The Golden Realm: An American Larping Experience
Dylan and Toby are live action role-players who never break from their characters and have an intense rivalry. After one battle ends with the "death" of a loved one, they prepare for a final showdown.
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American Experience: Reagan: Part II
Part II of PBS' American Experience: Reagan
Exclusion: The Shared American Experience
An eye-opening experience. Must see film! Getting an understanding of the long history of Americans is so insightful from this point of view. Very important film to watch and learn new insights.
American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation. As a former president, he was the embodiment of the very idea of national union, and of Ameri
Becoming American, the Chinese Experience: Between Two Worlds
Between Two Worlds is part two of BECOMING AMERICAN: The Chinese Experience. The 1882 Exclusion Act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country and becoming citizens. It also ushered in the most violent decade
Becoming American, the Chinese Experience: No Turning Back
No Turning Back is part three of BECOMING AMERICAN: The Chinese Experience. World War II ushered in the beginning of major changes for the Chinese in America. At war with Japan, China became an American ally. In an abrup
Becoming American, the Chinese Experience: Gold Mountain Dreams
Gold Mountain Dreams is part one of BECOMING AMERICAN: The Chinese Experience. In the 1840s, civil war and famine in southern China drove thousands of young men to seek their fortune in the California Gold Rush. This pro
Masters of Modern Design: The Art of the Japanese American Experience
From the hand-drawn typeface on the book cover of The Godfather to Herman Miller’s biomorphic coffee table, the work of Japanese American artists/designers including Ruth Asawa, George Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, S. Neil F
Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience
This documentary contrasts the issues faced by today's Native American people and covers the injustices that their people had faced in the past.
After Silence: Civil Rights and the Japanese-American Experience
As a child, Dr. Frank Kitamoto and his family lived on Bainbridge Island, WA, where the U.S. government first ordered Japanese Americans to register, leave their homes, and then intern them in detention camps - a panic-s
The Black American Experience: Famous Activists: Paul Robeson & Richard Wright
Redefining race relations through public discourse made legends of the two men profiled here: multitalented performer, writer, athlete and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, and literary giant Richard Wright (Native Son
Unseen Tears: The Native American Boarding School Experience in Western New York
Unseen Tears documents the effects of Native American boarding (residential) schools in western New York and Ontario. The documentary focuses on communites effected by the Thomas Indian School and the Mohawk Institute.
America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience
Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, St. Augustine, FL had built a multicultural colony of free and enslaved
Fatal Flood
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million
Coney Island
Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of New York real estate was internationally famous. On summer Sundays, three great pleasure domes--Steeplechase, Luna Par
Sister Aimee
At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing larger crowds to her revivals than those of P.T. Barnum or Harry Houdini. This chapter of "American Experience" paints a v
Bataan Rescue
This is the story of a group of 514 prisoners of war from the Bataan Death March and how they were rescued near the end of the war. The reason this was so important is that the Japanese high command was ordering the exec
Grand Central
On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at New York City's newest landmark. A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the new Beaux Arts structure on 42nd s
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt struggled to overcome an unhappy childhood, betrayal in her marriage, a controlling mother-in-law, and gripping depressions — all the while staying true to her passion for social justice. This biography
Tupperware!
The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built him an empire out of bowls that burped. Brownie was an intuitive marketin