The Pittsburgh History Series is an ongoing series of hour-long documentaries that highlight various parts of our city's history. Since 1988, these documentaries have captivated local audiences by mixing memories, old films, [mementos], home movies, snapshots and new interviews.
In California's Bay Area, a painful memory lingers of the Port Chicago disaster of WWII, when hundre...
From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...
A look at Britain's beloved canal network via a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of ...
A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the m...
A group of residents from Coria del Rio uncover a key figure in their town's history -- a samurai on...
Bandera, Texas (THE COWBOY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD) is a captivating documentary that explores the vibr...
THE SPIRIT OF PITTSBURGH celebrates the human achievement of a city's continuing Renaissance. It is ...
Violinist and songwriter Kishi Bashi travels on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese In...
The mysterious island of Crete has always loomed large in imagination, as the home of the Minotaur -...
"There are things in this world that are yet to be named" centers around Solanum plastisexum - an Au...
This short film from 1946 presents an outline of the fur trade's history and the commercial use of f...
For nine months in 1930, seven Bretons, lobster fishermen, were "forgotten" on a volcanic island by ...
In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy i...
This short documentary produced by the University of Oregon Multimedia Journalism graduate program e...
Almost 30 years ago, two scholars from Boston revealed the historical truth behind the legendary vam...
A look at the history of Blair County, Pennsylvania, celebrating centuries of stories, valor and cou...
Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way ...
A documentary on funk and P-funk and the bands and artists that made it all happen: James Brown, Sly...