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American Experience: Bonnie & Clyde DVD

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...

Over the '50s and '60s, a nondescript bungalow in the Catskill foothills served as a covert weekend oasis for transgender women and cross-dressing men to commune and live their lives as they desired...

The panorama of America's race to space-from the late '50s urgency to catch up with the Soviets to the immediate aftermath of man's setting foot on the Moon-is exhaustively and absorbingly recounted...

Chasing the Moon reimagines the race to the moon for a new generation, upending much of the mythology surrounding the effort. The series recasts the Space Age as scientific innovation, political...

The Circus explores the colorful history of this popular, influential and distinctly American form of entertainment, from the first one-ring show at the end of the 18th century to 1956, when the...

By the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst controlled the largest media empire in the country: 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations, and 13 magazines. He used his...

In March 1933 within weeks of his inauguration President Franklin Roosevelt sent legislation to Congress aimed at providing relief for the one out of every four American workers who were unemployed...

In the tradition of American Experience's acclaimed Presidents series, Clinton provides an intimate, honest, balanced look at the 42nd president's life, career, and legacy. This definitive biography...

American Experience: The Codebreaker tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S...

Command and Control presents the true story of what happens when weapons built to protect threaten to become the very source of our own destruction. Based on bestseller by Eric Schlosser, the film...

In 1929 while the stock market was rising seemingly without limits there were few critics. Based on eight years of continued prosperity presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that...