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  • 2025
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    Sparking Hope: The Power of Improv

    Sparking Hope: The Power of Improv

    1 2025 HD

    This unprecedented access takes viewers deep into one of the country's most notorious jail complexes, where over 6,000 people endure daily life...

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  • 1987
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    George Gershwin Remembered

    George Gershwin Remembered

    1 1987 HD

    George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898, the second of four children from a close-knit immigrant family. He began his musical career as a...

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  • 2016
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    Armed in America: Faith & Guns

    Armed in America: Faith & Guns

    1 2016 HD

    Audience members and panelists come together for a town hall in Orlando to start a broader conversation about gun violence and the moral obligations...

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  • 2024
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    Major Taylor: Champion of the Race

    Major Taylor: Champion of the Race

    1 2024 HD

    He earned nicknames that often equated to the most powerful forces in heaven and earth: The Cyclone. The Whirlwind. The Comet. He earned the respect...

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  • 2020
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    Sympathetic Strings: Stories of the Hardanger Fiddle

    Sympathetic Strings: Stories of the Hardanger Fiddle

    1 2020 HD

    Sympathetic Strings: Stories of the Hardanger Fiddle e​ xplores the Scandinavian American history and culture surrounding the Hardanger fiddle as...

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  • 2023
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    Isabel & Roy

    Isabel & Roy

    1 2023 HD

    Prior to his Pop-art fame in New York, Roy Lichtenstein struggled to find work and raised a family in Cleveland. His wife Isabel helped support him...

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  • 2014
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    1964: The Fight for a Right

    1964: The Fight for a Right

    1 2014 HD

    By 1964, black Mississippians had suffered 75 years of Jim Crow. Civil rights activists came up with a daring plan for change. Bringing white...

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  • 1970
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    Franz Boas (1858-1942)

    Franz Boas (1858-1942)

    1 1970 HD

    "Presents a documentary on anthropologist Franz Boas, focusing on his fieldwork with the Kwakiutl, his teaching career at Columbia University and...

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  • 2018
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    The Music Makers of Gennett Records

    The Music Makers of Gennett Records

    1 2018 HD

    During the early 20th century, one tiny recording studio in Richmond, Indiana, had a big impact on the soundtrack of the Jazz Age. The Music Makers...

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  • 2021
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    Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service

    Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service

    1 2021 HD

    Called the 'AP of the underground press,' Liberation News Service printed news from hundreds of underground papers in the '60s and '70s. LNS...

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  • 2000
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    Butch Cassidy and the Outlaw Trail

    Butch Cassidy and the Outlaw Trail

    1 2000 HD

    What really happened to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? KUED producer John Howe journeys from Utah and Wyoming to Argentina and Bolivia to...

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  • 1974
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    Dave Mason: In Concert

    Dave Mason: In Concert

    1 1974 HD

    Recorded at the Philadelphia Spectrum in 1974 for PBS Soundstage, English guitarist/songwriter Dave Mason shows why he's considered to be a true...

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  • 2017
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    The Fish on My Plate

    The Fish on My Plate

    1 2017 HD

    Paul Greenberg spends a year eating fish at breakfast, lunch and dinner to help answer the question: “What fish should I eat that’s good...

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  • 1980
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    Minnesota Landscapes

    Minnesota Landscapes

    1 1980 HD

    Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent...

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  • 2014
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    Hudson River Journeys

    Hudson River Journeys

    1 2014 HD

    The Hudson River bore witness to the age of steamships, the Hudson River School of Painters, industrialization, pollution, and renewed...

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  • 2004
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    The House of Saud

    The House of Saud

    10.00 2004 HD

    A Special History of Saudi Arabia, it's troubled relationship with America, and the challenges confronting a nation where tradition an modernity are...

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  • 1970
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    QUEENS OF COMBAT: ROME'S FEMALE GLADIATORS

    QUEENS OF COMBAT: ROME'S FEMALE GLADIATORS

    1 1970 HD

    The traditional story of the gladiator is dominated by male fighters, drenched in blood and glory. But history has forgotten and, in some cases,...

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  • 2024
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    What Happens When Demographics Change Forever?

    What Happens When Demographics Change Forever?

    1 2024 HD

    "Are we on the brink of population collapse? Some economists and tech billionaires (like Elon Musk) think so. After all, birth rates are declining,...

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    Does Local News Even Matter Anymore?

    Does Local News Even Matter Anymore?

    1 2024 HD

    "Some of the biggest news stories in our country were revealed by local journalists; from early 20th century lynchings to the Rodney King beating to...

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    The Secret Group That Planned an Insurrection Against Slavery

    The Secret Group That Planned an Insurrection Against Slavery

    1 2024 HD

    "Moses Dickson, a traveling barber in the years before the Civil War, had a secret– he was one of twelve members of a covert society that...

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