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  • The Abolitionists

    Aired January 8, 2013 | 2 hrs 34 min

    Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called by many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union.

  • Death and the Civil War

    Aired September 18, 2012

    The staggering death tolls of the Civil War permanently altered the character of the republic and the psyche of the American people.

  • Jesse Owens

    Aired August 3, 2021 | 53 min

    His stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. 

  • Grand Coulee Dam

    Aired April 18, 2017 | 82 min

    At once the story of an astonishing engineering achievement, and a cautionary tale about arrogance, our relationship to the natural world, and the price of progress.

  • The Amish

    Aired February 21, 2012

    Their intense faith and strict adherence to 300-year-old traditions have by turn captivated and repelled, awed and irritated, inspired and confused America.

  • Clinton

    Aired July 28, 2020 | 3 hrs 46 min

    A president who rose from a broken childhood to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage.

  • Custer's Last Stand

    Aired January 17, 2015 | 120 min

    The Last Stand, the final act of General George Custer's larger-than-life career, played out on a grand stage with a spellbound public engrossed in the drama. Part of the Wild West collection.

  • Billy the Kid

    Aired January 10, 2012 | 113 min

    The boy behind the myth, who in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orphan to the most feared man in the West and an enduring icon. Part of The Wild West collection.

  • Freedom Riders

    Aired April 1, 2023 | 113 min

    The powerful, harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever.

  • Freedom Riders (español)

    Aired April 1, 2023 | 113 min

    La poderosa, desgarradora e inspiradora historia de seis meses en 1961 que cambiaron para siempre a Estados Unidos.

  • Soundtrack for a Revolution

    Aired May 9, 2011

    The story of the American civil rights movement is told through its powerful music -- the freedom songs that protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in police wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality.

  • Stonewall Uprising

    Aired June 10, 2023 | 92 min

    In 1969, homosexuality was illegal in almost every state... but that was about to change. The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement.