Special Features
- General Article: The Panic of 1873
- Preview: U.S. Grant: Warrior Preview
- Biography: Ulysses S. Grant
- Biography: Mary Lucinda Bonney
- Biography: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
- General Article: In His Shoes
This biography of Ulysses S. Grant paints a revealing portrait of one of America's most paradoxical leaders. In 2011 AMERICAN EXPERIENCE will rebroadcast this film as U.S. Grant: Warrior, an abridged 90-minute version of the film, focusing on Grant as a Civil War hero and a brilliant military strategist who rose from obscurity to a rank held previously only by George Washington.
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FDR
Franklin Roosevelt restored hope after the Great Depression and led the nation during World War II. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.
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Public Enemy #1
Legendary bank robber John Dillinger garnered the admiration of many struggling Americans, but FBI took him down with a message: crime doesn't pay.
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Radio Bikini
While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing for nuclear tests on Bikini Island.
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Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
In the decade after the Civil War, former slaves sing their way into a nation's heart with spirituals, the religious anthems of slavery.
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The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
The influential musical pioneers from Appalachia whose recordings lifted spirits during the Great Depression.
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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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The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
The first officially formed regiment of northern black soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
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Death and the Civil War
The staggering death tolls of the Civil War permanently altered the character of the republic and the psyche of the American people.
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