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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: The Great San Francisco Earthquake

4 October 1988
An account of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent effort to rebuild.

Season 1, Episode 2: Radio Bikini

10 June 1988
It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these times and tells the story of the US Navy Sailors who were exposed to radioactive fallout. One interviewed sailor suffered grotesquely swollen limbs and he is shown being interviewed with enormous left arm and hand.

Season 1, Episode 3: Indians, Outlaws, and Angie Debo

18 October 1988
A profile of historian Angie Debo and her exposure of the governmental conspiracy to steal mineral-rich lands from their tribal owners.

Season 1, Episode 4: Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild a Dream

25 October 1988
Journalist Eric Sevareid recounts his experiences growing up during the Great Depression and World War II.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

1 November 1988

Season 1, Episode 6: Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?

8 November 1988
A look at modern-day cowboys in the Wyoming Rockies.

Season 1, Episode 7: Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close

15 November 1988
Filmmaker Robert Drew updates his 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) which followed the confrontation between President Kennedy and Alabama governor George Wallace.

Season 1, Episode 8: Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

22 November 1988
The life of Geronimo, as told by the Chiricahua Apaches.

Season 1, Episode 9: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited

29 November 1988
Writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans revisit the Alabama tenant system depicted in their 1936 book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men".

Season 1, Episode 10: That Rhythm... Those Blues

6 December 1988

Season 1, Episode 11: The Radio Priest

13 December 1988
The story of Father Charles Coughlin who, during the Depression, used the radio to protest against what he saw as society's ills.

Season 1, Episode 12: Hearts and Hands

20 December 1988
The historical events of nineteenth-century America as depicted in the quilts of the country's women.

Season 1, Episode 13: Views of a Vanishing Frontier

27 December 1988
An exploration of the Native Americans of 1830s western America, as seen through the eyes of European travelers Prince Maximilian of Bavaria and Swiss artist Karl Bodmer.

Season 1, Episode 14: Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings

3 January 1989
A profile on American writer Eudora Welty.

Season 1, Episode 15: The World That Moses Built

10 January 1989

Season 1, Episode 16: Sins of Our Mothers

17 January 1989
The story of Emeline Bachelder, an early 19th-century New Englander who married a younger man - only to discover that he was the son she had give up when she was fourteen.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: The Great Air Race of 1924

3 October 1989
Follows the 1924 attempt by four U.S. Army Air Corps biplanes to circumnavigate the globe.

Season 2, Episode 2: Demon Rum

10 October 1989
The spread of Prohibition from Henry Ford's Detroit factories nationwide

Season 2, Episode 3: A Family Gathering

17 October 1989
Lise Yasui explores three generations of her Japanese-American family - from their immigration to Oregon in the early 1900s through their imprisonment in internment camps during World War Two.

Season 2, Episode 4: Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice

24 October 1989

Season 2, Episode 5: The Great War: 1918

31 October 1989
America's experiences in France during World War I.

Season 2, Episode 6: Forever Baseball

7 November 1989

Season 2, Episode 7: Adam Clayton Powell

14 November 1989

Season 2, Episode 8: Mr. Sears' Catalogue

21 November 1989

Season 2, Episode 9: Battle for Wilderness

5 December 1989

Season 2, Episode 10: Ballad of a Mountain Man

12 December 1989

Season 2, Episode 11: Forbidden City, USA

19 December 1989

Season 2, Episode 12: Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil

8 January 1990

Season 2, Episode 13: Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad

15 January 1990

Season 2, Episode 14: Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven

29 January 1990

Season 2, Episode 15: God Bless America and Poland, Too

12 February 1990

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Lindbergh

August 1990

Season 3, Episode 2: Nixon: Part I

8 October 1990

Season 3, Episode 3: Richard Nixon: Part II

15 October 1990

Season 3, Episode 4: Nixon: Part III

22 October 1990

Season 3, Episode 5: The Crash of 1929

19 November 1990
Examines the stock market crash of 1929 with interviews from descendants of several Wall Street insiders.

