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The Race Underground

Aired November 12, 2019 | 53 min

Learn how Boston overcame a litany of challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its citizenry to create America’s first subway.

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Rachel Carson

Aired July 1, 2023 | 113 min

An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking writings revolutionized our relationship to the natural world and launched the modern environmental movement.

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Rachel Carson (español)

Aired July 1, 2023 | 113 min

Un retrato íntimo de la mujer cuyos innovadores escritos revolucionaron nuestra relación con el mundo natural y dieron inicio al movimiento ambiental moderno.

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Command and Control

Aired April 25, 2017 | 92 min

How do you manage weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?

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The Battle of Chosin

Aired November 1, 2016 | 113 min

The Korean War battle at Chosin Reservoir is one of the most celebrated in Marine Corps annals. More than 20 veterans of the campaign recount this epic conflict.

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Tesla

Aired December 26, 2018 | 53 min

Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century.

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The Boys of '36

Aired August 1, 2017 | 53 min

The story of nine working-class young men from the University of Washington who took the rowing world and America by storm when they captured the gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

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Inspirada en el aclamado libro de no ficción de Daniel James Brown, Remando como un solo hombre: la historia del equipo de remo que humilló a Hitler, The Boys of '36 es la emocionante historia del equipo olímpico de remo estadounidense que triunfó contra todo pronóstico en la Alemania nazi.Inspirada en el aclamado libro de no ficción de Daniel James Brown, Remando como un solo hombre: la historia del equipo de remo que humilló a Hitler, The Boys of '36 es la emocionante historia del equipo olímpico de remo estadounidense que triunfó contra todo pronóstico en la Alemania nazi.

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Space Men

Aired July 9, 2019 | 52 min

Though largely forgotten today, balloonists were the first to venture into the frozen near-vacuum on the edge of our world, exploring the very limits of human physiology and ingenuity in this lethal realm.

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The Perfect Crime

Aired April 10, 2018 | 52 min

The shocking story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.

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Murder of a President

Aired February 2, 2016 | 112 min

The story of James Garfield, one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president, and his assassination by a deluded madman.

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The Mine Wars

Aired September 3, 2019 | 113 min

At the dawn of the 20th century, the struggle over coal — the material that fueled America — led to the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and turned parts of West Virginia into a bloody war zone.

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