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.

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

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

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at...

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

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

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

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...

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

In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presi...

Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...

Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, ...

In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets a...

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

The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brown...

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...

On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at Ne...

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 ...