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51.
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
52.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Lindbergh
(1990)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
After his famous flight, Charles Lindbergh becomes known to all the world but struggles with life in the limelight.
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Arnold Forster, Brendan Gill, Stacy Keach, Max Lerner
Votes: 29
53.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
RFK
(2004)
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Part One: The Garish Sun: Robert F. Kennedy devotes himself to his brother John, then deals with the pain of the assassination.
Director: David Grubin | Stars: Blair Brown, Roy M. Cohn, Robert Dallek, Peter Edelman
Votes: 78
54.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1
(2005)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Michael Murphy, Lucille Ball, Imogene Coca, Noël Coward
Votes: 47
55.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 2
(2005)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Michael Murphy, Patricia Cunningham, Oscar Goodman, Brian Greenspun
Votes: 36
56.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Richard Nixon: Part II
(1990)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Richard M. Nixon was one of American history's most powerful figures. Recalling events etched in U.S. memory, this three-hour program explores a fateful mix of strength and weakness that ... See full summary »
Directors: Elizabeth Deane, David Espar, Marilyn Mellowes | Star: Will Lyman
Votes: 94
57.
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
58.
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
59.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
New York: Part II - Order and Disorder
(1999)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Episode two looks at New York's rise as a burgeoning cultural center and multi-ethnic port.
Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Ruth Abram, Joan Allen, Thomas Bender
Votes: 59
60.
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
61.
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
62.
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
63.
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
64.
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
65.
Baseball (1994–2010)
Episode:
Our Game
(1994)
TV-PG | 112 min | Documentary, History, Sport
In New York City, in the 1840s, people need a diversion from the "railroad pace" at which they work and live. They find it in a game of questionable origins.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Roger Angell, Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Thomas Boswell
Votes: 262
66.
Baseball (1994–2010)
Episode:
Something Like a War
(1994)
TV-PG | 103 min | Documentary, History, Sport
In 1894, a sportwriter named Byron Bancroft "Ban" Johnson takes over a struggling minor league - the Western League - and turns it into a financial success.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Roger Angell, Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Thomas Boswell
Votes: 215
67.
Baseball (1994–2010)
Episode:
The Faith of Fifty Million People
(1994)
TV-PG | 117 min | Documentary, History, Sport
Before and after World War I, a steady stream of immigrants lands on the shores of America. They want instantly to become American. To pursue the American dream. To play the American game.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Grover Cleveland Alexander, Adam Arkin, Red Barber, Keith Carradine
Votes: 187
68.
Baseball (1994–2010)
Episode:
A National Heirloom
(1994)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, History, Sport
The 1920s begin with America trying to recover from World War I and baseball trying to recover from the scandal of the 1919 World Series.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Grover Cleveland Alexander, Roger Angell, Adam Arkin, Red Barber
Votes: 184
69.
Baseball (1994–2010)
Episode:
Shadow Ball
(1994)
TV-PG | 122 min | Documentary, History, Sport
In the period 1930-40, the Depression had a major impact on the game of baseball. Many teams were nearing bankruptcy with attendance dwindling and fan interest at its lowest ebb. The owners... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Grover Cleveland Alexander, Roger Angell, Adam Arkin, Red Barber
Votes: 177
70.
Baseball (1994–2010)
Episode:
The National Pastime
(1994)
TV-PG | 148 min | Documentary, History, Sport
In Europe, in the Pacific, on the homefront, both African-Americans and whites fight to make the world safe for democracy. When the world ends, Major League Baseball becomes, in fact, what it has always claimed to be: the national pastime.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Roger Angell, Adam Arkin, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber
Votes: 179
71.
The West (1996)
Episode:
Death Runs Riot (1856-1868)
(1996)
85 min | Documentary, History, War
The West had always symbolized hope and new beginnings, but in the 1850s, as more American pioneers poured west to start over, they brought with them the nation's oldest, most divisive issue -- slavery.
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Peter Coyote, Dayton Duncan, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Martin Ridge
Votes: 105
72.
The West (1996)
Episode:
Empire Upon The Trails (1806-1848)
(1996)
85 min | Documentary, History, War
In the early 1800's, no one knew who would control the seemingly infinite spaces of the West.
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Peter Coyote, Richard White, Fred Gowans, N. Scott Momaday
Votes: 122
73.
The West (1996)
Episode:
Fight No More Forever (1874-1877)
(1996)
86 min | Documentary, History, War
By the 1870s, only a few groups resisted the nation's push to conquer the West.
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Peter Coyote, N. Scott Momaday, Stephen Ambrose, Jo Allyn Archambault
Votes: 98
74.
The West (1996)
Episode:
One Sky Above Us (1887-1914)
(1996)
64 min | Documentary, History, War
Los Angeles steals its water supply, millions of Mexicans migrate north, and Hollywood begins to shape the West and the nation's image of it.
