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51.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
(1996)
TV-PG | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also as a relative complete bio of Hearst.
Directors: Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon | Stars: Richard Ben Cramer, William Alland, Thomas Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich
Votes: 1,458
52.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (Part I)
(1996)
TV-PG | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An assassin's bullet ended the life of William McKinley in 1901, making his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, an "accidental" president at the age of 42.
Director: David Grubin | Stars: David McCullough, John Morton Blum, John Milton Cooper, Edith Derby Williams
Votes: 117
53.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle
(1994)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary chronicling the history of World War II's "Battle of the Bulge", when the German army launched a major surprise counteroffensive against the American forces that caught them ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Lennon | Stars: David McCullough, Guy Franz Arend, Omar N. Bradley, Clyde Burkholder
Votes: 103
54.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
MacArthur
(1999)
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Biography of U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur. Part one looks at his early life and service in World War I.
Directors: Sarah Holt, Austin Hoyt | Stars: Stephen Ambrose, Leon Beck, Herbert Bix, Faubion Bowers
Votes: 60
55.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Midnight Ramble
(1994)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary about the history of African American race films during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Directors: Pearl Bowser, Bestor Cram | Stars: Toni Cade Bambara, Robert Hall, Elton Fax, Pearl Bowser
Votes: 42
56.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
(1992)
Approved | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The personal development of George Washington is the focus as Producer David Sutherland brings to life a uniquely human Washington who transformed himself from social climber into a patriot willing to give up everything for a higher cause.
Director: David Sutherland | Stars: David McCullough, Robert Dawidoff, Thad Tate, Paul Longmore
Votes: 51
57.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
LBJ: Part 1 - Beautiful Texas
(1991)
TV-PG | 112 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Award winning filmmaker David Grubin profiles one of the most controversial U.S. presidents, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who rose from obscurity to the pinnacle of power, only to suffer ... See full summary »
Director: David Grubin | Stars: David McCullough, Joe Cervetto, John Connally, Robert Dallek
Votes: 119
58.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Race for the Superbomb
(1999)
TV-PG | 113 min | Documentary, Biography, History
History of the American and Soviet development of the H-bomb.
Director: Thomas Ott | Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Hans Bethe, Peter Haydu, Curtis LeMay
Votes: 39
59.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
America 1900
(1998)
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Exploration of life in America in the first year of the 20th century, using archive film footage and photographs.
Director: David Grubin | Star: David McCullough
Votes: 45
60.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided Part 1 - Ambition
(2001)
TV-PG | 360 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's childhoods - his in a remote backwoods log cabin, hers in a wealthy Kentucky home - and describes their courtship.
Stars: David Morse, Holly Hunter, David McCullough, Jean Harvey Baker
Votes: 159
61.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
FDR: Part I
(1994)
TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who steered this country through two monumental crises: the Depression and World War II. FDR ... See full summary »
Director: David Grubin | Stars: Winston Churchill, David McCullough, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Votes: 151
62.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Eleanor Roosevelt
(2000)
TV-PG | 150 min | Documentary, Biography, History
For more than thirty years, Eleanor Roosevelt was America's most powerful woman. Millions adored her, but her FBI file was thicker than a stack of phone books. She spoke out fearlessly for ... See full summary »
Director: Sue Williams | Stars: David McCullough, Alfre Woodard
Votes: 61
63.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Hawaii's Last Queen
(1997)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Stars: David McCullough, Anna Deavere Smith, H.J. Bartels, Thelma Bugbee
Votes: 38
64.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Truman: Part I
(1997)
TV-PG | 139 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Biography of U.S. President Harry S Truman.
Director: David Grubin | Stars: David McCullough, Charles Babcock, Winston Churchill, Robert Farren
Votes: 120
65.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Spy in the Sky
(1996)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of America's high-altitude U-2 spy plane.
Director: Linda Garmon | Stars: David McCullough, Roy Scheider
Votes: 23
66.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Wright Stuff
(1996)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Nancy Porter | Stars: Garrison Keillor, David McCullough
Votes: 29
67.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
(2005)
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Cather had the great good fortune to have lived among the first generation of white settlers in 1880's Nebraska, and she gives witness to their time and place in such a way that American literature will never forget them.
Director: Joel Geyer | Stars: Joan Acocella, Willa Cather, Richard Giannone, Vivian Gornick
Votes: 100
68.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
John & Abigail Adams
(2006)
TV-PG | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Peter Jones | Stars: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers, Simon Russell Beale, Linda Emond
Votes: 65
69.
Charlie Rose (1991–2017)
Episode:
Episode dated 2 February 1995
(1995)
56 min | News, Talk-Show
An interview with David McCullough; An interview with Dick Armey
Director: Christopher Sgueglia | Stars: Dick Armey, David McCullough, Charlie Rose
70.
Charlie Rose (1991–2017)
Episode:
Episode dated 30 May 2005
(2005)
55 min | News, Talk-Show
An Interview With The Celebrated Historian David Mccullough, Author Of 1776 And John Adams.
Stars: David McCullough, Charlie Rose
71.
The Daily Show (1996– )
Episode:
David McCullough
(2005)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show
Director: Chuck O'Neil | Stars: Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, David McCullough
Votes: 27
72.
