Season 19
(2006)
Cast
Episodes
Eyes on the Prize (1 & 2): Awakenings 1954-1956 / Fighting Back 1957-1962 0.0
October 2, 2006
Part 1 of 3 of the award-winning 1987 documentary "Eyes on the Prize." Included: profiles of Mose Wright and Rosa Parks…
Eyes on the Prize (3 & 4): Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961/No Easy Walk 1961-1963 0.0
October 9, 2006
Part 2 of the 1987 documentary "Eyes on the Prize." Included: the 1960 Greensboro, N.C., lunch-counter sit-in; the Stud…
Eyes on the Prize (5 & 6): Is This America? 1963-1964 / Bridge to Freedom 1965 0.0
October 16, 2006
Conclusion of the 1987 documentary “Eyes on the Prize.” Included: events of 1963 and '64, when Mississippi became a bat…
Test Tube Babies 0.0
October 23, 2006
History of in vitro fertilization, traces IVF from an early success with rabbits to the present. Included: controversy …
The Great Fever 0.0
October 30, 2006
The history of yellow fever, and how it was determined that the disease was transmitted by mosquitoes. Included: the wo…
The Gold Rush 0.0
November 6, 2006
A vibrant retelling of the mania that followed the discovery of gold in San Francisco in 1848. "Next to the Civil War i…
The Berlin Airlift 0.0
January 29, 2007
One of the first skirmishes of the Cold War, the 1948-49 Soviet blockade of rail and road traffic to and from West Berl…
The Living Weapon 0.0
February 5, 2007
"The Living Weapon" explores the history of America's biological-weapons program, which began in 1942 with a group that…
New Orleans (1 & 2) 0.0
February 12, 2007
A history of New Orleans, from its origins as a French settlement to its post-Katrina present. Included: archival photo…
Sister Aimee 0.0
April 2, 2007
A profile of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), a popular Pentecostal evangelist during the 1920s and '30s. Inc…
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple 0.0
April 9, 2007
Examines the story behind the November 1978 mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 people were l…
Summer of Love 0.0
April 23, 2007
In 1967, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district became a mecca for young people seeking free music, free love and cosm…
The Mormons (1): History 0.0
April 30, 2007
Historian Sarah Barringer Gordon says of the LDS Church "that from the moment of its birth, Mormons were under a kleig …
The Mormons (2): Church and State 0.0
May 1, 2007
An examination of the modern-day LDS Church, including its missionary program; how its followers have entered into the …
Alexander Hamilton 0.0
May 14, 2007
A profile of Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first treasury secretary and a leading force in the post-Revolutionary Wa…