Usa History Movies

Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon narrates this educational installment of the popular "American Experience" series as it examines the 72-year...

Featuring behind-the-scenes footage and unprecedented access to its hallowed halls, this program from National Geographic takes viewers on an...

Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental Hospital in...

An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana.

Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "witch hysteria" of 1692. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH...

This one-hour film, narrated by Actor BURT LANCASTER, explores the lingering effects of The Hollywood Blacklist, which occurred in the late forties...

A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave markers and monuments.

An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polarization and distrust through past the past and...

Speculative hokum about John Wilkes Booth, murderer of Abraham Lincoln, escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the...

George Washington, commander of revolutionary American forces, ends a squabble among the colonies as to under which flag the Americans will fight the...

A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.

A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.

The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing new life as it undergoes restoration and...

James Earl Jones narrates this examination of the historical relationship between American Indians and African-Americans, who often merged their...

Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s,...

How US politicians and diplomats, over the past 25 years, have come close to achieving something almost impossible: securing peace between the State...

From actor to governor of California to our 40th president. Ronald "Dutch" Reagan used his wit and charisma to win the hearts and minds of millions...

A look at the lives of Bill and Hillary Clinton from meeting in college to the White House.

In the United States of America, lobbyists, corporations and billionaires invest millions of dollars to ensure that a suitable candidate, one...

The Reagan Era was marked with names, triumphs and tragedy that made history that became the fabric of American life and memory: Iran-Contra the Cold...