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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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