October 3, 1989 • 55m
The first around-the-world air race, sponsored by the Army Air Service to prove that the airplane had a commercial future, was the...Read more
October 10, 1989 • 55m
Prohibition's effect on Detroit, Michigan, the first major American city to "go dry," where smuggling liquor across the Canadian b...Read more
October 17, 1989 • 55m
Lise Yasui explores three generations of her Japanese-American family - from their immigration to Oregon in the early 1900s throug...Read more
October 24, 1989 • 55m
All lingering 19th-century notions of the romance of battle were replaced by the terrible reality of 20th-century mechanized warfa...Read more
October 31, 1989 • 55m
The tale of mavericks whose risk-taking, sweat and dreams changed an American industry. Starting with Spindletop, the first Texas ...Read more
November 7, 1989 • 55m
There is hardly a city, town or village without a baseball diamond. More than a game, baseball is a tradition, rite of passage, an...Read more
November 14, 1989 • 55m
They started selling watches. Then Richard Sears and Alva Curtis Roebuck started a revolution -- a "wish book" that made life on t...Read more
November 21, 1989 • 55m
A stunning film portrait of Yosemite National Park. The film's narration is taken from using the 1851 diary of the first expeditio...Read more
November 28, 1989 • 55m
Affluent, handsome, light-skinned and blond, he could pass for white. But his message about "economics and jobs" would make him on...Read more
December 5, 1989 • 55m
A tribute to the twelve million people who emigrated to the U.S. between 1890 and 1920. A recapturing of the journey through Europ...Read more
December 12, 1989 • 55m
Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a pioneer folklorist who in the 1920s began a campaign to preserve mountain music and dance. He dignifie...Read more
December 19, 1989 • 55m
Born into slavery, she became a journalist and newspaper owner in Memphis, and was radicalized following the lynching of three fri...Read more
December 26, 1989 • 55m
In the summer of 1940, as the German Luftwaffe began its assault on England, 10,000 British children were sent on a perilous sea v...Read more
January 2, 1990 • 55m
Before WWII, San Francisco's Chinatown was a separate world, closed to outsiders, ruled by rigid homeland customs. But in the 1930...Read more
January 9, 1990 • 55m
The first major battle for wilderness preservation erupted over the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park in 1906...Read more
January 16, 1990 • 55m
Men and women, black and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes out of slavery in the mid 1800s ...Read more