Special Features
- Biography: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Photo Gallery: Ulysses S. Grant
- General Article: The Mexican American War
- Biography: William Tecumseh Sherman
- Biography: Annie Turner Wittenmyer
- General Article: Black Friday, September 24, 1869
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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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
A star in baseball's golden age, Joe DiMaggio's celebrity status and tumultuous marriage to Marilyn Monroe brought him pain.
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Eugene O'Neill
A great playwright's turbulent story, from childhood through the years of his Nobel Prize-winning career to his lonely, painful death.
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Stephen Foster
America's first great songwriter, Stephen Foster, wrote 200 songs but died a penniless alcoholic at 37.
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Geronimo
The Chiricahua Apache medicine man and warrior who refused to accept white man's 'civilization.' Part of The Wild West collection.
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Race for the Superbomb
The U.S. and the Soviet Union race to build the hydrogen bomb during the Cold War, thus beginning the nuclear arms race.
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Dolley Madison
America's first First Lady defined the role of the President's wife and in the process changed the face of the American presidency.
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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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Two Days in October
Two days in 1967 revealed a nation divided over a war that continues to haunt us.
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