Episode 1
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
From Enrico Caruso to the ordinary San Franciscan, this film presents vivid memories of those trapped in the t...
Episode 2
Radio Bikini
While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publici...
Episode 3
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
As a child in 1899, Angie Debo was taken to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. She would become her state's most con...
Episode 4
Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream
A touching memoir beginning with life in a small Minnesota town and taking us through a young man's early days...
Episode 5
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
An original look through newsreels, war department films, posters and interviews with five, real-life "Rosies"...
Episode 6
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
A year in the life of Wyoming cowboys and the ranching families who have lived in Big Piney for six generation...
Episode 7
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close
An intimate portrait of the Kennedy brothers and their confrontation with Alabama Governor George Wallace when...
Episode 8
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
The story of a tragic collision of two civilizations, each with startlingly different views of one another. In...
Episode 9
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited
An updated look at the Alabama tenant families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulit...
Episode 10
That Rhythm, Those Blues
The evolution of rhythm and blues through the careers of singers Ruth Brown and Charles Brown, from the 1940s...
Episode 11
The Radio Priest
Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan, uses the new power of radio to become one of t...
Episode 12
Hearts and Hands
The design and art of quilting yields intimate clues about the lives of 19th century women, who stitched their...
Episode 13
Views of a Vanishing Frontier
The journey of Prince Maximilian, German naturalist, and artist Karl Bodmer, who explored the Mississippi Rive...
Episode 14
Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty narrates the story of her own Southern childhood and early artistic...
Episode 15
The World That Moses Built
From the late 1920s through the 1960s, Robert Moses held almost total power over the landscape of New York. He...
Episode 16
Sins of Our Mothers
A Gothic tale of sin and redemption in 19th century New England. A small town in Maine reacts to the unconvent...