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.
Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the iso...
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act...
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden ho...
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...
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...
In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...
In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presi...
Rob Williams was an African-American living in Monroe, North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Living...
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...
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 ...
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...
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, ...