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Peter Coyote, Richard White, T.H. Watkins, Marc Reisner
Votes: 80
75.
The West (1996)
Episode:
Speck Of The Future (1848-1856)
(1996)
86 min | Documentary, History, War
In 1848, a sawmill worker named James Marshall reached down into the stream bed of the American River in California -- and came up with the future of the West in the palm of his hand. He had discovered gold.
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Peter Coyote, J.S. Holliday, T.H. Watkins, Richard White
Votes: 115
76.
The West (1996)
Episode:
Geography Of Hope (1877-1887)
(1996)
86 min | Documentary, History, War
The conquest of the West was nearly complete by the 1870s. In one remarkable decade, with Indians effectively confined to reservations, over four million new settlers arrived to stake their claim to the future.
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Peter Coyote, Richard White, Bertha Calloway, William Gwaltney
Votes: 90
77.
The West (1996)
Episode:
Grandest Enterprise Under God (1868-1874)
(1996)
85 min | Documentary, History, War
After the Civil War reunited North and South, Americans set out with renewed energy and optimism to finally unite the nation, East and West.
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Peter Coyote, T.H. Watkins, Marc Reisner, N. Scott Momaday
Votes: 96
78.
The West (1996)
Episode:
The People (1500-1806)
(1996)
83 min | Documentary, History, War
This series chronicles the saga of the American West, tracing the lives of a diverse cast of characters, from explorers, soldiers and Indian warriors to settlers, railroad builders and ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Ives | Stars: Peter Coyote, N. Scott Momaday, T.H. Watkins, J.S. Holliday
Votes: 141
79.
Baseball (1994–2010)
Episode:
A Whole New Ballgame
(1994)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, History, Sport
The 1960s are a turbulent decade for America. There are race riots, anti-war protests, hippies, Woodstock. It is also a turbulent decade for baseball, as one by one its "sacred" institutions fall.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Roger Angell, Yogi Berra, Thomas Boswell, George Carlin
Votes: 159
80.
Baseball (1994–2010)
Episode:
Home
(1994)
TV-PG | 146 min | Documentary, History, Sport
America and the world are seeing more changes than at any time in history. And so is baseball.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Roger Angell, Red Barber, Thomas Boswell, John Chancellor
Votes: 157
81.
Baseball (1994–2010)
Episode:
The Capital of Baseball
(1994)
TV-PG | 132 min | Documentary, History, Sport
Americans are on the move. Moving to the suburbs. Moving across the country. They are, it seems, restless. Of course, if you're a baseball fan in New York, you don't want to move. You're in baseball heaven.
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Roger Angell, John Chancellor, Bob Costas, Billy Crystal
Votes: 163
82.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
A Very Bloody Affair (1862)
(1990)
TV-PG | 69 min | Documentary, History, War
By 1862, both sides had 1 million men in uniform across a 1000 mile battle front ranging from Manassas, Virginia to Missouri. Battles had taken a horrendous toll in human lives on both ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Sam Waterston, Julie Harris
Votes: 427
83.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
Forever Free (1862)
(1990)
TV-PG | 76 min | Documentary, History, War
While Gen. McClellan sat outside Richmond, three Union armies were being kept occupied by Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart in northwestern Virginia. Lee was named commander of the army ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Barbara Fields, Shelby Foote, William Safire
Votes: 397
84.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
Most Hallowed Ground (1864)
(1990)
TV-PG | 72 min | Documentary, History, War
By the summer of 1864, the Union push had been stopped. At Petersburg, Union troops had been entrenched in an intricate network trenches for two months. The key to victory lay in Sherman ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Ed Bearss, Stephen B. Oates
Votes: 348
85.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
Simply Murder (1863)
(1990)
TV-PG | 61 min | Documentary, History, War
By early 1863, Union soldiers with the Army of the Potomac had not been paid for 6 months and supplies were thin. Some 200 men were deserting every day and by January one-quarter of the men... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Barbara Fields, Paul Roebling, James Symington, Sam Waterston
Votes: 384
86.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865)
(1990)
TV-PG | 68 min | Documentary, History, War
The North celebrated Lee's surrender and the end of the war. On April 14, Good Friday, John Wilkes Booth learned that President Lincoln, General Grant and others were to attend a play at ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Barbara Fields, Shelby Foote, James Symington
Votes: 350
87.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
The Cause (1861)
(1990)
TV-PG | 100 min | Documentary, History, War
Slavery began to flourish in the U.S. at the end of the 18th century with Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin. Whereas it would take one person a day to produce a pound of clean ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Barbara Fields, Ed Bearss
Votes: 495
88.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
The Universe of Battle (1863)
(1990)
TV-PG | 96 min | Documentary, History, War
In trying to draw Union troops away from the siege of Vicksburg, Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania and over three days 150,000 men would do battle at Gettysburg. Confederate soldiers had ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Barbara Fields, Daisy Turner
Votes: 378
89.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
Valley of the Shadow of Death (1864)
(1990)
TV-PG | 69 min | Documentary, History, War
By 1864, Union forces had the upper hand, though the end of war was not yet in sight. President Lincoln named U.S. Grant the overall commander of the Union army, 533,000 strong and the ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Ed Bearss, Sam Waterston
Votes: 350
90.
