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Nazi Town, USA Episode 1 (Nazi Town, USA)
Date de diffusion: : 23 Janvier 2024Nazi Town, USA tells the story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group which in the 1930s had scores of chapters nationwide, representing what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the U.S. They held rallies with...
The War on Disco Episode 1 (The War on Disco)
Date de diffusion: : 30 Octobre 2023The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the rise of disco music. Originating in underground Black and gay clubs, disco unseated rock as America’s most popular music by the late 1970s. But many diehard rock fans...
The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools Episode 1 (The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools)
Date de diffusion: : 12 Septembre 2023When the Supreme Court issued an order to fully and immediately desegregate schools in October 1969, Leland Mississippi finally met the demand put forth in the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision. In the fall of 1970, a group of...
The Busing Battleground Episode 1 (The Busing Battleground)
Date de diffusion: : 11 Septembre 2023On September 12, 1974, police were stationed outside Boston schools as Black and white students were bused for the first time to comply with a federal court desegregation order. Shocking violence, directed mostly at children, ensued. The...
The Movement and the "Madman" Episode 1 (The Movement and the "Madman")
Date de diffusion: : 28 Mars 2023The Movement and the “Madman” shows how two antiwar protests in the fall of 1969 — the largest the country had ever seen — pressured President Nixon to cancel what he called his “madman” plans for a massive escalation of the...
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space Episode 1 (Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space)
Date de diffusion: : 17 Janvier 2023Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful. This is an in-depth biography of the influential author...
The Lie Detector Episode 1 (The Lie Detector)
Date de diffusion: : 03 Janvier 2023In the early 20th century, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they could tell whether someone was lying by using a machine. Popularly known as the “lie detector,” the device was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool.
The Murder of Emmett Till Episode 1 (The Murder of Emmett Till)
Date de diffusion: : 20 Janvier 2003In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till allegedly insulted a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Three days later, he was dragged from his bed in the dead of night by two white men who beat him...
Roberto Clemente Episode 1 (Roberto Clemente)
Date de diffusion: : 21 Avril 2008Explore the life of the man who broke racial barriers to become baseball’s first Latino superstar. Featuring interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning authors David Maraniss and George F. Will, Clemente’s wife Vera, Baseball Hall of...
Eugene O'Neill: A Film by Ric Burns Episode 1 (Eugene O'Neill: A Film by Ric Burns)
Date de diffusion: : 27 Mars 2006The author of such innovative works as "The Iceman Cometh" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night," Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill wrote 20 long plays in fewer than 25 years. Much of his writing was influenced by...
Zoot Suit Riots Episode 1 (Zoot Suit Riots)
Date de diffusion: : 10 Février 2002In June 1943, the murder of 22-year-old Jose Diaz ignited a firestorm in Los Angeles. For sailors and many white Angelenos, Mexican-American teens – called zoot suiters – had come to symbolize all that was wrong with the city. ...
Plague at the Golden Gate Episode 1 (Plague at the Golden Gate)
Date de diffusion: : 24 Mai 2022Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely examination of the relationship between the medical community, city powerbrokers and the...
Flood in the Desert Episode 1 (Flood in the Desert)
Date de diffusion: : 03 Mai 2022Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering and human failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, a self-taught engineer who ensured the growth of...
The American Diplomat Episode 1 (The American Diplomat)
Date de diffusion: : 15 Février 2022Explore the lives and legacies of three African-American ambassadors — Edward R. Dudley, Terence Todman and Carl Rowan — who pushed past racial barriers to reach high-ranking appointments in the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy...
Citizen Hearst, Season 1 Episode 2 (Episode 2)
Date de diffusion: : 28 Septembre 2021Hearst began producing newsreels and serialized dramas, and he reigned over Hollywood society. One of his films starred a young actress named Marion Davies, and Hearst was instantly smitten. In the 1930s as the Depression devastated the...
Citizen Hearst, Season 1 Episode 1 (Episode 1)
Date de diffusion: : 27 Septembre 2021After taking control of the San Francisco Examiner in 1887, William Randolph Hearst was eager to try his luck in New York. Hearst bought the failing Journal in 1895 and turned it into a sensation. He earned the loyalty of the city’s...
Stonewall Uprising Episode 1 (Stonewall Uprising)
Date de diffusion: : 25 Avril 2011In 1969, homosexuality was illegal in almost every state. But that was about to change. On June 28, 1969, New York City police raided a Greenwich Village gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, setting off a six-day riot that launched the modern...
TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt, Season 1 Episode 2 (Episode 2)
Date de diffusion: : 07 Octobre 1996Roosevelt entered his second term in office torn between conservatives and progressives in Congress. He accomplished what he could by stretching the power of the presidency, most notably on conservation. Out of politics, he went to...
TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt, Season 1 Episode 1 (Episode 1)
Date de diffusion: : 06 Octobre 1996Examine Roosevelt's life before the presidency and his first term in the White House. After graduation he chose an unusual career: politics. Party operators who resented his reform efforts relegated him to the office of Vice President.
Billy Graham Episode 1 (Billy Graham)
Date de diffusion: : 17 Mai 2021Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, Billy Graham built a media empire, preached to millions worldwide, and had the ear of tycoons,...
American OZ Episode 1 (American Oz)
Date de diffusion: : 19 Avril 2021When L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, he was 44 years old and had spent much of his life in restless pursuit of his American dream. He continued to reinvent himself, reflecting a uniquely American brand of...
JFK Episode 4 (American Experience: JFK, Pt. 4)
Date de diffusion: : 12 Novembre 2013From PBS and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Part Four - The final installment follows Kennedy through his assassination and the unfulfilled promise of his presidency. Kennedy faces Khrushchev again in the Cuban Missile Crisis, ignited when Soviet...
JFK Episode 3 (American Experience: JFK, Pt. 3)
Date de diffusion: : 12 Novembre 2013From PBS and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Part Three - This episode follows Kennedy into the White House, offering fresh assessments of the successes and failures of his tenure. In 1961, the most challenging issue facing the new administration...
JFK Episode 2 (American Experience: JFK, Pt. 2)
Date de diffusion: : 11 Novembre 2013From PBS and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Part Two - JFK’s campaign for president is the first to be waged on television, a distinct advantage for the telegenic candidate. Despite his lack of legislative achievements and his Catholicism —...
JFK Episode 1 (American Experience: JFK, Pt. 1)
Date de diffusion: : 11 Novembre 2013From PBS and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Part One follows JFK’s rise to power. With illuminating interviews from family members, including sister Jean Kennedy Smith, historian Robert Dallek, and author Robert Caro, this episode offers new...
The Abolitionists Episode 3 (Part Three: 1854 - Emancipation and Victory)
Date de diffusion: : 22 Janvier 2013The battle between pro-slavery and free-soil contingents rises to fever pitch. During his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown is captured, then executed, becoming a martyr for the cause. Abraham Lincoln is elected president in 1860.
The Abolitionists Episode 2 (Part Two: 1838-1854)
Date de diffusion: : 15 Janvier 2013Douglass escapes slavery, eventually joining Garrison in the anti-slavery movement. Threatened with capture by his former owner, Douglass flees to England, returning to the U.S. in 1847. He launches his own anti-slavery paper. John Brown...
The Abolitionists Episode 1 (Part One: 1820s-1838)
Date de diffusion: : 08 Janvier 2013Shared beliefs about slavery bring together Angelina Grimké, the daughter of a Charleston plantation family, who moves north and becomes a public speaker against slavery; Frederick Douglass, a young slave who becomes hopeful when he...
American Experience, Season 24 Selections Episode 5 (Jesse Owens)
Date de diffusion: : 01 Mai 2012On April 2, 1936, when the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper entered the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, he was barely able to control his anger in the face of Nazi racism. But instead of letting himself be distracted, the young athlete...
American Experience, Season 24 Selections Episode 4 (Grand Coulee Dam)
Date de diffusion: : 03 Avril 2012Grand Coulee was more than a dam — it was a proclamation. In the wake of the Great Depression, America turned from private enterprise to public works — not simply to provide jobs, but to restore faith. The ultimate expression of...
American Experience, Season 24 Selections Episode 3 (The Amish)
Date de diffusion: : 28 Février 2012On October 2, 2006, a 32-year-old milk truck driver named Charles Roberts entered a one-room schoolhouse in the Amish community of Nickel Mines in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and shot 10 young girls, killing five, before committing...
Clinton Episode 4 (The Survivor)
Date de diffusion: : 21 Février 2012The final hour begins as Clinton sails buoyantly into his second term. Times are good, the economy is booming, and American prestige and power internationally are at an all-time high. Clinton’s dream of repairing the breach with...
Clinton Episode 3 (A Real President)
Date de diffusion: : 21 Février 2012Shattered by the Republican victory, Clinton begins to sideline his most trusted advisors in favor of an aggressive political consultant named Dick Morris who uses extensive polling to diagnose the administration’s weaknesses and...
Clinton Episode 2 (Blood Sport)
Date de diffusion: : 20 Février 2012Despite all of their education and experience, the Clintons are unprepared for politics in Washington, which quickly descends into open warfare with the Republican establishment and much of the media. Hour 2 chronicles the tumultuous...
Clinton Episode 1 (The Comeback Kid)
Date de diffusion: : 20 Février 2012From the political backwaters of Arkansas, Bill Clinton emerges as a political force unlike any seen on the national stage in a generation. Overcoming a troubled upbringing marred by alcoholism and violence, Clinton is determined from...
American Experience, Season 24 Selections Episode 2 (Custer's Last Stand)
Date de diffusion: : 17 Janvier 2012Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West. On June 26, 1876, Custer, a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage...
American Experience, Season 24 Selections Episode 1 (Billy the Kid)
Date de diffusion: : 10 Janvier 2012On April 28, 1881, just days from being hanged for murder, 21-year-old Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, outfoxed his jailors and electrified the nation with the last in a long line of daring escapes. Just a few weeks later, he was...
American Experience, Season 23 Episode 6 (The Great Famine)
Date de diffusion: : 11 Avril 2011When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign. This documentary reveals the riveting story of America’s engagement with a distant and desperate people.
American Experience, Season 23 Episode 5 (Triangle Fire)
Date de diffusion: : 28 Février 2011The Triangle Fire chronicles the fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and forever changed the relationship between labor and industry in the United...
American Experience, Season 23 Episode 4 (The Greely Expedition)
Date de diffusion: : 31 Janvier 2011Using scientific accounts, diaries, photographs and letters, this film reveals how poor planning, personality clashes, questionable decisions and pure bad luck conspired to turn a noble scientific mission into a human tragedy.
American Experience, Season 23 Episode 3 (Panama Canal)
Date de diffusion: : 24 Janvier 2011On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower. This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage,...
American Experience, Season 23 Episode 1 (Robert E. Lee)
Date de diffusion: : 03 Janvier 2011Robert E. Lee is celebrated by handsome equestrian statues in countless cities and towns across the American South and by no less than five postage stamps issued by the government he fought against during the four bloodiest years in...
American Experience, Vol. 1: Season 22 Selections Episode 8 (Roads to Memphis)
Date de diffusion: : 03 Mai 2010This is the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April 1968. The...
American Experience, Vol. 1: Season 22 Selections Episode 5 (Wyatt Earp)
Date de diffusion: : 25 Janvier 2010He has been portrayed in countless movies and television shows by some of Hollywood's greatest actors, including Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart and, more recently, Kevin Costner, but these popular fictions belie the complexities and flaws of...
American Experience, Vol. 1: Season 22 Selections Episode 3 (The Polio Crusade)
Date de diffusion: : 02 Février 2009This film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. The Polio Crusade features interviews...
The Presidents Collection Episode 5 (Nixon, Pt. 1)
Date de diffusion: : 15 Octobre 1990Richard M. Nixon was one of American history's most powerful figures. Recalling events etched in U.S. memory, this three-hour program explores a fateful mix of strength and weakness that made him president, then brought him down. Events...
The Presidents Collection Episode 6 (Nixon, Pt. 2)
Date de diffusion: : 15 Octobre 1990Richard M. Nixon was one of American history's most powerful figures. Recalling events etched in U.S. memory, this three-hour program explores a fateful mix of strength and weakness that made him president, then brought him down. Events...
The Presidents Collection Episode 11 (Reagan, Pt. 1)
Date de diffusion: : 23 Février 1998Solidarity thrived in Poland; Soviets faced military pressure in Afghanistan, but Congress cut funding for Nicaragua. In 1986 Reagan met Mikhail Gorbachev, but missile reduction talks failed over SDI research. The Iran-Contra scandal...
The Presidents Collection Episode 12 (Reagan, Pt. 2)
Date de diffusion: : 23 Février 1998Solidarity thrived in Poland; Soviets faced military pressure in Afghanistan, but Congress cut funding for Nicaragua. In 1986 Reagan met Mikhail Gorbachev, but missile reduction talks failed over SDI research. The Iran-Contra scandal...
The Presidents Collection Episode 8 (Jimmy Carter, Pt. 2)
Date de diffusion: : 11 Novembre 2002Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with Washington politics. But inexperience, inflation, recession, and the Iran hostage crisis, derailed his presidency dramatically. His crowning achievement, the...