From Enrico Caruso to the ordinary San Franciscan, this film presents vivid memories of those trappe...

While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two high...

As a child in 1899, Angie Debo was taken to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. She would become her state'...

A touching memoir beginning with life in a small Minnesota town and taking us through a young man's...

An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-lif...

A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families who have lived in Big Piney for six...

An intimate portrait of the Kennedy brothers and their confrontation with Alabama Governor George Wa...

The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one a...

An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their...

The evolution of rhythm and blues through the careers of singers Ruth Brown and Charles Brown, from...

Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan, uses the new power of radio to becom...

The design and art of quilting yields intimate clues about the lives of 19th century women, who stit...

The journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Missis...

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty narrates the story of her own Southern childhood and earl...

From the late 1920s through the 1960s, Robert Moses held almost total power over the landscape of Ne...

A Gothic tale of sin and redemption in 19th century New England. A small town in Maine reacts to the...

The first around-the-world air race, sponsored by the Army Air Service to prove that the airplane ha...

Prohibition's effect on Detroit, Michigan, the first major American city to "go dry," where smugglin...

Lise Yasui explores three generations of her Japanese-American family - from their immigration to Or...

All lingering 19th-century notions of the romance of battle were replaced by the terrible reality of...

The tale of mavericks whose risk-taking, sweat and dreams changed an American industry. Starting wit...

There is hardly a city, town or village without a baseball diamond. More than a game, baseball is a...

They started selling watches. Then Richard Sears and Alva Curtis Roebuck started a revolution -- a "...

A stunning film portrait of Yosemite National Park. The film's narration is taken from using the 185...

Affluent, handsome, light-skinned and blond, he could pass for white. But his message about "economi...

A tribute to the twelve million people who emigrated to the U.S. between 1890 and 1920. A recapturin...

Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a pioneer folklorist who in the 1920s began a campaign to preserve mountai...

Born into slavery, she became a journalist and newspaper owner in Memphis, and was radicalized follo...

In the summer of 1940, as the German Luftwaffe began its assault on England, 10,000 British children...

Before WWII, San Francisco's Chinatown was a separate world, closed to outsiders, ruled by rigid hom...

The first major battle for wilderness preservation erupted over the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in...

Men and women, black and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes ou...

At 25, Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in Paris, the first man to fly across the Atlantic -- handsome,...

He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House...

He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House...

He possessed a fateful combination of strengths and weaknesses that propelled him to the White House...

Frank Popiolek was 14 when he came to America in 1911, one of 2 million Polish immigrants who made t...

On July 2, 1881, Charles Julius Guiteau shot and fatally wounded President James A. Garfield in the...

Few events shocked America more than the news in 1957 that Russia had launched the first satellite....

In 1929, while the stock market was rising, there were few critics. It was a "New Era" when everyone...

A tale of high adventure, enormous human effort and engineering brilliance. On May 2, 1869, when the...

When French settlers, exiled from Nova Scotia, migrated to Louisiana in the 1750s, they mixed with A...

After the stock market crashed in 1929, thousands suffered unemployment and poverty in the Great Dep...

The story of Mexican American miners -- "los mineros" -- whose pitched labor battles, beginning with...

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny spit of N...

LBJ's career started in 1938 when he was elected a congressman, one of the youngest ever. He was ele...

Lyndon Johnson's ascension to the Presidency and the controversial events of his tenure such as the...

The first officially formed regiment of northern black soldiers who fought in the Civil War, the 54t...

James Michael Curley dominated Boston's politics for almost half a century, building a sophisticated...

By an abandoned earthen dam, at a mountain resort 14 miles up the valley, the leaders of industry an...

The shock of what happened on December 7, 1941 has made Pearl Harbor a synonym for deceit and unprep...

The rise of the FBI from a minor government bureaucracy to the premiere law enforcement agency in th...

At a time when black and white musicians rarely performed together, when black musicians were exploi...

When CBS premiered The $64,000 Question in 1955, the show was more than a hit; it was a national phe...

Eugene Dennis fled to Moscow to avoid indictment and prison for his work for the American Communist...

For years there was no federal law to protect the shrinking wilderness from encroaching industry and...

P.T. Barnum was huckster, con man, promoter and entertainer. His American Museum featured ancient re...

In 1875, in St. Augustine, Florida, an ambitious experiment was conceived -- to teach Native America...

No family has had such a powerful hold on the American imagination. A saga of ambition, wealth, fami...

No family has had such a powerful hold on the American imagination. A saga of ambition, wealth, fami...

Of all the 19th century pioneer stories, none exerts so powerful a hold on the American imagination...

He was bumbling, yet ambitious. He volunteered to serve his country, but insisted on being reimburse...

In 1876, when the U.S. Army planned its biggest Indian campaign yet against Sitting Bull and Crazy H...

John Phillip Sousa became America's favorite bandmaster, but band music wasn't Sousa's only passion....

Thirty years after the Supreme Court's "separate but equal" ruling, lawyer Charles Hamilton took ove...

When he died in 1931 in a plane crash on his way to Hollywood to sign a film contract, the President...

In 1936, Walter Reuther led one of the bitterest, bloodiest battles ever fought in the history of th...

She had been a biologist for the federal government when she first took note of the effects of the u...

In Tulsa, the community of Greenwood was a place where blacks had some measure of financial, social...

When "Ishi," the last surviving member of a small Indian tribe, walked into the small California tow...

The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart was one of America's first celebriti...

Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, was the culmination of years of bloody incidents along...

Dwight D. Eisenhower was a decorated general, a skillful politician, a tough Cold War adversary and...

Dwight D. Eisenhower was a decorated general, a skillful politician, a tough Cold War adversary and...

If any man expressed the anger, struggle and insistence of black people for freedom in the sixties,...

Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust, from Kristallnacht...

It was truly a "battle of the world," a pivotal turning point in history, and the most dramatic sing...

The Hurricane of '38 chronicles the lives of fishermen, residents and vacationers on the day before...

Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who st...

In this second episode, the subject is FDR's courageous fight with polio. With his wife Eleanor Roos...

In episode 3, the subject is FDR's leadership of America during the Great Depression. The nation tur...

The portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt concludes with his years as preside (1932 until his death...

For 40 years, a new religion called spiritualism affected the nation as no other ever had. Abraham L...

The little-known story of a black independent film industry that thrived outside of Hollywood and pr...

The history of World War II's "Battle of the Bulge", when the German army launched a major surprise...

From Elizabeth Cady Stanton's electrifying call to arms at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the last battle...

From Elizabeth Cady Stanton's electrifying call to arms at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the last battle...

A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 unti...

A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 unti...

A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 unti...

A six-hour documentary of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 unti...

In 1906, the murder of Stanford White, New York architect and man-about-town, by Harry K. Thaw, heir...

In 1878, Thomas Edison announced his intention to harness Niagara Falls and produce a safe, electric...

While America was reeling from the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King and publi...

In the mid 19th century, thousands of children roamed the streets of New York in search of money, fo...

In the summer of 1964, two groups converged in Mississippi: one mostly young, white and well educate...

Richard J. Daley was born on a street he would never leave and christened in the small church in whi...

A thinly-veiled portrait of the immensely powerful newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the mo...

Theirs is a quintessential American story of two midwestern boys who believed they could break the b...

In the spring of 1960, Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Overn...

TR is born into a wealthy New York family that has a strong sense of social justice. He fights his s...

After McKinley's assassination, Roosevelt becomes an "accidental" president. Seeing himself as a cru...

A look at the poor emigrant boy who built a fortune in railroads and steel, and, unlike any industri...

Liliu'okalani moved easily between two worlds -- she had dined at the White House, had been a guest...

At first rented only "to persons of good breeding," seen as an expensive luxury for doctors and busi...

The little known story of Philo T. Farnsworth, a Utah farm boy who first sketched out his idea for e...

It began with the blizzard of 1888 -- mountains of snow twenty feet high, horse cars and omnibuses a...

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 o...

The 1890's in America were desperate times. A depression brought bank and business failures and forc...

"Vietnam: A Television History" begins by tracing the "Roots of a War" to French colonialism. "Amer...

LBJ Goes to War (1964-65) examines the escalating American involvement following the Tonkin Gulf Res...

In "America Takes Charge (1965-67)," GIs recall combat experiences during the years of U.S. military...

As "Vietnam: A Television History" continues, "America's Enemy (1954-67)" examines the escalating wa...

Vietnam: A Television History": TV-news footage graphically recalls "Tet 1968," the bold North Vietn...

"Vietnam: A Television History": The gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops and their replacement by the...

America's involvement in—and secret bombing of—Cambodia and Laos are chronicled as "Vietnam: A Telev...

"Vietnam: A Television History": "Peace Is at Hand (1968-73)" recalls the peace negotiations in Pari...

"Vietnam: A Television History - Homefront U.S.A.," traces the widening rift between supporters and...

"Vietnam: A Television History" concludes with "The End of the Tunnel," which recalls the 1973 Paris...

TR is just 46 years old when he is inaugurated as president. He builds the Panama Canal, wins the No...

TR opposes his old friend Taft for the 1912 Republican nomination. When Taft wins, TR runs for presi...

A study of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president. Part 1 covers his service during World War I; his ac...

Harry S. Truman recalls his post-WWII economic policies; his 1948 presidential campaign; the Korean...

Chronicling the efforts of historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to gather facts about early American lif...

Recalling the life of Carl Fisher, the entrepreneur who “sold the glamour of Florida” and turned a s...

Chronicling the epidemic of the Spanish flu in 1918, which claimed “more than 600,000 lives.” Includ...

The life and legacy of Ronald Reagan are examined in a two-part study, beginning with his impoverish...

The conclusion of a biography of Ronald Reagan focuses on the president's second term and includes h...

Children of 1930s Plains farmers recall the Dust Bowl, the eight-year drought that was made far wors...

During the Depression-era 1930's, tens of thousands of teenagers hopped freight trains in search of...

Over one hundred years ago, Americans looked forward to the uncertainty of a new century with a mixt...

At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build...

Rising more than 700 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, it was called one of the gr...

In June 1934, Richard Byrd lay alone in a small hut within the polar ice, hovering near death. No on...

On January 23, 1909, two ships -- one carrying Italian immigrants to New York City, the other, Ameri...

At 4:00am on March 28, 1979, a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power facility near Harrisbu...

In the summer of 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran led the first expedition down the Colorado Rive...

Part 1 of a two-part biography of Douglas MacArthur takes "America's first soldier" from his brillia...

The conclusion of "MacArthur" focuses on his "return" to the Philippines in 1944, his years as Supre...

During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military. Wives, mothers, act...

The Country and the City, 1609-1825: New York, notes narrator David Ogden Stiers, "was a business p...

"Order and Disorder: 1825-1865" recalls a period of tremendous growth and ferment. Most of the new a...

"Sunshine and Shadow: 1865-1898" During the Gilded Age, New York "was home to the greatest concentra...

"The Power and the People: 1898-1914" recalls the era of mass immigration. "The entire world would a...

"Cosmopolis: 1914-1931" recalls the WWI years and the "Roaring '20s" in the city that F. Scott Fitzg...

Profiling Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), the wife of one president, the niece of another and, says h...

Mandy Patinkin narrates a biography of Harry Houdini (1874-1926) that focuses on his amazing feats (...

Charting the tortuous three-year gambit that led to Richard Nixon's historic February 1972 visit to...

The duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, narrator Linda Hunt says, was an 1804 gunfight b...

John Brown could be seen as a hero or a madman (perhaps both), but either way, there's no doubt he p...

A haunting two-part profile of George Wallace, who, says narrator Randy Quaid, "divided a nation and...

The conclusion of a two-part profile of George Wallace (1919-98) focuses on his Presidential campaig...

Former slaves spread the gospel of African-American music in an inspiring 2000 chronicle of the 1870...

An atmospheric profile of Joe DiMaggio (1914-99), baseball's "Yankee Clipper," explores how and why...

Profiling George Eastman (1854-1932), whose Kodak and Brownie cameras "forever changed the way peopl...

A dramatic two-part profile of the Rockefellers, a family whose name is synonymous with wealth, begi...

The conclusion of a profile of the Rockefellers explores how John D. Jr. accomplished "the seemingly...

Charting the life on the Mississippi of James B. Eads (1820-1887), "one of the greatest engineering...

Vietnam POWs recall their ordeals -- at times with great poignancy -- in a first-person history that...

Recalling the stainless steel trains that crisscrossed the country in high style (and at speeds of g...

Recalling racial-pride advocate Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), whose grand (some said grandiose) vision...

Part 1 and 2 of a six-part chronicle of the Abraham Lincoln-Mary Todd relationship begins with their...

When the Lincolns arrive in Washington, D.C., in 1861, the president-elect is deemed untested and is...

The third part recalls 1863, when opposition to the Civil War spread among Northerners: some see the...

Following the 17-year struggle to free nine blacks falsely accused of raping two white women in Alab...

Recalling the tidal wave of racial conflict that followed in the wake of the surging Mississippi as...

A profile of quintessentially American composer Stephen Foster features interviews with historian Fa...

"City of Tomorrow (1929-45)" focuses on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who used his close ties to FDR to...

Conclusion. "The City and the World" begins in 1945, with New York "at the pinnacle," says historian...

War letters from the American Revolution to the Gulf War are read by 15 actors (including Joan Allen...

A two-part profile of Woodrow Wilson in which news clips, atmospheric re-creations and readings (Ren...

Woodrow Wilson reluctantly enters World War I in an effort to "make the world safe for democracy" as...

Chronicling the 16-year struggle (1925-41) to fashion Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills,...

Recalling the 80-year history of the Miss America Pageant and what narrator Cherry Jones calls "a ba...

"Zoot Suit Riots" recalls a week of violence that rocked Los Angeles in June 1943, pitting Mexican-A...

Recalling the "epic battle" over evolution waged in 1925 by fundamentalist titan William Jennings Br...

John Dillinger may have been "Public Enemy No. 1" in 1933 and '34, but Americans didn't reflexively...

Ric Burns' profile of the photographer whose connection to Yosemite is such that a mountain near the...

Mathematics genius John Nash recalls his bout with schizophrenia (the subject dramatized in the Osca...

A moody two-part biography of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85). Part 1, "Warrior," quickly sketches his la...

The conclusion of this biography of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) covers the last 20 years of the life...

An evocative two-part profile of Jimmy Carter explores how his career has been shaped by what former...

"Hostage," the conclusion of a two-part Jimmy Carter biography, covers his presidency and post-presi...

A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Ch...

A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Ch...

A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Ch...

Recalling the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old black youth in the Mississippi delta, an incident that co...

Charting the race between the Union Pacific and Central Pacific to construct a transcontinental rail...

Chronicling the unlikely partnership between a white surgeon and a black "technician" that led to a...

Charting the development of an oral contraceptive during the 1950s and its effect on "the sexual rev...

"Daughter from Danang," an Oscar-nominated documentary, chronicles the tearful reunion of an Amerasi...

"Seabiscuit" recalls the squat and ugly racehorse that riveted the nation in the late 1930s. Intervi...

"Bataan Rescue," narrated by Scott Glenn, recalls the daring January 1945 commando raid that freed 5...

Historian Simon Schama ("A History of Britain") plays sleuth -- searching, he says, "not for literal...

Filmmaker Ric Burns adds a poignant postscript to his series "New York: A Documentary Film" with thi...

"Reconstruction: The Second Civil War," a two-part report, follows political leaders and ordinary Am...

"Reconstruction" concludes by following whites and blacks in Georgia, South Carolina and Louisiana b...

"Citizen King," a reverential chronicle of the final five years of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s lif...

"Remember the Alamo" recalls the contributions of Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) to the struggle for Texa...

"Modern dishes for modern living" (and they "burped," no less), sold by women at "home parties." Thi...

Recalling Emma Goldman (1869-1940), the fiery and formidable radical whose life, says narrator Blair...

