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The Big Burn
The dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910.....
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Billy the Kid
A fascinating look at the myth and the man behind it, who, in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orp....
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Walt Whitman
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a ne....
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The Transcontinental Railroad
Documentary filmmakers offer a fascinating look at one of the most spectacular engineering feats of the 19th Century as th....
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Cold War Roadshow
Cold War Roadshow tells the story of one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of modern history — the unprecedente....
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Annie Oakley
This one hour documentary examines the life of the famed Sharp Shooter and Wild West performer, Annie Oakley from her birt....
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Bataan Rescue
This is the story of a group of 514 prisoners of war from the Bataan Death March and how they were rescued near the end of....
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Sister Aimee
At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing larger crowds to her rev....
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Jesse James
He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only t....
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A Midwife's Tale
To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight y....
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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter ran for president on a wave of post-Watergate disaffection with Washington politics. But inexperience, inflat....
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Grand Coulee Dam
During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was descr....
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Tupperware!
The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taug....
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Plague at the Golden Gate
Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating med....
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The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New Y....
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