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| Abolitionists, The | The Abolitionists, a three-hour special honoring the 150th anniversary of the Proclamation, tells the story of how Douglass, Garrison, and their abolitionist allies Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation. | 3x54 |
| America Revealed | America Revealed harnesses the beauty and richness of high-definition video and beautifully rendered graphics to provide an unprecedented look at American life. | 4x53 |
| Amish, The | The Amish will intercut historical analysis with contemporary footage to provide an unprecedented look at this highly private, little understood, and utterly unique community whose beliefs raise important questions about religious liberty in American life. | 1x113 |
| Blues, The: Martin Scorsese Presents | The Blues captures the essence of blues music and delves into its global influence from its roots in Africa to its inspirational role in today’s music. | 7 eps., lengths: 76-104 |
| Road to Memphis | This film tells the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis on April 4, 1968. | 1x89' |
| Brooklyn Bridge | Ken Burns’s first film traces the transformation of the Bridge from a spectacular and heroic engineering feat to a symbol in American culture of strength, vitality, ingenuity and promise. | 1x56' |
| Buffalo Bill | This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE production will draw upon rich archival materials of the period to explore the man behind the legend, revealing the complexity of Buffalo Bill’s extraordinary life. | 1x57' |
| Building the Alaska Highway | In May 1942, across the rugged sub-Arctic wilderness of Alaska, British Columbia, and Yukon Territory, thousands of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most difficult construction projects ever undertaken. | 1x57' |
| Civil War, The | Ken Burns’s epic documentary brings to life America’s most destructive – and defining – conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one. | 7x52' |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | This program interweaves rich archival imagery with the personal accounts of CCC veterans to tell the story of one of the boldest and most popular New Deal experiments, positioning it as a pivotal moment in the emergence of modern environmentalism and federal unemployment relief. | 1x57' |
| Clinton | In Clinton, the latest installment in the critically acclaimed and successful series of presidential biographies, this film explores the private peccadilloes and the public battles of one of the most fascinating, contradictory, and larger-than-life figures ever to occupy the White House. | 2 x 120 |
| Congress, The | Using historical photographs and newsreels, evocative live cinematography and interviews, this film chronicles the personalities, events and issues that have animated the first 200 years of Congress. | 1x86' |
| Dreams of Obama | Through interviews with insiders and observers who’ve tracked Obama from his days at Harvard Law School, through his rise in Chicago politics, to his emergence onto the national scene after the 2004 Democratic National Convention, FRONTLINE chronicles Obama’s meteoric rise, pushing beyond the headlines to reveal how he won one of the most memorable, and important, presidential elections of our time. | 1x57' |
| Earth Days | Earth Days is a feature-length documentary about the origins of the modern environmental movement, told through the eyes of nine Americans who were inspired to act on what they believed was the most important challenge facing mankind. | 1x87' |
| Faces of America | Turning to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. unravels the American tapestry by exploring the family histories of 12 renowned Americans. He follows the threads of his guests’ lives back to their earliest origins around the globe. | 4x54 |
| Freedom Riders | Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s inspirational documentary is the firstfeature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights activists Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of the issue, Nelson chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth, and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds. | 1x113 |
| God in America | For the first time on television, this six-hour PBS documentary series will tell the sweeping and dramatic history of religious life in America as it has played out in public life. | 6x57' |
| Grand Central | This AMERICAN EXPERIENCE recounts the dramatic story of the famous landmark’s construction. | 1x54' |
| Great San Francisco Earthquake, The | Featuring film footage of the city before and after the quake and archival photographs, this documentary creates a fluid, dramatic account of a disaster-torn city that would enthusiastically reinvent itself after the three-day firestorm that leveled four and a half square miles. | 1x57' |
| Growing Up Online | FRONTLINE looks at the impact of the Internet on adolescence through the eyes of teens and their parents. The film takes viewers into the private worlds kids are creating online—from kids who are harassed and bullied, to kids who make social connections virtually when they have few friends at school, to those kids who attain instant celebrity on YouTube. | 1x57' |
| Italian Americans, The | The Italian Americans reveals the unique and distinctive qualities of one immigrant group’s experience, and how these qualities, over time, have shaped and challenged America. | 4x54 |
| Jazz | This series presents the history of America’s greatest original art form. More than music history, the film raises questions central to twentieth century life, both in America and throughout the world: about race and class, art and commerce, virtuosity and collaboration, the individual and the community, the confluence of cultures and the universality of experience. | 12x59' |
