The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and forever changed the relationship between labor and industry in the United States.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

One of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s, Fats Domino and his record sales were ri...

In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets a...

Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted ...

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

American Experience celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Founded by R...

A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.