Season 3, Episode 6: The Iron Road

26 November 1990
The building of the railroad between Sacramento, California and Omaha, Nebraska.

Season 3, Episode 7: The Satellite Sky

3 December 1990

Season 3, Episode 8: Insanity on Trial

17 December 1990
The assassination of President James Garfield in 1880 by Charles Guiteau, who believed his actions were ordained by God, resulted in a trial where the plea "innocent by reason of insanity" was used for the first time.

Season 3, Episode 9: After the Crash

7 January 1991

Season 3, Episode 10: Los Mineros

28 January 1991

Season 3, Episode 11: Coney Island

4 February 1991
The film explores the beginnings of America's first amusement park and takes us through its good times all the way up to its end. The show was originally produced for PBS's American Experience.

Season 3, Episode 12: Journey to America

22 April 1991

Season 3, Episode 13: Orphans of the Storm

6 May 1991

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: LBJ: Part 1 - Beautiful Texas

30 September 1991

Season 4, Episode 2: LBJ: Part 2 - My Fellow Americans

1 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 3: The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry

7 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 4: Barnum's Big Top

14 October 1991
Story of P.T. Barnum and his role in developing the American Circus into a large business and a cultural force.

Season 4, Episode 5: Scandalous Mayor

28 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 6: Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance

11 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 7: G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover

18 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 8: Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo

9 December 1991

Season 4, Episode 9: The Quiz Show Scandal

6 January 1992
America's love affair with the quiz show is dealt a blow when it's revealed that the games are fixed.

Season 4, Episode 10: Love in the Cold War

13 January 1992

Season 4, Episode 11: Wild by Law

10 February 1992

Season 4, Episode 12: In the White Man's Image

17 February 1992
In 1875, Captain Richard Pratt escorted 72 Indian warriors suspected of murdering white settlers to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. Once there, Pratt began an ambitious experiment which involved teaching the Indians to read and write, English, putting them in uniforms and drilling them like soldiers. "Kill the Indian and the save the man," was Pratt's motto. A film about the experiment by Richard Pratt to change acculturate Native Americans into mainstream, white culture with the creation of the Carlise School for Indians in 1879. Pratt's school, and others like it, all begun in the most noble of humanistic intentions lasted well into the late 1930s. The schools were an outgrowth of the last westward expansion in the 1880s.

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: The Kennedys (Part 1): the Father, 1900-61

20 September 1992

Season 5, Episode 2: The Kennedys: Part 2 - The Sons, 1961-80

21 September 1992

Season 5, Episode 3: The Donner Party

28 October 1992
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival. The Donner Party's nightmarish journey penetrated to the very heart of the American Dream at a crucial phase of the nation's "manifest destiny. Touching some of the most powerful social, economic and political currents of the time, this extraordinary narrative remains one of the most compelling and enduring episodes to come out of the West.

Season 5, Episode 4: The Johnstown Flood

4 November 1992
Exploding dam kills thousands in massive flood catastrophe in Pennsylvania in 1889.

Season 5, Episode 5: Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

11 November 1992

Season 5, Episode 6: George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King

18 November 1992

Season 5, Episode 7: Last Stand at Little Big Horn

25 November 1992

Season 5, Episode 8: Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian

2 December 1992

Season 5, Episode 9: If You Knew Sousa

11 January 1993

Season 5, Episode 10: Simple Justice

18 January 1993
The story of Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP's effort to integrate public schools in the south, Simple Justice, based closely on Richard Kluger's book of the same name, recounts the remarkable legal strategy and social struggle that resulted in the US Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The Court's decision not only struck down segregated schools on the basis of race, but announced finally that America had begun to face the consequences of its dehumanizing social practice. In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that racial segregation along "separate but equal" terms was constitutional. Thirty years later, Charles Hamilton Houston took over Howard University's run-down segregated law school with the idea of training a cadre of elite African American lawyers who would wipe out the legal basis for segregation once and for all. Houston shaped the minds and the strategy that would triumph over segregation, but he wouldn't live to see the victory. It would be left to his brilliant student, Thurgood Marshall, to finish the work that Houston began.

