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- The aftermath of the first American presidential assassination and the fight to preserve and protect the ideals that were the foundation of Lincoln's Reconstruction plans.
- A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.
- Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.
- An Ivy League drop-out travels to the Colorado wilderness, where he joins a team of buffalo hunters on a journey that puts his life and sanity at risk. Based on the highly acclaimed novel by John Williams.
- A young FBI agent, eager to prove himself in the field, goes undercover as a white supremacist.
- The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
- As America expands westward, intrepid explorers and rugged mountain men risk their lives to blaze new trails into the wild frontier.
- Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this series based on the novel. "Onion" is a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's family of abolitionist soldiers and finds himself in the 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.
- A slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.
- The plot is unknown at this time.
- The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.
- The film is set in the moments before the execution of Isaac Broadway, who sets his estranged son, Henry, an impossible task: to kill the man who framed him for a crime he didn't commit.
- Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
- A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
- Alone yet Not Alone is based on the inspirational, true story of Barbara and Regina Leininger, two immigrant sisters forced to embark on a journey of faith that will lead them through the darkness of war into the light of freedom.
- An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
- Based on The New York Times best-selling novel, Killing Lincoln is the suspenseful, eye-opening story of the events surrounding the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
- Late in the War of 1812, a young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.
- The romance between two young women in Memphis during the late 19th century ends tragically and captures the attention of the entire United States.
- A Virginia family becomes divided on the brink of the American Civil War.
- During World War II, 1.2 million African-Americans served in America's Armed Forces. Fully 125,000 served overseas. 708 were killed. Among these were The Wereth Eleven. Their story was lost to history. Until now.
- Experts and authors discuss George Washington's connection to the ancient and powerful Freemasons. Experts discuss Benjamin Franklin's possible membership in several secret societies. Such as the orgiastic Hell Fire Club in England. Paranormal investigators use high-tech tools to uncover the existence of ghosts in the famous Hell Fire Caves. Experts then attempt to explain how the remains of over 1200 people wound up in the basement of Ben Franklin's London townhouse. Secret Masonic symbols and and images are analyzed and uncovered in the layout and streets of Washington DC.
- Honor was their measure of wealth and faith their source of strength. Together they embarked on a perilous journey and battled for true love. They vowed to love and to cherish, to honor and to protect, but above all, to have and to hold.
- Inspired by letters he reads when he buys a 150-year old farmhouse, writer/director Rory Feek pens a story about the wife of a civil war soldier who enlists in the army and fights her way across the country to find her missing husband. As Rory is taken on Josephine's incredible journey, he personally dreams of having a love like hers. In the end, he gets that and so much more.
- The story of Pocahontas has been passed down through the centuries. Her relationship with John Smith has been characterized as a romance that united two cultures and created lasting peace. However, the life of this American Indian princess was anything but a fairytale. Join us as we look beyond the fiction and reveal the real story of Pocahontas, a tale of kidnapping, conflict, starvation, cannibalism, ocean journeys, and the future of an entire civilization.
- In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded upon the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The nation would pay a bloody cost for denying that right to more than twelve percent of its population. But when slavery was first brought to America's shores, this war, and even the nation it tore apart, was centuries in the future. With incredibly detailed historical reenactments, expert commentary and the stories of slavery told through first-hand accounts, this is an epic struggle 400 years in the making. A journey into the past like none other. This is the story of these men and women who by their hands laid the foundation of what would become the most powerful nation on Earth. Join us as we rise...UP FROM SLAVERY. Content: Part One - 1619 Virginia - The First African Slaves arrive Part Two - 18th Century Colonial America and Slavery under the rule of the British Empire Part Three - Slavery in the United States after the Revolution Part Four - Nat Turner's Rebellion, 1831 Part Five - Abolition from the North grows Part Six - The Civil War. Emancipation Proclamation Part Seven - Aftermath of the Civil War and new "freedom"
- This documentary takes the viewer on a journey through the secret codes, architecture and symbols in Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol. Also examined are secret societies and new science describing what's myth and what's real. Scientist, code breakers, psychologists and historians are interviewed.
- SAIGON 1973. A young man's heart is breaking as he discovers his childhood love, the girl he grew up with, raped and murdered. He makes a fateful resolve to avenge her loss, thereby igniting a forty-year odyssey of revenge and death, which ends a continent away in a final climactic confrontation.
- In the early days of America, a diverse group of people struggle to carve out an existence on a wind-swept island along the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
- Do you have what it takes to lead like Washington? In this interactive experience, you will step into the boots of the first president and commander in chief.
