Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped bring down gangsters and break up a Nazi spy ring in South America. Her work helped lay the foundation for modern codebreaking today.

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...

Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost...

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signali...

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...

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, ...

Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at...
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...

November 2016 : The United States of America are about to elect their new president. AMERICA is a d...

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...

Cold War Roadshow tells the story of one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of modern histor...

In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden ho...

A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.

American Experience celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Founded by R...