Season 5, Episode 11: Sit Down and Fight

1 February 1993

Season 5, Episode 12: Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish

8 February 1993

Season 5, Episode 13: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

15 February 1993

Season 5, Episode 14: French Dance Tonight

22 February 1993

Season 5, Episode 15: Goin' Back to T-Town

1 March 1993

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Season 6

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Season 6, Episode 1: Ike (Part I)

20 September 1993

Season 6, Episode 2: Ike: Part II

27 September 1993

Season 6, Episode 3: Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage

11 October 1993

Season 6, Episode 4: The Hunt for Pancho Villa

8 November 1993

Season 6, Episode 5: Malcolm X: Make It Plain

26 January 1994

Season 6, Episode 6: America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

6 April 1994

Season 6, Episode 7: D-Day Remembered

25 May 1994
An award-winning documentary of the invasion of Normandy in World War II, using rare archival films and pictures from British, American, and German archives. The narrator provides the overall continuity, but the voices of over 50 participants who were involved in the staging of the invasion in Britain or were on the beaches of France bring the images to life.

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Season 7

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Season 7, Episode 1: FDR: Part I

12 October 1994

Season 7, Episode 2: FDR: Part II

13 October 1994

Season 7, Episode 3: Telegrams from the Dead

19 October 1994
Nineteenth-century Spiritualism. Life after death proved by "science."

Season 7, Episode 4: Midnight Ramble

26 October 1994

Season 7, Episode 5: The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle

9 November 1994
Documentary chronicling the history of World War II's "Battle of the Bulge", when the German army launched a major surprise counteroffensive against the American forces that caught them almost completely off-guard, sweeping away major portions of the front line, pushing deep into the rear areas and causing tens of thousands of casualties before it was finally halted.

Season 7, Episode 6: Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

16 January 1995
Struggling to keep the family farm in the family.

Season 7, Episode 7: One Woman, One Vote

15 February 1995

Season 7, Episode 8: The Way West: Part I

8 May 1995

Season 7, Episode 9: The Way West: Part II

9 May 1995

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Season 8

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Season 8, Episode 1: Murder of the Century

16 October 1995
A documentary chronicling the events surrounding the murder of famed architect Stanford White by millionaire Harry Thaw over the affections of showgirl Evelyn Nesbitt in New York in 1906.

Season 8, Episode 2: Edison's Miracle of Light

23 October 1995
The story of Thomas Edison's creation of a safe electric light system.

Season 8, Episode 3: Chicago 1968

13 November 1995

Season 8, Episode 4: The Orphan Trains

27 November 1995

Season 8, Episode 5: Freedom on My Mind

15 January 1996

Season 8, Episode 6: Daley: The Last Boss

22 January 1996

Season 8, Episode 7: The Battle Over Citizen Kane

29 January 1996
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also as a relative complete bio of Hearst.

Season 8, Episode 8: The Wright Stuff

12 February 1996

Season 8, Episode 9: Spy in the Sky

26 February 1996
The story of America's high-altitude U-2 spy plane.

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Season 9

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Season 9, Episode 1: T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (Part I)

6 October 1996

Season 9, Episode 2: T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (Part II)

7 October 1996

Season 9, Episode 3: The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie

20 January 1997

Season 9, Episode 4: Hawaii's Last Queen

27 January 1997

Season 9, Episode 5: The Telephone

3 February 1997

Season 9, Episode 6: Big Dream, Small Screen

10 February 1997
A biography of Philo Farnsworth, an inventor of the television.

Season 9, Episode 7: New York Underground

17 February 1997
Follows the construction of the New York City subway system in the early 1900s.

Season 9, Episode 8: Around the World in 72 Days

28 April 1997
The story of the female investigative reporter, Nellie Bly and her race around the world in less than 80 days.

Season 9, Episode 9: Gold Fever

12 May 1997

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Season 10

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Season 10, Episode 1: Truman: Part I

5 October 1997
Biography of U.S. President Harry S Truman.

Season 10, Episode 2: Truman: Part II

6 October 1997

Season 10, Episode 3: Vietnam: Parts I & II - Roots of War/America's Mandarin

13 October 1997

Season 10, Episode 4: Vietnam: Parts III & IV - LBJ Goes to War/America Takes Charge

20 October 1997

Season 10, Episode 5: Vietnam: Parts V & VI - America's Enemy/Tet 1968

27 October 1997

Season 10, Episode 6: Vietnam: Parts VII & VIII - Vietnamizing the War/Cambodia and Laos

2 December 1997

Season 10, Episode 7: Vietnam: Parts IX & X - Peace Is at Hand/Homefront USA

9 December 1997

Season 10, Episode 8: A Midwife's Tale

19 January 1998
A docudrama adaptation of Ulrich's Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The movie intercuts between reenactments of Ballard doing her Maine midwifery and related tasks, and Ulrich in her eight years of research on her book; in the end, clear comparisons are made between the work of the two women.

Season 10, Episode 9: Mr. Miami Beach

2 February 1998
The story of Carl Graham Fisher, an Indiana entrepreneur who created Miami Beach out of the Florida swamps.

Season 10, Episode 10: Influenza 1918

9 February 1998
The great influenza pandemic of 1918 - the worst epidemic ever seen in the United States.

Season 10, Episode 11: Reagan: Part I

23 February 1998
When he left the White House in 1989, Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents of the century. A former Hollywood star and seemingly simple man, Reagan was consistently underestimated by his opponents. One by one, he overcame them all. Incorporating interviews with key political insiders, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, and members of the Reagan family, "Reagan" explores the man who saw America as a "shining city on a hill" and himself as its heroic defender. The program follows Reagan's life from his itinerant boyhood in Illinois to his battle with "communist agitators" in the Screen Actors Guild and his dramatic 1980 victory over Jimmy Carter. Only 70 days into his presidency, a would-be assassin's bullet left him more debilitated than anyone knew. Reagan's massive military buildup and bold challenges to the Soviet Union caused his critics to portray him as a trigger-happy cowboy. But he negotiated deep cuts in nuclear weapons and resolved to end the Cold War. Five years after leaving office, Reagan announced he had Alzheimer's disease and dropped from public view. [info from DVD container]

Season 10, Episode 12: Reagan: Part II

24 February 1998

Season 10, Episode 13: Surviving the Dust Bowl

2 March 1998

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Season 11

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Season 11, Episode 1: America 1900

18 November 1998
Exploration of life in America in the first year of the 20th century, using archive film footage and photographs.

Season 11, Episode 2: Race for the Superbomb

11 January 1999
History of the American and Soviet development of the H-bomb.

Season 11, Episode 3: Hoover Dam

18 January 1999

Season 11, Episode 4: Alone on the Ice

8 February 1999
Commander Richard Byrd's winter at the South Pole.

Season 11, Episode 5: Rescue at Sea

15 February 1999

Season 11, Episode 6: Meltdown at Three Mile Island

22 February 1999
The worst nuclear-power-plant accident in U.S. history.

Season 11, Episode 7: Lost in the Grand Canyon

5 April 1999

Season 11, Episode 8: Riding the Rails

12 April 1999

Season 11, Episode 9: Fly Girls

10 May 1999
The story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II.

Season 11, Episode 10: MacArthur

17 May 1999
Biography of U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur.

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Season 12

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Season 12, Episode 1: New York: Part I - The Country and the City

14 November 1999

Season 12, Episode 2: New York: Part II - Order and Disorder

15 November 1999

Season 12, Episode 3: New York: Part III - Sunshine and Shadow

16 November 1999

Season 12, Episode 4: New York: Part IV - The Power and the People

17 November 1999

Season 12, Episode 5: New York: Part V - Cosmopolis

18 November 1999

Season 12, Episode 6: Eleanor Roosevelt

10 January 2000
For more than thirty years, Eleanor Roosevelt was America's most powerful woman. Millions adored her, but her FBI file was thicker than a stack of phone books. She spoke out fearlessly for civil rights, and the KKK put a price on her head. She helped Franklin D. Roosevelt rise to power and was one of his most valuable political assets, but the media satirized her as an ugly busybody. Drawing on interviews with her closest relatives, friends, and biographers, as well as rare home movie footage, the film reveals the hidden dimensions of one of the century's most influential women. She was born to wealth and power but orphaned at the age of 10. Her private life was marked by tragedy, infidelity, and a never-ending search for intimacy. Yet she persevered, fighting tirelessly for social justice for all and taking a lead role in the United Nations landmark Declaration of Human Rights.

