Special Features
- Interview: Ralph Giordano
- Teacher's Resources: Teacher's Guide
- Interview: Debate: Contributions and Sacrifice
- Photo Gallery: A POW's Story
- Bonus Video: Government Film: Combat America
- Interview: Horst Sinske
During the defining months of the offensive against Germany, American forces faced a moral and strategic dilemma.
My American Experience
Share Your Story
Were you there for the storming of Normandy beach? The Bombing of Germany? The Victory in the Pacific? Or perhaps your friends and relatives have passed on stories of their own World War II experiences that you would like to share.
John and Abigail Adams
From letters of the second U.S. president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail, this film explores their tumultuous times.
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Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
The bizarre saga of the Symbionese Liberation Army and Patty Hearst's kidnapping and conversion to her captors' cause.
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Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration.
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Fly Girls
During World War II, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the U.S. military as WASPS.
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Love in the Cold War
An American Communist family that had fled to Moscow in the late 1920s, return to America in 1935 but can not bring their 5-year-old son.
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The Hunt for Pancho Villa
After notorious revolutionary leader Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, General John Pershing and his 150,000 man cavalry set out to get Villa.
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Nixon's China Game
President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger initiated a secret diplomatic breakthrough with Mao Tse-tung that shocked and changed the world.
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The Duel
Founding father Alexander Hamilton went up against political rival and former vice president Aaron Burr in one of history's most famous duels.
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