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 balks at learning the Pledge of Allegiance until Uncle Sam appears to him in a dream and gives him a lesson in American history.

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.

A documentary of the decline of America. Featuring footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much-much more.

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.

대공황 시대 미국 남부에서 태어난 레이 찰스 로빈슨(제이미 폭스)은 동생의 죽음을 목격한 충격으로 7살에 시력을 잃는다. 소작농이던 어머니 아레사(샤론 워런)는 충격적인 사고와 겹치는 불운에도 불구하고 레이를 더욱 강인하게 키우고자 이를 악문다. 도움을 받기보다는 혼자 일어서야 했던 그는 보컬 겸 피아니스트로 성장한다. 당시 재즈의 본고장으로 손꼽히던 시애틀로 떠나 세션맨으로 첫 무대에 오르는 레이. 잭 로더데일과의 인연으로 스윙타임 레코드에서 처음 취입한 블루스 음반으로 무명에서는 벗어나지만, 앞을 보지 못하는 그를 주위 사람들은 이용하려고만 든다.

1963년 12월 22일 텍사스에서 케네디 저격사건이 일어난다. 범인으로 체포된 오스왈드는 계속 저격 사실을 부인하다가 경찰에 호송되던 중에 암살당한다. 이후 사건의 수사를 위해 진상조사 위원회가 열리고 오스왈드의 단독범행으로 결론이 내려진다. 그러나 수사방법에 의문을 제시한 많은 사람들 중의 한 명인 지방검사 짐 개리슨(케빈 코스트너)은 각고의 노력을 거듭해 많은 증거를 확보하는데...

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.

1840년대 미국에서는 노예 수입이 금지되자 흑인 납치 사건이 만연하게 된다. 미국내 자유주의 흑인을 납치해 노예주로 팔아 넘기는 것. 1841년 뉴욕. 아내 그리고 두 명의 아이와 함께 자유로운 삶을 누리던 음악가 솔로몬 노섭은 어느날 갑자기 납치되어 노예로 팔려간다. 그가 도착한 곳은 노예주 중에서도 악명 높은 루이지애나. 신분을 증명할 방법이 없는 그에게 노예 신분과 플랫이라는 새 이름이 주어지고, 12년의 시간 동안 두 명의 주인 윌리엄 포드, 에드윈 엡스를 만나게 되는데...

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

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.

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.