Documentary

T BONE BURNETT, Robert Redford and Jack White offer up this extraordinary documentary about how America learned to make audio recordings. In the 1920s, music scouts were using a raw, but ground-breaking, technology to capture America's voices, including...

Smithsonian: Hell Below DVD

Smithsonian: Air Warriors Season 2 DVD - From winged fighters to attack helicopters, heavy haulers to drones, and aircraft that go under the radar these are America's undisputed kings of the sky. Witness their turbulent journeys, brought to life through...

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest...

In May of 1942, across the rugged sub-Arctic wilderness of Alaska and Canada, thousands of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most difficult construction projects ever undertaken-building the Alaska Highway. This program tells how young...

Burlesque was one of Americas most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the 20th century. Gaudy, bawdy and spectacular, the shows entertained thousands of paying customers every night of the week. And yet the legacy of burlesque is...

Filmmaker Ross McElwee (Sherman's March, Bright Leaves) finds himself in frequent conflict with his son, a young adult who seems addicted to and distracted by the virtual worlds of the internet. To understand his fractured love for his son, McElwee...

As our country continues to embroil itself in foreign wars, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune is a timely and relevant tribute to an unlikely American hero. Over the course of a meteoric music career that spanned two turbulent decades, Phil Ochs sought...

Michael Wadleigh's WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS OF PEACE & MUSIC finds the best rock stars of the 1960s performing at the historic Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most celebrated rock concert of all time. Shot over the course of three days in August 1969, the...

Directed by Scott Zakarin. Starring Stan Lee, Kevin Smith.

From racing sloops to jet planes modern air and sea travel would not be nearly as advanced as it is today without Ancient China's remarkable ingenuity. In this eye-opening program travel halfway around the world with host Michael Guillen as he explores...

Amazingly, the Ancients understood the principles of the modern tank. They combined armor with speed to create the ancient version of the tank-it could stop an onslaught of bullets. What exactly was this ancient weapon that destroyed enemy heavy...