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Building the Alaska Highway

Aired February 7, 2005

The Alaskan Highway stands today as one of the boldest homeland security initiatives ever undertaken.

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Fidel Castro

Aired January 31, 2005

On January 3, 1959, a column of victorious young rebels advanced along Cuba's main highway towards Havana. At the head of the column rode 33-year-old Fidel Castro Ruz.

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On June 22, 1938, 70,000 fans crammed into Yankee Stadium to watch what some have called "the most important sporting event in history" — the rematch between African American heavyweight Joe Louis and his German opponent Max Schmeling.

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RFK

Aired October 4, 2004 | 112 min

When an assassin took his brother's life, Robert Kennedy was bereft of someone he loved, and of a role that had given his life meaning. As he began to move beyond the shadow of his brother, he, too, was assassinated.

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Golden Gate Bridge

Aired May 3, 2004

On May 27, 1937, 200,000 people thronged to the newly-completed Golden Gate bridge and walked, climbed, skated or cycled across. After 18 years of struggles to complete the bridge, San Francisco's jubilance was unrestrained.

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Patriots Day

Aired April 19, 2004

The film follows the re-enactors as they shuffle between their 18th- and 21st-century lives. It captures them building sets, planning military engagements, drilling, rehearsing battles as well as celebrating Thanksgiving, moving house and working. In the end it shows that patriotism, a love of costumes, civic duty, an urge to perform and a passion for history all play a role in these Americans' lives.

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Emma Goldman

Aired May 21, 2019 | 53 min

A notorious lecturer, fearless writer, and merciless publisher, Goldman was one of the most controversial women in America.

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Tupperware!

Aired February 9, 2004

In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands — even millions — of dollars from bowls that burped.

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Remember the Alamo

Aired February 2, 2004

In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Although ruled by Mexico, the region was home to more than 20,000 U.S. settlers agitated by what they saw as restrictive Mexican policies. Mexican officials, concerned with illegal trading and immigration, were prepared to fight hard to keep the province under their control. Caught in the middle were the area's 4,000 Mexican Texans or Tejanos.

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Citizen King

Aired January 19, 2004

In August 1963, a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism.

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Reconstruction: The Second Civil War

Aired January 12, 2004 | 120 min

Spanning the momentous years from 1863 to 1877, Reconstruction tracks the extraordinary stories of ordinary Americans — Southern and Northern, white and black — as they struggle to shape new lives for themselves in a world turned upside down.

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The Center of the World: New York, A Documentary Film

Aired September 8, 2003

New York: The Center of the World examines the rise and fall of the World Trade Center -- from its conception in the post-World War II economic boom, through its controversial construction in the 1960s and 1970s, to its tragic demise in the fall of 2001 and extraordinary response of the city in its aftermath. It is the eighth episode of filmmaker Ric Burns' award-winning series New York: A Documentary Film.

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