Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West. On June 26, 1876, Custer, a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. By day's end, Custer and nearly a third of his army were dead.
Colonel Custer, an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and...
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...
The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassina...
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act...
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and ...
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, thro...
Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who help...
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death...
Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the iso...
Unaccompanied by narration or interviews, contemporary imagery drawn from science fiction films, gov...
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...
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted ...
On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...
A comprehensive look at the events leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn as well as the myt...