history & documentary
African American Lives
AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES journeys deep into ancestry of a group of remarkable individuals, offering an in-depth look at the African-American experience and race relations throughout U.S. history.
AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES journeys deep into ancestry of a group of remarkable individuals, offering an in-depth look at the African-American experience and race relations throughout U.S. history.
African American World
Your guide to African American history and culture.
Your guide to African American history and culture.
Aging Out
A new documentary that chronicles the daunting obstacles veterans of foster care encounter as they are forced to fend for themselves.
A new documentary that chronicles the daunting obstacles veterans of foster care encounter as they are forced to fend for themselves.
American Experience
American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation.
American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation.
Becoming American: A Chinese Experience
Explores the complicated relationship between the past and the present, between a nation and its people.
Explores the complicated relationship between the past and the present, between a nation and its people.
Before I Die
Explores the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care in America today.
Explores the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care in America today.
Berga: Soldiers of Another War
The story of American G.I.s who worked as slave laborers in Berga, a satellite concentration camp to notorious Buchenwald.
The story of American G.I.s who worked as slave laborers in Berga, a satellite concentration camp to notorious Buchenwald.
Bill Moyers on Addiction: Close To Home
Journalist Bill Moyers takes an unprecedented look at addiction and recovery in America in this five-part series.
Journalist Bill Moyers takes an unprecedented look at addiction and recovery in America in this five-part series.
Bill Moyers on Dying: On Our Own Terms
Crosses the country from hospitals to hospices to homes to capture some of the most intimate stories ever filmed and the most candid conversations ever shared with a television audience.
Crosses the country from hospitals to hospices to homes to capture some of the most intimate stories ever filmed and the most candid conversations ever shared with a television audience.
Carrier
CARRIER, a 10-part series filmed aboard the USS Nimitz, is a character-driven immersion in the high stakes world of a nuclear aircraft carrier. The programs follow a core group of characters, from the admiral of the strike group to the youngest sailors.
CARRIER, a 10-part series filmed aboard the USS Nimitz, is a character-driven immersion in the high stakes world of a nuclear aircraft carrier. The programs follow a core group of characters, from the admiral of the strike group to the youngest sailors.
Clearwater: Hudson River Rising
Tells the story of America’s environmental flagship, the Clearwater, which has helped effect a remarkable grassroots transformation of the Hudson River over the last four decades.
Tells the story of America’s environmental flagship, the Clearwater, which has helped effect a remarkable grassroots transformation of the Hudson River over the last four decades.
Echoes from the White House
First-hand accounts of life inside America’s most famous residence on the occasion of its 200th anniversary (2001).
First-hand accounts of life inside America’s most famous residence on the occasion of its 200th anniversary (2001).
Extreme Oil
Looks at how the oil industry must now go to extremes to find new sources of the asset that drives the world’s economy and fuels so many aspects of our lives.
Looks at how the oil industry must now go to extremes to find new sources of the asset that drives the world’s economy and fuels so many aspects of our lives.
Freedom of Us
A history of the United States as the unfolding, inspiring story of human liberties aspired to and won.
A history of the United States as the unfolding, inspiring story of human liberties aspired to and won.
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
Traces the history of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present, telling their story as part of the broader history of Western Civilization.
Traces the history of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present, telling their story as part of the broader history of Western Civilization.
Heroes of Ground Zero
A candid account of the firefighters in two New York City firehouses as they struggle to cope in the aftermath of the tragedy.
A candid account of the firefighters in two New York City firehouses as they struggle to cope in the aftermath of the tragedy.
History Detectives
Explores the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the facts, myths and conundrums that connect local folklore, family legends and interesting objects.
Explores the complexities of historical mysteries, searching out the facts, myths and conundrums that connect local folklore, family legends and interesting objects.
In Search of Ancient Ireland
Explores Ireland’s remarkable past and uncovers the real story behind the island nation’s rich global legacy.
Explores Ireland’s remarkable past and uncovers the real story behind the island nation’s rich global legacy.
Islam: Empire of Faith
Exploring the faith, politics, culture and innovation of more than a thousand years of Islamic history.
Exploring the faith, politics, culture and innovation of more than a thousand years of Islamic history.
Justice & the Generals
An investigation of the human-rights cases relating to the atrocities of the civil war in El Salvador.
An investigation of the human-rights cases relating to the atrocities of the civil war in El Salvador.
Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm
An unprecedented look at the man who was charged with defending the UN’s ideals.
An unprecedented look at the man who was charged with defending the UN’s ideals.
