The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth

After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to...

20 year-old Lady Diana Spencer laughed out loud when Prince Charles proposed to her having met her only 12 times. Five months later, she walked up...

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

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland...

An internet personality takes a journey through the small, obscure, and downright bizarre conventions happening every weekend around the country as...

Leading Lincoln historian Harold Holzer masterfully recalls a dramatic Presidential Election that redefined racial politics and changed the course of...

Performed by Constance Smith, Pauline Cushman-Fryer tells us how she became a Union Spy, was almost hanged, was granted the rank of Major by Abraham...

An examination of how President Abraham Lincoln used contemporary telecommunications to his maximum advantage in the American Civil War.

Peter Batty presents a gripping account of the bloodshed and horror of the American Civil War. From the origins of the unrest between North and...

Filmmaker Peter Kunhardt examines how a one-of-a-kind collection of Abraham Lincoln photos and memorabilia have profoundly shaped the lives and...

Documentary giving the background on all of the major players involved in the planning of the assassination of President Lincoln, including the...

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in...

Re-enactments augment this documentary that chronicles Lincoln's journey from his early years as a rising politician through his presidency, the...

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

In the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg. "The Gettysburg Address" investigates the five extant copies of Lincoln's famous...

Frederick Douglass, Fighter for Freedom is a 19-minute documentary on the life and times of Frederick Douglass. Historic photos and documdrama...

Parallels are drawn between Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the presidency of Donald Trump. Not since 1860 have the Democrats so fanatically refused...

Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly...

April 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment,...

Filmed as if through the president's own eyes, Lincoln goes deeper than any documentary has before to reveal the troubled depths behind the man known...