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In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthew Broderick

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ethan Herisse

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sissy Spacek

A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carl Hart

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Dix

In 30 years of a deeply committed career and 50 roles, Denzel Washington, double-Oscar winner, placed the figure of the Black man in all its...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Denzel Washington

Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harvey Milk

Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, on the one hundredth anniversary of the crime, and how the community of Tulsa is coming to terms with its...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michel Martin

So much more than simply the story of the Thanksgiving meal, the epic saga of the Pilgrims is one of the fundamental narratives of our nation. This...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Herrmann

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Mel Blanc

Known as the most liberal U.S. senator and "Border Czar," VP Kamala Harris has a long track record of policy positions; an in-depth look.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kamala Harris

A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site—where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the summer of 1945—covering many other...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preeminent lawman of the Old West. He brought upwards of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Art T. Burton

A made-for-TV dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jeff Daniels

75% of all enslaved Africans coming to America came in through Beaufort and the sea islands of South Carolina. This beautiful and picturesque tourist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anita Singleton-Prather

This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Avery Brooks

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

Genre: Drama

Cast: Troy Maxwell G. Blakey

Built in 1755 at the height of the French and Indian War, Braddock's Road was one of the nation's most infamous military roads. Traces of this...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Melissa Leebaert

A documentary film about the internment of Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during World War II. The program, hosted by Jan Yanehiro,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Abigail Spencer

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Anson Mount

Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sam Elliott

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck,...

Genre: Western

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Steve Buscemi

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert...

Genre: Western

Cast: John McIntire

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Coyote

In this modern world, air travel represents the height of luxury and Pan Am is the biggest name in the business. The planes are glamorous, the pilots...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christina Ricci

From the Executive Producer Robert Redford, THE AMERICAN WEST tells the story of the aftermath of the CIVIL WAR and how the United States transformed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bert Thomas Morris

Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kate Winslet

The triumphs and tragedies of the most popular political family in American history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greg Kinnear

A radical group of young men band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a nation.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Barnes

Beset by economic unrest, threatened from within by Indian nations and from without by overseas powers, the young country reeled in turmoil. But the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barry Bostwick

Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Campbell Scott

Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been inseparable from that of the United States....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lucien Jean-Baptiste

In this 26-part series, prominent historians present America’s story as something that must be presented and debated from a variety of...

Genre: Family

Cast: Donald L. Miller

A detailed, and unbiased, look at the 43 men who have been the presidents of the United States of America.

Genre: Documentary

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An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls back the curtain on the familiar narrative of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sergei Khrushchev

Over the course of 50 episodes, we're going to learn about Black American History. Clint Smith will to teach you about the experience of Black people...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Clint Smith