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The Great Famine

Aired April 11, 2011

The American effort to relieve starvation in Soviet Russia in 1921 during the worst natural disaster in Europe in 500 years.

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Triangle Fire

Aired January 30, 2018 | 60 min

It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history.

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In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world’s surface that had been described as a "sheer blank." Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism.

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Panama Canal

Aired January 24, 2011 | 83 min

In 1914, the Panama Canal connected the world’s two largest oceans. American ingenuity and innovation had succeeded where the French had failed disastrously, but the U.S. paid a price for victory.

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Dinosaur Wars

Aired January 17, 2011 | 53 min

In the late 19th century, paleontologists Edward Cope and O.C. Marsh uncovered the remains of hundreds of prehistoric animals in the American West, including dozens of previously undiscovered dinosaur species. But the rivalry that developed between them would spiral out of control, permanently damaging their careers and threatening the future of American paleontology.

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Robert E. Lee

Aired January 3, 2011

Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration.

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God in America

Aired October 11, 2010

Inside the tumultuous 400-year history of the intersection of religion and public life in America — from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and FRONTLINE. This six-hour series examines how religious dissidents helped shape the American concept of religious liberty and the controversial evolution of that ideal in the nation's courts and political arena.

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Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World

Aired May 10, 2010 | 112 min

The 300-year saga of the American whaling industry, from its origins off the coast of New England, through the age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the Civil War.

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Roads to Memphis

Aired February 26, 2019 | 53 min

On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King. This is the fateful narrative of the killer and his prey, set against the seething, turbulent forces in American society.

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My Lai

Aired April 21, 2015

What drove a company of American soldiers to commit the worst atrocity in American military history?

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Earth Days

Aired April 19, 2010 | 113 min

A meditation on man’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements and missed opportunities of eco-activism.

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Dolley Madison

Aired March 1, 2010

She defined the role of the President's wife, became America's first First Lady, and in the process changed the face of the American presidency.

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