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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.

  • Woodstock

    Aired August 6, 2019 | 120 min

    In August, 1969, half a million people from all walks of life and every corner of the country converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York. They came to hear the concert of their lives, but most experienced something far more profound: a moment that would change them and the country forever, and define a cultural revolution. 

  • Walt Whitman

    Aired April 14, 2008

    He is today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot and faithful advocate of democracy.

  • Eugene O'Neill

    Aired March 27, 2006

    Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright — set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art. This American Experience production is a moving meditation on loss and redemption, family and memory, the cost of being an artist, and the inescapability of the past.

  • Mary Pickford

    Aired April 4, 2005

    It was the golden age of silent film, and she was the world's most celebrated actress. But she would learn that fame is fickle and life at the top is precarious.

  • Ansel Adams

    Aired April 21, 2002

    From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, "colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra." Few American photographers have reached a wider audience than Adams, and none has had more impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent.

  • New York: A Documentary Film

    Aired November 14, 1999

    This seven-part, 14 and a half hour television event explores New York City's rich history as the premier laboratory of modern life. A sweeping narrative covering nearly 400 years and 400 square miles, it reveals a complex and dynamic city that has played an unparalleled role in shaping the nation and reflecting its ideals. This program was produced before the tragic events of September 11, 2001.