- Washington, D.C. in 1861. The Civil War is at the doorstep and the city is bracing for disaster. America is a country torn in two. An untested President Lincoln strives to make the nation's capital the political center of the Union, but finds he is surrounded by Southern sympathies and under constant threat of attack. See how this once sleepy small town grew into the metropolis we know today. A city cast in marble, a symbol of American liberty and a memorial to those who fought tooth and nail to preserve it.
- Explores the role Irish soldiers played in the American Civil War.
- TV Series
- A dramatic and strictly detailed and authentic film presentation that recounts the participants and events that came to a crescendo on April 18, 1775 and progressed to a point of confrontation on Lexington Green the next morning where the, "Shot heard round the world" was fired and the Revolution was begun.
- Recently uncovered documents from the 1860s provide strong and shocking evidence that, long before the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, desperate inventors and engineers imagined steam-powered flying machines that would decide the Civil War. In the early 1860s, A Mississippi Doctor with a passion for birds and an obsession with the idea of manned flight makes a scale model of what he hopes will become the first heavier-than-air war-plane. Tethered to a locomotive, his model becomes airborne. But his requests for funding are rejected by the Virginia Legislature and the Engineering Department, leaving him no choice but to turn to the Confederate soldiers themselves to finance the building of a fleet of these flying machines. While he never raises more than a few hundred dollars before the war ends, it is impossible not to wonder - what if? Follow EXPLORER as we unravel the story of Civil War aviation and attempt to build and fly a full-scale 19th century airplane of our own.
- A brash young Jewish filmmaker from New York tries to help an overly-zealous Baptist preacher in south Alabama make a movie about the Prodigal Son. In the process they both learn about the love and acceptance of the Prodigal's father.
- Experience the story of La Belle as seen through the eyes of Pierre Talon, a young French boy setting sail for North America in 1684 as part of La Salle's colonization effort. Like most adventures, this one doesn't go as planned, with piracy, murder, mistakes, and an unexpected experience with the Caddo along the way. Discover how this thrilling, dangerous, and moving adventure changed the course of history. This original, Bullock Museum-produced film features 4D sensory effects.
- With the help of a time traveling guitar and a host of puppet friends Ralph Covert, of the family friendly musical act, Ralph's World, takes a rockin' ride through history on this 1/2 hour children's television show.
- Allied Generals Washington and Rochambeau, British General Cornwallis as well as Alexander Hamilton in his first military role in the Continental Army and his famous words - "Rush On Boys!" - as the militia secures Redoubts 9 and 10.
- Starting as a trading post at the crossroads of several trade routes, the town of Ninety Six grew into a small, but vitally important town on South Carolina's frontier. It became the focus of attacks by Native Americans during the French and Indian War and, during America's Revolutionary War, the site of several pitched battles to determine if the Patriots or the Tories would control the state's backcountry including the first land battle in the South and the longest siege of the conflict. This film tells the stories of the farmers, Indians, traders, regulators and soldiers who lived in and fought for the town.
- Mental Prison is a remarkable show that offers a window into the mind and thought process of prisoners and parolees. One single element has shifted and changed our prison system forever. Did you know that in California alone 80% of parolees returned to jail. Five years ago a new program was created to teach meditation and to calm the mind. There is no ocean without waves, they are told. The parolees, follow this path of consciousness to a new and peaceful place within themselves. They are now non aggressive, calm and connected to others in a way they have never experienced before. Then with the mastery of music, harmony is interwoven, re-boosting the mind and energizing the thought processes. Since the program's inception five years ago, 80% of parolees have never returned to jail. They have one hundred per cent flipped the system. This powerful show features Deepak Chopra, and the popular Radio and Television favorite Nicole Brandon as the on air host. Michel Pascal, The shows and the programs Creator, Guide, Musician, Composer, Filmmaker, Writer and Meditation Teacher is revered worldwide. The show also Stars; Verdine White, Myron McKinley, music director of Earth, Wind and Fire and his trio Stacey Lamont Sydnor on drums, Ian Martin on bass, sound engineer Claudio Cueni, and singer, composer and author Nina Porter. Each episode will feature Famed Musicians and Celebrity Talent, along with the keys, and profoundly effective tools, that have unleashed the secret to success. Changing Lives and Changing Society Today.
- "Liberty Fever" draws visitors into the world of Revolutionary America, setting the stage for indoor gallery and outdoor living-history experiences. The introductory film is narrated by an early 19th-century storyteller who has traveled the country gathering stories about the American Revolution and shares his accounts using a moving panorama presentation of the time period.