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  • The Pilgrims

    Aired November 19, 2020 | 114 min

    The converging forces, circumstances, personalities and events that propelled a group of English men and women west across the Atlantic in 1620.

  • Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World

    Aired May 10, 2010 | 112 min

    The 300-year saga of the American whaling industry, from its origins off the coast of New England, through the age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the Civil War. 

  • We Shall Remain

    Aired May 11, 2009 | 6 hrs 18 min

    From the award-winning PBS series American Experience comes We Shall Remain, a provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history.

  • Kit Carson

    Aired February 18, 2008

    The ultimate frontiersman, Carson inspired popular novels before being associated with the "Long Walk" of the Navajo people.

  • John and Abigail Adams

    Aired January 23, 2006

    A chronical of an inspiring political marriage, and the birth of a nation.

  • Patriots Day

    Aired April 19, 2004

    The film follows the re-enactors as they shuffle between their 18th- and 21st-century lives. It captures them building sets, planning military engagements, drilling, rehearsing battles as well as celebrating Thanksgiving, moving house and working. In the end it shows that patriotism, a love of costumes, civic duty, an urge to perform and a passion for history all play a role in these Americans' lives.

  • The Duel

    Aired February 14, 2000

    The most famous duel in American history climaxed a longstanding conflict between two of the most important men in the country.  The conflict between Alexander Hamilton, an architect of the Constitution and designer of American capitalism, and Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States and the first modern politician.

  • Gold Fever

    Aired May 12, 1997 | 53 min

    In July 1897, reporters from around the world gathered at Seattle's port as a steamship carrying passengers from Canada's frozen wasteland arrived. Word was out that many aboard had struck it rich and were carrying home sacks — even crates — of gold.