Rob Rapley

Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering and human failure, th...

03 de mai. de 2022

The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassination.

02 de fev. de 2016

Wyatt Earp has been portrayed in countless movies and television shows by some of Hollywood's greatest actors, including Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart...

25 de jan. de 2010

Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, jo...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

In 1918, when New York City hired its first scientifically trained medical examiner Charles Norris. Over the course of a decade and a half, Norris ...

07 de jan. de 2014

In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they c...

03 de jan. de 2023

In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a small team of scientists on a clandestine transatlantic mission to deliver ...

16 de jan. de 2018

The series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound ...

09 de abr. de 2019

On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stepped up to a microphone in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Inscribed on the walls of the monume...

15 de fev. de 2021

From PBS and American Experience - Using scientific accounts, diaries, photographs and letters, this film reveals how poor planning, personality cl...

31 de jan. de 2011

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

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead ...

21 de abr. de 2020

The stories of the major figures of the pre-American Civil War political movement to eliminate slavery.

08 de jan. de 2013

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