Documentary

A riveting adventure of how America was invented, America: The Story of US focuses on the people, ideas and events that built our nation, covering 400 years of American history in the most extensive and in-depth television series ever produced by History...

He was a charming king powerful and exotic. She was a beautiful all-American girl just four years out of Princeton. For 20 years their fairy-tale romance enchanted the world. BIOGRAPHY-? chronicles the extraordinary life of Lisa Halaby or Noor al...

WE COME AS FRIENDS is a modern odyssey, a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. At the moment when the Sudan, the continent's biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old civilizing pathology re-emerges that of...

In distant realms far beyond our familiar solar system, an epic drama is playing out, with a cast list featuring rogue planets, colliding galaxies, and black holes more massive than a billion suns, and each character has it's own extraordinary story to...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Presents an examination of one of the most consequential and least understood chapters in U.S. history when, after the Civil War, the nation struggled to reunite North and South while living up to the promise of citizenship for...

The central and foundational role of the Black church over four centuries of the African-American experience is scrutinized and celebrated in this epic-length documentary from producer/host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The shaping of faith traditions from...

Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront? face a life of hardship. Trapped at home with few opportunities, they share the burden of supporting their father and their troubled brother, but Charlotte sees that writing novels could offer a way out. Acclaimed...

The four planets closest to the sun, called the rocky planets, were born from the same material in the same era. Only on Earth do we find the unique conditions for life as we know it. But why only here? Were Earth's neighbors always so extreme? And is...

It's time to once again take your front-row seats to the best variety show of the Jazz Age, as the vaunted and venerable Vitaphone presents a third collection of vintage Vaudeville and more sound shorts! Stars and almost-stars of song, stage and screen...

Peter Bogdanovich was a household name before directors were stars, a boy wonder of the movies. One Day Since Yesterday follows the life and work of this maverick film icon, from his early skyrocketing success with Oscar -winning* films like The Last...

The greatest variety acts of the past - humorists, bands, vaudevillians, dramatists, dancers and more - return for a second collection of the earliest of the venerable Vitaphone sound shorts. Entertainers from coast to coast, from stage and screen, from...

This informative, funny and very entertaining documentary offers rare behind-the-scenes footage from The Wizard of Oz plus fascinating reminiscences from the cast members and their families. Footage includes the 50th anniversary celebration in 1989,...