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Special Features: Biographies

Architect Gordon Kaufman

Gordon Kaufman

From the film: Hoover Dam


Grant Children

The Grant Children

From the film: U.S. Grant: Warrior


Grenville Dodge

Grenville Dodge (1831-1916)

From the film: Transcontinental Railroad


ny harbor

Guy Tozzoli

From the film: New York: The Center of the World


Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes

Harold Ickes

From the film: Hoover Dam


Harris and Blanck Biographies

Harris and Blanck

From the film: Triangle Fire


Henry Adams Biography

Henry Adams

From the film: U.S. Grant: Warrior


President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)

Herbert Hoover

From the film: Hoover Dam


Melville Biography

Herman Melville

From the film: Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World


hillary Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

From the film: Clinton


Biography of Howard and Georgeanna Jones

Howard and Georgeanna Jones

From the film: Test Tube Babies


Hugh Hammond Bennett

Hugh Hammond Bennett

From the film: Surviving the Dust Bowl


Tarbell's piece in McClure's Magazine

Ida Tarbell

From the film: The Rockefellers


Streamliners bio Industrial designers

Industrial Designers and Streamliners

From the film: Streamliners: America's Lost Trains


Biography of Ira Baldwin (1895-1999)

Ira Baldwin

From the film: The Living Weapon


Golden Gate Morrow

Irving Morrow

From the film: Golden Gate Bridge


Biography of Isabel Morgan

Isabel Morgan

From the film: The Polio Crusade


J. Edgar Hoover Biography

J. Edgar Hoover

From the film: Eleanor Roosevelt


Jack and Frances Jennings Casement

Jack Casement (1829-1909) and Francis Jennings Casement (1840-1928)

From the film: Transcontinental Railroad


Jimmy Carter Biography

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr.

From the film: Jimmy Carter


Streamliners bio James J. Hill

James J. Hill

From the film: Streamliners: America's Lost Trains


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James K. Vardaman

From the film: Fatal Flood


Jesse James

Jesse James

From the film: Jesse James


Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant

Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant

From the film: U.S. Grant: Warrior


John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)

JFK

From the film: The Kennedys


Biography of Jim Jones

Jim Jones

From the film: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple


Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (1888-1969)

Joe Kennedy

From the film: The Kennedys


John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his father

John D. Rockefeller, Junior

From the film: The Rockefellers


John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

John D. Rockefeller, Senior

From the film: The Rockefellers


John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (1863-1950)

John Francis Fitzgerald

From the film: The Kennedys





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Stonewall Uprising

Stonewall Uprising : 90 mins

Triangle Fire is one of three AMERICAN EXPERIENCE documentaries to be honored with a win at the 71st Annual Peabody Awards.

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Silicon Valley : 90 mins

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Death and the Civil War : 2 hrs

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War

Watch Chapter 1