The Civil War (1990)
Episode:
War Is All Hell (1865)
(1990)
TV-PG | 69 min | Documentary, History, War
By the beginning of 1865, the Confederacy was coming to an end. Atlanta had been overrun and Sherman was marching to the sea. Lincoln approved Sherman's plan against the advice of those ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Shelby Foote, Ed Bearss, James Symington
Votes: 343
91.
Jazz (2001)
Episode:
Risk: 1945-1955
(2001)
TV-PG | 123 min | Documentary, History, Music
The postwar years bring prosperity, but the Cold War threat makes these anxious years as well. In jazz, this underlying tension will be reflected in bebop, and in the troubled life of it's ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Kevin Conway, Stanley Crouch
Votes: 86
92.
Jazz (2001)
Episode:
A Masterpiece by Midnight: 1960 to the Present
(2001)
TV-PG | 109 min | Documentary, History, Music
During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble. Though Louis Armstrong briefly outsells the Beatles with "Hello Dolly," most jazz musicians are desperate for work and many head for Europe. In the ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Louis Armstrong, Lester Bowie, Dave Brubeck, James Carter
Votes: 71
93.
Jazz (2001)
Episode:
Dedicated to Chaos: 1940-1945
(2001)
TV-PG | 116 min | Documentary, History, Music
When America enters World War II, jazz is part of the arsenal. Bandleaders like Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw enlist, taking their swing to the troops overseas. Many black Americans, ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Louis Armstrong, Philip Bosco, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Cobb
Votes: 85
94.
Jazz (2001)
Episode:
Gumbo: Beginnings to 1917
(2001)
TV-PG | 87 min | Documentary, History, Music
Jazz begins in New Orleans, 19th century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Vernel Bagneris, Sidney Bechet, Buddy Bolden, Philip Bosco
Votes: 144
95.
Jazz (2001)
Episode:
Our Language: 1924 -1929
(2001)
TV-PG | 111 min | Documentary, History, Music
In the 1920s, jazz is everywhere, and for the first time soloists and singers take center stage. We meet Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues; Bix Beiderbecke, the first great white jazz star... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Matthew Broderick
Votes: 93
96.
Jazz (2001)
Episode:
Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937
(2001)
TV-PG | 87 min | Documentary, History, Music
As the Great Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as it has ever come to being America's popular music. It has a new name, Swing, and for millions of young fans, it will be the defining... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Louis Armstrong, Philip Bosco, Dave Brubeck, James Lincoln Collier
Votes: 94
97.
Jazz (2001)
Episode:
Swing: The Velocity of Celebration - 1937-1939
(2001)
TV-PG | 102 min | Documentary, History, Music
As the 1930's come to a close, Swing-mania is still going strong, but some fans are saying success has made the music too predictable. Count Basie and the Kansas City sound reignite the ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Philip Bosco, James Lincoln Collier, Kevin Conway, Michael Cuscuna
Votes: 90
98.
Jazz (2001)
Episode:
The Adventure: 1956-1960
(2001)
TV-PG | 113 min | Documentary, History, Music
For jazz, the late 1950s is a period of transition when old stars like Billie Holiday and Lester Young will burn out while young talents arise to take the music in new directions. New ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Louis Armstrong, Art Blakey, Lester Bowie, Ray Charles
Votes: 78
99.
Jazz (2001)
Episode:
The Gift: 1917-1924
(2001)
TV-PG | 107 min | Documentary, History, Music
Speakeasies, flappers, and easy money - it's the Jazz Age, when the story of jazz becomes a tale of two great cities, Chicago and New York, and of two extraordinary artists whose lives and ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Adam Arkin, Louis Armstrong, Philip Bosco, Lester Bowie
Votes: 105
100.
Jazz (2001)
Episode:
The True Welcome: 1929-1934
(2001)
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, History, Music
In 1929 as the Great Depression begins, New York is now America's jazz capital. On Broadway, Louis Armstrong revolutionizes the art of American popular song. In Harlem, Chick Webb pioneers ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Burns | Stars: Louis Armstrong, Vernel Bagneris, Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke
Votes: 91