Special Features
- Biography: The Grant Children
- Biography: Annie Turner Wittenmyer
- Biography: Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant
- Photo Gallery: Ulysses S. Grant
- General Article: Black Friday, September 24, 1869
- General Article: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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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Jesse Owens
His stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Premiering May 1.
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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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G-Men - The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover
Of all the alphabet agencies of the New Deal, none captured the public's imagination like J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.
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Roberto Clemente
Clemente was an exceptional baseball player whose career sheds light on larger issues of immigration, civil rights and cultural change.
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Around the World in 72 Days
Intrepid journalist Nelly Bly went on a journey around the world breaking the record of Julius Verne's fictional character.
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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 Orphan Trains
Between 1854 and 1929 more than 100,000 abused or orphaned children were sent by train to the Midwest to begin new lives in foster families.
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