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An immigrant from Russia named David Sarnoff worked his way up from delivering telegrams to heading RCA. a man named Lee de Forest laid the foundation for the entire electronics industry when he...

No one captures the American imagination quite like the Kingfish. Ken Burns' film traces Huey Long's spectacular career from the 1920s, bursting out of Louisiana under the banner "Every man a king."...

They strove for simplicity and perfection in all they did. They believed in peace, women's rights and freedom from prejudice. They made beautiful architecture, furniture and music. They were known as...

For more than a century, the Statue of Liberty has offered hope and promised refuge to generations of immigrants. This Ken Burns documentary not only chronicles the history and impact of this...

This award-winning film by Ken Burns recaptures the drama, struggles, and personal tragedies behind the greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age, THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. Largest bridge...

Mental illness may be the most pernicious health crisis besetting the globe-since it's one for which stigma and discrimination will drive the afflicted to suffer in silence. This chronicle offers the...

Mental illness may be the most pernicious health crisis besetting the globe-since it's one for which stigma and discrimination will drive the afflicted to suffer in silence. This chronicle offers the...

Scientific genetics holds at once the promise of eradicating disease and the threat of altering the very essence of what it means to be human. The Gene: An Intimate History traces the dizzying...

Seven documentaries by Ken Burns offer an anthem to the nation and it's people. "Brooklyn Bridge" and "Statue of Liberty" recalls the building of two New York edifices. "Empire of the Air" recounts...

At Greenwood School in Vermont, it's students, boys, ages 11 to 17, are asked each year to memorize the Gettysburg Address. These boys all suffer from learning differences that have made their...

As scientist and statesman, he'd become one of the 18th century's most consequential individuals, and his achievements endure today, from his familiar aphorisms to Philadelphia civic institutions to...

As scientist and statesman, he'd become one of the 18th century's most consequential individuals, and his achievements endure today, from his familiar aphorisms to Philadelphia civic institutions to...