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With narration by actors Jena Malone, Ben Whishaw, Julia Hummer, and Jessie Usher, filmmaker Matt Wolf explores the origins of the modern-day "teenager" -- a demographic that didn't even exist until the mid-20th century. Teenage
This potent documentary uses a long-lost film reel to illustrate how the Nazis controlled images of Jewish life during World War II. Though the Nazis made a propaganda movie of contented Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, the missing spool exposes the truth. A Film Unfinished
Why, at the height of the battle for France in 1940, was Hitler driven to step aside from the battle to visit the graves of his fallen comrades and lead the General Staff on a tour of his old trenches from the Great War? Hitler's Last Secrets: Private Hitler's War
War is at the doorstep of Washington, D.C. in 1861, and the next few years will decide the fate of the city and the nation. Lincoln's Washington at War
Celebrating America's Founders Celebrating America's Founders
Sensational news stories of violent crimes, accidents, and suicides act as intermittent reminders of how minor or major transgressions can wreck our lives. This series revisits fascinating pages of our shared history. Crimes that Made History
From the Great Plains of the American West to the Rocky Mountains, from Apache Reservations to the suburbs of Deadwood, she could be seen bringing up the rear in convoys of pioneers or riding with desperados. Meet Martha Canary, alias Calamity Jane. Calamity Jane: Legend of the West

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Lincoln's hat, Dorothy's slippers, Ali's gloves. Learn the stories of how they came to be a part of the National Museum of American History's collection and meet the people who have restored some of these treasures.

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