On April 4, 1968, escaped convict James Earl Ray shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King. Roads to Memphis is the fateful narrative of this killer and his prey, set against the seething, turbulent forces in American society at that time.
Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon May 03 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:22:06
In 1973, American Indian Movement activists and residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation occupied the town of Wounded Knee, demanding redress for grievances. As a result of the siege, Indians across the country forged a new path into the future.
Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:18:57
As the leader of the last Native American fighting force to capitulate to the U.S. government, Geronimo was seen by some as the perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties, while to others he was the embodiment of proud resistance.
Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:17:08
Though the Cherokee embraced “civilization” and won recognition of tribal sovereignty in the U.S. Supreme Court, their resistance to removal from their homeland failed. Thousands were forced on a perilous march to Oklahoma.
Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:14:37
In the course of his brief and meteoric career, Tecumseh would become one of the greatest Native American leaders of all time, orchestrating the most ambitious pan-Indian resistance movement ever mounted on the North American continent.
Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:25:09
In 1621, the Wampanoag of New England negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim settlers. A half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English and a confederation of Indians, this diplomatic gamble seemed to have been a grave miscalculation.
Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:16:40
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer featuring interviews with the scientist’s former colleagues and scholars to present a revealing portrait of one of the most important and controversial scientists of the twentieth century.
Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:09 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:51:04
In the 1940′s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most barbaric mistakes of modern medicine.
Added: Tue Nov 30 20:07:09 UTC 2010
Air date: Mon Jan 21 00:00:00 UTC 2008
Duration: 55:03
