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Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make...

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as...

Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of...

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas...

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben...

Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s,...

In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous...

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people...

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American women, yet led a brutal war...

I Am JFK Jr. - A Tribute to a Good Man is an homage to America's fallen prince and the Kennedy legacy. It is the story of a young man destined for...

Animated propaganda advocating for the importance of unregulated capitalism to the American way of life.

Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing...

Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constitution. Historical figures wear modern dress and use...

Inspired by the true-life experience of its star George Takei, Allegiance follows one family's extraordinary journey in this untold American story...

A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one...

A look at the role U.S. President Woodrow Wilson played in World War I.

African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slave era. The result is this documentary, which...

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly...

Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from...

"Once upon a time ... the Americas" tells us the story of this vast continent, from the very first inhabitants to the present day, including the...

Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John...

Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment.

Liberty's Kids is an animated educational historical fiction television series produced by DIC Entertainment, originally broadcast on PBS Kids from...

A half century look back at a year marked by the assassinations of MLK and RFK, a contentious presidential election, escalating anti-Vietnam War...

Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged. Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery is the...

The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33)....

Profiles in Courage is an American historical anthology series that was telecast weekly on NBC from November 8, 1964 to May 9, 1965. The series was...

Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It...

From the 1920s through the 1960s, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global superpower. Using digital colorization...

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...

Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.

Based on the best-selling Scholastic books; Dear America features the rich and spirited stories of young women at various turning points in history.

The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in...

This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural...