American Experience celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Founded by Roosevelt during the Great Depression, the CCC put over 3 million men to work improving the countries infrastructure and national parks.

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...

Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...

November 2016 : The United States of America are about to elect their new president. AMERICA is a d...

Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living...

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signali...

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost...

In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presi...

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at...

Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...

Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, ...

On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at Ne...

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...

The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brown...

The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...

In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden ho...

The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassina...

Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who help...