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| Subject: American History |
| 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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| America's Battlegrounds |
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Subject: American History, Military History Tells the stories of some of the countless struggles - in city streets, and courtrooms, as well as on the battlefield -that shaped American history. Contents: Whisky Rebellion, 1794, Dred Scott decisi... |
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| The American President, Episodes 1 & 2 |
| Family Ties & Happenstance |
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Subject: American History, Government, Politics, & Politicians Episode 1: The last thing that the Founding Fathers envisioned was a hereditary chief executive. Yet power inevitably passes from generation to generation, and several families have returned to the Wh... |
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| The American President, Episodes 3 & 4 |
| An Independent Cast of Mind & A Professional Politician |
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Subject: American History, Government, Politics, & Politicians Episode 3: 'The American public, from time to time, wishes to see the trustee who looks neither right nor left, but only up to the heavens and down to the work before him,' says presidential scholar R... |
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| The American President, Episodes 5 & 6 |
| The American Way & The World Stage |
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Subject: American History, Government, Politics, & Politicians Episode 5: It is often observed that American national identity is less a condition than an idea. No one is better positioned to express that idea than the president. The four chronicled here may hav... |
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| The American President, Episodes 7 & 8 |
| The Heroic Posture & Compromise Choices |
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Subject: American History, Government, Politics, & Politicians Episode 7: From the beginning, the presidential office has beckoned to national heroes renowned for their selfless service to their country. This affinity is especially strong for men of military fame... |
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| The American President, Episodes 9 & 10 |
| Expanding Powers & The Balance of Power |
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Subject: American History, Government, Politics, & Politicians Episode 9: Though the powers of the presidency have expanded with the growth of the nation, the process has been anything but smooth. The prerogatives of the presidency are uncertain and their asserti... |
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| Baseball, Inning 1 |
| Our Game |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History Looks at the origins of baseball in the 1840s and takes the story up to 1900. Burns refutes the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown and traces its roots instead to the earliest ... |
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| The Brooklyn Bridge |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History In Brooklyn Bridge, Ken Burns captures the physical majesty of this greatest of all achievements of the industrial age, the dramatic story of the larger-than-life men who imagined and built it, and th... |
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| Chicago: City of the Century, Part 1 |
| Mud Hole to Metropolis |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History Tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. It's the story of the wealthy and the indigent, the heralded and... |
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| Chicago: City of the Century, Part 2 |
| The Revolution has Begun |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History Tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. It's the story of the wealthy and the indigent, the heralded and... |
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| Chicago: City of the Century, Part 3 |
| Battle for Chicago |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History Tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. It's the story of the wealthy and the indigent, the heralded and... |
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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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| The Civil War, Episode 1 |
| The Cause (1861) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History, Military History Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northern abolitionists who opposed it. Episode... |
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| The Civil War, Episode 2 |
| A Very Bloody Affair (1862) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History, Military History 1862 saw the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln’s war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves. Episode 2: A Very Bloody Affair (1862) |
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| The Civil War, Episode 3 |
| Forever Free (1862) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History, Military History This episode charts the dramatic events that led to Lincoln’s decision to set the slaves free. Episode 3: Forever Free (1862) |
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| The Civil War, Episode 4 |
| Simply Murder (1863) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History, Military History During the episode we learn of fierce Northern opposition to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the miseries of regimental life and the increasing desperation of the Confederate homefront. Episode... |
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| The Civil War, Episode 5 |
| The Universe of Battle (1863) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History, Military History This extended episode then goes on to chronicle the fall of Vicksburg, the New York draft riots, the first use of black troops, and the western battles at Chickamauga, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tenness... |
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| The Civil War, Episode 6 |
| Valley of the Shadow of Death (1864) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History, Military History Episode six begins with a biographical comparison of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and then chronicles the extraordinary series of battles that pitted the two generals against each other from the... |
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| The Civil War, Episode 7 |
| Most Hallowed Ground (1864) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History, Military History The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union itself: with Grant and Sherman stalled at Petersburg and Atlanta, opinion in the North has turned strongly against the war. But 11th-hour vic... |
