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Focuses on 1955, the last year of James Dean's life, when he made the three films that brought him fame: East of Eden, Rebel without a cause, and Giant. Uses film clips, behind-the-scenes footage, archival photos, and on-camera interviews with colleagues, including Mark Rydell, Martin Landau, Eartha Kitt, Lois Smith, Dennis Stock, and Corey Allen, to reveal the person behind the archetypal on-screen adolescent rebel.

"Hear the stories of the men and women who are at the forfront of the medical frontier... Correspondent Bob Woodruff, who was critically injured while covering the war in Iraq in 2006 and was saved by the advances in military medical care, brings his personal understanding of the issues to this documentary as he covers military medical advances and technology from the battlefield to the return home"--Container.

In this program, Bill Moyers pays tribute to environmental crusader Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. Grim footage of ecological degradation from the pre-Carson era is combined with generous excerpts from actress Kaiulani Lee's one-woman play about Carson's life call A Sense of Wonder to honor the legacy of an individual who, heedless of personal cost, sounded the alarm that launched the environmental movement. Moyers also talks with photographic...

This 10-part series, with the renowned cultural critic and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., delves into the genealogy and genetics of famous Americans, combining history and science in a fascinating exploration of race, family and identity in today's America. Professor Gates shakes loose captivating stories and surprises in the family trees of Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey, Jr., Branford Marsalis, John Legend, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters and...

Documentary on the life and career of novelist and screenwriter F. Scott Fitzgerald.

This program examines the history of slavery in the United States and the role it played in shaping the new country's development.

The astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.

One modern family takes on the challenge of domestic life on Britain's home front in 1940s house, a re-creation of a World War II household. This time-travel experiment covers the period from the outbreak of war in 1939 to Victory Day in 1945, compressing the events of six wartime years into two months. Though the military threat is metaphorical, the privations are real and the pressures create tensions nonexistent in modern society

Go undercover with a film crew on a perilous journey to the untouched wilderness of biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest. Meet some of the most incredible creatures, from agile pygmy marmosets and boisterous howler monkeys to solitary pumas and mesmerizing leaf-cutter ants, as the wild secrets of the jungle are revealed.