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JFK

Aired November 12, 2013 | 3 hrs 41 min

Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Part of the award-winning Presidents collection.

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War of the Worlds

Aired October 29, 2013

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Halloween Eve, 1938, a panicked radio announcer broke in with a news bulletin that Martians had landed in the tiny town of Grovers Mill, New Jersey.

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Henry Ford

Aired January 29, 2013

The story of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.

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The Abolitionists

Aired January 8, 2013 | 2 hrs 34 min

Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called by many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union.

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Jesse Owens

Aired August 3, 2021 | 53 min

His stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis.

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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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Custer's Last Stand

Aired January 17, 2015 | 120 min

The Last Stand, the final act of General George Custer's larger-than-life career, played out on a grand stage with a spellbound public engrossed in the drama. Part of the Wild West collection.

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Billy the Kid

Aired January 10, 2012 | 113 min

The boy behind the myth, who in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orphan to the most feared man in the West and an enduring icon. Part of The Wild West collection.

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Dinosaur Wars

Aired January 17, 2011 | 53 min

In the late 19th century, paleontologists Edward Cope and O.C. Marsh uncovered the remains of hundreds of prehistoric animals in the American West, including dozens of previously undiscovered dinosaur species. But the rivalry that developed between them would spiral out of control, permanently damaging their careers and threatening the future of American paleontology.

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Robert E. Lee

Aired January 3, 2011

Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration.

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Wyatt Earp

Aired January 25, 2010 | 53 min

A central figure in the narrative of how the west was won, Wyatt Earp and his story became an American legend. Part of the Wild West collection.

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Aired February 9, 2009 | 52 min

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.

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