"The Kennedy family, the great American political dynasty, is examined in considerable detail in this "American Experience" documentary. Hosted by historian David McCullough, the production features a host of experts on the Kennedy clan, including author Doris Kearns Goodwin, the late Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, and special counsel/speechwriter Theodore Sorenson, as well as a number of family friends and colleagues who ..."
"The Kennedy family, the great American political dynasty, is examined in considerable detail in this American Experience documentary. Hosted by historian David McCullough, the production features a host of experts on the Kennedy clan, including author Doris Kearns Goodwin, the late Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, and special counsel/speechwriter Theodore Sorenson, as well as a number of family friends and colleagues who se ..."
"While not looking the part, Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history. In the 1930's, when Americans longed to escape the grim realities of Depression-era life, four men turned Seabiscuit into a national hero. They were his fabulously wealthy owner Charles Howard, his famously silent and stubborn trainer Tom Smith, and the two hard-bitten, gifted jockeys who rode him to glory. This film illuminates the ..."
"Celebrate America's 20th-century Chief Executives with "The Democrats," a fabulous compilation from the award-winning PBS series "The American Experience," featuring "FDR," "The Kennedys," and "LBJ." The double-disc "FDR" profiles Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the longest-serving President, who enacted the New Deal and steered the country through the Great Depression and World War II, changing American Politics in the process. "The Kennedy ..."
"General Douglas MacArthur is considered by many to be the greatest American military hero in history. In The American Experience: MacArthur we get the chance to look in depth at this complex man. At times paranoid and poetic, inspirational and petty, his belief in his own destiny was so strong that he seemed to expect his victories as his due. The filmmakers present his story with newsreel and military footage, as well as with thought ..."
"An ambitious, hard-working engineer turns a ragtag army of unemployed into a celebrated work force to create one of the world's greatest engineering projects. Here lies the dramatic story. A colossus rising more than 700 feet above the Colorado River, the dam was constructed in the face of oppressive heat, choking dust and perilous heights. More than one hundred workers died during the construction that consumed giant buckets of concret ..."
"Both loved and reviled, Ronald "Dutch" Reagan rose out of the political ashes of Watergate to become one of the most popular presidents in American history. Whether you like it or not, he will be remembered along with Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy as one of the most influential and charismatic political figures of the 20th century. This epic four-and-a-half-hour documentary shows why, and it benefits greatly from the fa ..."
"A celebrated hero of World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower also gained enormous popularity during his first term as president. But as Ike reveals, the controversy over segregation ultimately resulted in his downfall. In Truman, follow the footsteps of America's first Cold War president -- the leader who agreed to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, signed the United Nations charter and led the U.S. into Korea. "
"A little 1996 thriller that slipped through the cracks but deserves a look. John Rubinstein (and whatever happened to him?) plays a rich, successful New Yorker who finds his world turned upside down when his daughter is kidnapped. A classic snob with no sense of the lives lived by those less fortunate, he finds himself being dragged all over New York--into neighborhoods he never knew existed, let alone ever visited--on the whims of the ..."
"This compelling biographical series profiles three of the most dynamic, controversial, and ultimately tragic figures in American history. The story of a remarkable political dynasty, The Kennedys traces the lives of Joe, Rose, and their nine children, and reveals how Joe Kennedy marshaled the forces that helped put his son John in the White House. LBJ explores the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson from his early career as a New Deal support ..."
"This continuing series looks at two towering members of an American dynasty who shaped the destiny of the country. Teddy Roosevelt profiles a man who typified America's mood at the turn of the last century--confident, exuberant and involving. Now, discover both the heroic and tragic sides of Roosevelt's character--the boundless energy that drove him, and the bleak emotions he tried hard to suppress. Great challenges define a great presi ..."
"Twentysomething filmmaker Meema Spadola gathered a diverse group of women, chose a few categories, and let them talk candidly about their breasts. This celebration of femaleness is as (ahem) revealing as it is playful. In less than an hour, Spadola manages to cover social, medical, and sexual aspects of this revered female attribute, stringing together the segments with hilariously outdated propaganda footage. This was made for HBO and ..."
"Chronicles the history of slavery in the United States and of the Underground Railroad, a network of escape routes black slaves took in the mid-1800's to freedom. Their flight from the South was organized by other escaped slaves and their allies, including Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass. Men and women, black and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes out of slavery using trails, back roads, safe ..."
"Tet, 1968 The massive enemy offensive at the lunar new year decimated the Vietcong and failed to topple the Saigon government but lead to the beginning of America's military withdrawal from Vietnam. Vietnamizing the War (1968 - 1973) Richard Nixon's program of troop pull-outs, stepped-up bombing and huge arms shipments to Saigon changed the war and left GIs wondering which of them would be the last to die in Vietnam."
"Vietnam is in the Soviet orbit, poorer than ever, at war on two fronts: America's legacy includes more than 500,000 refugees, 2.5 million Vietnam veterans and some questions that won't go away."
"The Kennedy family, the great American political dynasty, is examined in considerable detail in this PBS documentary. Hosted by historian David McCullough, the production features a host of experts on the Kennedy clan, including author Doris Kearns Goodwin, the late Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, and historian Theodore Sorenson, as well as a number of family friends and colleagues who served in political campaigns. The st ..."