Usa History Movies

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas...

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually...

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make...

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one...

Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing...

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a...

A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first...

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Jeffery Robinson's talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism, with archival footage and interviews.

The story of America's first astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, told through archival news & radio reports, newly transferred & previously unheard...

Filmmaker Suzannah Herbert takes a sharp look at the American South’s unreconciled history through a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum...

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people...

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and...

Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to...