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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard, Spanish

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The Lie Detector

The Lie Detector

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Women in American History

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming A Space

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Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History

Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History

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The Movement and the "Madman"

The Movement and the "Madman"

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Command and Control, Full Film

Season 29 Episode 1

COMMAND AND CONTROL is a minute-by-minute account of this long-hidden story. Putting a camera where there was no camera that night, Kenner brings this nonfiction thriller to life with stunning original footage shot in a decommissioned Titan II missile silo.

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The woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world.
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The man behind the atomic bomb is put on trial for suspected communist ties in 1954.
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In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded from New Orleans, leaving a million people homeless
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The Dust Bowl brought drought, dust, disease and death to the Midwest for nearly a decade.
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Follow LBJ from rural Texas to his ascendancy to the presidency after the assassination of JFK.
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