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2015
2015x1
The Klondike Gold Rush
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The Klondike Gold Rush tells the legendary story of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush. Over 100,000 people voyage to the far North intent on reaching the Canadian boom-town Dawson City and .. show full overview
2015x2
The Queen's Garden
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With permission from Queen Elizabeth, this program covers a year in Buckingham Palace Garden, exploring the history and the natural history of this remarkable hidden royal treasure in the heart of London.
2015x3
Temples of Justice
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Temples of Justice visits 45 courthouses in South Dakota and tells the colorful stories of several. You'll find out how swindlers changed history, where there's a bullet hole in a .. show full overview
2015x4
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
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The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club chronicles the thrilling life and extraordinary times of aviation pioneer Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes, one of the most .. show full overview
2015x5
We Served Too: The Story of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots
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This is a story of a group of young, determined and courageous women during World War II who broke through barriers and shattered stereotypes...the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs).
2015x6
James Baker: The Man Who Made Washington Work
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A profile of James A. Baker III, who served in both the Reagan and Bush 41 administrations. He helped steward Reagan's agenda through a hostile Congress and, as Bush's secretary of .. show full overview
2015x7
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies - Part 1
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The search for a “cure” for cancer is the greatest epic in the history of science. It spans centuries and continents and is full of its share of heroes, villains, and sudden vertiginous .. show full overview
2015x8
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies - Part 2
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This episode picks up the story in the wake of the declaration of a “war on cancer” by Richard Nixon in 1971. Flush with optimism and awash with federal dollars, the cancer field plunges .. show full overview
2015x9
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies - Part 3
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This episode picks up the story at another moment of buoyant optimism in the cancer world: Scientists believe they have cracked the essential mystery of the malignant cell and the first .. show full overview
2015x7
Rx: The Quiet Revolution
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A staggering 50 percent of American adults suffer from a chronic disease such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity and arthritis — and one in four has two or more chronic health .. show full overview
2015x8
Inside the Court of Henry VIII
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Henry VIII is the most iconic king of English history. Part medieval tyrant, part renaissance prince, he ruled over his people as no king of England had ever done before. He took a .. show full overview
2015x9
A Wing and a Prayer
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Narrated by William Baldwin, this is the virtually unknown story of how a group of World War II aviators and others helped arm and defend the state of Israel by forming it's air force just as it was invaded during the 1948 Arab-Israel War.
2015x10
The National Mall -- America's Front Yard
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The United States National Mall, set in the heart of Washington, DC, is a landscape unlike any other on Earth, and its history is equally fascinating. Lined by some of the world's finest .. show full overview
2015x11
Dick Cavett’s Vietnam
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On the 40th anniversary of the official end of the Vietnam War, this program examines the war and its impact on America through the prism of interviews conducted on “The Dick Cavett .. show full overview
2015x12
The Draft
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The history of the military draft in the United States.
2015x13
The Day the 60's Died
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Recalling the turbulence that followed President Nixon's April 30, 1970, announcement of America's incursion into Cambodia, which included mass protests by college students and the .. show full overview
2015x14
Caring for Mom and Dad
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Americans are living longer than ever before. Seventy-five million baby boomers are entering their retirement years at a rate of 10,000 a day. The United States is not prepared for this .. show full overview
2015x15
Stories of Service: The Homefront
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More than two million men and women serve in America's all-volunteer military force, and another three million are their husbands, wives, sons and daughters. The Homefront uses .. show full overview
2015x16
1913: Seeds of Conflict
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Ben Loeterman, explores the little-known history of Palestine during the latter part of the Ottoman Empire, a time of relative harmony between Arabs and Jews. Living side by side in the .. show full overview
2015x17
Humanity from Space
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Humanity from Space is an epic journey of discovery. Using the very latest mind-boggling data and astonishing CGI, the film traces the story of humankind’s ascent from hunter-gatherer to .. show full overview
2015x18
The Bomb
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The story of nuclear weapons, from the earliest A-bomb tests to their impact on global politics. Included: remarks from historians Richard Rhodes, Martin Sherwin, Robert Norris and .. show full overview
2015x19
The Mystery of Matter: Out of Thin Air (1754-1806)
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One of science’s great odd couples — British minister Joseph Priestley and French tax administrator Antoine Lavoisier — together discover a fantastic new gas called oxygen, overturning .. show full overview
2015x20
The Mystery of Matter: Unruly Elements (1859-1902)
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Over a single weekend in 1869, a young Russian chemistry professor named Dmitri Mendeleev invents the Periodic Table, bringing order to the growing gaggle of elements. But this sense of .. show full overview
2015x21
The Mystery of Matter: Into the Atom (1910-1960)
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Caught up in the race to discover the atom’s internal parts — and learn how they fit together — a young British physicist, Harry Moseley, uses newly discovered X-rays to put the Periodic .. show full overview
2015x22
A Few Good Pie Places
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There are delicious pies for sale at shops, restaurants, cafes and roadside stands across America. So, in this delicious documentary we celebrate A Few Good Pie Places where people still .. show full overview
2015x23
A Few Great Bakeries
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Bakeries are popular places. They smell great. They are full of wonderful things to eat, from crusty breads to gooey and sweet treats. And they often become neighborhood meeting places, .. show full overview
2015x24
Tahoe: A Visual History
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A documentary based on the exhibition of the visual history of Lake Tahoe and Donner region on display at the Nevada Museum of Art. The film follows the NMA’s journey to visually survey .. show full overview
2015x25
America After Charleston
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Moderated by PBS NewsHour's Gwen Ifill, America After Charleston is a one-hour town hall meeting that explores the many issues propelled into public discourse after a white gunman shot .. show full overview
2015x26
E.O. Wilson: Of Ants and Men
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EO Wilson – Of Ants and Men is a two-hour film about the life and extraordinary scientific odyssey of one of America’s greatest living thinkers, E.O Wilson. It is an exciting journey of .. show full overview
2015x28
How Do You Measure the Size of the Universe?
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The universe is HUGE. But, there is only so much of the universe we can ACTUALLY see, and if we wanted to measure that FINITE space, how would we do it? A gigantic ruler? One really long .. show full overview
2015x27
Things that go Bump in the Night: Tales of Haunted New England
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THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT details some of New England's most bone-chilling stories, myths and legends. Interviews with local authors and experts, along with personal accounts, .. show full overview
2015x28
Iwo Jima: From Combat to Comrades
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2015x29
Debt of Honor: Disabled Veterans in American History
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Disabled veterans hold a unique place in the history of veterans in the United States, one that palpably illustrates the human cost of war, and speaks to the enormous sacrifices of .. show full overview
2015x30
Off the Menu: Asian America
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What exactly does food reflect about Asian Pacific Americans? Off the Menu: Asian America grapples with how family, tradition, faith, and geography shape our relationship to food. The .. show full overview
2015x31
The Blizzard of '49
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This one-hour documentary film tells the story of "Storm of the Century: The Blizzard of '49" - the worst series of storms in Wyoming's history. But for all the tragedy and loss, .. show full overview
2015x32
Starting from Scratch: The Remarkable Life of John W. Barfield
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John W. Barfield is a rags to riches success story. This epic memoir tells how the work ethic and spiritual principles his family used to better themselves in the Alabama cotton fields, .. show full overview
2015x33
In Defense of Food
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." With that seven-word maxim, US-based journalist Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) distills a career’s worth of reporting into a .. show full overview

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