Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon narrates this educational installment of the popular "American Experience" series as it examines the 72-year struggle for a woman's right to vote. Segments focus on influential figures in the women's suffrage movement, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul; the country's widespread fear of social revolution; and the U.S. Senate's passage of the 19th Amendment by a single vote.
The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent d...
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
Two British redcoats contemplate their place in the American Revolutionary War and the world at larg...
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), ...
A look back at the 1000 days of the John F. Kennedy presidency.
The story of the struggle for the women's vote is much more than just the account of the exploits of...
They were, at best mocked or ridiculed, at worst incarcerated, tortured, or even beheaded. But they ...
Bob Childress was the founder and builder of the famous "Rock Churches" of southwest Virginia, all e...
Examining theories about the discovery of America long before Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage by e...
African-American gravesites and burial grounds for enslaved persons have been lost or are disappeari...
'JFK: Seven Days That Made a President' investigates the seven key days in JFK's life that helped sh...
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat a...
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...
Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on hi...
ARC OF JUSTICE traces the remarkable journey of New Communities, Inc. and the struggle for racial ju...
In the decades after Bacon's Rebellion, an African man and an English woman - husband and wife - sin...
Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...
This program, culled from the over 28 hours of interview footage between Sir David Frost and U.S. Pr...
At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, delegates from Unionist counties of northwestern...