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In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ethan Herisse

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

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Woody Harrelson

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

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

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: Western

Cast: Richard Dix

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

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Blackmer

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

Documentary about Marilyn Monroe: 1962: America loses its blonde icon. Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. How did she die? The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marilyn Monroe

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: Spike Lee

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

Denver’s iconic and Grammy Award-winning musicians reveal the secrets of their success and longevity in the music business while warning the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dianne Reeves

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

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Whitfield Lovell

I Am JFK Jr. - A Tribute to a Good Man is an homage to America's fallen prince and the Kennedy legacy. It is the story of a young man destined for...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John F. Kennedy

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the short-lived but far-reaching American Institution The Pony Express by following a historical re-enactment...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Sherayko

The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Susan Stryker

The History Channel marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with a new groundbreaking documentary about the biggest manhunt in human history. This...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hillary Clinton

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 Montice Harmon Show" appears to be an endeavor that seeks to explore the complex issues of today's society, politics, and Black culture, while...

Genre: Talk

Cast: Montice Harmon

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greg Kinnear

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

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

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

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

The story of the aftermath of the Civil War and how the United States transformed into the “land of opportunity" spanning the years 1865 to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bert Thomas Morris

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

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

Relentless sheriffs, trigger-happy gunslingers, steadfast saloon owners and cocky cowboys are all found in the "Lucky Luke" albums, which have...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julien Berjeaut

Documentary series exploring the people, technology and battles behind the war between the states.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Danny Glover

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

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