Season 21
(2009)
Cast
Episodes
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer 0.0
January 26, 2009
A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb in the top-secret Manhattan Proje…
The Polio Crusade 0.0
February 2, 2009
The story of the polio crusade pays tribute to a time when Americans banded together to conquer a terrible disease. The…
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 0.0
February 9, 2009
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Over the next twelve days, as…
A Class Apart 0.0
February 23, 2009
From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American law…
We Shall Remain (1): After the Mayflower 0.0
April 13, 2009
In March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, sat down t…
We Shall Remain (2): Tecumseh's Vision 0.0
April 20, 2009
In the spring of 1805, Tenskwatawa (actor Billy Merasty, Cree First Nation), a Shawnee, fell into a trance so deep that…
We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears 0.0
April 27, 2009
The Cherokee would call it Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu, “The Trail Where They Cried.” On May 26, 1838, federal troops forced …
We Shall Remain (4): Geronimo 0.0
May 4, 2009
In February of 1909, the indomitable Chiricahua Apache medicine man Geronimo lay on his deathbed. He summoned his nephe…
We Shall Remain (5): Wounded Knee 0.0
May 11, 2009
On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled, horns blaring, into a small hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian …