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- (2024)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 11/19/2024
- Features: DVD
- A fifteenth-century Italian polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, Leonardo da Vinci left behind artistic works of staggering beauty as well as detailed anatomical sketches, studies... more
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- (2022)
- Starring: Peter Coyote, Paul Giamatti
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 4/5/2022
- Features: DVD
- As scientist and statesman, he'd become one of the 18th century's most consequential individuals, and his achievements endure today, from his familiar aphorisms to Philadelphia civic institutions to... more
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- (2014)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 9/16/2014
- Features: Boxed Set
- For the first time, Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor's stories are told together as a cohesive narrative. This huge documentary series follows the giants of American politics in the early 20th... more
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- (2024)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 5/28/2024
- Features: DVD
- The life and times of medieval Florentine poet and philosopher Dante Aligheri, the political leanings that brought about his expulsion from Florence, the circumstances in which he crafted his "Divine... more
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- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 12/20/2022
- Features: DVD
- Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom is a rich and nuanced portrait of the woman knows as a conductor of the Underground Railroad, who repeatedly risked her life and freedom to liberate others from... more
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- (2016)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 4/12/2016
- Features: Blu-ray
- This Ken Burns feature documentary tells the story of Jackie Robinson, the star African-American baseball player who broke the color barrier in professional American baseball, winning a huge victory... more
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- (1987)
- Starring: Julian Bond
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 4/6/2010
- Features: DVD
- This critically-acclaimed, television documentary series on the American civil-rights movement, features rare archival footage and pertinent interviews. It begins in the '50s with the Mississippi... more
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- Starring: William Cronon, Natalie Bober
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 10/25/2005
- Features: DVD
- Some of history's most compelling figures come alive through the masterful filmmaking of Ken Burns. This exceptional set of seven acclaimed Ken Burns' documentaries includes Thomas Jefferson... more
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- (2004)
- Starring: Adam Arkin, Carolyn McCormick
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 1/11/2005
- Features: Widescreen
- The son of two former slaves, Jack Johnson endured the hardships of late 1800s Jim Crow America and eventually fought his way up the ranks to become the first African-American to become the... more
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- (2021)
- Starring: Jeff Daniels
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 5/4/2021
- Features: 3 Pack
- Acclaimed documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick present this extraordinary weaving of the life and works of one of America's most beloved and esteemed authors of all time. Subtitled The man. The... more
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- (2016)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 4/12/2016
- Features: DVD
- This Ken Burns feature documentary tells the story of Jackie Robinson, the star African-American baseball player who broke the color barrier in professional American baseball, winning a huge victory... more
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- (2016)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 2/16/2016
- Features: DVD
- Follow the most famous American crime duo of all time as they become nationally famous icons of an era. Discover not only how their crimes happened, and how they escaped, but also their impoverished... more
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- (2021)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 11/9/2021
- Features: 3 Pack
- A dynamic force both within the ring and without, ever candid and controversial, Muhammad Ali became one of his era's most consequential personalities as well as athletes-and his legend and legacy... more
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- (2021)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 11/23/2021
- Features: DVD
- By the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst controlled the largest media empire in the country: 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations, and 13 magazines. He used his... more
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- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 1/3/2023
- Features: DVD
- Explore the life, career, art and legacy of the African American contralto and civil rights pioneer Marian Anderson. Producer: Lynneisha Ray, Philip Gittelman, Rita Coburn. Author: Rita Coburn,... more
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- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 12/20/2022
- Features: DVD
- Becoming Frederick Douglass is the inspiring story of how a man born into slavery became one of the most prominent statesmen and influential voices for democracy in American history. Born in 1818 on... more
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- (2021)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 9/20/2022
- Features: DVD
- An epic three-part series that charts the rise and fall of the Boleyn family. This story of love, sex, betrayal and obsession is told from the unique perspective of the Boleyn family. Producer:... more
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- (2021)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 1/25/2022
- Features: DVD
- Much has been recounted and dramatized of how Helen Keller overcame the blindness and deafness that struck her in infancy to achieve a childhood education. The accomplishments from the balance of her... more
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- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 4/30/2019
- Features: DVD
- Explore the history of the American South and it's music through the life of country star Charley Pride. Raised in the brutally segregated Mississippi Delta, Pride's buttery voice, talent, and steely... more
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- (2021)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 6/8/2021
- Features: DVD
- The popular documentary series visits the real "wizard behind the curtain" as it explores the magical life story of Frank Baum, the man whose dreams met with more failure than success until he came... more
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- (2020)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 2/16/2021
- Features: DVD
- This ordinary Midwestern farm woman wrote heartwarming, autobiographical stories about the American frontier which touched the hearts of so many. Her writings were masterfully adapted in the hit show... more
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- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 2/6/2018
- Features: Boxed Set
- Examine the modern presidency through 10 of the most influential men in America during the 20th century. See how the role of the office evolved under the command of Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,... more
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- (2021)
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 6/1/2021
- Features: DVD
- Black U.S. Army Sergeant Isaac Woodward, traveling home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, got into an argument with the bus driver. He was removed from the bus and beaten so badly by the local... more
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- (2021)
- Starring: Marian Anderson
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 3/30/2021
- Features: DVD
- How appropriate that Marian Anderson's "voice of freedom" rang out clear and strong to the American people as she stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Easter Sunday in 1939.... more
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- (2020)
- Starring: Mae West
- Genre: Documentary, Biography
- Studio: PBS (Direct)
- Release Date: 8/11/2020
- Features: DVD
- This is the first major documentary to examine the incredible life of Mae West, diving not only into her career as a writer and performer, but also as a subversive agitator for social change.... more