Season 19 (2006)

Eyes on the Prize (1 & 2): Awakenings 1954-1956 / Fighting Back 1957-1962
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October 2, 2006 • 55m

Part 1 of 3 of the award-winning 1987 documentary "Eyes on the Prize." Included: profiles of Mose Wright and Rosa Parks; conflicts...Read more

Eyes on the Prize (3 & 4): Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961/No Easy Walk 1961-1963
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October 9, 2006 • 55m

Part 2 of the 1987 documentary "Eyes on the Prize." Included: the 1960 Greensboro, N.C., lunch-counter sit-in; the Student Nonviol...Read more

Eyes on the Prize (5 & 6): Is This America? 1963-1964 / Bridge to Freedom 1965
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October 16, 2006 • 55m

Conclusion of the 1987 documentary “Eyes on the Prize.” Included: events of 1963 and '64, when Mississippi became a battleground i...Read more

Test Tube Babies
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October 23, 2006 • 55m

History of in vitro fertilization, traces IVF from an early success with rabbits to the present. Included: controversy and setback...Read more

The Great Fever
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October 30, 2006 • 55m

The history of yellow fever, and how it was determined that the disease was transmitted by mosquitoes. Included: the work of Carlo...Read more

The Gold Rush
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November 6, 2006 • 55m

A vibrant retelling of the mania that followed the discovery of gold in San Francisco in 1848. "Next to the Civil War in the 19th ...Read more

The Berlin Airlift
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January 29, 2007 • 55m

One of the first skirmishes of the Cold War, the 1948-49 Soviet blockade of rail and road traffic to and from West Berlin, is reca...Read more

The Living Weapon
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February 5, 2007 • 55m

"The Living Weapon" explores the history of America's biological-weapons program, which began in 1942 with a group that worked par...Read more

New Orleans (1 & 2)
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February 12, 2007 • 55m

A history of New Orleans, from its origins as a French settlement to its post-Katrina present. Included: archival photos and film ...Read more

Sister Aimee
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April 2, 2007 • 55m

A profile of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), a popular Pentecostal evangelist during the 1920s and '30s. Included: comm...Read more

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
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April 9, 2007 • 55m

Examines the story behind the November 1978 mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 people were led to their...Read more

Summer of Love
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April 23, 2007 • 55m

In 1967, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district became a mecca for young people seeking free music, free love and cosmic oneness,...Read more

The Mormons (1): History
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April 30, 2007 • 55m

Historian Sarah Barringer Gordon says of the LDS Church "that from the moment of its birth, Mormons were under a kleig light." Thi...Read more

The Mormons (2): Church and State
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May 1, 2007 • 55m

An examination of the modern-day LDS Church, including its missionary program; how its followers have entered into the American ma...Read more

Alexander Hamilton
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May 14, 2007 • 55m

A profile of Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first treasury secretary and a leading force in the post-Revolutionary War push for ...Read more