From Enrico Caruso to the ordinary San Franciscan, this film presents vivid memories of those trapped in the terrifyi...

While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nuc...

As a child in 1899, Angie Debo was taken to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. She would become her state's most controvers...

A touching memoir beginning with life in a small Minnesota town and taking us through a young man's early days as pac...

An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-life "Rosies" about ...

A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families who have lived in Big Piney for six generations. Alth...

An intimate portrait of the Kennedy brothers and their confrontation with Alabama Governor George Wallace when he def...

The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one another. In 1886, ...

An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Pri...

The evolution of rhythm and blues through the careers of singers Ruth Brown and Charles Brown, from the 1940s into th...

Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan, uses the new power of radio to become one of the firs...

The design and art of quilting yields intimate clues about the lives of 19th century women, who stitched their person...

The journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Mississippi River area ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty narrates the story of her own Southern childhood and early artistic develo...

From the late 1920s through the 1960s, Robert Moses held almost total power over the landscape of New York. He built ...

A Gothic tale of sin and redemption in 19th century New England. A small town in Maine reacts to the unconventional b...