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  • The Amish: Shunned

    Aired February 4, 2014

    Follow seven former Amish who choose their freedom over their family

  • 1964

    Aired January 14, 2014 | 112 min

    America came apart in 1964 and has since been reborn.

  • The Poisoner's Handbook

    Aired December 2, 2013

    The grave truth behind modern forensics was discovered in 1920s New York.

  • JFK

    Aired November 12, 2013 | 3 hrs 41 min

    Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.

  • War of the Worlds

    Aired October 29, 2013

    Shortly after 8 p.m. on Halloween Eve, 1938, a panicked radio announcer broke in with a news bulletin that Martians had landed in the tiny town of Grovers Mill, New Jersey.

  • Silicon Valley

    Aired February 5, 2013

    Decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, the invention of the microchip launched the world into the Information Age.

  • Henry Ford

    Aired January 29, 2013

    The story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.

  • The Abolitionists

    Aired January 8, 2013 | 2 hrs 34 min

    Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called by many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union.

  • Death and the Civil War

    Aired September 18, 2012

    The staggering death tolls of the Civil War permanently altered the character of the republic and the psyche of the American people.

  • Jesse Owens

    Aired August 3, 2021 | 53 min

    His stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. 

  • Grand Coulee Dam

    Aired April 18, 2017 | 82 min

    At once the story of an astonishing engineering achievement, and a cautionary tale about arrogance, our relationship to the natural world, and the price of progress.

  • The Amish

    Aired February 21, 2012

    Their intense faith and strict adherence to 300-year-old traditions have by turn captivated and repelled, awed and irritated, inspired and confused America.