Hoover Dam

By WGBH - 1987

A look at the destruction and rebirth of San Francisco as a result of the famous 1906 earthquake. Captured in rare, newly restored movie footage…

By WGBH - 1991

Two years into the Civil War, free men of color were still denied the right to fight for the end of slavery. Weeks after Lincoln signed the…

By WGBH - 1983

The End of the Tunnel (1973-1975) chronicles the final two years of US involvement in Vietnam, it shows the desperation of the final days before…

By WGBH - 1997

Liliu'okalani, who ruled Hawaii in the late 1800s, had traveled throughout Europe and moved easily between the worlds of Hawaiian tradition and state…

By WGBH - 1997

When intrepid journalist Nelly Bly traveled around the world in just 72 days, beating Jules Verne's fictional escapade, she turned herself into an…

By WGBH - 1990

Terrence McNally's play centers on a young man's death from AIDS, and how his mother and lover cope, separately and together, with the tragedy of…

By WGBH - 2001

At the height of World War II, more than a thousand women left their homes and jobs for the opportunity of a lifetime-to become the first female…

By WGBH - 2001

No soldier has ever captured the American imagination like Douglas MacArthur. He led Americans into combat for a half-century, through glorious…

By Squaducation - 2015

This video shows what life can be like for a slave woman, it shows a Celt who had been captured in England and taken to Rome to serve as a slave

By Squaducation - 2015

A description of a middle-class family holiday at the seaside booked through Cooks Travel Excursionist.

By Squaducation - 2015

Ambroise Pare explains how he found an alternative way to treat wounds.