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- A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
- A documentary on the history of the sport with major topics including Afro-American players, player/team owner relations and the resilience of the game.
- The O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
- A documentary about H.H. Holmes who was a famed serial killer in the late 1800s. He had a whole murder castle built specifically for that purpose. He spent nearly a decade hiring and firing builders to add pieces to his house that included pipes for pumping gas into bedrooms, a room built specifically to suffocate people, and a murder basement where he would strip the skin from his victims.
- The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. Who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men.
- The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight boxing champion.
- A biographical film about the acclaimed American humourist and author.
- The life and career of Hank Greenberg, the first major Jewish baseball star in the Major Leagues.
- A nauseating mondo documentary about violent death. The bulk of the tape is consumed with the same war-atrocity footage already overused in dozens of other mondo films.
- The history of the television version of "Amos and Andy" and the public outcry to cancel it.
- Documentation of the encroachment of European settlers upon Native American lands and the violent reaction of the Indians in their struggle to survive.
- Frank Lloyd Wright is an American icon -it's most famous modern architect whose life was characterized by public scandal, financial chaos and personal tragedy.
- This documentary traces the history of many of the Old-West's most notorious gunfighters and describes some of the most famous shootouts, including the James/Younger gang's bungled Northfield Minnesota bank robbery, the Daltons' attempt to rob two banks simultaneously and the carnage that resulted and the Earps and Clanton gang's shootout in Tombstone, Arizona. The film uses historical accounts, photographs from the period as well as film clips from Western movies depicting the historical events.
- The story of John Grierson, the British documentary movement, and Canada's National Film Board.
- This episode of Murderers,Mobsters & Madmen will look at the infamous and notorious assassinations that plagued America in the 20th Century and changed her forever.
- Documentary traces the history of four classic American baseball ballparks using archive footage and modern film.
- A documentary about the history of African American race films during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
- 1985– 3h 28mNot Rated8.4 (12K)TV EpisodeA chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
- The true story of the legendary outlaw Jesse James.
- In the early 1800's, no one knew who would control the seemingly infinite spaces of the West.
- Los Angeles steals its water supply, millions of Mexicans migrate north, and Hollywood begins to shape the West and the nation's image of it.
- The fast advancement of freight trains, that can haul heavy weights across thousands of miles, and are the leviathan that keep the world on track.
- Travelling between cities around the world becomes easier, and the solution in the United Kingdom became steam that ran under the city - the London Underground.
- Richard explores the science behind the Taipei 101 tower. Built next to a seismic fault line in a typhoon hot spot, it is designed to be able to withstand extreme natural events. Elements include compression, flexibility, stability and pressure.
- Stephen F. Austin formed the Texas Rangers in 1826 to protect Americans who had settled in the Northeast part of Mexico and this group later became the lawmen for the settlers in that area.
- In her first televised interview, the first female Supreme Court justice tells of her journey from a cattle ranch to the High Court and what makes a case challenging.
- By the late 1880's, American settlers continue to claim tribal lands while the Dawes Act tries to break up the tribal structure of the Native American nations. The Native Americans take up the Ghost Dance putting their faith in religion until their hopes are crushed at the Massacre of Wounded Knee.
- 1997–1998TV EpisodeThe Pinkerton detectives protected trains from robbers, and strong men were also hired by the railroads to evict penniless people from taking the train without a ticket. From those early times, security on board of trains got more sophisticated until the end of the 20th century.
- 1977–TV EpisodeThe story of the men who laid the foundations of economics: Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus.