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Adam Clayton Powell
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One of the most charismatic black leaders of the 20th century.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose oratory is etched into the minds of millions of Americans. This film brings fresh insights to King's difficult journey, his leadership, and his impact.
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Duke Ellington -- Reminiscing in Tempo
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The international star who created some of the most exciting music America had ever heard.
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A dramatic story of greed, power and race during one of America's greatest natural disasters.
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Freedom on My Mind
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Recruits in a nonviolent army fight the white Mississippi political establishment to register black voters, create schools and bring national attention to the struggle.
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Goin' Back To T-Town
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In a nostalgic celebration of old fashioned neighborhood life, the black residents of Tulsa relive their community's remarkable rise and tragic decline.
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Ida B. Wells -- A Passion for Justice
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The life of the legendary former slave and crusading journalist.
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Murderer, martyr, hero -- his violent crusade would spark the Civil War.
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Former slaves sing their way into a nation's heart.
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Malcolm X -- Make It Plain
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If any man expressed the anger, struggle and insistence of black people for freedom in the sixties, it was Malcolm X.
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The rise and fall of an African American leader who influenced politics and culture around the world.
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The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
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The first officially formed regiment of northern black soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
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Midnight Ramble
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The little-known story of a black independent film industry.
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Chicago teen Emmett Till's brutal murder in 1955 mobilized the civil rights movement.
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At the height of segregation in the United States, an unlikely alliance between a black medical genius and a white surgeon led to some of the 20th century's pioneering medical breakthroughs.
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The stories of ordinary people, North and South, in the tumultuous years after the Civil War, when America struggled to rebuild the Union and integrate former slaves into the life of the nation.
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Roots of Resistance -- The Story of the Underground Railroad
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Men and women, black and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes out of slavery.
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The trial of nine falsely accused teens would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War.
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That Rhythm, Those Blues
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The evolution of rhythm and blues from the 1940s into the 50s.
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Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
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The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations.
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In the White Man's Image
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Indian schools and the "civilizing" mission. A story of cultural genocide -- a humanist experiment gone bad.
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Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo
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Angie Debo uncovers a widespread conspiracy to cheat Native Americans of oil rich lands.
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Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian
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The last surviving member of a California Indian tribe.
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The Last Stand At Little Big Horn
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One of the most frequently depicted and least understood moments in American history.
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Views of a Vanishing Frontier
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The journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Mississippi River area from 1832-34.
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The Way West
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How the West was lost and won, from the Gold Rush in 1848 until the end of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893.
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Richard Byrd's solitary adventure in Antarctica.
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America at the turn of the century.
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The legendary photographer who captured America's wild beauty.
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Ballad of a Mountain Man
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Bascom Lamar Lunsford and his campaign to preserve mountain music and dance.
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Barnum's Big Top
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P.T. Barnum -- huckster, con man, promoter and entertainer.
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A Utah farm boy sketches out the idea for electronic television.
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The story of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash.
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Daley, the Last Boss
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Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago, and his climb up the political ladder.
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Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
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A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys.
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He harnessed electricity and revolutionized the world.
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Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
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Based on Sevareid's best-selling book of the same title.
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G-Men -- The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover
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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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He preached segregation now, segregation forever -- then he asked to be forgiven.
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God Bless America and Poland Too
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A nostalgic and humorous look at how old world Chicago lives side by side with the new.
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He could escape from everything -- except from his own mortality.
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If You Knew Sousa
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America's favorite bandmaster.
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A man of public triumphs and private pain.
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Murderer, martyr, hero -- his violent crusade would spark the Civil War.
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Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish
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Knute Rockne, a pivotal figure in the sudden rise of sports to a position of enormous power in American life.
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The first man to fly across the Atlantic.
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John Wesley Powell's epic journey into the unknown Grand Canyon.
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Love in the Cold War
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A family torn apart by political beliefs.
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A portrait of a complex, imposing and fascinating American general, General Douglas MacArthur.
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