Special Features
- Interview: Bernardo Ruiz
- Interview: His Family and His Legacy
- Further Reading: Related Books and Websites
- Primary Resources: 3,000th Hit
- Primary Resources: MVP
- Teacher's Resources: Teacher's Guide
This film will no longer be streaming online as of April 21, 2011.
Born in Puerto Rico, Clemente was an exceptional baseball player and humanitarian whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change. He would die in a tragic plane crash.
One Woman, One Vote
The women's suffrage movement won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment passed in 1920.
Film Details
Chicago 1968
The 1968 Democratic National Convention saw a clash of political visions on the convention floor and violence outside on the streets of Chicago.
Film Details
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst fought to suppress a film by Orson Welles, a film that would become one of cinema's masterpieces.
Film Details
A Class Apart
From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans.
Watch Preview
Jimmy Carter
A peanut farmer who rose to become America's 39th president. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.
Watch Online
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.
Film Details
Emma Goldman
The story of a Russian immigrant and anarchist who is said to have inspired the assassination of President William McKinley.
Watch Trailer
John and Abigail Adams
From letters of the second U.S. president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail, this film explores their tumultuous times.
Film DetailsAdditional funding for this program was provided by
