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A Class Apart

Aired February 23, 2009 | 53 min

From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination.

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The Polio Crusade

Aired December 7, 2022 | 53 min

The story of the polio crusade pays tribute to a time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease. The medical breakthrough saved countless lives and had a pervasive impact on American philanthropy that continues to be felt today.

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The Polio Crusade (español)

Aired December 7, 2022 | 53 min

La historia de THE POLIO CRUSADE rinde homenaje a una época en la que los estadounidenses se unieron para vencer una terrible enfermedad. El resultado fue un avance médico que salvó innumerables vidas y tuvo un gran impacto en la filantropía estadounidense, el cual sigue sintiéndose hoy en día.

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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Aired January 26, 2009 | 113 min

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

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George H.W. Bush

Aired December 4, 2018 | 3 hrs 10 min

The life and career of our 41st president, from his service in World War II to the Oval Office, and his role as the patriarch of a political family whose influence is unequaled in modern American life.

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Roberto Clemente

Aired January 25, 2022 | 53 min

An in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination to become baseball’s first Latino superstar.
Visite la página en español de la película y véala con subtítulos en español.

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Roberto Clemente (español)

Aired January 25, 2022 | 53 min

Una mirada en profundidad a un excepcional beisbolista y a un comprometido filántropo que desafió la discriminación racial para convertirse en la primera superestrella latina del beisbol.

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Walt Whitman

Aired April 14, 2008

He is today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot and faithful advocate of democracy.

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Minik

Aired March 31, 2008

In 1897, renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedition. At the request of anthropologist Franz Boas, he brought with him five polar Inuits for study at the American Museum of Natural History. Within months, four of them had fallen sick and died, leaving a seven-year-old boy named Minik to fend for himself in a foreign land.

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