Documentary

His radio Fireside Chats were heard in millions of living rooms. His picture hung on the walls of home and businesses. His wife was the most admired woman in America. He restored hope to a country that had lost it, led the nation during the greatest war...

Two and a half millennia ago a new religion was born in northern India generated from the ideas of a single man the Buddha a mysterious Indian sage who famously gained enlightenment while he sat under a large shapely fig tree. The Buddha never claimed to...

American Experience: The Abolitionists. Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor...

Nearly a century and a half after his death Robert E. Lee the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War remains a source of fascination and for some veneration. This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film examines the life and reputation of the general...

He was "Mr. Entertainment," a show-business meteor who blazed across the twentieth century. Sammy Davis, Jr. Had the kind of career that was indisputably legendary, yet his life was complex, complicated, and contradictory. Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be...

Explore how precious gems, metals, and energy resources are forged under extraordinary circumstances deep within the Earth, and discover how their unique properties have helped lift humanity from the Stone Age to the stars.

American Masters: American Ballet Theatre At 75 DVD

NOVA leads viewers on a mathematical mystery tour--a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral in the center of a...

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARCO POLO chronicles the journey of two ordinary guys - Belliveau at the time a wedding photographer and O'Donnell an artist and former Marine - as they set out to follow Polo's historic route. Equal parts travelogue adventure story...

He personified America at the turn of the last century, confident, exuberant, but suffered from hidden demons. He was Teddy Roosevelt, heroic figure of boundless energy and bleak emotions. Acclaimed filmmaker David Grubin uses letters, diaries, authentic...

See how life was and is lived in Highclere Castle. It may be more famous now than any time in it's 1,300-year history as the setting of Downton Abbey, but England's Highclere Castle has it's own stories to tell. Step inside one of Britain's best-known...

Considered the funniest man of his time, Mark Twain was a critic of human nature who used his humor to attack hypocrisy, greed, and racism. As America's best-loved author, he created some of it's most memorable characters and quoted sayings. Director Ken...