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Ripley: Believe It or Not

Aired May 2, 2017 | 52 min

Robert Ripley's obsession with the odd and keen eye for the curious made him one of the most successful men in America during the Great Depression. We still can’t resist his challenge to “Believe it — or not!”

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Aired February 11, 2014 | 52 min

Long before Paul Newman and Robert Redford immortalized them on screen, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid captivated Americans from coast to coast.

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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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War of the Worlds

Aired October 29, 2013

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Halloween Eve, 1938, a panicked radio announcer broke in with a news bulletin that Martians had landed in the tiny town of Grovers Mill, New Jersey.

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Billy the Kid

Aired January 10, 2012 | 113 min

The boy behind the myth, who in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orphan to the most feared man in the West and an enduring icon. Part of The Wild West collection.

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Soundtrack for a Revolution

Aired May 9, 2011

The story of the American civil rights movement is told through its powerful music -- the freedom songs that protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in police wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality.

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Summer of Love

Aired June 12, 2018 | 60 min

A fleeting moment in the turbulent history of the 1960s, the Summer of Love's underlying message left an indelible impression on those who witnessed it.

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Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

Aired May 23, 2005

In 1974, a militant, fringe political group kidnapped teenage newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment. In the months that followed, Hearst, the Symbionese Liberation Army (S.L.A.), and their constant, paramilitary audio messages dominated headlines globally.

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The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Aired May 9, 2005 | 120 min

The songs A.P. Carter, his wife Sara and her cousin Maybelle recorded in August 1927 to audition for Victor Talking Machine Company drew upon the rich musical traditions of their native rural Appalachia. The Carter Family sang of love and loss, desperation and joy, and their music captured the attention of a nation entering the darkest days of the depression.

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Mary Pickford

Aired April 4, 2005

It was the golden age of silent film, and she was the world's most celebrated actress. But she would learn that fame is fickle and life at the top is precarious.

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Tupperware!

Aired February 9, 2004

In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands — even millions — of dollars from bowls that burped.

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