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| The Civil War, Episode 8 |
| War is All Hell (1865) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History, Military History The episode begins with Sherman’s brilliant march to the sea, which brings the war to the heart of Georgia and the Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. Also, the surrender of Lee to Gran... |
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| The Civil War, Episode 9 |
| The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History, Military History This final episode begins in the aftermath of Lee’s surrender and then goes on to narrate the events of five days later when, on April 14, Lincoln is assassinated. The episode then considers the con... |
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| Coming Into America |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: American History, Science Who were the first Americans? New discoveries and techniques for dating them have archaeologists rethinking what we know - and rewriting history. |
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| The Congress |
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Subject: American History, Government, Politics, & Politicians In this film, Ken Burns explores the history and promise of this unique American institution. Using historical photographs and newsreels, evocative live footage and interviews with David Broder, Alist... |
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| Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War |
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Subject: American History, Military History Teddy Roosevelt charging up the San Juan Heights, the Rough Riders and the sinking of the battleship, the U.S.S. Maine---these are what people commonly know about the United States' war with Spain in ... |
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| Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordina... |
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| Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 1 & 2 |
| Independence & Revolution |
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Subject: American History Episode 1: The episode begins by examining how the terrorist attack of September 11th sparked a renewed focus on freedom. The program then takes us back to the summer of 1776. Episode 2: Colonial... |
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| Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 3 & 4 |
| Liberty for All? & Wake Up America |
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Subject: American History Episode 3: Liberty for All?: While America was founded as a free land in which people could live out their own destinies, it came at a terrible cost to Native Americans.The nation's population migrate... |
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| Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 5 & 6 |
| A Fatal Contridiction & A War to End Slavery |
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Subject: American History Episode 5: A Fatal Contradiction: The Declaration of Independence stated 'all men are created equal,' but the nation's slaves were a glaring exception. This episode explores the role of Frederick Doug... |
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| Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 7 & 8 |
| What is Freedom? & Whose Land is This? |
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Subject: American History Episode 7: What is Freedom?: In the aftermath of the Civil War, Reconstruction begins as a time of great hope for the devastated South. In the Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, 'separate b... |
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| Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 9 & 10 |
| Working for Freedom & Yearning to Breathe Free |
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Subject: American History Episode 9: Working for Freedom: As industrial progress continues and the gap between the rich and poor widens, a new labor movement emerges to advocate for workers' rights. Episode 10: Yearning to Bre... |
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| Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 11 & 12 |
| Safe for Democracy & Depression and War |
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Subject: American History Episode 11: Safe for Democracy: With help from the Wright brothers' introduction of the airplane, the country begins to soar. Woodrow Wilson and America reluctantly join the fight in World War I, whil... |
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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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| Freedom: A History of US, Episodes 15 & 16 |
| Marching to Freedom Land & Becoming Free |
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Subject: American History Episode 15: Marching to Freedom Land: The 1960s bring new progress in the quest for freedom, but this is also an explosive decade that threatens to tear apart the fabric of society. Episode 16: Becomi... |
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| The Iron Road |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History With the discovery of gold in California in 1849, fortune hunters poured into the western United States so fast that California was added to the union as a state in 1850. But the rich and expansive te... |
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| Korean War Stories |
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Subject: American History, Military History The Korean conflict is often called 'The Forgotten War', but never been by those who lived it. In this film, notable personalities and trench soldiers share their memories. |
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| Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Part 1 |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History, Biography On February 28, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson won approval from Congress for a visionary project, an endeavor that would become one of America’s greatest stories of adventure. Includes: This epis... |
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| Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Part 2 |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History, Biography On February 28, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson won approval from Congress for a visionary project, an endeavor that would become one of America’s greatest stories of adventure. |
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| Liberty! The American Revolution, Episodes 1 & 2 |
| The Reluctant Revolutionaries (1763-1774) & Blows Must Decide (1774-1776) |
