A young engineer named Henry Ford devises the plan for a gas-powered car. McKinley is assassinated and his VP Theodore Roosevelt takes office and quickly passes a series of regulations increasing oversight of American business.

In the first half of the 19th century, Americans pushed westward across the Appalachians, the Mississippi River, and the Rocky Mountains, en route to the Pacific Ocean. The frontier experience shaped the American character. At the same time, land hunger, gold fever, and the pursuit of “Manifest Destiny” resulted in the removal of many American Indian nations, acquisition of vast swaths of Mexico through the Mexican-American War, and a painful...

Shawnee warrior Tecumseh unites the Native American tribes to resist expansion; after Thomas Jefferson orchestrates the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis & Clark make their legendary expedition to the Pacific; and a new war for America begins.

When French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps returned triumphantly to Paris after completing the Suez Canal in 1869, he was hailed as a national hero. Thousands raced to invest in his next, even bolder scheme: to build a great canal across Panama. His dream would cut a swathe across the South American continent and unite the vast oceans of the Atlantic and Pacific. Fortunes seemed assured as shipping would no longer have to face the terrors of Cape Horn...

The march began in 1909, when a small group of Black and White citizens, a notable number of whom were socialists, appalled by the injustices suffered by some Americans solely because of their race, formed the National Association For The Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The NAACP subsequently emerged as the largest and most influential civil rights organization in the country, until its decline. This program from Tony Brown's Journal looks...

By watching this program, students will understand all of the events and people integral to the Louisiana Purchase, from the historical context and background that led to the deal to the details of how the purchase was brilliantly negotiated. How did President Jefferson and Congress react to the Louisiana Purchase? What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition? What were the effects of the Louisiana Purchase? The answers to all of this are covered in depth...

This emotional documentary dramatically re-tells the story of the Trail of Tears, the brutal relocation of Native Americans from their homelands in the East to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. Men, women, and children were forced to march more than 1,000 grueling miles to territories west of the Mississippi. Native Americans suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation on the march, and many died, including 4,000 of the 15,000 relocated...

This program from Tony Brown's continues the look at the role of the North in the growth of slavery and racism in America. It discusses king cotton and the legal and illegal slave trade, among other historic events. Journalist Jenifer Frank, co-author of Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery, examines the impact of slavery in the development of the nation.

Good people of Halifax defy summer rains to benefit the Infirmary, long before the NHS. A Mitchell & Kenyon film.

Beautiful shots of gentle waves on a shingle beach. A Mitchell & Kenyon film.