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SILICON VALLEY tells the story of the pioneering scientists who transformed rural Santa Clara County into the hub of technological ingenuity we now know as Silicon Valley. The film spotlights the...

American Experience: Space Men DVD

In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience, only to discover that what they had come...

Unfolding like a political thriller, Taken Hostage tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines and civilians were held hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran on...

American Experience: Tesla DVD

American Experience: The Abolitionists. Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and...

The Amish intercuts historical analysis with contemporary footage to provide an unprecedented look at this highly private little understood and utterly unique community whose beliefs raise important...

American Experience: The Battle Of Chosin - On Thanksgiving Day, 1950, US Army troops pushed north through the Korean peninsula, to drive North Korea s Communist army out of democratically-held South...

In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boy's victory,...

Duel of destiny. Alexander Hamilton was an impoverished immigrant from the West Indies. Aaron Burr was born into wealth and privilege in New England. Both rose to fame: one became a framer of the U.S...

American Experience: The Forgotten Plague DVD

American Experience: The Gilded Age In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a...