Special Features
- Teacher's Resources: Teacher's Guide
- Photo Gallery: Grand Central Through The Years
- Primary Resources: 20th Century Limited Streamliner Debuts, 1938
- Primary Resources: Park Avenue Tunnel Crash, 1902
- Primary Resources: The Woodlawn Crash, 1907
- Primary Resources: Grand Central Terminal Opens, 1913
On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at New York City's newest landmark. A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the new Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street housed an underground electric train station that would revolutionize the way people traveled and transform midtown Manhattan.
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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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God in America
For the first time on television, God in America will explore the historical role of religion in the public life of the United States.
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Chicago: City of the Century
The story of Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town to a massive metropolis in the nineteenth century.
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New Orleans
From Reconstruction to the 1960s, this film offers a portrait of New Orleans that reflects the best and the worst in America.
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Edison's Miracle of Light
"The Wizard of Menlo Park," Inventor Thomas Edison, built the first practical light bulb and revolutionized the world.
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The Satellite Sky
A uniquely impressionistic history of the early years of the Space Race.
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Test Tube Babies
The effort of pioneering researchers to conceive babies through in vitro fertilization.
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The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
A look at five real-life "Rosies," the reality of working in defense plants during World War II and then having to give up those jobs for returning GIs.
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