New York City, 1863. Antes de la ciudad que conocemos hoy, llena de riqueza, poder y sueños infinitos, New York era un lugar diferente, una ciudad naciente donde el deseo por una vida mejor enfurecía a su gente y generaba violencia en las calles. Mientras la superviviencia del país se debatía en la Guerra Civil, un vasto y peligroso grupo de personas crecía en el bajo mundo. Pero en la joven y naciente ciudad, llegaba el momento de luchar contra los despiadados, contra la intolerancia y el miedo. Había llegado el momento del extraordinario valor de aquellos que impulsaron al borde de la lucha la libertad de futuras generaciones.
A principios de la Guerra de Secesión, el ejército del norte se mostraba reticente a dar armas a los negros. El heroico comportamiento del regimiento de Massachusetts, formado por soldados afroamericanos y oficiales blancos, resultó decisivo para que la Unión abriera las puertas a 180.000 soldados negros.
Explora la compleja historia del crack en la década de los ochenta, cuando aparece una potente droga barata que enciende las alarmas morales y el racismo de la época.
Oscarizada superproducción de la época que narra las aflicciones y tribulaciones de una familia en el viejo Oeste a lo largo de cuatro décadas, desde su llegada a Oklahoma en 1889 hasta el surgimiento de sus aspiraciones políticas en los años 20. Amores, luchas, triunfos y separaciones, además de la famosa y verídica carrera de diligencias son los ingredientes de uno de los mayores éxitos de la RKO.
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Porky se resiste a aprender el Juramento de la Bandera hasta que el Tío Sam se le aparece en sueños y le da una lección de la historia estadounidense.
En diciembre de 1776, seis meses después que las colonias americanas comenzasen la guerra para conseguir su independencia del dominio británico, las tropas continentales de George Washington se encuentran al borde de la derrota definitiva tras haber perdido sucesivamente todas las batallas frente a al ejército inglés. Con brillante desesperación, cuando parece que todo está perdido y a punto de iniciarse un duro invierno, Washington y sus oficiales planean una sorprendente maniobra militar que puede ser su última oportunidad para la victoria. Con la ayuda del coronel John Glover y su equipo de marineros, el ejército continental se trasladó a la otra orilla del río Delaware aprovechando la oscuridad de la noche para lanzar un ataque sorpresa contra los ingleses que cambiaría definitivamente el curso de la guerra.
The story of January 6, 2021, where approximately 2000 people stormed the US Capitol to stop the certification of the Electoral College Votes, killing some and leaving over 140 injured. A firestorm of angst, anger, violence and confusion.
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born free man who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a free man. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.
El documental cuestiona la relación entre la historia y la lucha política en unos Estados Unidos que ahora se reconcilian con su pasado. Durante la revuelta Black Lives Matter de 2020 tras el asesinato de George Floyd, cuestiona cuál ha sido hasta ahora la narrativa de la historia de Estados Unidos y por qué hombres como Colón merecen estatuas...
A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site—where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the summer of 1945—covering many other atomic destinations and driving deep into the natural and social history of the American southwest.
A documentary covering the history of TWA, from its origins to its ultimate sale to American Airlines.
The inside story of Biden’s rise to the presidency, and the personal and political forces that shaped him and led to his dramatic decision to step aside.
A biographical drama about President Theodore Roosevelt.
When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he left behind a mountain of personal debt, which forced his heirs to sell his beloved Monticello home and all of its possessions. The Levys of Monticello is a documentary film that tells the little-known story of the Levy family, which owned and carefully preserved Monticello for nearly a century – far longer than Jefferson or his descendants. The remarkable story of the Levy family also intersects with the rise of antisemitism that runs throughout the course of American history.
Drop Dead City charts untold history - it is the first documentary devoted to the New York City Fiscal Crisis of 1975, an extraordinary, overlooked episode in urban American history that saw an already crumbling city of 8 million people brought to the edge of bankruptcy and social chaos by a perfect storm of debt, greed, ambitious social policy, and poor governance.
Documentary about Marilyn Monroe: 1962: America loses its blonde icon. Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. How did she die? The police report states: probable suicide. But there are many things that point to murder: a corpse draped too beautifully, an investigation that was cut short, evidence that disappeared. Plus Marilyn's affairs with the then US President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby. What really happened on that fateful summer night? After her housekeeper discovers the body, six hours pass before the police are called. She finds a beautifully draped corpse, sleeping pills in the blood but no pill residue in the stomach, witnesses who seem uncertain. The first investigator thinks about murder - and is taken off the case. Today no police files can be found.
The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the Skylab program back to its very conception reveals the cornerstone of human space exploration.
Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'