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| Subject: African American Studies |
| African-American Lives, Episodes 1 & 2 |
| Listening to our Past & The Promise of Freedom |
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Subject: African American Studies, American History Episode 1: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. begins to piece together the family histories of four of the participants. The episode explores the post-World War I "Great Migration" of African-American families fr... |
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| African-American Lives, Episodes 3 & 4 |
| Searching for our Names & Beyond the Middle Passage. |
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Subject: African American Studies, American History, Science Episode 3: Gates' research becomes even more difficult as he continues back through the Colonial period of American history. War service records and ways of recording property during slavery's apogee ... |
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| Africans in America, Part 1 |
| The Terrible Transformation, 1450-1750 |
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Subject: African American Studies, American History The years 1450-1750 brought enormous changes to the North American continent. The native Americans, or Indians, as the Europeans came to call them, first encountered European explorers, and before lon... |
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| Africans in America, Part 2 |
| Revolution, 1750-1805 |
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Subject: African American Studies, American History The story of the American Revolution as traditionally recounted is the saga of the thirteen colonies fighting their colonial ruler, Britain, for independence. But an equally compelling part of the sto... |
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| Africans in America, Part 3 |
| Brotherly Love, 1791-1831 |
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Subject: African American Studies, American History During its first 50 years the United States transformed itself from a small republic into an expansive democracy for white Americans. The nation tripled its population, doubled in size, and extended s... |
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| Africans in America, Part 4 |
| Judgment Day, 1831-1865 |
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Subject: African American Studies, American History As westward expansion took hold, the question of whether the United States would be a proslavery or antislavery nation took on new importance. In the North, antislavery forces included abolitionists, ... |
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| Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance |
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Subject: African American Studies, The Arts Explore the lives of visual artists who made the Harlem Renaissance one of the 20th century's richest artistic moments. Archival footage, newsreels, and photographs recall the influential force of exh... |
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| America Beyond the Color Line, Episodes 1 & 2 |
| South: The Black Belt & Chicago: Streets of Heaven |
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Subject: African American Studies Henry Louis Gates, Jr. travels to four different parts of America - the East Coast, the deep South, inner-city Chicago and Hollywood. He explores this rich and diverse landscape, social as well as geo... |
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| America Beyond the Color Line, Episodes 3 & 4 |
| East Coast: Ebony Towers & Los Angeles: Black Hollywood |
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Subject: African American Studies Henry Louis Gates, Jr. travels to four different parts of America - the East Coast, the deep South, inner-city Chicago and Hollywood. He explores this rich and diverse landscape, social as well as geo... |
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| America Goes to War: WW II: The Home Front, Episode 9 |
| Mood Indigo: Blacks & Whites |
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Subject: African American Studies, American History: 20th Century Although African-American servicemen distinguish themselves overseas, and black civilians continue to back the war effort, racial prejudice and discrimination continues to plague American culture. |
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| Baseball, Inning 5 |
| Shadow Ball |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, American History: 20th Century Tells the story of the Negro Leagues in the 1930s. The title refers to a common pre-game feature in which the players staged a mock game with an imaginary ball. Though unintended, the pantomime was an... |
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| Baseball, Inning 6 |
| The National Pasttime |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, American History: 20th Century Covers the 1940s and includes Joe DiMaggio's celebrated hitting streak, the awe-inspiring performance of Ted Williams and what Burns calls 'baseball's finest moment' — the debut of Jackie Robinson, ... |
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| Citizen King |
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Series: American Experience Subject: African American Studies, American History Citizen King pushes past the myths that have obscured King's story to reclaim the history of a people's leader. Using the personal recollections, diaries, letters, and eyewitness accounts of friends, ... |
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| Dark Passages |
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Subject: African American Studies, World History Employs a mixture of interviews, slave narratives, and dramatization. Tells the story of the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. Takes the viewer from the House of Slaves on Goree Island off the coast... |
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| Fatal Flood |
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Series: American Experience Subject: African American Studies, American History: 20th Century In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people a... |
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| The Fight |
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Series: American Experience Subject: African American Studies, American History: 20th Century The rematch between the African American heavyweight Joe Louis and his German opponent Max Schmeling was riveting -- 'one hundred and twenty-four seconds of murder,' as one newspaper put it. But for m... |
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| Flyers In Search of a Dream |
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Subject: African American Studies Most Americans are familiar with Orville and Wilbur Wright, Charles Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart, but few know the stories of America's pioneering black aviators, who overcame social pressures to gai... |
