He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all the men who had held the highest office, Harry Truman was the least prepared, but would prove to be a surprise.
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the iso...
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted ...
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden ho...
On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...
In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presi...
Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...
November 2016 : The United States of America are about to elect their new president. AMERICA is a d...
Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. Before it was ov...
Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at...
Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost...
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signali...
One of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s, Fats Domino and his record sales were ri...