He went off to war an unknown soldier and returned a beloved national hero. Often dismissed as a "do-nothing" president and a good-natured bumbler, Dwight D. Eisenhower -- the last American president to be born in the 19th century -- was actually a skillful politician, a tough Cold War warrior, and one of America's most misunderstood and unappreciated presidents. Two-part documentary from American Experience.

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Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

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The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

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A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

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Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...