HBO First Look (1992– )
Episode:
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
(2003)
Documentary, Short
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Laura Hillenbrand, Kathleen Kennedy
Votes: 14
73.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
LBJ: Part 2 - My Fellow Americans
(1991)
TV-PG | 111 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Award winning filmmaker David Grubin profiles one of the most controversial U.S. presidents, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who rose from obscurity to the pinnacle of power, only to suffer ... See full summary »
Stars: Lyndon B. Johnson, David McCullough, George Ball, Larry Berman
Votes: 111
74.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Big Dream, Small Screen
(1997)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A biography of Philo Farnsworth, an inventor of the television.
Director: David Dugan | Stars: John Logie Baird, Erik Barnouw, Ken Bilby, Bill Cullen
Votes: 15
75.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
New York Underground
(1997)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Follows the construction of the New York City subway system in the early 1900s.
Stars: Len Cariou, David McCullough
Votes: 34
76.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Rescue at Sea
(1999)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Ben Loeterman | Stars: David McCullough, Matthew Broderick, Stephanie Castellarin, Paul Guilfoyle
Votes: 16
77.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
(1987)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A look at modern-day cowboys in the Wyoming Rockies.
Director: Jon Blair | Stars: Glenn Close, David McCullough
Votes: 22
78.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Daley: The Last Boss
(1996)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary about Chicago's mayor, Richard J. Daley.
Director: Barak Goodman | Stars: Richard J. Daley, Richard Barnett, George Bell, Timuel Black
Votes: 13
79.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
(1997)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Austin Hoyt | Stars: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers
Votes: 17
80.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Ike (Part I)
(1993)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Adriana Bosch | Star: David McCullough
Votes: 37
81.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Secrets of a Master Builder: The Story of James B. Eads
(2000)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Stars: Pier Gustafson, David McCullough, Noah Rosemblum
Votes: 10
82.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Hurricane of '38
(1993)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Survivors recall the hurricane that devastated Rhode Island and New York's Long Island.
Star: David McCullough
Votes: 33
83.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Kennedys (Part 1): the Father, 1900-61
(1992)
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Directors: James A. DeVinney, David Espar, Marilyn Mellowes, Phillip Whitehead | Stars: David McCullough, Stacy Keach
Votes: 52
84.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Riveted: The History of Jeans
(2022)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The history of jeans, from their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop.
Directors: Michael Bicks, Anna Lee Strachan | Stars: James Sullivan, Kimberly Jenkins, Rabbit Goody, Catherine E. McKinley
Votes: 128
85.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
New York: Part V - Cosmopolis
(1999)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Episode five tells the African-American experience and the birth of the new media industries.
Director: Lisa Ades | Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Ruth Abram, Joan Allen, Thomas Bender
Votes: 55
86.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
New York: Part III - Sunshine and Shadow
(1999)
TV-PG | 111 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Episode three turns the spotlight on greed and wealth.
Director: Lisa Ades | Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Ruth J. Abram, Philip Bosco, Robert A. Caro
Votes: 59
87.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
New York: Part 7 - The City and the World
(2001)
TV-PG | 137 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Episode seven chronicles the history of New York from the end of the Second World War to the present.
Director: Ric Burns | Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Bella Abzug, Marshall Berman, Philip Bosco
Votes: 51
88.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
New York: Part 6 - The City of Tomorrow
(2001)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Reveals the immense new forces that were unleashed in New York.
Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Bella Abzug, Marshall Berman, Philip Bosco
Votes: 51
89.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
New York: Part I - The Country and the City
(1999)
TV-PG | 112 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Episode one begins in 1609 and chronicles the arrival of the Dutch.
Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Thomas Bender, Carol Berkin, Calvin O. Butts III
Votes: 76
90.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
New York: Part IV - The Power and the People
(1999)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Episode four follows New York into a new century.
Director: Ric Burns | Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Ruth J. Abram, Joan Allen, Marshall Berman
Votes: 57
91.
Smithsonian World (1984–1988)
Episode:
The Promise of the Land
(1987)
TV-PG | Documentary
Director: David Grubin | Star: David McCullough
92.
Smithsonian World (1984–1988)
Episode:
The Way We Wear
(1988)
TV-PG | Documentary
Director: David Grubin
93.
Smithsonian World (1984–1988)
Episode:
The Wyeths: A Father and His Family
(1986)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary
Director: David Grubin | Stars: David McCullough, Andrew Wyeth
Votes: 5
94.
Smithsonian World (1984–1988)
Episode:
Time and Light
(1984)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Director: David Clark | Star: David McCullough
95.
Smithsonian World (1984–1988)
Episode:
Where None Have Gone Before
(1985)
TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary
Star: David McCullough
96.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
If You Knew Sousa
(1992)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of "march king" John Philip Sousa and the connections between his music and the mood of the nation during his time.
Director: Tom Spain | Stars: David McCullough, Helen Sousa Albert, Pauline Bierley, Keith Brion
Votes: 13
97.
Smithsonian World (1984–1988)
Episode:
On the Shoulders of Giants
(1985)
TV-PG | Documentary
Directors: David Clark, Rolfe Tessem | Stars: David McCullough, David Steadman, Lee Steadman
98.
Smithsonian World (1984–1988)
Episode:
Crossing the Distance
(1984)
TV-PG | Documentary
Star: David McCullough
99.
Smithsonian World (1984–1988)
Episode:
Heroes and the Test of Time
(1985)
TV-PG | Documentary
Star: David McCullough
100.
Napoleon (2000– )
Episode:
Mastering Luck
(2000)
Documentary, Biography, History
This episode illustrates that Napoleon was not the megalomaniac that he is often depicted due to the fact that he believed in justice for all and tolerance of all religions. We see here ... See full summary »
Director: David Grubin | Star: David McCullough
Votes: 16