Special Features
- Bonus Video: America's Gift to Famine Stricken Russia
- Primary Resources: $300,000,000 to Aid Central Europe
- Primary Resources: Tale of Soviet Appeal Made to Washington
- Primary Resources: Russians Plead for Famine Relief
- Primary Resources: Cable from Colonel Haskell
- Photo Gallery: Images from the Famine
The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Five million Soviet citizens died. Half a world away, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by Herbert Hoover, director of the American Relief Administration.
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Dinosaur Wars
The epic battle waged over dinosaur fossils by rival paleontologists in the American West.
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Midnight Ramble
The little-known story of a black independent film industry that produced nearly 500 feature films for African American audiences.
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Patriots Day
This film follows the 65 "British soldiers" and 67 "American rebels" who reenact the 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord.
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The Polio Crusade
The story of the polio crusade pays tribute to a time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease.
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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.
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Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families of the American West.
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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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The Radio Priest
Roman Catholic priest Father Charles Coughlin used the power of radio to rail against the nation's economic system in the Depression.
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