Season 15 (2002)

Jimmy Carter (1): Jimmy Who?
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November 11, 2002 • 55m

An evocative two-part profile of Jimmy Carter explores how his career has been shaped by what former speechwriter Hendrik Hertzber...Read more

Jimmy Carter (2): Hostage
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November 12, 2002 • 55m

"Hostage," the conclusion of a two-part Jimmy Carter biography, covers his presidency and post-presidency. Human rights were to be...Read more

Chicago: City of the Century (1): Mudhole to Metropolis
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January 13, 2003 • 55m

A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of Americ...Read more

Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun
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January 14, 2003 • 55m

A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of Americ...Read more

Chicago: City of the Century (3): Battle for Chicago
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January 15, 2003 • 55m

A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of Americ...Read more

The Murder of Emmett Till
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January 20, 2003 • 55m

Recalling the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old black youth in the Mississippi delta, an incident that could very well have launched th...Read more

Transcontinental Railroad
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January 27, 2003 • 55m

Charting the race between the Union Pacific and Central Pacific to construct a transcontinental railroad to link the U.S. It ended...Read more

Partners of the Heart
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February 10, 2003 • 55m

Chronicling the unlikely partnership between a white surgeon and a black "technician" that led to a procedure to correct blue-baby...Read more

The Pill
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February 24, 2003 • 55m

Charting the development of an oral contraceptive during the 1950s and its effect on "the sexual revolution" of the '60s. It was e...Read more

Daughter from Danang
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April 7, 2003 • 55m

"Daughter from Danang," an Oscar-nominated documentary, chronicles the tearful reunion of an Amerasian refugee with her Vietnamese...Read more

Seabiscuit
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April 21, 2003 • 55m

"Seabiscuit" recalls the squat and ugly racehorse that riveted the nation in the late 1930s. Interviewees include author Laura Hil...Read more

Bataan Rescue
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July 7, 2003 • 55m

"Bataan Rescue," narrated by Scott Glenn, recalls the daring January 1945 commando raid that freed 513 survivors of the 1942 Bataa...Read more

Murder at Harvard
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July 14, 2003 • 55m

Historian Simon Schama ("A History of Britain") plays sleuth -- searching, he says, "not for literal truth, but for poetic truth" ...Read more