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STONEWALL UPRISING: The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement. -
FREEDOM RIDERS: The powerful, harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. -
FREEDOM SUMMER: A historic effort in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states. -
AMERICAN OZ: Explore the life and times of L. Frank Baum, creator of the beloved The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. -
THE AMERICAN DIPLOMAT: Three Black diplomats who broke racial barriers at the State Department during Cold War. -
FLOOD IN THE DESERT: Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history. -
PLAGUE AT THE GOLDEN GATE: The gripping story of the race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900. -
THE BIG BURN: In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies -
THE CODEBREAKER: The fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped bring down gangsters and break up a Nazi spy ring in South America. -
ZORA NEALE HURSTON: CLAIMING A SPACE: The influential author and anthropologist whose work reclaimed and honored Black life. -
RUBY RIDGE: A riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement. -
THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL: In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was murdered by two white men. His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. -
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR: THE FIRST: Discover the story of the Supreme Court’s first female justice. -
CITIZEN HEARST: Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst, the pioneering media mogul and inspiration for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane. -
VOICE OF FREEDOM: Explore the life of singer Marian Anderson and her triumphant 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial. -
THE BLINDING OF ISAAC WOODARD: In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home after serving in WWII was savagely beaten, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. -
GOIN' BACK TO T-TOWN: Revisit a thriving Black community in Tulsa, which rebuilt after a 1921 racially-motivated massacre. -
THE SUN QUEEN: Unsung scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. -
CLINTON: The story of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history. -
THE VOTE: The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote. -
THE PILGRIMS: The converging forces, circumstances, personalities and events that propelled a group of English men and women west across the Atlantic in 1620.