Ken Burns: American Lives

Revered as the author of the Declaration of Independence, the most sacred document in American history, yet condemned as a lifelong owner of slaves, Thomas Jefferson remains the enigma that is America.

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The most notable expedition in U.S. history was led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, with soldiers, an African-American slave, a female guide, and Canadian boatmen.

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He was a master builder, a rebel and a worshiper of nature. Frank Lloyd Wright left behind a legacy of beautiful homes and buildings, and changed America's approach to architecture forever.

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Tells the forgotten story of the women's rights pioneers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, from their births to the historic first Women's Rights Convention in 1848, where the demand for women's right to vote was first made.

Stanton and Anthony's fight for women's voting rights continues with Anthony's arrest for "illegally" voting in 1872. Finally in 1920 the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote is passed. Neither woman would live to witness it.

Samuel Clemens rose from a hardscrabble boyhood in the backwoods of Missouri to become, as Mark Twain, America's best known and best loved author.

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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 hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage."

Unforgivable Blackness tells the story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports, and his struggle to live his life as a free man.

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