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- A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War.
- Science documentaries about various topics.
- A series showcasing documentaries on American history.
- Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
- A documentary on the history of the sport with major topics including Afro-American players, player/team owner relations and the resilience of the game.
- A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.
- In 17th century Massachusetts, a married woman (whose husband has been absent for years and his whereabouts unknown) has an affair resulting in a child out of wedlock. The puritanical residents of her town condemn her to carry the Scarlet Letter of shame. Then the husband shows up.
- A documentary about the 1930s drought of North American prairie farm land, and its consequences during the great depression.
- A survey of the musical form's history and major talents.
- A widow with a young daughter travels to a ranch in Wyoming to manage the household of a rancher. After a while the man and woman develop a relationship that leads to a marriage. But life in the harsh place takes its toll.
- The story of the American activist struggle against the influence of alcohol, climaxing in the failed early 20th century nationwide era when it was banned.
- This documentary chronicles the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. The difficult construction process is described in interesting detail; later parts of the film interview current notables who describe the effects that the Brooklyn Bridge has had upon New York society and beyond.
- A Dominican friar visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies.
- A racially charged trial and a heartrending love story converge in this documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, set during the Civil Rights era.
- For 50 years, radio dominated the airwaves as the first mass medium. Ken Burns examines the lives of three men who shared the responsibility for its invention and early success.
- Hosted by James Earl Jones, this anthology series features fairy tales and short stories. Throughout the series, many guest narrators take turns telling a traditional fairy tale in their own words.
- Investigates a nation torn by naked corporate greed and the red-hot rift between the industrial masters and the rabble-rousing workers in the field and factory.
- A comprehensive history of the superhero comic book fantasy genre and its influence on American culture.
- This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh
- Did you know that a seafaring American tribe explored the shores of North America 7000 years ago? Or that these ancient Americans rivaled their European counterparts in navigational skills several millennia before the Vikings? The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People follows U.S., Canadian, and European scientists from the barrens of Labrador - where archaeologists uncover an ancient stone burial mound - to sites in the U.S., France, England, and Denmark, and to the vast fjords of northernmost Norway where monumental standing stones testify to links among seafaring cultures across immense distances. This film represents the first publication in any medium that has synthesized these new discoveries and attempted to draw a picture of the northeastern sea peoples, whom scientists refer to as the Maritime Archaic.
- The Polish city of Lodz was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entire duration of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors of the occupation are vividly chronicled through newsreels and photographs. The narration is taken almost entirely from journals and diaries of those who lived--and died--through the course of the occupation, with the number of different narrators diminishing over the course of the film, symbolic of the death of each narrator.
- A New Jersey family discovers their drinking water is contaminated with deadly poisons from a nearby landfill.
- The story of an American Communist militia that fought for the Spanish Republicans in the 1936-39 Civil War.
- Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new mobility and freedom for African Americans but also exposed them to discrimination and deadly violence, and how that history resonates today.