In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States. The tunnels terminated in what was one of the greatest architectural achievements of its time, Pennsylvania Station. Penn Station covered nearly eight acres, extended two city blocks, and housed one of the largest public spaces in the world. But just 53 years after the station’s opening, the monumental building that was supposed to last forever, to herald and represent the American Empire, was slated to be destroyed.
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Regular opening times do not apply as we accompany Sir David Attenborough on an after-hours journey ...
Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown N...
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The Mona Lisa Curse is a Grierson award-winning polemic documentary by art critic Robert Hughes that...
This timely, bold set of one-on-one interviews presents two of the most venerable figures from the A...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
The incredible story of the Avro Lancaster, one of the finest bombers of the Second World War, which...
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In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the First Lady ...
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...