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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Mapping History | PBS
Featuring dozens of clips from "The Abolitionists" and nearly 1000 archival images, the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Mapping History iPhone and iPod touch app offers curated walking tours in cities key... 01:57
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Abolitionists, Part 2, Chapter 1 | PBS (#102)
A peak at the first chapter of "The Abolitionists, Part 2", premiering Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 9/8c on PBS. Learn more: www.pbs.org Subscribe to American Experience YouTube: www.youtube.com... 14:06
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History Detectives | Bill of Sale, Cobb Powder Horn and the Star Spangled Banner | PBS (#1009)
Full Program: Eduardo investigates the story behind a Bill of Sale for a 17-year old “negro girl". 53:41
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History Detectives | Bill of Sale | PBS (#1009)
Eduardo investigates the life story behind a Bill of Sale for a 17-year old “negro girl.” 14:33
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History Detectives | Star Spangled Banner Manuscript | PBS (#1009)
Was this handwritten sheet of music central to deciding our national anthem? 14:06
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History Detectives | Cobb Powder Horn | PBS (#1009)
What is the story behind an engraved horn found in a Minnesota field? 11:52
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "The Abolitionists" - William Lloyd Garrison | PBS (#101)
At 22, William Lloyd Garrison moved to Boston and determined that the abolition of slavery would be the cause that would give meaning to his life. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The Abolitionists" premieres... 02:07
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "The Abolitionists" - Frederick Douglass and John Brown | PBS (#102)
John Brown meets with Frederick Douglass and reveals his radical plan to raise an army, attack plantations and free the slaves. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The Abolitionists" premieres on Tuesday,... 02:11
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "The Abolitionists" - Harriet Beecher Stowe | PBS
Following the tragic death of her young son and moved by the plight of slave families being torn apart by the Fugitive Slave Law, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin". AMERICAN... 02:56
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "The Abolitionists" - Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison | PBS
After hearing Frederick Douglass speak at an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, an inspired William Lloyd encourages Douglass to join the abolitionist movement. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The... 02:55
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Abolitionists - Angelina Grimké | PBS
Angelina Grimké, the outspoken daughter of a wealthy Charleston, South Carolina plantation family, believed that slavery was a sin and a stain on the nation. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's "The... 03:00
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Abolitionists, Part One, Chapter 1 | PBS (#101)
A peak at the first chapter of "The Abolitionists, Part 1", premiering January 8, 2013 at 9/8c on PBS. Learn more: www.pbs.org Subscribe to American Experience YouTube: www.youtube.com American... 10:17
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USDA Celebrates 150 Years of Helping People (#3819)
One year into the Civil War, additional Union troops were rushed to Washington D.C. to protect the nation's capitol from rapidly advancing Confederate forces. With his back against the wall,... 07:01
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MAKERS: WOMEN WHO MAKE AMERICA -- Premiering Feb. 26, 2012 on PBS | PBS
Review the story of how women have helped shape America over the last 50 years through one of the most sweeping social revolutions in our country's history, in pursuit of their rights to a full... 00:31
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PBS NewsHour | Monday, December 31, 2012 | PBS (#10529)
Full Program: PBS NewsHour for Monday, December 31, 2012 53:52
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400 Years of the Telescope
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A Dream Fulfilled: The Saga of George Washington Carver
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A Promise Called Iowa
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The Abolitionists: American Experience
On January 1, 1863, when abolitionist leaders Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison received word that the Emancipation Proclamation had declared three million enslaved African Americans "forever free," it was the culminating...
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Abraham and Mary Lincoln, A House Divided: American Experience
Elected president only to see the nation fracture in two, Abraham Lincoln led a confused and frightened people through the most terrible war in their history. At the same time, his own household mirrored the fissures that rent the...
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The Adventists
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After The Wall - A World United
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Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers
Alan Alda brings his unique blend of curiosity and humor to the exploration of the latest trends in science, medicine, technology and the environment.
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Alma's Jazzy Marriage
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Amelia Earhart: American Experience
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America Remembers - 9/11
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American Experience
As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation.
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American Family: Anniversary Edition
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American Masters
AMERICAN MASTERS is an ongoing series of award-winning primetime specials examining the lives, works, and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural artists. Created in 1984 by Susan Lacy and produced by Thirteen/WNET for...
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American Stamps
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Among The Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust in Arab Lands
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Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning
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Antiques Roadshow
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW cameras capture tales of family heirlooms, yard sale bargains and long-lost items salvaged from attics and basements, while experts reveal the fascinating truths about these finds.
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Architect Robert A.M. Stern: Presence of the Past
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As Long As I Remember: American Veteranos
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The Ascent of Money
In this four-part series, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson delves deep into how the complex system of global finance evolved over the centuries, how money has shaped the course of human affairs and how the mechanics of this economic...
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: American Experience
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Assignment Iowa
Assignment Iowa examines the issues and events that shape what it means to be an Iowan. Hosted by Iowa Public Radio's Todd Mundt, the series explores a wide range of timely topics and the ways they affect Iowa and Iowans.
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Bad Blood: The Border War That Triggered The Civil
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Benjamin Latrobe: America's First Architect
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Best of Iowa with Dan Kaercher
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The Best of Laugh-In
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Best of the Midwest with Dan Kaercher
The Midwest is a fabulous place to travel and explore. From its serene small towns to big city attractions, natural wonders and great food - there is something for everyone. Just ask Dan Kaercher, editor-in-chief of Midwest Living...
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Betty Ford: The Real Deal
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Bill Moyers Journal
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers returns to PBS with a weekly public affairs series that features interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects, including politics, arts and culture, the media, the economy and issues facing...
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Black in Latin America
Black in Latin America, a new four-part series on the influence of African descent on Latin America, is the 11th and latest production from renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., writer and presenter of the acclaimed PBS series...
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Bloody Thursday
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Blueprint America: Road to the Future
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Bombing of Germany: American Experience
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Bonaparte's Retreat
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Botany of Desire
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The Buddha
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Buffalo Bill: American Experience
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Cafe Scientifique
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Chautauqua: An American Narrative
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Ciao Italia
Mary Ann Esposito, host of the longest-running cooking show on public television, travels around the United States and Rome, Italy in search of recipes that can be prepared in thirty-minutes or less for a busy audience that has time to...
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Circus
This series goes behind the scenes to follow the lives of the performers and crew of the Big Apple Circus for the entirety of the 2008-2009 touring season.
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The Civil War
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' landmark series portrays the terrible conflict that tore America apart and defined it as a nation. The series embraces the entire sweep of the war using archival photographs, period...
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Civilian Conservation Corps: American Experience
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Civilization: The West and the Rest with Niall Ferguson
Historian Niall Ferguson explores philosophical and political developments that have enabled the Western hemisphere to dominate the globe for the past 500 years. And he asks, as the developing world adopts the ways of the West, can...
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A Class Apart: American Experience
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Clinton: American Experience
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Colorblind
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The Complete Cosmos
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Conversations On Civility: Jim Leach
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Craft in America
CRAFT IN AMERICA visits America's premier craft artists in their studios to witness the creation of handmade objects and into homes, businesses and public spaces where functional art is employed and celebrated. Using archival footage and...
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The Crash of 1929: American Experience
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Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice
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Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War
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Chuck Vanderchuck's "Something Something" Explosion
An animated show about learning music for kids.
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Connections with Japan
Dr. Sachiko Murphy, a Japanese native and teacher of the Japanese language, presents four topics that she covers in her own classes: Sumou, Sushi, Manga, and Kabuki. The purpose of the videos is to provide students with an opportunity to...
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Death and the Civil War: American Experience
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Dinosaur Wars: American Experience
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Discovering Secrets of the Vatican
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Dolley Madison: American Experience
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Donner Party: American Experience
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Dust Bowl
In this series, Ken Burns and producer Dayton Duncan chronicle the Dust Bowl in all its complexities and profound human drama. It is both an oral history, using interviews of 30 survivors, and an historical accounting of what happened...
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Dayton Duncan
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Earth Days: American Experience
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Ed Sullivan's Rock and Roll Classics - The 60s (My Music)
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Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
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Equitrekking
As the first travel television series to discover spectacular destinations on horseback, EQUITREKKING provides adventure-hungry viewers with a fresh way to see the world. Whether it's saddling up at a working cattle ranch in Colorado,...
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Erma Bombeck: Legacy of Laughter
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Eyes on the Prize: American Experience
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Faces of America
What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of this series. Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 11 renowned Americans....
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Fair 2007
Iowa Public Television brings all the sights and sounds of the 2007 Iowa State Fair into viewers' homes during our annual coverage.
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Fair 2009
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Fair 2010
Continuing the Iowa Public Television tradition of coving the fun and activities of the 2010 Iowa State Fair. The internationally-acclaimed Iowa State Fair annually attracts more than a million fun-lovers from around the world. Considered...
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Fair 2011
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Fannie's Last Supper
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Final Hours: Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
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Finding Your Roots
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the 12th and latest series from the renowned cultural critic and Harvard scholar. In this 10-part series, Professor Gates continues the quest he begun in African American Lives 1 and 2 and...
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For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
FOR LOVE OF LIBERTY: THE STORY OF AMERICA'S BLACK PATRIOTS is an inspiring, definitive and unprecedented look at the largely untold history of African-American participation in America's armed forces, from the earliest days of the...
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Forgotten Ellis Island
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Forgotten War: The Struggle for North America
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Fort Niagara: The Struggle for a Continent
The story of Fort Niagara is the story of a struggle for a continent. For over 150 years, four nations struggled to control this strategic point at the mouth of the Niagara River, and thus control the critical water artery it...
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Freedom Riders: American Experience
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Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story
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Frontline
As PBS' premier public affairs series, FRONTLINE's stature is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human, social and political experience.
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Frontline/World
Developed by FRONTLINE producers in conjunction with public television stations KQED San Francisco and WGBH Boston, FRONTLINE/World is a national public TV series that turns its lens on the global community, covering countries and...
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Gettysburg and Stories of Valor
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Glacier Park's Night of the Grizzlies
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God in America
GOD IN AMERICA tells the sweeping and dramatic history of religion in the public life of America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the 2008 election. The series explores the potent and complex interaction between religion and...
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The Golden Game: Baseball in Sacramento
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The Great Famine: American Experience
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Great Performances
GREAT PERFORMANCES, the longest-running performing arts anthology on television, continues to feature the best in the performing arts.
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Great Performances at the Met
In a historic first for any major performing arts institution in this country or abroad, the Metropolitan Opera this season will transmit six of its Saturday matinee performances live in high definition into movie theaters in the United...
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The Greely Expedition: American Experience
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Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance
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History Detectives
HISTORY DETECTIVES returns to explore the stories behind historic sites, artifacts and tall tales told in cities across the country, with the help of an inquisitive team of fact-finders with an uncanny talent for uncovering the truth.
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Hold at All Costs
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Hoover Dam: American Experience
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Horses of Gettysburg
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Hubert H. Humphrey: The Art of the Possible
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Human Spark
THE HUMAN SPARK explores one central question: what makes humans unique? Three and a half billion years of evolution have produced uncountable billions of living species. But only one -- humans -- can think in symbols; recombine those...
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Hurricane of '38: American Experience
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In Performance at the White House
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In The Footsteps of Marco Polo
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Independent Lens
This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers. INDEPENDENT LENS...
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Influenza 1918: American Experience
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Intelligent Talk Television
Intelligent Talk Television showcases recent lectures given by guest speakers at colleges, universities, and libraries across Iowa. The collaborative effort between IPTV and participating institutions provides top-notch programs featuring...
