This episode primarily focuses on the defining crisis of Carter's presidency: the Iran Hostage Crisis. It explores how this event, combined with domestic economic issues, derailed his .. show full overview
This episode primarily focuses on the defining crisis of Carter's presidency: the Iran Hostage Crisis. It explores how this event, combined with domestic economic issues, derailed his re-election bid, while also touching upon his significant post-presidency humanitarian work.
15x3 Chicago: City of the Century (1): Mudhole to Metropolis Episode overview
Fecha de emisión
Ene 13, 2003
The first episode of a three-part documentary about Chicago's history, and chronicles the city's explosive growth in the 19th century from a remote, swampy outpost into a major American metropolis.
The first episode of a three-part documentary about Chicago's history, and chronicles the city's explosive growth in the 19th century from a remote, swampy outpost into a major American metropolis.
15x4 Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun Episode overview
Fecha de emisión
Ene 14, 2003
This is the second episode in a three-part documentary about Chicago's history and focuses on the intense tensions between labor and capital that marked the city in the late 1870s and 1880s.
This is the second episode in a three-part documentary about Chicago's history and focuses on the intense tensions between labor and capital that marked the city in the late 1870s and 1880s.
15x5 Chicago: City of the Century (3): Battle for Chicago Episode overview
Fecha de emisión
Ene 15, 2003
This is the final episode in the three-part series, concluding the story of 19th-century Chicago by exploring the city's Progressive Era reforms, class conflicts, and the 1893 World's Fair.
This is the final episode in the three-part series, concluding the story of 19th-century Chicago by exploring the city's Progressive Era reforms, class conflicts, and the 1893 World's Fair.
In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken .. show full overview
In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead of night, beat him brutally and then shot him in the head. Although his killers were arrested and charged with murder, they were both acquitted quickly by an all-white, all-male jury. Shortly afterwards, the defendants sold their story, including a detailed account of how they murdered Till, to a journalist. The murder and the trial horrified the nation and the world. Till's death was a spark that helped mobilize the civil rights movement. Three months after his body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, the Montgomery bus boycott began.
He was boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn't completely straighten, a short straggly tail and an ungainly gait, but though he didn't look the part, Seabiscuit was one of the most .. show full overview
He was boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn't completely straighten, a short straggly tail and an ungainly gait, but though he didn't look the part, Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorses in history. In the 1930s, when Americans longed to escape the grim realities of Depression-era life, four men turned Seabiscuit into a national hero. They were his fabulously wealthy owner Charles Howard, his famously silent and stubborn trainer Tom Smith, and the two hard-bitten, gifted jockeys who rode him to glory. By following the paths that brought these four together and in telling the story of Seabiscuit's unlikely career, this film illuminates the precarious economic conditions that defined America in the 1930s and explores the fascinating behind-the-scenes world of thoroughbred racing.
