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The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassination.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Bowles

One of the most popular rockers of the 1950s and early 60s, Fats Domino and his record sales were rivaled then only by Elvis Presley. With his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fats Domino

A documentary that explores the range of experiences lived by transgender Americans.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kylar Broadus

The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Linda Hunt

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David McCullough

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Oliver Platt

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation. As a former president,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liev Schreiber

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation. As a former president,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liev Schreiber

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. This...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bob Ricks

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 – as they...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jay

In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East...

Genre: History

Cast: Michael Murphy

Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Murphy

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “Pro-American Rally.” Images of George...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Beverly Gage

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine flight: a smooth take-off banking into a couple...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David McCullough

Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of Jewish Americans to the most American sport of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dustin Hoffman

Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th...

Genre: History

Cast: Roger Rees

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kilon Bauno

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Murphy

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: F. Murray Abraham

Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Philip Bosco

An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls back the curtain on the familiar narrative of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sergei Khrushchev