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Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

Aired May 23, 2005

In 1974, a militant, fringe political group kidnapped teenage newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment. In the months that followed, Hearst, the Symbionese Liberation Army (S.L.A.), and their constant, paramilitary audio messages dominated headlines globally.

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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.

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Kinsey

Aired February 14, 2005

This probing documentary assesses Kinsey's remarkable achievements, while examining how his personal life shaped his career.

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Fidel Castro

Aired January 31, 2005

On January 3, 1959, a column of victorious young rebels advanced along Cuba's main highway towards Havana. At the head of the column rode 33-year-old Fidel Castro Ruz.

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RFK

Aired October 4, 2004 | 112 min

When an assassin took his brother's life, Robert Kennedy was bereft of someone he loved, and of a role that had given his life meaning. As he began to move beyond the shadow of his brother, he, too, was assassinated.

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Emma Goldman

Aired May 21, 2019 | 53 min

A notorious lecturer, fearless writer, and merciless publisher, Goldman was one of the most controversial women in America.

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Citizen King

Aired January 19, 2004

In August 1963, a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism.

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Jimmy Carter

Aired November 11, 2002 | 3 hrs 39 min

One of the greatest dramas in American politics, President Jimmy Carter was overwhelmingly voted out of office in a humiliating defeat in 1980, only to become one of the most admired statesmen and humanitarians in America and the world.

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Ulysses S. Grant

Aired May 5, 2002

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation.

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A Brilliant Madness

Aired April 28, 2002

The story of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by a descent into madness. At the age of 30, John Nash, a stunningly original and famously eccentric MIT mathematician, suddenly suffered a breakdown.

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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.

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Mount Rushmore

Aired January 20, 2002

High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

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