"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"The Battle of Little Big Horn, known as ''Custer's Last Stand,'' has been one of the most frequently depicted moments in American history—and one of the least understood, still shrouded in myth. The battle has inspired over 1,000 different paintings and works of art, calendar displays, comic books and cereal boxes. The golden-haired general and his doomed 7th Cavalry have been wiped out by Indians in more than 40 films. Yet the battle ..."
"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 ..."
"Garrison Keillor narrates the all-American story of two Midwestern boys who truly believed they could fly—Orville and Wilbur Wright. While they had produced a working plane by 1903, they didn't publicly reveal their invention until five years later when Wilbur executed a perfect take-off and landing on a racetrack outside Paris. Discover little-known facts about these visionary brothers and their flying machines that changed the world. ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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. "
"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 ..."
"Homefront USA Through troubled years of controversy and violence, U.S. casualties mounted, victory remained elusive and American opinion moved from general approval of to general dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War. The End of the Tunnel (1973 - 1975) South Vietnamese leaders believed that America would never let them go down to defeat - a belief that died as North Vietnamese tanks smashed into Saigon on April 30, 1975, and the long wa ..."
"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 ..."
"Beginning in the middle of John F. Kennedy's term as president, this PBS documentary presents the saga of the Kennedy family through the tragedies and lost potential of the 1960s and 1970s. Relying on interviews with Kennedy experts, including author Doris Kearns Goodwin, journalist and former Kennedy press secretary Pierre Salinger, historians and former Kennedy advisers Arthur Schlesinger and Theodore Sorenson, and other family friend ..."