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| Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 13 & 14 |
| Democracy & Strugges & Let Freedom Ring |
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Subject: African American Studies, American History Episode 13: Democracy and Struggles: In the postwar free world, America becomes the acknowledged leader, striving to rebuild democracies abroad. At the same time, the U.S. finally faces up to racial s... |
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| In Remembrance of Martin |
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Subject: African American Studies, Biography Personal comments from family, friends, and advisors fill this remarkable documentary honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Coretta Scott King joins the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Julian Bond, Jimmy Car... |
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| Jazz, Episode 1 |
| Gumbo |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, The Arts JAZZ begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a richly... |
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| Jazz, Episode 10 |
| A Masterpiece by Midnight |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, The Arts During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble. Critics divide the music into schools - Dixieland, swing, bebop, hard bop, modal, free, avant-garde. But most young people are listening to rock 'n' roll. Thoug... |
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| Jazz, Episode 2 |
| The Gift |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, The Arts Speakeasies, flappers, and easy money - it's the Jazz Age, when the story of jazz becomes a tale of two great cities, Chicago and New York, and of two extraordinary artists whose lives and music will ... |
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| Jazz, Episode 3 |
| Our Language |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, The Arts Our Language: As the stock market continues to soar, jazz is everywhere in America, and now, for the first time soloists and singers take center stage, transforming the music with their distinctive vo... |
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| Jazz, Episode 4 |
| The True Welcome |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, The Arts The True Welcome: In 1929, America enters a decade of economic desperation, as the Stock Market collapses and the Great Depression begins. Factories fall silent, farms fall into decay, and a quarter o... |
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| Jazz, Episode 5 |
| Swing: Pure Pleasure |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, The Arts As the Great Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as it has ever come to being America's popular music, providing entertainment and escape for a people down on their luck. It has a new name now - ... |
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| Jazz, Episode 6 |
| Swing: The Velocity of Celebration |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, The Arts As the 1930's come to a close, Swing-mania is still going strong, but some fans are saying success has made the music too predictable. Their ears are tuned to a new sound - pulsing, stomping, suffuse... |
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| Jazz, Episode 7 |
| Dedicated to Chaos |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, The Arts When America enters World War II, jazz is part of the arsenal. In Europe, where musicians like the Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt continue to play despite a Nazi ban, jazz is a beacon of hope. In Am... |
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| Jazz, Episode 8 |
| Risk |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, The Arts The postwar years bring America to a level of prosperity unimaginable a decade before, but the Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation makes these anxious years as well. In jazz, this underlying tensi... |
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| Jazz, Episode 9 |
| The Adventure |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: African American Studies, The Arts In the late 1950s, America's postwar prosperity continues, but beneath the surface run currents of change. Families are moving to the suburbs, watching television has become the national pastime, and ... |
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| A Lynching in Marion |
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Subject: African American Studies, Social & Legal Issues In August, 1930, a 16 year-old African American named James Cameron survived a lynching in Marion, Indiana. Now, 65 years later, Cameron tells his compelling story in vivid detail. |
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| Marcus Garvey |
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Series: American Experience Subject: African American Studies, Biography He was both a visionary and a manipulator, a brilliant orator and a pompous autocrat. In just ten years following his emigration to the United States as a laborer in 1917, Marcus Garvey rose to lead t... |
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| Murder of Emmitt Till |
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Series: American Experience Subject: African American Studies, Social & Legal Issues In August 1955, a black boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South... |
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| Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Episode 1 |
| Revolution |
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Series: American Experience Subject: African American Studies, American History Spanning the years from 1863 to 1877, this dramatic mini-series recounts the tumultuous post-Civil War years. America was grappling with rebuilding itself, with bringing the South back into the Union,... |
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| Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Episode 2 |
| Retreat |
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Series: American Experience Subject: African American Studies, American History Spanning the years from 1863 to 1877, this dramatic mini-series recounts the tumultuous post-Civil War years. America was grappling with rebuilding itself, with bringing the South back into the Union,... |
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| Scottsboro: An American Tragedy |
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Series: American Experience Subject: African American Studies, Social & Legal Issues The Scottsboro boys In 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the ... |
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| Tuskegee Airmen |
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Subject: African American Studies, Military History This inspiring World War II story spotlights 450 men who fought on two fronts at once. Black American aviators, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, battled Axis powers in Europe and North Africa and then to... |
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