Office in 1992, rejected after one tumultuous presidential term, his 30-year career...
George H.W. Bush presents the first in-depth assessment of the 41st president of the United States, drawing upon unparal...
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Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies
3 februari 2008
3 feb. 08
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Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?
17 februari 2008
17 feb. 08
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Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement
24 februari 2008
24 feb. 08
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A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Projec...
The story of the polio crusade pays tribute to a time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease. The...
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Over the next twelve days, as...
From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawy...
In March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, sat down to...
In the spring of 1805, Tenskwatawa (actor Billy Merasty, Cree First Nation), a Shawnee, fell into a trance so deep that...
The Cherokee would call it Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu, “The Trail Where They Cried.” On May 26, 1838, federal troops forced t...
In February of 1909, the indomitable Chiricahua Apache medicine man Geronimo lay on his deathbed. He summoned his nephew...
On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled, horns blaring, into a small hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian R...
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One of the most popular New Deal programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps put three million young men to work in the na...
Wyatt Earp has been portrayed in countless movies and television shows by some of Hollywood's greatest actors, including...
From International Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning producer Zvi Dor-Ner (Israel’s Next War, House of Saud) comes Th...
Dolley Madison lived through the two wars that established the U.S., was friends with the first 12 Presidents, and watch...
Earth Days looks at the road to April 22, 1970, to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement through...
What drove a company of American soldiers — ordinary young men from around the country — to commit the worst atrocity in...
On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King. This is the fateful narrative of the killer and...
The 300-year saga of the American whaling industry, from its origins off the coast of New England, through the age of de...
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A New Adam explores the origins of Christian religion in America and examines how the New World changed the faiths that...
During the 19th century, the forces of modernity challenged traditional faith and drove a wedge between liberal and cons...
Hour five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival t...
Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some,...
From PBS and American Experience - In the summer of 1868, paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh boarded a Union Pacific t...
In 1914, the Panama Canal connected the world’s two largest oceans. American ingenuity and innovation had succeeded wher...
In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they pl...
It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history. A dropped match on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shi...
The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine i...
In 1969, homosexuality was illegal in almost every state... but that was about to change. The Stonewall riots marked a m...
The story of the American civil rights movement told through the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass...
They called themselves the Freedom Riders, and they managed to bring the president and the entire American public face t...
Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some,...
Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some,...
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A fascinating look at the myth and the man behind it, who, in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny o...
A profile of Gen. George Armstrong Custer (1839-76), nicknamed "the boy general" for his Civil War exploits, who died wi...
Part 1 of a two-part profile of former president Bill Clinton charts his path from Hope, Ark., to Washington, D.C., endi...
The conclusion of the Bill Clinton biography recalls the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which led to Clinton becoming the seco...
The first documentary to deeply penetrate and explore this profoundly attention-averse group, The Amish answers many que...
Featuring the men and women who lived and worked at Grand Coulee in the wake of the Great Depression and the Native peop...
Despite Jesse Owens' remarkable victories in the face of Nazi racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the athlete struggled...
With the coming of the Civil War, and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the experience of the Ameri...
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The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and A...
See how the activities of the five principals intersect and affect the anti-slavery movement.
Examine the forces leading to war and to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
An absorbing life story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 2...
Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help...
A broadcast that struck fear into an already anxious nation, Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast was the mos...
A two-part profile of John F. Kennedy begins with his early years, detailing the health challenges he faced; his heroism...
Conclusion. John F. Kennedy's White House years, including the Bay of Pigs fiasco; Cuban Missile Crisis; handling of civ...
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The story of New York City's first medical examiner, Charles Norris (1867-1935), and his chief toxicologist, Alexander G...
Recalling 1964, a pivotal year in U.S. history. While the Beatles captured the imaginations of the nation's youth, Presi...
The Amish practice of shunning those who leave their faith is explored through the experiences of individuals who have l...
The story of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, whose turn-of-the-century exploits made headlines, led them to...
The story of New York's Pennsylvania Station, which opened to the public in 1910. One of the greatest architectural and...
Recalling the summer of 1964 in Mississippi, when student volunteers from around the country joined local activists in a...
In 1959, at the very height of the Cold War, with American schoolchildren practicing duck-and-cover drills, Soviet leade...
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Robert Ripley's obsessie voor het vreemde en nieuwsgierige en scherp oog maakte hem tot een van de meest succesvolle man...
Er wordt herinnerd aan de opkomst van de Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina in de jaren zestig. In 1963 startte Bob Jones Sr...
EDISON onderzoekt de complexe alchemie die verantwoordelijk is voor de blijvende beroemdheid van Amerika's beroemdste ui...
In de zomer van 1910 woedden honderden bosbranden in de noordelijke Rockies. Tegen de tijd dat alles voorbij was, was me...
Aan het begin van de 19e eeuw had de dodelijkste moordenaar in de geschiedenis van de mensheid, tuberculose, één op de z...
Het Noord-Vietnamese leger naderde Saigon en het Zuid-Vietnamese verzet stond op een dieptepunt. Bijna 5.000 Amerikanen...
Eerstehulpverleners, journalisten, winkeleigenaren, mensen in het overvolle controlecentrum van Con Edison aan West End...
In 1966, het jaar waarin Walt Disney stierf, zagen 240 miljoen mensen een Disney-film, 100 miljoen luisterden naar een D...
