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Blackout

Aired July 14, 2015 | 52 min

What happened when the lights went out in New York City on July 13, 1977?

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April, 1975. During the chaotic final days of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, those in control faced an impossible decision—who would go and who would be left behind to face brutality, imprisonment, or even death.

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The Forgotten Plague

Aired February 10, 2015 | 52 min

By the 19th century, the deadliest killer in human history, tuberculosis, had killed one in seven of all people who had ever lived. The disease struck America with a vengeance, touching the lives of almost every family.

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The Big Burn

Aired September 7, 2022 | 53 min

In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead. It was the largest fire in American history.

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The Big Burn (español)

Aired September 7, 2022 | 53 min

En 1910, el mayor incendio en la historia de EE. UU. se desató en las Rocosas del Norte.

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Klansville U.S.A.

Aired January 13, 2015 | 52 min

In the 1960s, North Carolina's KKK membership grew to some ten thousand members, earning the state a new nickname: "Klansville, U.S.A."

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Ripley: Believe It or Not

Aired May 2, 2017 | 52 min

Robert Ripley's obsession with the odd and keen eye for the curious made him one of the most successful men in America during the Great Depression. We still can’t resist his challenge to “Believe it — or not!”

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Cold War Roadshow

Aired November 18, 2014 | 52 min

In September 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made an unprecedented visit to America, creating a media circus as he traveled from coast to coast.

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Freedom Summer

Aired April 8, 2023 | 113 min

A historic effort in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.

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Freedom Summer (español)

Aired April 8, 2023 | 113 min

Un histórico esfuerzo en el verano de 1964 por destrozar los cimientos de la supremacía blanca en lo que era uno de los estados más agresivamente racistas y segregados del país.

The Rise and Fall of Penn Station

Aired February 18, 2014

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company accomplished an enormous engineering feat, but destroyed a great architectural monument.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Aired February 11, 2014 | 52 min

Long before Paul Newman and Robert Redford immortalized them on screen, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid captivated Americans from coast to coast.

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