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Grand Coulee Dam

Aired April 18, 2017 | 82 min

At once the story of an astonishing engineering achievement, and a cautionary tale about arrogance, our relationship to the natural world, and the price of progress.

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Triangle Fire

Aired January 30, 2018 | 60 min

It was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history.

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In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world’s surface that had been described as a "sheer blank." Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny and cannibalism.

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Panama Canal

Aired January 24, 2011 | 83 min

In 1914, the Panama Canal connected the world’s two largest oceans. American ingenuity and innovation had succeeded where the French had failed disastrously, but the U.S. paid a price for victory.

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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.

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Earth Days

Aired April 19, 2010 | 113 min

A meditation on man’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements and missed opportunities of eco-activism.

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The Civilian Conservation Corps

Aired November 2, 2009 | 53 min

One of the most popular New Deal programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps put three million young men to work in the nation's forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression.

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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.

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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Aired January 26, 2009 | 113 min

A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II.

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The Living Weapon

Aired February 5, 2007

The international race to develop biological weapons during the 20th century.

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The Alaska Pipeline

Aired April 24, 2006 | 120 min

In the early weeks of 1968, after a decade-long search for oil in Alaska's frozen wilderness, gas burst out of an exploratory well on the North Slope with such force the crew thought it was about to blow. Geologists soon calculated that as much as ten billion barrels of oil lay below the frozen tundra of Prudhoe Bay -- the largest oil find in North America.

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Race to the Moon

Aired October 31, 2005

On Christmas Eve 1968, one of the largest audiences in television history tuned in to an extraordinary sight: a live telecast of the moon's surface as seen from Apollo 8, the first manned space flight to orbit the moon.

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