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Test Tube Babies

Aired December 14, 2022 | 53 min

Test Tube Babies tells the story of doctors, researchers, and hopeful couples who pushed the limits of science and triggered a technological revolution in human reproduction.

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Test Tube Babies cuenta la historia de los médicos, los investigadores y las esperanzadas parejas que empujaron los límites de la ciencia y desencadenaron una revolución tecnológica en la reproducción humana.

Eyes on the Prize

Aired April 4, 2021

Eyes on the Prize is an award-winning 14-hour television that covers all of the major events of the civil rights movement from 1954-1985., including the Montgomery bus boycott in 1954 to the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

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The Man Behind Hitler

Aired May 22, 2006

A symbol of Nazi cruelty and a master of cynical propaganda, Joseph Goebbels was the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's disturbing success. Goebbels, called the "genius of spin" and the "Reich-Liar-General," was a complicated man whose attitudes fluctuated between extremes of self-pity and grandiose excess.

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Annie Oakley

Aired May 14, 2019 | 53 min

As the star attraction of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Annie Oakley thrilled audiences around the world with her shooting feats.

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Annie Oakley (español)

Aired May 14, 2019 | 53 min

Como la principal atracción del Show del Lejano Oeste de Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley emocionó al público de todo el mundo con sus hazañas de tiro.

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The Alaska Pipeline

Aired April 24, 2006 | 120 min

In the early weeks of 1968, after a decade-long search for oil in Alaska's frozen wilderness, gas burst out of an exploratory well on the North Slope with such force the crew thought it was about to blow. Geologists soon calculated that as much as ten billion barrels of oil lay below the frozen tundra of Prudhoe Bay -- the largest oil find in North America.

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The Boy in the Bubble

Aired April 10, 2006

When David Vetter died at the age of 12, he was already world famous: the boy in the plastic bubble. Mythologized as the plucky, handsome child who had defied the odds, his life story is in fact even more dramatic.

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Eugene O'Neill

Aired March 27, 2006

Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright — set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art. This American Experience production is a moving meditation on loss and redemption, family and memory, the cost of being an artist, and the inescapability of the past.

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Hijacked!

Aired February 27, 2006

For more than 30 years it would be known as "the blackest day in aviation history." On September 6, 1970, members of the militant Palestinian group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.), hijacked four commercial airplanes. They commandeered a fifth aircraft three days later. Wanting to attract attention to the Palestinian cause and secure the release of several of their comrades, the P.F.L.P. spectacularly blew up four of the planes.

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Jesse James

Aired February 6, 2006

He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself.

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The Nuremberg Trials

Aired January 30, 2006

The story of the dramatic post-World War II tribunal that brought Nazi leaders to justice and defines trial procedure for state criminals to this day.

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