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Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World: American Experience
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Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times
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The Iowa Heritage
THE IOWA HERITAGE covers Iowa's history from prehistory through the present. The series provides a vivid and personal look at Iowa's development, culture and achievements.
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The Iowa Journal
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Iowa Outdoors
Iowa Outdoors is a series focusing on outdoor recreation, environmental issues, conservation initiatives, and Iowa’s outdoor natural resources. Iowa Outdoors is a partnership between Iowa Public Television and the Iowa Department of...
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Iowa Places of Worship
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Iowa's One-Room Schoolhouses
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Iowa's Radio Homemakers: Up a Country Lane
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Iowa's Simple Pleasures with Dan Kaercher
Dan Kaercher, founding editor-in-chief of Midwest Living magazine, travels Iowa in search of hidden treasures and out-of-the-way places for Iowans to visit and explore right here at home.
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Iowa's WWII Stories
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Iowans Remember 9-11
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Irena Sendler: in the Name of Their Mothers
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Iowa State Fair
Iowa Public Television has a long tradition of unique and extensive Iowa State Fair coverage. IPTV brings you the best the Fair has to offer!
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Iowa's WWII Stories
Iowa Public Television's collection of WWII veteran's oral histories preserves the memories of some of those Iowans who served on the home front and the battlefront.
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Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire
Commanding shoguns and samurai warriors, exotic geisha and exquisite artisans - all were part of the Japanese "renaissance" - a period between the 16th and 19th centuries when Japan evolved from chaos and violence to ritual refinement and...
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Jim Thorpe: World's Greatest Athlete
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Jimmy Carter: American Experience
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple: American Experience
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Journey to Palomar
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Justice: What's The Right Thing to Do?
JUSTICE: WHAT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO? invites viewers to think critically about the fundamental questions of justice, equality, democracy and citizenship. Each week, more than 1,000 students attend the lectures of Harvard University...
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Keeping Score
This series explores the life and music of Gustav Mahler. In "Origins, " Michael Tilson Thomas journeys to the provincial Austro-Hungarian city of Mahler's childhood, traces his musical roots, follows his rise as a young conductor,...
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Ken Burns American Stories
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Kennedys: American Experience
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Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
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Kit Carson: American Experience
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Kathryn Koob
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Lafayette: The Lost Hero
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Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop
This lively and entertaining series explores moments in painting and art history in a unique format and offers an unrivaled blend of art, history, travel, science, philosophy and how-to technique. In each episode, noted painter and...
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The Last Ridge
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Latin Music USA
Latin Music USA is a film about American music. Fusions of Latin sounds with jazz, rock, country, rhythm and blues - music with deeper roots and broader reach than most people realize. It's a fresh take on our musical history, reaching...
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Life (Part 2)
LIFE (PART 2) is a smart, daring series on the subject of aging. The program doesn't offer a Pollyannaish vision of growing old. It's a straight-talking show filled with honesty, integrity and humor. Each week, host Alan Rosenberg and a...
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Life Is A Banquet: The Rosalind Russell (Expired)
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Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency
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Little Manila: Filipinos in California's Heartland
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Living in Iowa
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Living Weapon: American Experience
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Lobotomist: American Experience
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The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today
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Lost in History: Alexander Clark
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Make 'em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
MAKE 'EM LAUGH: THE FUNNY BUSINESS OF AMERICA, a six-part documentary, exploring more than a century of American comedy through social and political change. Hosted by Billy Crystal, with narration by Amy Sedaris, each episode highlights a...
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Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City
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Makers: Women Who Make America
This comprehensive and innovative series, built on an extraordinary archive of interviews, tells the story of one of the most sweeping social revolutions in America's history, as women asserted their rights to a full and fair share of...
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Mark Twain
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Market to Market
MARKET TO MARKET will continue the tradition that's made it one of the longest-running series on public television and the longest-running agricultural program anywhere - solid reporting about the issues that challenge agriculture and...
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Martin Luther
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Masterpiece Classic
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Masterpiece Contemporary
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Masterpiece Mystery!
For more than 30 years Masterpiece Theatre has enthralled audiences with the works of the finest classic and contemporary writers interpreted by the world's foremost actors. Little wonder it is the longest running prime-time drama...
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The McLaughlin Group
An Emmy award winner and television favorite, The McLaughlin Group is the renowned, fast-paced weekly public affairs program hosted by John McLaughlin, and featuring a panel of respected journalists. In rapid-fire debate each week, the...
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The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
From a small Italian community in 15th century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ruthlessness, they would amass unparalleled wealth and unprecedented...
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Michael Feinstein's American Songbook
This series is a documentary-style road trip and cultural primer with Michael Feinstein as the leader of an expedition through the history of American popular song. Viewers follow him both on stage and backstage, hear personal stories...
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Michael Wood's Story of England
This series tells the story of England, from the Dark Ages until the 20th century, through the eyes of one place: Kibworth, Leicestershire. It's the story of people and their land over time. But also it's a tale of migration -- Romans and...
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Mister Rogers talks in a way young children understand, at a pace they can absorb and with a consistency that creates a calm, safe place for preschoolers. Topics with sensitive emotional concerns are always carefully blended with fun and...
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Moment In Time
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More Than A Game: 6-On-6 Basketball In Iowa
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The Mormons
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of America's fastest growing religions, and its influence circles the globe. The church has 11 million members today and over half of them live outside the U.S. Yet the birth of...
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Morristown: Where America Survived
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Museum of Life
For the first time viewers will get a real glimpse into life behind-the-scenes for hundreds of scientists in this much-loved institution. The series shows some of the important work the Museum's leading scientists do as well as tell the...
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My Lai: American Experience
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Mystery of Chaco Canyon
Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in an elaborate pattern that mirrors the yearly cycle of the sun and the 19-year cycle of the moon. How did an ancient civilization, with no...
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Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War
The Pequot War was a pivotal event in early American history that set the stage for the ultimate domination of all Native Americans by Europeans. Narrated by two-time Academy Award nominee Roy Scheider, MYSTIC VOICES: THE STORY OF THE...
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Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
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National Geographic Specials
The new season of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIALS explores compelling topics in the areas of science adventure, wildlife and history.
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National Geographic's Inside The White House
With extraordinary access to "America's Home," viewers journey through basement corridors, kitchens, and even into the private quarters of the First Family in "National Geographic's Inside the White House." Narrated by actor Morgan...
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National Parks: America's Best Idea
The film is a human history set against the most stunning backdrop imaginable. The film works its way chronologically through the history of the national parks featuring characters -- some famous, most not, from every walk of life -- who...
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Nature
NATURE, television's longest-running weekly natural history series, has won more than 200 honors from the television industry, parent groups, the international wildlife film community and environmental organizations, including the only...
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Need to Know
NEED TO KNOW is an integrated broadcast and online current affairs project, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to newsgathering and reporting. It breaks through the limitations of the broadcast schedule by means of a...
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The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER provides in-depth analysis of current events with a news summary, live studio interviews, discussions, and both foreign and domestic on-site reports.
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Nightly Business Report
For more than 30 years, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT has provided business news in a fast-paced format. Consistently television's most-watched daily business news program, the award-winning series combines business and economic news, extensive...
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None Less than Heroes: The Honor Flight Story
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NOVA
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA programs demystify science and technology and highlight the people involved in scientific pursuits.
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NOVA scienceNOW
This science magazine series features four stories in each themed episode, tackling an array of thought-provoking topics.
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Objects and Memory
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Open Mind
THE OPEN MIND provides a quiet and thoughtful excursion into the world of ideas. Never strident, nor personally intrusive, its objective is to provide light, not heat. Richard D. Heffner created THE OPEN MIND in May, 1956, and is still...