| Jewish Americans, The | THE JEWISH AMERICANS, an extraordinary three-part documentary series written and directed by the Emmy Award-winning filmmaker David Grubin, examines the struggle of a tiny minority to make its way into the American mainstream. While the story of Jewish life in America is emblematic of the American immigrant story, it is also a unique story of ongoing discrimination and stereotyping coupled with some of the most remarkable accomplishments in American history, the arts, commerce, science and academia. | 3x112' |
| Latin Music U*S*A | From Latin Jazz and Mambo to Salsa, Tejano, Chicano Rock, Latin pop and Reggaeton, Latin Music USA tells the story of the rise of new music forged from powerful Latin roots and reveals the often overlooked influence of Latin music on Jazz, Hip Hop, Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll. | 4x55' |
| Mark Twain | A film by Ken Burns, profiling of the remarkable life and times of America’s greatest writer, Samuel Clemens, known and beloved to the world as Mark Twain. | 4x55' |
| Mount Rushmore | It is the story of a massive public works project in the midst of an economic depression. And it is the story of dozens of ordinary Americans who contributed to the creation of what some would call a monstrosity and others a masterpiece. | 1x57' |
| New Orleans | In the wake of hurricane Katrina, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE launches a provocative history of the city that lies at the heart of the American experiment. | 2x57' |
| New York (5 programs x 2 hrs each) | The series begins by identifying the key themes that shaped New York’s history: commerce and capitalism, diversity and democracy, transformation and creativity. | 5x117' |
| Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | Not For Ourselves Alone is a dual biography of the two women who almost single-handedly created and spear-headed the women’s rights movement in America from 1848 until 1906. | 2x85' |
| Statue of Liberty | Explores the birth of the statue, the history of its construction, along with the evolution and meaning of the ideal, Liberty, for which it was constructed. | 1x56' |
| Thomas Jefferson | A film that probes the life of the revered author of the most sacred document in American history: The Declaration of Independence. | 2x85' |
| TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt - The Presidents Collection (2 tapes = 4 hrs) | He was an unpredictable dynamo, a “steamroller in trousers”. At the turn of the century, Theodore Roosevelt embodied America. | 4x55' |
| JFK | This new portrait offers a fresh assessment of the man, his accomplishments and his unfulfilled promise. | 2x120 |
| Choice 2012, The | Through interviews with those who best know the candidates in private and as public figures, The Choice 2012 explains the character of the candidates through key episodes in their�� lives. | 1x113' |
| History Detectives - Season 10 | Using traditional investigative techniques and modern technologies, the History Detective’s team of specialists—whose expertise ranges from architecture, to popular culture and sociology, to archeology, collectibles, and genealogy—gives new and sometimes shocking insights into history. | 9x53' |
| FDR - The Presidents Collection | FDR, a four-and-a-half hour television series, examines the elusive public and private personality of Franklin Roosevelt. It explores the forces that shaped FDR’s personality and how his image penetrated so many different corners of American life. It looks with fresh eyes and new scholarship at the question of the identity of the “real” Roosevelt | 4x60' |
| Jimmy Carter (Parts 1 & 2) | Jimmy Carter tracks the ambitions of a boy his father called “hot shot” from his childhood in rural Georgia, through his turbulent years in the Oval Office to his post-presidential career as a world statesman. | 2.5x60 |
| Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (4 Part Series) | This documentary tells the dramatic story of the momentous journey that began in 1804, when Lewis and Clark, headed up the Missouri River on what would be the United States’ first official exploration into unknown spaces. | 4x55' |
| Medal of Honor | The Medal of Honor traces the history of America’s highest award for valor in combat through powerful stories of those who have received this honor and asks fundamental questions about what it means to have the courage of a hero. | 1x56' |
| Rachel Carson's Silent Spring | When Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1963, she was viciously attacked, called “an ignorant and hysterical woman.” But her warning sparked a revolution in environmental policy and created a new ecological consciousness. | 1x57' |
| Silicon Valley | An eye-opening look at the birthplace of the digital age, Silicon Valley is a fascinating reminder of how a few brilliant iconoclasts transformed a fertile farmland into one of the most exciting, innovative, and influential places on earth. | 1x90 |
| Stonewall Uprising | This feature-length documentary explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. | 1x87' |
| Triangle Fire | On March 25th, 1911, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York’s Greenwich Village. The landmark legislation that followed gave New Yorkers the most comprehensive workplace safety laws in the country. | 1x53' |
| Woodrow Wilson (Parts 1 & 2) | Woodrow Wilson explores the transformation of a history professor into one of America’s greatest presidents. | 2x87'' |
| Childrens - Between the Lions | This series is named for a family of lions who run a library like no other on earth: a magical place where characters pop off the pages of books, vowels sing, and words take on a life of their own! | 35x23 |
| Childrens - Time WarpTrio | Meet the TIME WARP TRIO — six amazing kids who will take you on action-packed adventures to confront Samurai in Shogun-era Japan, duel with gladiators in Ancient Rome, and even outwit a nasty priest in Ancient Egypt. | 26x23 |
| Childrens - Design Squad Nation | DESIGN SQUAD NATION teaches kids STEM using hands-on experiments | 10x23 |
| Childrens - PEEP and the Big Wide World | PEEP is a groundbreaking animated series that gives wings to the innovative idea of teaching science to preschoolers. | 34x23 |
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