In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the most controversial. A failed actor, Reagan became a passionate ideologue who preached a simple gospel of lower taxes, less government, and anti-communism.
Rocky IV is dually symbolic - it embodies both the victory of the American boxer over the Soviet one...
After years of overproduction, the Reagan administration unloads over 500 million pounds of surplus ...
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and ...
A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore...
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
Comprised entirely of archival footage taken during those pre-reality-television years, The Reagan S...
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden ho...
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted ...
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...
In 1979, Louis Malle films the thriving lives of a Minnesota farming community, but returns six year...
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...
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...
The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to fa...
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, ...
One of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s, Fats Domino and his record sales were ri...
Ronald Reagan was the President of the Screen Actor's Guild during the incredibly violent Hollywood ...