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  • The Pill

    Aired February 24, 2003

    In May 1960, the FDA approved the sale of a pill that arguably would have a greater impact on American culture than any other drug in the nation's history.

  • Partners of the Heart

    Aired February 10, 2003

    In 1944, two men at Johns Hopkins University Hospital pioneered a groundbreaking procedure that would save thousands of so-called blue babies' lives.

  • 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.

     

  • Influenza 1918

    Aired January 2, 2018 | 60 min

    It was the worst epidemic in American history, killing over 600,000 — until it disappeared as mysteriously as it had begun.