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Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West. On June 26 1876 Custer a reputation for fearless...

From acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns, "Death and the Civil War" explores an essential but largely overlooked aspect of the most pivotal event in American history. With the coming of the Civil War, and...

Trapped in the Sierra Nevadas during the bitter winter of 1846, nearly 90 members of the Donner and Reed families longed for California's "Promised Land." But an untried shortcut became a death...

EDISON explores the complex alchemy that accounts for the enduring celebrity of America's most famous inventor, offering new perspectives on the man and his milieu, and illuminating not only the true...

The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely - and largely unknown - campaign to breed a "better" American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling science of heredity...

Discover the real story behind the most famous family conflict in U.S. history - the battle between the Hatfields and McCoys. Much more than a tale of two warring families, the film goes beyond the...

Explore the story of the March 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. The flood killed more than 400 people, destroyed millions of dollars of...

In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and...

In this two part, four hour look at the life and presidency of George W. Bush, follow his unorthodox road to the presidency through the contested election of 2000, when a Supreme Court ruling...

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This film examines the life of Henry Ford and offers a look at the birth of the American auto industry as well as a thought-provoking reminder of how Ford's automobile forever changed the way we live.

As the nation mobilized for war in the spring of 1918, ailing Private Albert Gitchell reported to an army hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, a disease about which doctors knew little...