Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich. But when reality finally struck, the consequences of such unbound optimism shocked the world.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, ...
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...

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

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

Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who help...

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

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

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

The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...

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