Mark Samels

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb. But after ...

24 de mar. de 2008

Em agosto de 1969, quase 500.000 pessoas se reuniram em uma fazenda no interior de Nova York para ouvir música. O que aconteceu nos três dias segui...

24 de mai. de 2019

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. Thi...

21 de jan. de 2017

The enigmatic nature of the Nixon presidency combined comparatively progressive legislative initiatives with a flagrant abuse of presidential power...

15 de out. de 1990

In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and Eas...

18 de fev. de 2004

This two-part, four-hour look at the life and presidency of George W. Bush features interviews with historians, journalists and several members of ...

04 de mai. de 2020

In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of th...

23 de fev. de 1998

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in th...

06 de fev. de 2018

HENRY FORD paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.

29 de jan. de 2013

In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept ac...

02 de mar. de 1998

This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brook...

14 de abr. de 2008

Tracking the country’s oldest beauty contest—from its inception in 1921 as a local seaside pageant to its heyday as one of the country’s most popul...

27 de jan. de 2002

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed ...

09 de fev. de 2009

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against f...

18 de abr. de 2005

This is the story of more than four hundred Americans who participated in a bold and dangerous experiment designed to awaken the conscience of a co...

01 de fev. de 2010

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow embark on a two-year crime spree during the Great Depression and become known as the most famous criminal couple in ...

19 de jan. de 2016

The life of the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and schizophrenic John Nash — the inspiration for the feature film A Beautiful Mind — is a powerf...

28 de mai. de 2002

Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita spent ten months studying The Super Outbreak of 1974, which was the most intense tornado outbreak on re...

19 de mai. de 2020

The history of the Florida Everglades and the efforts to reclaim, control and preserve the vast area once viewed as a wasteland.

15 de jan. de 2019

An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.

04 de out. de 1988

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power after a stunning victory in an election no one ...

06 de jan. de 2020

The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built ...

09 de fev. de 1994

During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was described in superlatives. It ...

18 de abr. de 2017

Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, jo...

10 de abr. de 2017

Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigra...

18 de jan. de 2001

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls back the curtain on the familiar narrative of th...

Two-part documentary series about the life and legacy of Walt Disney, featuring archival footage only recently released from the Disney vaults, alo...

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by Ameri...

Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Recent assessments have revealed an admini...