In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation. As national wealth expanded, two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. These disparities sparked passionate and violent debate over questions still being asked in our own times: How is wealth best distributed, and by what process? Does government exist to protect private property or provide balm to the inevitable casualties of a churning industrial system? The outcome of these disputes was both uncertain and momentous, and marked by a passionate vitriol and level of violence that would shock the conscience of many Americans today.
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The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
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Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...
Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...
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Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living...
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...
One of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s, Fats Domino and his record sales were ri...
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, ...
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The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassina...
A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.
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