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Subject: American History, Military History Episode 1: In 1763, the capitol city of America is London, George Washington is lobbying for a post in the British army, and no one thinks of Boston harbor when they hear talk of tea parties. In a doz... |
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| Liberty! The American Revolution, Episodes 3 & 4 |
| The Times That Try Men's Souls (1776-1777) & Oh Fatal Ambition (1777-1778) |
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Subject: American History, Military History Episode 3: Days after the Declaration of Independence is signed, a British force arrives in New York harbor. Washington and his troops are driven to New Jersey. A desperate Washington leads his army q... |
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| Liberty! The American Revolution, Episodes 5 & 6 |
| The World Turned Upside Down (1778-1783) & Are We Born to be a Nation? (1783-1788) |
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Subject: American History, Military History Episode 5: The British hope to exploit the issue of slavery and to enlist the support of loyalists in the south. They fail. After a series of brutal engagements, the British army heads for Virginia, o... |
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| Mill Times |
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Subject: American History This animated program centers on a small New England community similar to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where Samuel Slater established America's first textile mill. Live action hosted by David Macaulay, t... |
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| New Orleans |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History New Orleans: the utterly original American city that lies at the mouth of the mighty Mississippi and at the beating heart of the great American experiment. Walled in on almost all sides by water, pres... |
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| New York: A Documentary Film, Episode 1 |
| The Country and the City (1609-1825) |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History Chronicles New York's beginnings -- from its earliest days as a Dutch trading post to the 17th century construction of the Erie Canal, which made New York City a vital conduit to the mainland of a gro... |
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| New York: A Documentary Film, Episode 2 |
| Order and Disorder (1825-1865) |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History Details New York's enormous growth as a booming commercial center and multi-ethnic port, and the mounting tensions that set the stage for the nation's bloodiest riot. |
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| New York: A Documentary Film, Episode 3 |
| Sunshine and Shadow (1865-1898) |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History Turns to the period when greed and wealth fueled an expanding metropolis, even as politics and poverty defined it. |
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| New York: A Documentary Film, Episode 4 |
| The Power and the People (1898-1914) |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History Follows New York into a new century in the wake of an extraordinary wave of immigration and the birth of the skyscraper. |
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| New York: A Documentary Film, Episode 5 |
| Cosmopolis (1914-1931) |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History The post-war economic boom, the rise of consumer culture, and the birth of new mass-media industries fuel the convergence of an incredible array of human and cultural energies, ending with the Crash o... |
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| New York: A Documentary Film, Episode 6 |
| The City of Tomorrow (1931-1940) |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History The dramatic events that followed the Crash of '29 fuel the greatest economic depression in American history and plunge the city and the nation into economic gloom. |
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| New York: A Documentary Film, Episode 7 |
| The City and the World (1945-Present) |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History The turbulent and often harrowing years from 1945 to the present are explored. Emerging from the Depression and the Second World War as the most powerful metropolis on Earth, New York soon confronted ... |
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| New York: A Documentary Film, Episode 8: Part 1 |
| The Center of the World |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History Examines the rise and fall of the World Trade Center -- from its conception in the post-World War II economic boom, through its controversial construction in the 1960s and 1970s, to its tragic demise ... |
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| New York: A Documentary Film, Episode 8: Part 2 |
| The Center of the World |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History Examines the rise and fall of the World Trade Center -- from its conception in the post-World War II economic boom, through its controversial construction in the 1960s and 1970s, to its tragic demise ... |
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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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| Reporting America at War, Episode 1 |
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Subject: American History, Military History Explores the role of American journalists in the pivotal conflicts of the 20th century and beyond. Episode 1 begins in 1898 with the Spanish-American War and, after flashing backward to trace the Civi... |
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| Reporting America at War, Episode 2 |
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Subject: American History, Military History Explores the role of American journalists in the pivotal conflicts of the 20th century and beyond. Episode two charts the erosion of that consensus during the Cold War conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, ... |
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| Secrets of the Dead: Death at Jamestown |
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Subject: American History SECRETS OF THE DEAD: DEATH AT JAMESTOWN explores the settlement of Jamestown as the men and boys onboard the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery sail from London to the distant shores of A... |
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| The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God |
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Subject: American History Ken Burns portrays 200 years of Shaker life in America, guided by recollections of three surviving members and archival material. Explore every aspect of a strange, noble sect that produced some of th... |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History Completed in only six years by unscrupulous entrepreneurs, brilliant engineers, and legions of dedicated workers, the Transcontinental Railroad left in its wake a horde of displaced, broken Native Ame... |
