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  • Rachel Carson

    Aired July 1, 2023 | 113 min

    An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking writings revolutionized our relationship to the natural world and launched the modern environmental movement.

  • Command and Control

    Aired April 25, 2017 | 92 min

    How do you manage weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?

  • Tesla

    Aired December 26, 2018 | 53 min

    Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century.

  • Space Men

    Aired July 9, 2019 | 52 min

    Though largely forgotten today, balloonists were the first to venture into the frozen near-vacuum on the edge of our world, exploring the very limits of human physiology and ingenuity in this lethal realm.

  • The Mine Wars

    Aired September 3, 2019 | 113 min

    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.

  • Edison

    Aired January 27, 2015 | 112 min

    An in-depth look at America's most famous inventor and his role in America's future.

  • Blackout

    Aired July 14, 2015 | 52 min

    What happened when the lights went out in New York City on July 13, 1977?

  • The Forgotten Plague

    Aired February 10, 2015 | 52 min

    By the 19th century, the deadliest killer in human history, tuberculosis, had killed one in seven of all people who had ever lived. The disease struck America with a vengeance, touching the lives of almost every family.

  • The Big Burn

    Aired September 7, 2022 | 53 min

    In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies. By the time it was all over, more than three million acres had burned and at least 78 firefighters were dead. It was the largest fire in American history.

  • The Rise and Fall of Penn Station

    Aired February 18, 2014

    The Pennsylvania Railroad Company accomplished an enormous engineering feat, but destroyed a great architectural monument.

  • The Poisoner's Handbook

    Aired December 2, 2013

    The grave truth behind modern forensics was discovered in 1920s New York.

  • 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.