Special Features
- Biography: War Admiral
- Biography: Agnes Conlon
- Interview: Laura Hillenbrand
- General Article: A Jockey's Hard Life
- General Article: Racing in the Depression
- Preview: Seabiscuit Preview
One of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history, Seabiscuit was the long shot that captured America's heart during the Depression.
My American Experience
Share Your Story
Did you or a family member experience life in America in the 1930s? What does the decade mean to you? Share your American experience with us.
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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The Rockefellers
Head of the most powerful family in America, billionaire John D. Rockefeller's vast philanthropy changed his family's reputation.
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Demon Rum
Prohibition's effect on Detroit, Michigan, the first major American city to "go dry," and the growth of the liquor smuggling industry.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt supported the President's New Deal and advocated for civil rights, becoming one of the 20th century's most influential women.
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Ansel Adams
The life of the legendary photographer, known best for his black and white images of the wilderness of the American West.
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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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Clinton
A president who rose from a broken childhood to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history, and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage.
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Monkey Trial
John Scopes' free speech trial pitted science against religion after the teacher presented Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in a Tennessee school.
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