"Patriots Day" follows Revolutionary War re-enactors as they prepare to re-fire those shots heard 'r...

Recalling the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, a "graceful leap over an unprecedented space,"...

A shy, if driven man, Robert Kennedy "wasn't built for the spotlight, he was built for the wings," s...

"The Fight" recalls the June 1938 heavyweight title bout between Joe Louis and the German Max Schmel...

Fidel Castro's march through Cuba and the second half of the 20th century is chronicled by filmmaker...

Recalls the construction of the 1500-mile "shortcut to Tokyo" through Canada in 1942 by 11,000 U.S....

Profiling Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the Indiana University zoologist whose "revolutionary picture of Americ...

Profiling Mary Pickford, the silent-screen "sweetheart" who blazed the trail to Hollywood and became...

Cyrus Field's struggle to lay telegraph cables across the Atlantic in the 1850s and '60s is chronicl...

"The Massie Affair" chronicles a 1931 Honolulu rape case involving a young white Navy wife that beca...

Recalls "the first family of country music" in interviews with Carter relatives, music writers, and...

"Two Days in October" recalls two 1967 events -- a Vietcong ambush and a violent antiwar demonstrati...

"Race to the Moon" chronicles Apollo 8, the first voyage to the moon. "It was an event beyond all ot...

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 l...

An engrossing portrait of the second U.S. president and first lady, costars Simon Russell Beale and...

A gripping study of the groundbreaking prosecution, which began Nov. 20, 1945, as Nazi Germany's lea...

A striking profile of the outlaw (1847-82) is told through reenactments, comments from historians an...

A look at the coordinated hijacking of four jetliners in 1970 by the Popular Front for the Liberatio...

An absorbing profile of the esteemed playwright (1888-1953). Included: excerpts from his plays are p...

The absorbing story of David Vetter (1971-84), who had severe combined immunodeficiency and lived in...

The history of the Alaska Pipeline, which was built in the 1970s to transport oil across 800 miles o...

An on-target profile of the sharpshooter (1860-1926) who was “the first American woman ever to becom...

A profile of Joseph Goebbels (1897-45), who helped launch Hitler's rise to power. Kenneth Branagh pr...

Part 1 of 3 of the award-winning 1987 documentary "Eyes on the Prize." Included: profiles of Mose Wr...

Part 2 of the 1987 documentary "Eyes on the Prize." Included: the 1960 Greensboro, N.C., lunch-count...

Conclusion of the 1987 documentary “Eyes on the Prize.” Included: events of 1963 and '64, when Missi...

History of in vitro fertilization, traces IVF from an early success with rabbits to the present. Inc...

The history of yellow fever, and how it was determined that the disease was transmitted by mosquitoe...

A vibrant retelling of the mania that followed the discovery of gold in San Francisco in 1848. "Next...

One of the first skirmishes of the Cold War, the 1948-49 Soviet blockade of rail and road traffic to...

"The Living Weapon" explores the history of America's biological-weapons program, which began in 194...

A history of New Orleans, from its origins as a French settlement to its post-Katrina present. Inclu...

A profile of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), a popular Pentecostal evangelist during the...

Examines the story behind the November 1978 mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, where more tha...

In 1967, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district became a mecca for young people seeking free music,...

Historian Sarah Barringer Gordon says of the LDS Church "that from the moment of its birth, Mormons...

An examination of the modern-day LDS Church, including its missionary program; how its followers hav...

A profile of Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first treasury secretary and a leading force in the po...

Few Americans then or now accept that a lone, inconsequential gunman could bring down a president an...

In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cu...

After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insisten...

A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd Str...

The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl...

A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize black America. World heavyweight champion Cas...

In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement ar...

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice mar...

In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in New York City. It was on...

In 1897, renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedi...

This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working class childhood in Long Island...

Roberto Clemente is an in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian wh...

When George. H.W. Bush left the Oval Office in 1992, rejected after one tumultuous presidential term...

George H.W. Bush presents the first in-depth assessment of the 41st president of the United States,...

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-sec...

The story of the polio crusade pays tribute to a time when Americans banded together to conquer a te...

On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Over the n...

