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The American Vice President

Aired October 1, 2024 | 53 min

What happens when the president is unable to serve? Explore the dramatic period between 1963 and 1976, when a grief-stricken, then scandal-stricken America was forced to define the role of the vice president and the process of succession.

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The American Vice President (español)

Aired October 1, 2024 | 53 min

¿Qué sucede cuando el presidente no puede ejercer su cargo? Explore el dramático período entre 1963 y 1976, cuando un Estados Unidos afligido y luego azotado por los escándalos se vio obligado a definir el papel del vicepresidente y el proceso de sucesión.

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The Riot Report

Aired May 21, 2024 | 112 min

When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest. Their findings offered an unvarnished assessment of American race relations.

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The Riot Report (español)

Aired May 21, 2024 | 112 min

Cuando una ola de violencia se apoderó de barrios negros por todo Estados Unidos en el verano de 1967, el presidente Johnson nombró una comisión para encontrar la causa de los disturbios. Sus hallazgos ofrecieron una evaluación honesta de las relaciones raciales estadounidenses.

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Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal

Aired April 22, 2024 | 112 min

In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY discovered their neighborhood had been built on a former chemical waste dump. Housewives activated to create a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill.

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Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal (español)

Aired April 22, 2024 | 112 min

La historia de las mujeres cuyo liderazgo impulsó el proyecto de ley del Superfondo.

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The Cancer Detectives

Aired March 26, 2024 | 53 min

The Cancer Detectives tells the untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the coalition of people who fought tirelessly to save women from cervical cancer—which was once the number one cancer killer of women.

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The Cancer Detectives (español)

Aired March 26, 2024

The Cancer Detectives cuenta la desconocida historia de la primera guerra contra el cáncer y de la coalición de personas que lucharon incansablemente por salvar a las mujeres del cáncer de cuello uterino, que alguna vez fue el cáncer más mortal para las mujeres.

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Fly With Me

Aired February 20, 2024 | 113 min

The story of the pioneering women who changed the world while flying it. Maligned as feminist sellouts, “stewardesses,” as they were called, were on the frontlines of a battle to assert gender equality and transform the workplace.

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Fly With Me (español)

Aired February 20, 2024 | 113 min

La historia de las mujeres pioneras que cambiaron el mundo mientras lo recorrían volando. Aunque les criticaron su feminismo, las “azafatas”, como se les llamaba, estuvieron a la vanguardia de la lucha por garantizar la igualdad de género y transformar los lugares de trabajo.

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Nazi Town, USA

Aired January 23, 2024 | 53 min

Nazi Town, USA tells the unknown story of the German American Bund, a 1930s pro-Nazi group with chapters in suburbs and big cities across the country. Many believe the Bund represented a real threat of fascist subversion in the U.S.

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Nazi Town, USA (español)

Aired January 23, 2024

Nazi Town, USA cuenta la desconocida historia del Bund, la Federación Germano-Americana, un grupo pronazi de la década de 1930 con divisiones en suburbios y ciudades por todo el país. Muchos creen que el Bund representaba una amenaza real de subversión fascista en Estados Unidos.

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