Featuring behind-the-scenes footage and unprecedented access to its hallowed halls, this program from National Geographic takes viewers on an in-depth tour of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue -- the White House. Interviews with presidents and first ladies offer a revealing look at what goes into running that famous household, and White House employees give viewers a taste of the preparations involved in hosting a state dinner.

The history of the East Lake Meadows public housing project in Atlanta and the people who lived there from 1970 to its demolition in 2000, with special emphasis on the activism of Eva Davis asserting the rights of the tenants.

This short uses a musical suite to show Americans what they are fighting for in World War II. As an orchestra in military dress plays different "chapters" of the work, relevant excerpts from MGM films show the history of America. The chapters are: 1) Birth of Freedom; 2) The Land Divided; 3) Coming of Age: 4) Land of the Free. At the end, a chorus sings a patriotic exhortation. (Written by David Glagovsky)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is one of the most revered and influential Americans of this century. The subject of hundreds of books and countless plays, films, and television programs, he has become an icon for an entire generation. Until this definitive 4-hour documentary based on two books by senior creative consultant and FDR biographer Geoffrey Ward, the personal motivations and physical and emotional trails that marked his life remained elusive. By interviewing dozens of those who knew FDR or had chronicled his career, by uncovering rare and previously unseen footage of his public appearances and private life, and by weaving them together in a taut and compelling narrative beautifully read by David McCullough, writer/producer David Grubin presents the most complete account to date for Mr. Roosevelt. For this achievement, a Peabody Award was presented to David Grubin Productions and The American Experience for FDR.

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, fourteen hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962.

6 June 1944. A titanic fleet launched an assault on the beaches of Normandy. Objective: to liberate Europe from Hitler's yoke. Drawing on the lessons learned from the Dieppe raid in August 1942, the mission was a spectacular success.

A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.

Juillet 1962, l’Algérie est indépendante. Ils sont des millions à travers tout le pays à fêter la naissance d’une nation et la fin de 130 années de présence française. Un million d’autres, européens, appelés les « pieds-noirs », nés en Algérie, enracinés depuis des générations quittent le pays dans un dramatique exode. «

May 10th, 1940, Hitler takes on the West. Will he precipitate Europe into the Apocalypse?

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.

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How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public relations, knew the answer to such a key question. The amazing story of the master of manipulation and the creation of the engineering of consent; a frightening true story about advertising, lies and charlatans.

在公元1644年，清朝统一了中国，历史都这样记载，这一年统一了中国。可是在中国的南方，有一个明朝的残余政权，他们不承认明朝已经亡国了，就是所谓南明，他们拖到1661年才灭亡。在1949年，也有一个政权跑到台湾来，就是所谓的中华民国。

是西班牙国家电视台2004年出品的一部大型纪录片，从史前时代开说，一直叙述到2004年，马德里3-11爆炸。跨度达137亿年，总共分为27个章节。

介绍了国民党五大主力的兴衰。
包括，新以军；第五军；新六军；十八军；整编74师。

这是一部融合“音乐、历史、喜剧。纪实剧、爱情故事、实验电影”为一体的后现代主义风格纪录片，描写的是伊朗首都-德黑兰、这座重要而我们知之甚少的城市。
在这部费时五年才告完成，充满幽默和活力、混沌和不协调的影片中，导演通过百年前的珍贵资料映像、照片、采访和配乐，以讽刺和批判的笔调，和标奇立异的映像语法，描述德黑兰稀奇古怪，历经战乱和国内革命的历史，揭露伊朗革命30年后的今天，充斥于现代德黑兰社会的矛盾-贫困、污染、不动产狂潮、落后的生活设施和贫富差距的扩大。
本片荣获第25届伊朗Fajr国际电影节最佳导演奖、第11届伊朗电影学会影展最佳导演奖、2007年伊朗年度最佳纪录片阿维尼奖、伊朗真实电影国际纪录片影展观众奖。
本片于去年年底在美国上映，并将代表伊朗，参加2010年第82届奥斯卡影展最佳长篇纪录片的角逐。