Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.
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A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the m...
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It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Ma...
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Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in th...
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Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo...
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