In 1966, het jaar waarin Walt Disney stierf, zagen 240 miljoen mensen een Disney-film, 100 miljoen luisterden naar een D...
Toen William Morgan op 11 maart 1961 buiten een gevangenis in Havana werd geëxecuteerd, leek zijn vreemde verhaal net zo...
De uitdagingen waarmee de Pilgrims te maken kregen bij het opbouwen van een nieuw leven voor zichzelf resoneren bijna vi...
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Though their exploits were romanticized, the Barrow gang was believed responsible for at least 23 murders, including two...
The story of small people going up against very big forces for a better nation. In the first two decades of the 20th cen...
The story of James Garfield, one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president, and his assassination by a delude...
The shocking story of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 19...
In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extreme forces of the spac...
The story of nine working-class young men from the University of Washington who took the rowing world and America by sto...
Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 2...
View the intense battle in intimate detail in this vivid narrative of combat and survival in the first major military cl...
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An account of an incident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Ark., in 1980 that almost caused the explosion of a...
She set out to save a species...us. An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our rel...
The dramatic story of the country's first subway.
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by literature and ideas of the radical right, kil...
A riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.
Part 1 of 3. President Woodrow Wilson vowed to keep the U.S. out of World War I after hostilities erupted in Europe in...
Part 2 of 3. America's entry into World War I is recalled, including the breathtaking speed of mobilization and the pro...
Part 3 of 3. In the fall of 1918: a major American offensive that could bring a swift end to the war, a lost U.S. batt...
Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 2...
The harrowing 1950 Korean War battle at Chosin Reservoir, in which a surprise attack by 120,000 Chinese troops led to fa...
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The remarkable story of President Theodore Roosevelt’s journey with legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon into the...
In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his country’s most valuable military secret — a...
Meet the titans and barons of the glittering late 19th century, whose materialistic extravagance contrasted harshly with...
Explore the story behind the first terrorist attack in the U.S., a mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financi...
In the summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of ra...
The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chine...
Explore the early days of this popular, influential and distinctly American form of entertainment during an era when mas...
Revisit the heyday of this distinctly American form of entertainment when former rivals Barnum, Bailey and the Ringling...
The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely –– and largely unknown –– campaign to breed a “better” American rac...
In the summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of ra...
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The history of the Everglades is a dramatic yet little known story of humanity’s attempt to conquer nature. The Swamp, t...
In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was...
On 4 October 1957, Soviet scientists launched Sputnik 1 - a beach ball-sized, radio-transmitting aluminium alloy sphere...
What exactly was it going to take for America to beat the Soviets to the moon? Cold War tensions persisted, as rumours c...
After the immediate celebration of 1968’s successful Apollo 8 mission, underlying questions about the space programme em...
In August, 1969, half a million people from all walks of life and every corner of the country converged on a small dairy...
Anderson Hatfield and Randolph McCoy, the patriarchs of the legendary feud, were entrepreneurs seeking to climb up from...
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McCarthy chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator whose zealous anti-communist crusade wou...
The story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish these dangerous substances from dinner tables...
Explore the life of 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, who tried to solve world hunger. He rescued India from...
The latest in our award-winning series of presidential biographies, this film looks at the life and presidency of George...
George W. Bush, part two continues through Bush’s second term, as the president confronts the devastating impact of Hurr...
Mr. Tornado is the remarkable story of Ted Fujita, whose groundbreaking work in research and applied science saved thous...
One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fou...
Part Two examines the mounting dispute over strategy and tactics, and reveals how the pervasive racism of the time, part...
Part Two examines the mounting dispute over strategy and tactics, and reveals how the pervasive racism of the time, part...
In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village...
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Based on the book The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted Ameri...
Explore the fascinating life of celebrated singer Marian Anderson. In 1939, after being barred from performing at Consti...
In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a...
The life of author L. Frank Baum, creator of the classic novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which has inspired films, b...
Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. An international c...
Discover the story of the Supreme Court’s first female justice. A pioneer who both reflected and shaped an era, she was...
William Randolph Hearst builds the nation’s largest media empire by the 1930s. Born into one of America’s wealthiest fam...
William Randolph Hearst continued his rise to power and expansion into Hollywood. The model for Citizen Kane, he had a d...
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The fascinating and surprising story of the iconic American garment. They’re more than just a pair of pants — America’s...
Discover how three Black diplomats broke racial barriers at the US State Department during the Cold War. Asked to repres...
Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the...
Discover how an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. This new docu...
Part 1: Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through stories of those wh...
Part 2: Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through stories of those wh...
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Discover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, seized headlines and...
Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston...
Monopoly is America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. But behind...
Discover the story of the 1969 showdown between President Nixon and the antiwar movement. Told through firsthand account...
Scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and thwarted by her male...
In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a house in the...
The Busing Battleground viscerally captures the class tensions and racial violence that ensued when Black and white stud...
When the Supreme Court issued an order to fully and immediately desegregate schools in October 1969, Leland Mississippi...
The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the rise of Disco music. The hostility came to a head on Jul...
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The story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group which in the 1930s had scores of chapters across the country, re...
The story of the pioneering women who changed the world while flying it. Maligned as feminist sellouts, “stewardesses,”...
The untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the coalition of people who fought tirelessly to save women from ce...
The dramatic and inspiring story of the ordinary women who fought against overwhelming odds for the health and safety of...
When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence during the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a com...
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