In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They...

For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, thoughtful...

Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.

Join an American couple’s courageous mission in 1939 to help refugees escape Nazi-occupied Europe. Over the course of two years, the pair will risk...

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car...

The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring

They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them...

Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people...

The history of the East Lake Meadows public housing project in Atlanta and the people who lived there from 1970 to its demolition in 2000, with...

The War 1812 is a two-hour film history of a deeply significant event in North American and world history. The war shaped American, Canadian and...

Celebrated musicians perform at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in anticipation of the soon-to-be-released "Country Music" documentary series by Ken...

The astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why do they do it? Why would...