This inspirational documentary is about a band of courageous civil-rights activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders.

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Added: Thu Mar 01 19:12:19 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon May 16 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 1:53:43
Rating: 4.9 / 5.0

Told by those who took part and featuring a rich trove of archival footage, Stonewall Uprising revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout America, and homosexuality itself was seen as a form of mental illness.

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Added: Thu Mar 01 19:12:19 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Apr 25 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 1:20:49
Rating: 4.6 / 5.0

When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign.

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Added: Thu Mar 01 19:12:19 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Apr 11 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 53:57
Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Using scientific accounts, diaries, photographs and letters, this film reveals how poor planning, personality clashes, questionable decisions and pure bad luck conspired to turn a noble scientific mission into a human tragedy.

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Added: Wed Mar 30 01:02:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Mon Jan 31 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 53:26
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

For two centuries, American whale oil lit the world - illuminating and powering the start of the industrial revolution and laying the groundwork for a truly global economy.

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Added: Wed Sep 21 16:16:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Mon May 10 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:53:51
Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

On April 4, 1968, escaped convict James Earl Ray shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King. Roads to Memphis is the fateful narrative of this killer and his prey, set against the seething, turbulent forces in American society at that time.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon May 03 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:22:06
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

In an exploration of the morality of actions taken in the name of war, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE directs its lens to the 1968 My Lai massacre and asks what drove a company of American soldiers to commit the worst atrocity in American military history?

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Added: Wed Sep 21 16:16:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Mon Apr 26 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:23:22
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

Earth Days traces the origins of the modern environmental movement.

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Added: Wed Sep 21 16:16:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Mon Apr 19 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:42:27
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

As the wife of the fourth President, James Madison, Dolley Madison played an important part in the political and social experiment that was the early American Republic.

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Added: Wed Sep 21 16:16:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:24:31
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Six years after the start of WWII in Europe, British and American Allied forces carried out bombing campaigns over German cities, claiming half a million civilian lives. This story examines the defining moments that led the U.S. across a moral divide.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:09 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 51:40
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Wyatt Earp is portrayed in movies and television by some of Hollywood's greatest actors, but these fictions often belie the complexities and flaws of a man whose life is a lens on politics, justice and economic opportunity in the American frontier.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:09 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 25 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 52:58
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Over a decade, the CCC put more than three million young men to work in the nation’s forests and parks, planting trees, building flood barriers, fighting fires and maintaining roads and trails.

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Added: Thu Mar 01 19:12:19 UTC 2012
Air date: Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 51:57

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer featuring interviews with the scientist’s former colleagues and scholars to present a revealing portrait of one of the most important and controversial scientists of the twentieth century.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:09 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:51:04
Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

In 1621, the Wampanoag of New England negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim settlers. A half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English and a confederation of Indians, this diplomatic gamble seemed to have been a grave miscalculation.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:16:40
Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

In the course of his brief and meteoric career, Tecumseh would become one of the greatest Native American leaders of all time, orchestrating the most ambitious pan-Indian resistance movement ever mounted on the North American continent.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:25:09
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

The Polio Crusade, interweaving the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of a crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:09 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 53:45
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

Though the Cherokee embraced “civilization” and won recognition of tribal sovereignty in the U.S. Supreme Court, their resistance to removal from their homeland failed. Thousands were forced on a perilous march to Oklahoma.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:14:37
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

As the leader of the last Native American fighting force to capitulate to the U.S. government, Geronimo was seen by some as the perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties, while to others he was the embodiment of proud resistance.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:17:08
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

In 1973, American Indian Movement activists and residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation occupied the town of Wounded Knee, demanding redress for grievances. As a result of the siege, Indians across the country forged a new path into the future.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:18:57
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Telling the story of the landmark's construction through historians, architects, and engineers, while weaving in portraits from present day New Yorkers who describe their personal connections to Grand Central.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:09 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 UTC 2008
Duration: 50:59
Rating: 3.8 / 5.0