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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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At the dawn of the 20th century, the struggle over coal — the material that fueled America — led to the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and turned parts of West Virginia into a bloody war zone.

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American Comandante

Aired November 17, 2015 | 52 min

American comandante William Morgan went to Cuba to help Fidel Castro return the country to a democracy. Instead, four years later, he was executed.

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Last Days in Vietnam

Aired April 28, 2015 | 3 hrs 44 min

April, 1975. During the chaotic final days of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, those in control faced an impossible decision—who would go and who would be left behind to face brutality, imprisonment, or even death.

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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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Cold War Roadshow

Aired November 18, 2014 | 52 min

In September 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made an unprecedented visit to America, creating a media circus as he traveled from coast to coast.

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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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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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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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Clinton

Aired July 28, 2020 | 3 hrs 46 min

A president who rose from a broken childhood to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history and one of the most complex and conflicted characters to ever stride across the public stage.

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Freedom Riders

Aired April 1, 2023 | 113 min

The powerful, harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever.

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