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The Open Mind XIX
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P.O.V.
POV presents an array of groundbreaking and distinctive perspectives on contemporary life as chronicled by some of America' s and Europe's most visionary non-fiction filmmakers.
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Panama Canal: American Experience
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Paris The Luminous Years
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Passing Poston: An American Story
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Paving the Way: The National Park-to-Park Highway
PAVING THE WAY details the story of twelve motorists who took a 5, 000-mile epic road trip before there were gas stations and fully paved roads. In 1920, the inaugural tour of the Park-to-Park Highway connected all twelve National Parks...
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PBS Arts from Seattle: American Masters Pearl Jam Twenty
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PBS Arts from the Blue Ridge Mountains: Give Me The Banjo
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PBS NewsHour
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People V. Leo Frank
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Peter and Paul and the Christian Revolution
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Picture Perfect: Iowa in the 1940s
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Pioneers of Television
The four-part series examines the people who left their imprint on sitcoms, late-night, variety and game shows in the early days of the medium. The program features interviews with legendary stars, including Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler...
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The Polio Crusade: American Experience
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POV
POV presents an array of groundbreaking and distinctive perspectives on contemporary life as chronicled by some of America' s and Europe's most visionary non-fiction filmmakers.
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Prairie Churches
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The President's Photographer, a National Geographic Special
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The Price of Freedom
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Prohibition
This 3-part, 5 1/2 hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the era it encompassed. The culmination of nearly a...
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Protecting Paradise: The Western Everglades
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Queen & Country
In 2012 all eyes are on Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's second longest-reigning monarch, as England marks Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee. Veteran newsman Sir Trevor McDonald looks at the traditions and institutions surrounding the...
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Rape of Europa
This documentary tells the story of the systematic theft and deliberate destruction of Europe's art treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War.
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Reagan: American Experience
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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
This series provides in-depth coverage of the top religion and ethics stories of the week as well as religious and ethical perspectives on domestic and foreign events and the arts. Hosted by veteran journalist Bob Abernethy, the series...
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RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope
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Ride Along the Lincoln Highway
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Riding The Rails: American Experience
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Roads to Memphis: American Experience
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Robert E. Lee: American Experience
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Roberto Clemente: American Experience
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Roman Empire in the First Century
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Rude: Where Are Our Manners
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Seabiscuit: American Experience
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Searching for Buxton
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Secrets of Lost Empires: A "Nova" Special Presentation
Following the blueprint established in SECRETS OF LOST EMPIRES - an archaeology series that eschewed talking heads and inert artifacts - the second series follows teams of living, breathing, passionate, inquisitive people as they...
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Secrets of the Dead
Part detective story, part true-life drama, SECRETS OF THE DEAD unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and throwing fresh light on unexplained events. Using the most up-to-date science in the laboratory...
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Secrets of the Divine: The Altarpiece of Cuidad Rodrigo
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Sesame Street
SESAME STREET has garnered more than 100 awards, including 101 Emmys, two Peabodys, four Parents' Choice Awards and an Action for Children's Television Special Achievement Award. The series delivers academic and social education that...
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Sgt. Fitch: The Legacy of Sarg Records
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Slavery by Another Name
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Soundtrack for a Revolution: American Experience
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Statue of Liberty
This Ken Burns film chronicles the creation and history of the Statue of Liberty and what it represents to all Americans.
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Stonewall Uprising: American Experience
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The Storm That Swept Mexico
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The Story of India
For more than 2,000 years, India has been a massive component in world history. But what are the country's origins and how did it come to be what it is today? These are just two of the questions behind this intrepid journey around the...
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Surviving the Dust Bowl: American Experience
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Taste of the Midwest with Dan Kaercher
There's an old saying - "You are what you eat." So who are Midwesterners? Dan Kaercher editor-in-chief of Midwest Living Magazine set out to discover the answer to that question during a food-packed, fun-filled trip through 12 states...
