The Eugenics Crusade |
Digital Short
The scientist who fell out of love with eugenics.
1 MIN 19 SEC
The Eugenics Crusade |
Digital Short
With every new advance in prenatal genetic screening, the ability to prevent suffering has also sparked difficult questions. These fears arise, in part, because just 100 years ago, that’s exactly what the eugenics movement tried to do.
11 MIN 12 SEC
The Eugenics Crusade |
Digital Short
Besides inventing Corn Flakes, John Kellogg helped promote the American Eugenics movement.
1 MIN 19 SEC
The Eugenics Crusade |
Chapter
Watch Chapter 1 of The Eugenics Crusade .
8 MIN 38 SEC
The Eugenics Crusade |
Digital Short
In 1910, Charles Davenport opened Eugenics Record Office to collect hereditary information on American families.
1 MIN 29 SEC
The Crash of 1929 |
Trailer
Watch a preview for the film The Crash of 1929 .
30 SEC
The Lobotomist |
Clip
Janice Jones-Thomson looks back on the lobotomy done to her mother, Beulah Jones.
1 MIN 26 SEC
The Lobotomist |
Clip
Angelene Forester remembers Walter Freeman's first patient — her mother Ellen Ionesco.
2 MIN 57 SEC
The Lobotomist |
Clip
Howard Dully discusses the lobotomy that Walter Freeman performed on him when he was 12.
2 MIN 43 SEC
The Lobotomist |
Trailer
In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill.
35 SEC
The Greely Expedition |
Trailer
An epic story of adventure, abandonment and human tragedy, The Greely Expedition tells of an 1881 scientific mission to the Arctic that ended with death and rumors of cannibalism.
30 SEC
The Polio Crusade |
Teaser
The polio crusade was a time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease.
30 SEC
