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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.

     

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Murder at Harvard

    Aired July 14, 2003

    Inspired by a book by historian Simon Schama, Murder at Harvard uses drama and documentary to re-examine this grisly episode. 

  • Bataan Rescue

    Aired July 7, 2003

    In late 1941, tens of thousands of American and Filipino soldiers fought a desperate battle to defend the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines from the Japanese. When they lost, they were marched to prison camps in sweltering heat through a mosquito-infested jungle with little or no food or water. Many thousands died along the way.

  • Seabiscuit

    Aired April 21, 2003

    One of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history, Seabiscuit was the long shot that captured America's heart during the Depression.

  • Daughter from Danang

    Aired April 7, 2003

    Daughter From Danang cuts between mother and daughter as the two recall the pain of their separation, and retraces Hiep's journey from Vietnam to Pulaski, Tennessee, where she is adopted by a single woman and renamed Heidi.

  • The Pill

    Aired February 24, 2003

    In May 1960, the FDA approved the sale of a pill that arguably would have a greater impact on American culture than any other drug in the nation's history.

  • Partners of the Heart

    Aired February 10, 2003

    In 1944, two men at Johns Hopkins University Hospital pioneered a groundbreaking procedure that would save thousands of so-called blue babies' lives.

  • The Transcontinental Railroad

    Aired January 27, 2003

    The remarkable story of greed, innovation and gritty determination to build a railroad connecting California to the East.

  • The Murder of Emmett Till

    Aired April 15, 2023 | 53 min

    In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was murdered by two white men. His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement.