September 10, 2001 • 55m
"City of Tomorrow (1929-45)" focuses on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who used his close ties to FDR to make the city "a gigantic labo...Read more
September 17, 2001 • 55m
Conclusion. "The City and the World" begins in 1945, with New York "at the pinnacle," says historian David McCullough. By 1975 it ...Read more
November 1, 2001 • 55m
War letters from the American Revolution to the Gulf War are read by 15 actors (including Joan Allen, Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey ...Read more
January 6, 2002 • 55m
A two-part profile of Woodrow Wilson in which news clips, atmospheric re-creations and readings (Rene Auberjonois and Blair Brown ...Read more
January 13, 2002 • 55m
Woodrow Wilson reluctantly enters World War I in an effort to "make the world safe for democracy" as this two-part profile conclud...Read more
January 20, 2002 • 55m
Chronicling the 16-year struggle (1925-41) to fashion Mount Rushmore in South Dakota's Black Hills, and profiling sculptor Gutzon ...Read more
January 27, 2002 • 55m
Recalling the 80-year history of the Miss America Pageant and what narrator Cherry Jones calls "a barometer of America's shifting ...Read more
March 1, 2002 • 55m
"Zoot Suit Riots" recalls a week of violence that rocked Los Angeles in June 1943, pitting Mexican-Americans against Anglos, many ...Read more
February 23, 2002 • 55m
Recalling the "epic battle" over evolution waged in 1925 by fundamentalist titan William Jennings Bryan and freethinking Clarence ...Read more
February 17, 2002 • 55m
John Dillinger may have been "Public Enemy No. 1" in 1933 and '34, but Americans didn't reflexively hate him, and this hour explor...Read more
April 21, 2002 • 55m
Ric Burns' profile of the photographer whose connection to Yosemite is such that a mountain near the park is named for him. Adams ...Read more
April 28, 2002 • 55m
Mathematics genius John Nash recalls his bout with schizophrenia (the subject dramatized in the Oscar-winning film "A Beautiful Mi...Read more
April 1, 2002 • 55m
A moody two-part biography of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85). Part 1, "Warrior," quickly sketches his largely unsuccessful pre-Civil W...Read more
April 2, 2002 • 55m
The conclusion of this biography of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) covers the last 20 years of the life of "the most popular man of th...Read more