Season 12, Episode 7: Nixon's China Game

1 February 2000

Season 12, Episode 8: Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory

8 February 2000

Season 12, Episode 9: The Duel

15 February 2000

Season 12, Episode 10: John Brown's Holy War

28 February 2000

Season 12, Episode 11: Houdini

7 March 2000

Season 12, Episode 12: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire - Part I

24 April 2000

Season 12, Episode 13: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire - Part II

25 April 2000

Season 12, Episode 14: Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life

8 May 2000

Season 12, Episode 15: George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography

23 May 2000

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Season 13

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Season 13, Episode 1: The Rockefellers: Part 1

16 October 2000

Season 13, Episode 2: The Rockefellers: Part 2

23 October 2000

Season 13, Episode 3: Secrets of a Master Builder: The Story of James B. Eads

30 October 2000

Season 13, Episode 4: Return with Honor

14 November 2000

Season 13, Episode 5: The Hurricane of '38

2001

Season 13, Episode 6: Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind

19 January 2001
Life story of the controversial African-American leader Marcus Garvey.

Season 13, Episode 7: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided Part 1 - Ambition

19 February 2001

Season 13, Episode 8: Abraham and Mary Lincoln, A House Divided Part 2 - We Are Elected

20 February 2001

Season 13, Episode 9: Abraham and Mary Lincoln, A House Divided Part 3 - Shattered

21 February 2001

Season 13, Episode 10: Abraham and Mary Lincoln, a House Divided Part 4 - The Dearest of All Things

21 February 2001

Season 13, Episode 11: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided Part 5 - This Frightful War

23 February 2001

Season 13, Episode 12: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided Part 6 - Blind with Weeping

24 February 2001

Season 13, Episode 13: Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

2 April 2001

Season 13, Episode 14: Fatal Flood

16 April 2001

Season 13, Episode 15: Stephen Foster

23 April 2001

Season 13, Episode 16: Streamliners: America's Lost Trains

30 April 2001

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Season 14

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Season 14, Episode 1: New York: Part 6 - The City of Tomorrow

1999

Season 14, Episode 2: New York: Part 7 - The City and the World

1999

Season 14, Episode 3: War Letters

11 November 2001
A documentary based on the book "War Letters; Extraordinary Correspondence From American Wars" by Andrew Carroll.

Season 14, Episode 4: Woodrow Wilson: Episode One - A Passionate Man

6 January 2002

Season 14, Episode 5: Woodrow Wilson: Episode Two - The Redemption of the World

13 January 2002

Season 14, Episode 6: Mount Rushmore

20 January 2002

Season 14, Episode 7: Miss America

27 January 2002

Season 14, Episode 8: Public Enemy Number 1

17 February 2002

Season 14, Episode 9: Monkey Trial

23 February 2002

Season 14, Episode 10: Zoot Suit Riots

1 March 2002

Season 14, Episode 11: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 1)

1 April 2002

Season 14, Episode 12: Ulysses S. Grant: Part 2

2 April 2002

Season 14, Episode 13: Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film

21 April 2002
Few American artists have reached a wider audience, or enjoyed more widespread popularity in their own lifetime, than Ansel Adams. None has had more profound an impact on how Americans grasp the majesty of their continent, or done more to transform how people think and feel about the meaning of the natural world. A visionary photographer, a pioneer in photographic technique and a crusader for the environment, Adams would take part in an extraordinary revolution: in photography, and ways of seeing what he called "the continuous beauty of the things that are." His greatest photographs would seek to capture "the instant of revelation -- of timelessness" amidst the evanescence of the natural world. Ansel Adams is the intimate portrait of a great artist and ardent environmentalist -- for whom life and art, photography and wilderness, creativity and communication, love and expression, were inextricably connected. ANSEL ADAMS, a ninety-minute documentary film written and directed by Ric Burns, and broadcast on national public television in April 2002, provides an elegant, moving and lyrical portrait of this most eloquent and quintessentially American of photographers.

