October 4, 2004 • 55m
A shy, if driven man, Robert Kennedy "wasn't built for the spotlight, he was built for the wings," says journalist Jack Newfield. ...Read more
January 24, 2005 • 55m
"The Fight" recalls the June 1938 heavyweight title bout between Joe Louis and the German Max Schmeling, and assesses its politica...Read more
January 31, 2005 • 55m
Fidel Castro's march through Cuba and the second half of the 20th century is chronicled by filmmaker Adriana Bosch. Here, Cuban ex...Read more
February 7, 2005 • 55m
Recalls the construction of the 1500-mile "shortcut to Tokyo" through Canada in 1942 by 11,000 U.S. troops (4,000 of them black). ...Read more
February 14, 2005 • 55m
Profiling Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the Indiana University zoologist whose "revolutionary picture of American sexuality" rocked the count...Read more
April 4, 2005 • 55m
Profiling Mary Pickford, the silent-screen "sweetheart" who blazed the trail to Hollywood and became "America's first superstar." ...Read more
April 11, 2005 • 55m
Cyrus Field's struggle to lay telegraph cables across the Atlantic in the 1850s and '60s is chronicled. When Field finally succeed...Read more
April 18, 2005 • 55m
"The Massie Affair" chronicles a 1931 Honolulu rape case involving a young white Navy wife that became even more serious when one ...Read more
May 2, 2005 • 55m
Episode 9 of Season 17 premiered on May 2, 2005
May 9, 2005 • 55m
Recalls "the first family of country music" in interviews with Carter relatives, music writers, and singers Gillian Welch, Joan Ba...Read more
May 23, 2005 • 55m
Episode 11 of Season 17 premiered on May 23, 2005