Special Features
- General Article: Meet the Generals
- Biography: Mary Lucinda Bonney
- Biography: Julia Dent Grant
- General Article: You're the General
- Biography: Zachary Taylor
- General Article: George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
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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George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
The Alabama governor and presidential candidate promised segregation forever.
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The Mormons
From Joseph Smith's discovery of gold tablets to persecution, migration, and settlement in Utah, the film explores the history of the most American of religions.
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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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Emma Goldman
The story of a Russian immigrant and anarchist who is said to have inspired the assassination of President William McKinley.
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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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Adam Clayton Powell
A civil rights leader in Harlem before entering politics, Powell was one of the most charismatic black leaders of the 20th century.
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Daley, the Last Boss
For 21 years, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley ruled the city, building the Sears Tower and O'Hare Airport.
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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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