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  • The Race Underground: Trailer Trailer
    The Race Underground | Trailer

    The Race Underground: Trailer

    It was Boston — a city of so many firsts — that overcame great engineering challenges and the fears of its citizenry to construct America’s first subway.

    30 SEC
  • The Race Underground: Chapter 1 Chapter
    The Race Underground | Chapter

    The Race Underground: Chapter 1

    Watch the opening scene of The Race Underground

    8 MIN 24 SEC
  • Scene Breakdown: Sprague's Sketches Behind the Scenes
    The Race Underground | Behind the Scenes

    Scene Breakdown: Sprague's Sketches

    Filmmaker Michael Rossi takes viewers behind-the-scenes of the production of The Race Underground, the story of building America’s first subway.

    2 MIN 59 SEC
  • MBTA Signal Shop Digital Short
    The Race Underground | Digital Short

    MBTA Signal Shop

    In this co-production with Retro Report, we visit the MBTA’s Signal Shop, where workers maintain the equipment that keeps the trains on track.

    2 MIN 06 SEC
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    Rachel Carson

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

    113 min
  • The Accident Report Clip
    Command and Control | Clip

    The Accident Report

    Bob Peurifoy and Bill Stevens were both engineers at Sandia National Laboratories. Both men were shocked when they realized how vulnerable the nation’s nuclear weapons were to accidents.

    1 MIN 08 SEC
  • Command and Control: Trailer Trailer
    Command and Control | Trailer

    Command and Control: Trailer

    A chilling nightmare plays out at a Titan II missile complex in Arkansas in September, 1980.

    2 MIN 18 SEC
  • Command and Control: Chapter 1 Chapter
    Command and Control | Chapter

    Command and Control: Chapter 1

    Watch the opening scene of Command and Control.

    9 MIN 21 SEC
  • Scene Breakdown: The Socket Behind the Scenes
    Command and Control | Behind the Scenes

    Scene Breakdown: The Socket

    Filmmaker Robert Kenner talks about filming inside of a decomissioned Titan II Missile complex in order to recreate a harrowing event from 1980.

    3 MIN 26 SEC
  • George Westinghouse Clip
    Tesla | Clip

    George Westinghouse

    During the last part of the 19th century, George Westinghouse had made his fortune through his invention, the railroad air brake. 

    1 MIN 07 SEC
  • The Contract Clip
    Tesla | Clip

    The Contract

    In Nikola Tesla's original contract with George Westinghouse, the inventor was promised a bonus of $2.50 for every horsepower of alternating current sold. 

    52 SEC
  • Cold Light Clip
    Tesla | Clip

    Cold Light

    Nikola Tesla stunned audiences when he wirelessly lit up glass tubes filled with gas. He called it cold light. 

    1 MIN 11 SEC