New York War Stories
The Second World War left America a legacy of stories. Many of those stories belong to New Yorkers, or to the parents and grandparents of the people who make up the great mosaic of the New York tri-state area today.
The Second World War left America a legacy of stories. Many of those stories belong to New Yorkers, or to the parents and grandparents of the people who make up the great mosaic of the New York tri-state area today.
New York: A Documentary Film
Covering nearly 400 years and 400 square miles, and revealing a complex and dynamic city that has played an unparalleled role in shaping the nation and reflecting its ideals.
Covering nearly 400 years and 400 square miles, and revealing a complex and dynamic city that has played an unparalleled role in shaping the nation and reflecting its ideals.
Rolling
Dr. Gretchen Berland gave video cameras to three Los Angeles residents in wheelchairs and asked them to film their daily lives, she wasn’t sure what they would capture.
Dr. Gretchen Berland gave video cameras to three Los Angeles residents in wheelchairs and asked them to film their daily lives, she wasn’t sure what they would capture.
Shadow Play
Offers a startling new interpretation of the events that shaped modern Indonesian history and changed the destiny of Southeast Asia.
Offers a startling new interpretation of the events that shaped modern Indonesian history and changed the destiny of Southeast Asia.
Slavery: The Making of America
Documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction.
Documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction.
Sound & Fury
Documents one family’s struggle over whether or not to provide two deaf children with cochlear implants, devices that can stimulate hearing.
Documents one family’s struggle over whether or not to provide two deaf children with cochlear implants, devices that can stimulate hearing.
Srebenica: A Cry from the Grave
Includes previously unreleased footage and first-hand personal accounts of the 1995 Bosnian massacre.
Includes previously unreleased footage and first-hand personal accounts of the 1995 Bosnian massacre.
Supreme Court
THE SUPREME COURT is an unprecedented series exploring the history, impact, and drama of America’s highest court. The Web site features video from the series, a timeline of Supreme Court history, educational games, lesson plans for teachers, and more.
THE SUPREME COURT is an unprecedented series exploring the history, impact, and drama of America’s highest court. The Web site features video from the series, a timeline of Supreme Court history, educational games, lesson plans for teachers, and more.
Taxi Dreams
Tells the stories of four New York City cabbies with accounts of humor, conflict, drama, ambition, and culture shock.
Tells the stories of four New York City cabbies with accounts of humor, conflict, drama, ambition, and culture shock.
The American Presidents
The story of the presidency is one of great achievement and adversity. It is history on a scale that is both heroic and personal.
The story of the presidency is one of great achievement and adversity. It is history on a scale that is both heroic and personal.
The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimers
Aimed at helping people better understand and cope with the fearsome disease of Alzheimer’s.
Aimed at helping people better understand and cope with the fearsome disease of Alzheimer’s.
The Jews of New York
This site profiles individuals and institutions that changed the face of New York, with expert commentary, to present a broad spectrum of the ways in which the Jewish community has impacted secular New York life from the earliest immigrants through today.
This site profiles individuals and institutions that changed the face of New York, with expert commentary, to present a broad spectrum of the ways in which the Jewish community has impacted secular New York life from the earliest immigrants through today.
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Documents the Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s groundbreaking efforts to preserve and interpret the history of the immigrant experience.
Documents the Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s groundbreaking efforts to preserve and interpret the history of the immigrant experience.
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Explores segregation from the end of the civil war to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement.
Explores segregation from the end of the civil war to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement.
The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is an unprecedented series exploring the history, impact, and drama of America’s highest court. The Web site features video from the series, a timeline of Supreme Court history, educational games, lesson plans for teachers, and more.
The Supreme Court is an unprecedented series exploring the history, impact, and drama of America’s highest court. The Web site features video from the series, a timeline of Supreme Court history, educational games, lesson plans for teachers, and more.
Trading Secrets
Reveals how the public’s right to know the truth about the thousands of chemicals that surround us has been compromised.
Reveals how the public’s right to know the truth about the thousands of chemicals that surround us has been compromised.
War Stories
War Stories is a community engagement initiative designed to gather first-hand recollections of the diverse men and women who served our nation during wartime.
War Stories is a community engagement initiative designed to gather first-hand recollections of the diverse men and women who served our nation during wartime.
Warplane
Traces the technologies that drove the evolution of warplanes through two World Wars and into the future.
Traces the technologies that drove the evolution of warplanes through two World Wars and into the future.
Warship
Explores not just the ships, but the inventors and technology behind the warships of every age — from 19th century ironclads to the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of today.
Explores not just the ships, but the inventors and technology behind the warships of every age — from 19th century ironclads to the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of today.
