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.
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...
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted ...
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden ho...
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...
Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...
Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at...
Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living...
One of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s, Fats Domino and his record sales were ri...
In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presi...
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...
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...
The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassina...
A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.
It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a...
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...