From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the M...

In March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wa...

In the spring of 1805, Tenskwatawa (actor Billy Merasty, Cree First Nation), a Shawnee, fell into a...

The Cherokee would call it Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu, “The Trail Where They Cried.” On May 26, 1838, fed...

In February of 1909, the indomitable Chiricahua Apache medicine man Geronimo lay on his deathbed. He...

On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled, horns blaring, into a small hamlet on the...

One of the most popular New Deal programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps put three million young m...

Wyatt Earp has been portrayed in countless movies and television shows by some of Hollywood's greate...

From International Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning producer Zvi Dor-Ner (Israel’s Next War, Hou...

Dolley Madison lived through the two wars that established the U.S., was friends with the first 12 P...

Earth Days looks at the road to April 22, 1970, to the dawn and development of the modern environmen...

What drove a company of American soldiers — ordinary young men from around the country — to commit t...

On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King. This is the fateful narrati...

The 300-year saga of the American whaling industry, from its origins off the coast of New England, t...

A New Adam explores the origins of Christian religion in America and examines how the New World chan...

During the 19th century, the forces of modernity challenged traditional faith and drove a wedge betw...

Hour five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a...

Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascin...

From PBS and American Experience - In the summer of 1868, paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh board...

In 1914, the Panama Canal connected the world’s two largest oceans. American ingenuity and innovatio...

In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to Lady Franklin Bay in the high A...

It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history. A dropped match on the 8th floor...

The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921...

In 1969, homosexuality was illegal in almost every state... but that was about to change. The Stonew...

The story of the American civil rights movement told through the freedom songs protesters sang on pi...

They called themselves the Freedom Riders, and they managed to bring the president and the entire Am...

A fascinating look at the myth and the man behind it, who, in just a few short years transformed him...

A profile of Gen. George Armstrong Custer (1839-76), nicknamed "the boy general" for his Civil War e...

Part 1 of a two-part profile of former president Bill Clinton charts his path from Hope, Ark., to Wa...

The conclusion of the Bill Clinton biography recalls the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which led to Clint...

The first documentary to deeply penetrate and explore this profoundly attention-averse group, The Am...

Featuring the men and women who lived and worked at Grand Coulee in the wake of the Great Depression...

Despite Jesse Owens' remarkable victories in the face of Nazi racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, th...

With the coming of the Civil War, and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the exp...

The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Sto...

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 America...

Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical inn...

A broadcast that struck fear into an already anxious nation, Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio b...

A two-part profile of John F. Kennedy begins with his early years, detailing the health challenges h...

Conclusion. John F. Kennedy's White House years, including the Bay of Pigs fiasco; Cuban Missile Cri...

The story of New York City's first medical examiner, Charles Norris (1867-1935), and his chief toxic...

Recalling 1964, a pivotal year in U.S. history. While the Beatles captured the imaginations of the n...

The Amish practice of shunning those who leave their faith is explored through the experiences of in...

The story of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, whose turn-of-the-century exploits made hea...

The story of New York's Pennsylvania Station, which opened to the public in 1910. One of the greates...

Recalling the summer of 1964 in Mississippi, when student volunteers from around the country joined...

In 1959, at the very height of the Cold War, with American schoolchildren practicing duck-and-cover...

Robert Ripley's obsession with the odd and keen eye for the curious made him one of the most success...

The rise of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina during the 1960s is recalled. In 1963, Bob Jones Sr....

EDISON explores the complex alchemy that accounts for the enduring celebrity of America's most famou...

In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was a...

By the dawn of the 19th century, the most deadly killer in human history, tuberculosis, had killed o...

The North Vietnamese Army was nearing Saigon and the South Vietnamese resistance was at a low. Nearl...

First responders, journalists, shop owners, those inside the pressure-packed control center of Con E...

In 1966, the year Walt Disney died, 240 million people saw a Disney movie, 100 million tuned in to a...

In 1966, the year Walt Disney died, 240 million people saw a Disney movie, 100 million tuned in to a...

When William Morgan was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, his strange story seemed...

The challenges the Pilgrims faced in making new lives for themselves still resonate almost 400 years...

