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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Triangle Fire

    Aired January 30, 2018 | 60 min

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

  • The Greely Expedition

    Aired February 5, 2019 | 53 min

    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. 

  • 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.

  • 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.