The Songbird of Manzanar

Featuring behind-the-scenes footage and unprecedented access to its hallowed halls, this program from National Geographic takes viewers on an in-depth tour of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- the White House. Interviews with presidents and first ladies offer a revealing look at what goes into running that famous household, and White House employees give viewers a taste of the preparations involved in hosting a state dinner.

Porky se resiste a aprender el Juramento de la Bandera hasta que el Tío Sam se le aparece en sueños y le da una lección de la historia estadounidense.

The Reagan Era was marked with names, triumphs and tragedy that made history that became the fabric of American life and memory: Iran-Contra the Cold War the Solidarity Movement and the candle in the White House window Pan Am 103 the Challenger disaster Beirut Libya. Ronald Reagan's speeches were inspired lectures that informed the nation - sometimes angry, sometimes confused, and sometimes frightened of the next steps their government would take. Ronald Reagan: An American Journey is a collection of these dialogues, creating a portrait of the man Time magazine named as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.

Speculative Sunn Classics chestnut detailing a wide-ranging government conspiracy to murder the 16th American President and the subsequent cover up and escape of his killers.

Muestra el desmoronamiento de los valores de la sociedad norteamericana desde mediados del siglo XX hasta principios de los 80, centrándose en la espiral de violencia que recorre el país, y para ello nos muestra una senda donde la moral y la ética parecen brillar con luz propia, mostrando una serie de acontecimientos clave en el desarrollo de la nación tanto a nivel político como en lo más profundo de la subcultura americana.

A six-night miniseries presenting the history of how the United States was invented, looking at the moments where Americans harnessed technology to advance human progress -- from the rigors of linking the continent by transcontinental railroad to triumphing over vertical space through the construction of steel-structured buildings. The series also is a story of conflict, with Native American peoples, slavery, the Revolutionary War that birthed the nation, the Civil War that divided it, and the great world war that shaped its future.

An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana.

James Earl Jones narrates this examination of the historical relationship between American Indians and African-Americans, who often merged their cultures to work and live together while mainstream white society shunned them. Through illuminating anecdotes and interviews, descendants of fused black and Indian families discuss the complications of their mixed heritage and how their culture was largely erased on official documents.

La vida de Ray Charles es una alternancia de triunfos y fracasos personales que se suceden a lo largo de una dilatada y galardonada carrera en el mundo del espectáculo. Pero estamos hablando de un hombre que sintetizó sus luchas, su dolor y su oscuridad personal con la misma efectividad con la que supo fundir en su arte una miríada de estilos musicales: el jazz, el rhythm & blues, el rock & roll, el gospel y el country. Su historia tiene entonces un sentido muy distinto: la cadena de logros se transforma en el vibrante y conmovedor trayecto de un genio único con una visión propia que enseñó al mundo a escuchar música de una forma nueva. RAY es la biografía, nunca contada antes, de esa leyenda de la música americana que es Ray Charles. Se centra en el período más explosivo de la carrera de Charles, que comienza cuando este joven negro ciego se sube solo a un autobús en Florida y cruza el país para refinar su arte en la floreciente escena jazzística de Seattle.

El fiscal de Nueva Orleans, Jim Garrison, reabrió el caso del asesinato del presidente de los Estados Unidos John F. Kennedy y presentó cargos contra algunas personas. Después de entrevistar a numerosos testigos de Dallas y a personas relacionadas con los hechos, mantuvo la tesis de que el magnicidio fue fruto de una conspiración en la que podrían haber intervenido el FBI, la CIA y el propio vicepresidente Lindon B. Johnson.

This program, culled from the over 28 hours of interview footage between Sir David Frost and U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, was originally broadcast in May of 1977. Never before, nor since, has a U.S. President been so candid on camera. Even more intriguing is the fact that Nixon agreed to appear on camera with no pre-interview preparation or screening of questions.

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress. These first-person anecdotes, ranging from the brutal to the bittersweet, have been brought to vivid life in this unique HBO documentary special, featuring the on-camera voices of over a dozen top African-American actors.

This new documentary examines the history of the New World Order and demonstrates that the New World Order is 'New Age' oriented. The Zeitgeist films and movement are exposed and shown to have ties to the New Age, Theosophy, Freemasonry and the New World Order movements.

Basada en un hecho real ocurrido en 1850, narra la historia de Solomon Northup, un culto músico negro -y hombre libre- que vivía con su familia en Nueva York. Tras compartir una copa con dos desconocidos, Solomon descubre que ha sido drogado y secuestrado para ser vendido como esclavo en el Sur en una plantación de Louisiana. Renunciando a abandonar la esperanza, Solomon contempla cómo todos a su alrededor sucumben a la violencia, al abuso emocional y a la desesperanza. Entonces decide correr riesgos increíbles y confiar en la gente menos aparente para intentar recuperar su libertad y reunirse con su familia.

A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

Virginia, 1803. Después de que los Estados Unidos de América adquieran de Francia el inmenso territorio de Luisiana, una gran expedición, encabezada por William Lewis y Meriwether Clark, es enviada con el objetivo de explorar las nuevas tierras y llegar a donde ningún hombre blanco ha llegado antes.

Satchmo. Theer are few people in this country - or around the world - who will not recognize that name. Louis Armstrong embodied twentieth-century American culture. He revolutionized the world of music and became one of the nation's most influential entertainers. No other performer of his era has such a profound effect as a singer as well as an instrumentalist.

It's St. Valentine's Day. Cupid is having fun arranging, while a young devil is making mischief sabotaging, love affairs.

This film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. And like so many who were in the camps, Tajiri’s family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting. This film raises questions about collective history – questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost.

1945: after the death of his father, Ken escapes Japanese American internment camp to find his Caucasian mother who lives in town. Things become complicated, however, when Kens little brother, Jo, joins him at the last minute.