Though their exploits were romanticized, the Barrow gang was believed responsible for at least 23 mu...

The story of small people going up against very big forces for a better nation. In the first two dec...

The story of James Garfield, one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president, and his assas...

The shocking story of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 1...

In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extrem...

The story of nine working-class young men from the University of Washington who took the rowing worl...

Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the ele...

View the intense battle in intimate detail in this vivid narrative of combat and survival in the fir...

An account of an incident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Ark., in 1980 that almost cause...

She set out to save a species...us. An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books re...

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 th...

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 e...

Part 2 of 3. America's entry into World War I is recalled, including the breathtaking speed of mobi...

Part 3 of 3. In the fall of 1918: a major American offensive that could bring a swift end to the w...

The remarkable story of President Theodore Roosevelt’s journey with legendary Brazilian explorer Can...

In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his country’s most valuable...

Meet the titans and barons of the glittering late 19th century, whose materialistic extravagance con...

Explore the story behind the first terrorist attack in the U.S., a mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in...

In the summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a dras...

The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to A...

Explore the early days of this popular, influential and distinctly American form of entertainment du...

Revisit the heyday of this distinctly American form of entertainment when former rivals Barnum, Bail...

The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely –– and largely unknown –– campaign to breed a “...

The history of the Everglades is a dramatic yet little known story of humanity’s attempt to conquer...

In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into...

On 4 October 1957, Soviet scientists launched Sputnik 1 - a beach ball-sized, radio-transmitting alu...

What exactly was it going to take for America to beat the Soviets to the moon? Cold War tensions per...

After the immediate celebration of 1968’s successful Apollo 8 mission, underlying questions about th...

In August, 1969, half a million people from all walks of life and every corner of the country conver...

Anderson Hatfield and Randolph McCoy, the patriarchs of the legendary feud, were entrepreneurs seeki...

McCarthy chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator whose zealous anti-c...

The story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish these dangerous substance...

Explore the life of 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, who tried to solve world hunger. H...

The latest in our award-winning series of presidential biographies, this film looks at the life and...

George W. Bush, part two continues through Bush’s second term, as the president confronts the devast...

Mr. Tornado is the remarkable story of Ted Fujita, whose groundbreaking work in research and applied...

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination s...

Part Two examines the mounting dispute over strategy and tactics, and reveals how the pervasive raci...

Based on the book The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine...

Explore the fascinating life of celebrated singer Marian Anderson. In 1939, after being barred from...

In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWI...

The life of author L. Frank Baum, creator of the classic novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which h...

Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century...

Discover the story of the Supreme Court’s first female justice. A pioneer who both reflected and sha...

William Randolph Hearst builds the nation’s largest media empire by the 1930s. Born into one of Amer...

William Randolph Hearst continued his rise to power and expansion into Hollywood. The model for Citi...

The fascinating and surprising story of the iconic American garment. They’re more than just a pair o...

Discover how three Black diplomats broke racial barriers at the US State Department during the Cold...

Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engin...

Discover how an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Fran...

Part 1: Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through...

Part 2: Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through...

Discover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, s...

Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist,...

Monopoly is America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market...

Discover the story of the 1969 showdown between President Nixon and the antiwar movement. Told throu...

Scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and...

In the 1950s and ’60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refu...

The Busing Battleground viscerally captures the class tensions and racial violence that ensued when...

When the Supreme Court issued an order to fully and immediately desegregate schools in October 1969,...

The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the rise of Disco music. The hostility c...

The story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group which in the 1930s had scores of chapters ac...

The story of the pioneering women who changed the world while flying it. Maligned as feminist sellou...

The untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the coalition of people who fought tirelessly t...

The dramatic and inspiring story of the ordinary women who fought against overwhelming odds for the...

When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence during the summer of 1967, President Joh...

The American Vice President explores the little-known story of the second-highest office in the land...

American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully...

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to gi...

The emotional and dramatic story of the decades-long push for equality and accessibility that culmin...

Before the iPhone, the Polaroid camera let people instantly chronicle their lives. Along with instan...