Season 14, Episode 14: A Brilliant Madness

28 April 2002

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Season 15

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Season 15, Episode 1: Jimmy Carter (Part I)

11 November 2002

Season 15, Episode 2: Jimmy Carter: Part 2

12 November 2002

Season 15, Episode 3: Chicago: City of the Century: Part 1

13 January 2003

Season 15, Episode 4: Chicago: City of the Century: Part 2

14 January 2003

Season 15, Episode 5: Chicago: City of the Century: Part 3

15 January 2003

Season 15, Episode 6: The Murder of Emmett Till

17 January 2003
A documentary examining the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago while visiting relatives in Mississippi, and the broad impact of his death, his funeral, and the subsequent trial and acquittal of his accused killers.

Season 15, Episode 7: Transcontinental Railroad

27 January 2003

Season 15, Episode 8: Partners of the Heart

June 2002
During World War II and the era of staunch racial segregation, a Black carpenter's son named Vivien Thomas, who had a talent for surgery, along with a white surgeon named Dr. Alfred Blalock, who defied the medical establishment created a partnership that changed the course of cardiac surgery. With only a high school diploma, Thomas became a leading cardiac pioneer and educator of two generations of the United States' premiere heart surgeons. This moving documentary tells the story of Thomas and his relationship with Blalock, one that ushered in advances in surgery that are still in existence today.

Season 15, Episode 9: The Pill

20 January 2003
A documentary recounting the development of the birth control pill.

Season 15, Episode 10: Daughter from Danang

7 April 2003
A woman taken to America during Operation Babylift returns to Vietnam in order to meet her birth mother.

Season 15, Episode 11: Seabiscuit

29 March 2003

Season 15, Episode 12: Bataan Rescue

7 July 2003

Season 15, Episode 13: Murder at Harvard

14 July 2003

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Season 16

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Season 16, Episode 1: New York: Center of the World

9 September 2003

Season 16, Episode 2: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Part 1 - Revolution

12 January 2004

Season 16, Episode 3: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Part 2 - Retreat

13 January 2004

Season 16, Episode 4: Citizen King

19 January 2004
A documentary that draws on input from a broad cross-section of people to examine to last five years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life.

Season 16, Episode 5: Remember the Alamo

2 February 2004

Season 16, Episode 6: Tupperware!

9 February 2004
This is about the origins of Tupperware in Massachusetts.

Season 16, Episode 7: Emma Goldman

12 April 2004

Season 16, Episode 8: Patriots Day

19 April 2004

Season 16, Episode 9: Golden Gate Bridge

3 May 2004

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Season 17

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Season 17, Episode 1: RFK

4 October 2004

Season 17, Episode 2: The Fight

January 2004
Documentary on the boxing match between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling, which captured the world's attention on June 22, 1938.

Season 17, Episode 3: Fidel Castro

31 January 2005
A biography of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Season 17, Episode 4: Building the Alaska Highway

7 February 2005
The creation of the 1,500-mile Alaska-Canada Highway.

Season 17, Episode 5: Kinsey

14 February 2005
Documentary examining the impact and continuing influence of 'Alfred Kinsey' 's groundbreaking research on human sexuality.

Season 17, Episode 6: Mary Pickford

4 April 2005

Season 17, Episode 7: The Great Transatlantic Cable

11 April 2005
The story of Cyrus Field and the creation of the transatlantic telegraph line.

Season 17, Episode 8: The Fall of Saigon

25 April 2005

Season 17, Episode 9: Victory in the Pacific

May 2005

Season 17, Episode 10: The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken

23 May 2005
The life and times of The Carter Family, one of the earliest and most-influential group in American country and roots music.

Season 17, Episode 11: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

January 2004
A documentary on the curious American domestic terrorist group, infamous for the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst.

Season 17, Episode 12: The Massie Affair

4 July 2005

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Season 18

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Season 18, Episode 1: Two Days in October

17 October 2005

Season 18, Episode 2: Race to the Moon

31 October 2005
The story of the Apollo 8 mission to the moon.

Season 18, Episode 3: Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1

14 November 2005

Season 18, Episode 4: Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 2

15 November 2005

Season 18, Episode 5: John & Abigail Adams

23 January 2006