Special Features
The little-known story of a black independent film industry that produced nearly 500 feature films for African American audiences, dealing with issues such as crime, racism and lynching.
John Brown's Holy War
Murderer, martyr, hero - John Brown's violent crusade against slavery would divide the nation and spark the Civil War.
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Monkey Trial
John Scopes' free speech trial pitted science against religion after the teacher presented Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee school.
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Freedom Riders
A courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South.
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The Greely Expedition
A daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism amongst a group left abandoned in the high Arctic.
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Adam Clayton Powell
A civil rights leader in Harlem before entering politics, Powell was one of the most charismatic black leaders of the 20th century.
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Citizen King
An African American minister whose dream of ending racism galvanized millions of Americans in the civil rights movement.
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Partners of the Heart
At the height of segregation, an unlikely alliance between a black medical genius and a white surgeon led to a pioneering medical breakthrough.
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