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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This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, histori...
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Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in th...
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo...
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Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
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