Enviado para um longínquo posto fronteiriço, o Tenente John Dunbar vê-se sozinho no meio da pradaria. A necessidade e o isolamento levam-no a contactar e fazer amizade com os índios Sioux, de quem era suposto defender o posto militar. Mas chegará o dia em que terá de escolher a quem é leal: ao exército a que pertence por dever ou ao povo que conhece e respeita de coração.
A emocionante história do primeiro regimento negro em luta pelo Norte na Guerra Civil, Tempo de Glória é estrelado por Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes e Morgan Freeman. Broderick e Elwes são jovens idealistas que lideram o regimento; Freeman é o inspirado sargento que une as tropas e Denzel Whashington, numa atuação que lhe rendeu um Oscar (Melhor Ator Coadjuvante em 1989), é o escravo fugitivo que representa o espírito indomável do 54. Regimento de Massachusetts.
Ada é uma jovem bela, filha de um pregador, que se muda da cidade para a vila de Cold Mountain, onde se apaixona por Inman, um trabalhador rural, pouco antes de a Carolina do Norte aderir à Confederação e tomar parte na Guerra Civil Americana. Enquanto Ada fica para trás e se debate com as agruras da vida solitária no campo, fruto da morte do seu pai, Inman parte para lutar numa causa em que não acredita, desejando voltar rapidamente. Ferido, resolve desertar, mas espera-o uma viagem atribulada e o perigo de ser fuzilado por aqueles que, até então, eram seus companheiros.
A ação centra-se nas lutas de três personagens: Charles Eastman, um jovem médico Sioux educado em Dartmouth; Sitting Bull, o líder orgulhoso dos Lakota que recusa submeter-se às políticas do governo desenhadas para acabar com a identidade cultural indígena; e o Sanador Henry Dawes, um dos homem responsáveis pela política governamental em questões relacionadas com os nativos. Enquanto Eastman e a professora Elaine Goodale se esforçam para melhorar a vida dos Sioux na reserva, o Senador Dawes tenta convencer o Presidente a tratar melhor os nativos.
Este filme relata os acontecimentos em torno da Batalha de Gettysburg, em 1863. Foi a batalha decisiva para a Guerra de Secessão Norte-Americana. O filme mostra os acontecimentos, bem como os dramas pessoais de muitos dos envolvidos.
Este documentário da HBO revela o infame incêndio do dia 15 de março de 1911 em Nova York, onde 146 empregados da companhia Triangle Waist Shirt, a maioria deles mulheres, morreram.
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs.
A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.
The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
This documentary-series examines Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Enslaved teenager Henry Shackleford, aka Little Onion, becomes a member in abolitionist John Brown’s motley family during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War.
Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.
Idealistic Revolutionary War rebels harass the Redcoats in British-held Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia in this adventure series which drew parallels with 1960s political activism.
The story of Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, an American patriot who fought the British Tories using unusual methods, becoming known as “The Swamp Fox.”
This 1984 miniseries chronicles the life of George Washington, the 1st President of the United States, from age 11 to age 51. Based on the biography by James Thomas Flexner.
The story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common cause. How a once-loyal British subject rises to battle an empire in a liberty-or-death campaign to forge a new nation. And then how, at the zenith of his power, the victorious general voluntarily steps down, becoming what King George III would call “the greatest man in the world.”
Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride to warn colonial forces of the British approach. But history books don't tell of the man who sent Revere on his mission: Joseph Warren, America's least remembered founding father. Uncover the forgotten history of Warren and stories of other unsung heroes in our fight for independence.
Travel back through the 20th century to explore the roots of American music and discover the pioneers of the musical forms that combined on American soil to become the most pervasive music throughout the world.
The epic history behind the creation of America, exploring how and why our ancestors came to this country. Examine the massive immigration patterns of ethnic groups to the United States through the telling of historical events including the Dutch Fur Trade, the Great Potato Famine, the California Gold Rush and more.
