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Documentaries from PBS
Cold War Roadshow
The story of one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of modern history: the unprecedented trip across America in 1959 by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the world leader of communism and America's arch nemesis. The visit was an opportunity to halt the escalating threats of the Cold War and chart a new course toward peaceful coexistence. For the American press, it was the media story of the year.
Klansville U.S.A.
Last Days in Vietnam
In the final weeks of the Vietnam War, American servicemen and others begin the difficult mission of evacuating as many friends, family members and South Vietnamese collaborators as possible before Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese.
Nixon
Sixties
Examines the social, political, economic, and technological changes in the United States during the nineteen sixties. "...talkin' 'bout my generation..."
My Lai: One of the VIetnam War's Darkest Chapters
Freedom RIders: Threatened, attacked, jailed
Documents the story of a group of civil rights activists who travelled by bus in the South during 1961 to challenge segregated travel facilities.
Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall & the NAACP
Spies of MIssissippi: The campaign to stop freedom summer's civil rights movement of 1964
Tells of a secret spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation and maintain white supremacy during the spring of 1964.