An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American women, yet led a brutal war against the Navajo. When the West was a mystery to most Americans, Carson mastered it, and his expertise made him not only famous, but also sought after. Eventually, by helping to spur a migration that would change the West forever, he unwittingly became an agent in the destruction of the life he loved.

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...
In Adios Amor, the discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot—Ma...

A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that ferven...

An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polari...

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provi...

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat a...
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The Medal of Honor is awarded for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her li...

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Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

Photographer Mike Lassiter journeys across South Carolina capturing the stories of historic, often f...

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modes...

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, ...

A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.

Animated propaganda advocating for the importance of unregulated capitalism to the American way of l...
Follow the triumphs and tragedies of America's first family, the Kennedys, beginning in Wexford, Ire...

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