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| U.S.-Mexican War: 1846-1848, Episodes 1 & 2 |
| Neighbors and Strangers & War for the Borderlands |
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Subject: American History, Military History Episode 1: Tensions mount between the expanding United States and Mexico during the 1830s and come to a boil in 1836, when Americans living in Texas, then part of Mexico, rebel against Mexican authori... |
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| U.S.-Mexican War: 1846-1849, Episodes 3 & 4 |
| The Hour of Sacrifice & The Fate of Nations |
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Subject: American History, Military History Episode 3: Santa Anna returns from exile in Cuba and is again elected president of Mexico. American President Polk orders a two-pronged attack on Mexican territory: Zachary Taylor's army move in overl... |
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| Unearthing Secret America |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: American History, Science Archeologists shed new light on life in colonial America. |
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| The War that Made America, Episodes 1 & 2 |
| A Country Between & Unlikely allies |
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Subject: American History, Military History Covers an important but often misunderstood period of American history - a period that set in motion forces that would culminate in the American Revolution. It tells the story of the French and Indian... |
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| The War that Made America, Episodes 3 & 4 |
| Turning the Tide & Unintended Consequences |
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Subject: American History, Military History Covers an important but often misunderstood period of American history - a period that set in motion forces that would culminate in the American Revolution. It tells the story of the French and Indian... |
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| The Way West, Episode 1 |
| Westward, the Course of Empire Takes its Way |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History How the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West was settled, subdued, exploited and incorporat... |
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| The Way West, Episode 2 |
| The Approach of Civilization |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History How the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West was settled, subdued, exploited and incorporat... |
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| The Way West, Episode 3 |
| The War for the Black Hills |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History How the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West was settled, subdued, exploited and incorpora... |
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| The Way West, Episode 4 |
| Ghost Dance |
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Series: American Experience Subject: American History How the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush in 1848 until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee in 1893, when the West was settled, subdued, exploited and incorporat... |
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| The West, Episode 1 |
| The People (To 1806) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History The West begins as the whole world to the people who live there. It becomes a New World when Europeans arrive, a world shaken by incompatible visions. And almost three centuries later, when Lewis and ... |
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| The West, Episode 2 |
| Empire Upon the Trails (1806-1848) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History Americans head west along many pathways -- following the fur trade into the mountains, fighting for self-determination in Texas, seeking religious freedom in Utah or a better life along the Oregon Tra... |
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| The West, Episode 3 |
| The Speck of the Future (1848-1856) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History The Gold Rush brings the whole world to the West, as 49ers from Asia, South America and the eastern states scramble for “a share of the rocks,” littering the hills with mining towns and creating t... |
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| The West, Episode 4 |
| Death Runs Riot (1856-1868) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History Civil war comes early to the West. In “Bleeding Kansas,” abolitionists battle for free soil. In Utah, federal troops march against Mormon polygamy. And along the Rio Grande, oppressed Mexican Amer... |
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| The West, Episode 5 |
| The Grandest Enterprise Under God (1868-1874) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History A triumph of the human spirit, the transcontinental railroad opens a new era in the West, carrying homesteaders onto the prairies, bringing cowboys up the cattle trail from Texas, helping give women t... |
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| The West, Episode 6 |
| Fight No More Forever (1874-1877) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History The federal government tightens its grip on the West, but three bold spirits remain defiant -- Sitting Bull, who prophesies his people's greatest victory but cannot prevent their ultimate defeat; Brig... |
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| The West, Episode 7 |
| The Geography of Hope (1877-1887) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History Newcomers arrive by the millions, bringing a new spirit of conformity to the West. Indian children are taught to forsake their heritage, Mormons are told to abandon a tenet of their faith, and new law... |
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| The West, Episode 8 |
| Ghost Dance (1887-1914) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History As the West was growing into a fully established industrial force. Opening with the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889, when 2 million acres of Indian territory were opened for homesteading, this chapter furt... |
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| The West, Episode 9 |
| One Sky Above Us (1887-1914) |
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Series: Ken Burns Subject: American History Begins with the World Columbian Expedition of 1893, a colossal Chicago fair marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the New World, and effectively announcing the closure of the Western ... |
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