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    The American Diplomat

    Aired April 29, 2023 | 53 min

    Explore the lives and legacies of three African American ambassadors who broke racial barriers to reach high-ranking appointments in the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations and left a lasting impact on the Foreign Service.

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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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    Goin' Back To T-Town

    Aired May 23, 2023 | 53 min

    Revisit a thriving Black community in Tulsa, which rebuilt after a 1921 racially-motivated massacre.

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    The Chinese Exclusion Act

    Aired May 29, 2018 | 120 min

    The 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.

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    The Great War

    Aired July 3, 2018 | 5 hrs 42 min

    Discover how WWI transformed America through the stories of those whose participation in the war to “make the world safe for democracy” has been largely forgotten.

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    Murder of a President

    Aired February 2, 2016 | 112 min

    The story of James Garfield, one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president, and his assassination by a deluded madman.

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    The Big Burn

    Aired September 7, 2022 | 53 min

    In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead. It was the largest fire in American history.

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    Klansville U.S.A.

    Aired January 13, 2015 | 52 min

    In the 1960s, North Carolina's KKK membership grew to some ten thousand members, earning the state a new nickname: "Klansville, U.S.A."

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    Freedom Summer

    Aired April 8, 2023 | 113 min

    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.

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    Freedom Summer (español)

    Aired April 8, 2023 | 113 min

    Un histórico esfuerzo en el verano de 1964 por destrozar los cimientos de la supremacía blanca en lo que era uno de los estados más agresivamente racistas y segregados del país.

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    1964

    Aired January 14, 2014 | 112 min

    America came apart in 1964 and has since been reborn.

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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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