The history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. Simultaneously focuses on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, offering new perspectives on the slave experience and testifying to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives.
In keeping with the original project, this series seeks to reframe the country's history by placing ...
Explore the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebu...
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confede...
Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of Eur...
A look at the role of slavery in the development of wealth in the United Kingdom
See the real modern-day Amazonia through an exploration of the Amazon Basin, meeting a different gro...
The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still ...
The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, i...
Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged. Africans in America: Americ...
Martijn Blekendaal and Finbarr Wilbrink travel along the Underground Railroad, the underground netwo...
Follow young Cora’s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After ...
Born into a world 1000 years in our future, Saki and her friends live in utopia. Not only is their i...
In a mythical land called Arth, the inhabitants of the ancient city of Arthdal and its surrounding r...
Enslaved teenager Henry Shackleford, aka Little Onion, becomes a member in abolitionist John Brown’s...
Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution ...
This reality series follows a crew of famed, affluent stars as they work and play, flirt and feud in...
Iwatani Naofumi, a run-of-the-mill otaku, finds a book in the library that summons him to another wo...