Cold War Roadshow tells the story of one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of modern history — the unprecedented barnstorming across America in the fall of 1959 by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the world leader of communism and America’s arch nemesis. At the very height of the Cold War, with American schoolchildren practicing duck-and-cover drills, the man who Americans feared could incinerate them in a rain of hydrogen bombs arrived in Washington, D.C. at the invitation of President Eisenhower. For both men, the visit was an opportunity to halt the escalating threats of the Cold War and chart a new course toward peaceful coexistence. For the American press, it was the media blockbuster story of the year.
Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the iso...
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...
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...
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...
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...
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 “...
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ...
November 2016 : The United States of America are about to elect their new president. AMERICA is a d...
Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost...
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th...
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...
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signali...
In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presi...
He was a farmer, a businessman, an unknown politician who suddenly found himself president. Of all t...