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Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley, the first African American to have his own signature talk show on NPR, hosts a new late-night television talk show - a hybrid of news, issues and entertainment, featuring interviews with newsmakers, politicians,...
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Tavis Smiley Reports
This landmark series will showcase Tavis' unique perspective on the issues facing Americans today.
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Teenage Witness: The Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Story
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Templeton Rye: Iowa's Good Stuff
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Tenth Inning
Thousands of bats, three home run records and one "curse" have been broken since Ken Burns last explored the history of America's national pastime with his 1994 series BASEBALL. Now, Burns and co-director Lynn Novick update the series...
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Things That Go Bump in the Night
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This Old Statehouse
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Three Faiths, One God: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
THREE FAITHS, ONE GOD: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM thoughtfully examines the religious beliefs and practices shared by Jews, Christians and Muslims to illustrate how many in the Abrahamic faith communities are dealing with historical...
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Time Team America
This series puts viewers in the trenches to experience archaeology as it happens. Each episode unleashes a group of archaeologists, landscape specialists, scientists, historians and other experts onto an American archeological dig...
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The Titanic with Len Goodman
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To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe
This weekly news analysis program is the only woman-centered national news/talk show on television. Dedicated to the premise that women of all ethnic backgrounds and political persuasions are an important part of the national...
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Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII
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Tracks Across The Sky
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Travelscope
In TRAVELSCOPE, award-winning travel journalist Joseph Rosendo explores the world's treasures - from stateside destinations in Montana's Glacier National Park and California's wine country to exotic locales in Europe, the Philippines and...
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Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer: American Experience
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Triangle Fire: American Experience
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True Whispers: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers
Exploring the personal and heartfelt story of the Navajo Code Talkers, TRUE WHISPERS tells the stories of the young Navajo men recruited fro m harsh government boarding schools into the Marines during World War II. From 1942-1945,...
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TV Iowans Grew Up On
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U.S. Grant: Warrior: American Experience
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Unconquered Seminoles
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Underground Railroad: The William Still Story
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Unforgettable: The Korean War
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Veiled Voices
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Victory in the Pacific: American Experience
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Vietnam War Stories
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Vine Talk
In VINE TALK, actor-writer-director Stanley Tucci leads a wine-tasting and a lively and engaging conversation among an eclectic group of celebrities and celebrity chefs. This ever-changing panel sniffs, swirls and sips wines while...
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Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place
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Volume See
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Wall - A World Divided
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The War
This series, directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of World War II from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the...
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War Letters: American Experience
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The War of 1812
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War That Made America
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Washington Week
WASHINGTON WEEK, PBS' longest-running public affairs series, features Washington's top journalists analyzing the week's top news stories and their effect on the lives of all Americans. Gwen Ifill hosts.
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We Shall Remain: American Experience
This five-part series spans 300 years to tell the story of pivotal moments in U.S. history from the Native American perspective. It begins in the 1600s with the Wampanoags, who used their alliance with the English to strengthen their...
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When Worlds Collide
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Who Does She Think She Is
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Wildflowers: Seeds of History
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Will Rogers and American Politics
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Women, War & Peace
WOMEN, WAR & PEACE is a new five-part series on the changing roles of women in war and peace. The vast majority of today's conflicts are not fought by nation states and their armies, but rather by informal entities: gangs, insurgent...
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Woodwright's Shop
THE WOODWRIGHT'S SHOP demonstrates traditional furniture making.
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World Business
WORLD BUSINESS is a lively and informative weekly round-up of stories from around the world. The series, covering the latest trends in big business and big money, takes a fresh and in-depth look at important global events from an economic...
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WW II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
"WW II: Behind Closed Doors" provides a new history of World War II -- one that is full of surprises, even for those who think they know the history. Drawing on material only available since the opening of archives in the East, the...
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Wyatt Earp: American Experience
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You Don't Know Jack Soo












