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Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History

Aired February 20, 2023 | 53 min

Monopoly is America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing.

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Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History (español)

Aired February 20, 2023 | 53 min

Monopoly es el juego de mesa favorito de Estados Unidos, una carta de amor al capitalismo desenfrenado y a nuestra sociedad de libre mercado. Pero detrás del mito de su creación hay una historia sin contar sobre un robo, una obsesión y un doble juego corporativo.

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Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

Aired January 17, 2023 | 113 min

Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean — reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms.

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Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (español)

Aired January 17, 2023

Conozca a la influyente autora y figura clave del Renacimiento de Harlem. Hurston, quien también se había formado como antropóloga, recopiló el folclore del Sur de Estados Unidos y del Caribe, recuperando, honrando y celebrando la vida de la población negra en sus propios términos.

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The Lie Detector

Aired January 3, 2023 | 53 min

Discover the story of the polygraph, the controversial device that transformed modern police work, seized headlines and was extolled as an infallible crime-fighting tool. A tale of good intentions, twisted morals and unintended consequences.

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The Lie Detector (español)

Aired January 3, 2023 | 53 min

Descubra la historia del polígrafo, el controvertido aparato que transformó el trabajo policial moderno, capturó los titulares y fue elogiado como una herramienta infalible para combatir el crimen. Una historia de buenas intenciones, valores morales retorcidos y consecuencias imprevistas.

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Taken Hostage

Aired November 14, 2022 | 3 hrs 46 min

Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Unfolding like a political thriller, the story is told through the eyewitness accounts of those who took part in the events.

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Taken Hostage (español)

Aired November 15, 2022 | 3 hrs 46 min

La crisis de los rehenes en Irán en 1979, cuando 52 estadounidenses fueron tomados como rehenes en Teherán, contada por aquellos cuyo calvario cautivó al mundo.

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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

Aired March 30, 2021 | 113 min

In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.

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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard (español)

Aired March 30, 2021 | 113 min

In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.

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The Vote

Aired October 28, 2023 | 3 hrs 46 min

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

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The Eugenics Crusade

Aired October 16, 2018 | 114 min

The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the unlikely –– and largely unknown –– campaign to breed a “better” American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling science of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control.

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