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Season 3

(2008)

Episodes

Unhealed Wounds - The Life of Ernest Hemingway poster

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April 29, 2008

Ernest Hemingway was the best-selling, most celebrated author of his time. He wove war, love, pain and death into unfor…

The French Foreign Legion - The World's Most Legendary Fighting Force poster

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April 29, 2008

For almost two hundred years one group of fighting men has held an unrivaled grip on the world's imagination. Shadowy p…

The Secret Life of Edith Wharton poster

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April 29, 2008

In 1905, all of New York was riveted by the story of Lily Bart, a stunning young woman hoping to claim her place in soc…

Lowell Thomas - American Storyteller poster

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April 29, 2008

Over the course of his illustrious career, Lowell Thomas was an adventurer, a showman, the most familiar voice in radio…

For the People, Despite the People - The Atatürk Revolution poster

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April 29, 2008

At the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire paid the ultimate price for choosing the wrong side. The winners, Britain…

The Greedy Heart of Halide Edib poster

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April 29, 2008

In novels, memoirs, and essays, the Turkish writer Halide Edib chronicled the most cataclysmic change in the history of…

The Ottoman Empire - A World of Difference poster

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April 29, 2008

The Ottoman Empire lasted some 600 years, and spanned three continents. It was not only their military campaigns that m…

Dracula - Fact and Fiction poster

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April 29, 2008

Few figures are so well known and strike as much terror as that of the vampire known as "Dracula." This creature -- not…

Bronislaw Malinowski - God Professor poster

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April 29, 2008

In 1915, a Polish scholar named Bronislaw Malinowski landed on a tiny island off the coast of New Guinea. He had come a…

Anthropology - Looking at the Human Condition poster

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April 29, 2008

For over 100 years anthropologists have been learning from people in every corner of our world, and using the data they…

New Guinea - Paradise in Peril poster

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April 29, 2008

A land of mystery and danger, it's been said that New Guinea contains more strange and new and beautiful things than an…

The Best Intentions - The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles poster

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April 29, 2008

In May 1919, six months after the end of the Great War in Europe, a French train departed from Berlin, carrying the Ger…

Woodrow Wilson - American Idealist poster

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April 29, 2008

In 1913, 56 year old Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated President of the United States. He came to the job with little prac…

Gertrude Bell - Iraq's Uncrowned Queen poster

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April 29, 2008

On March 20, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. Saddam Hussein, the dictator who'd controlled this nation for nearly…

Ho Chi Minh - The Price of Freedom poster

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April 29, 2008

In the summer of 1966, the United States found itself in a war it couldn't win, against an enemy it didn't understand. …

Paul Robeson - Scandalize My Name poster

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April 29, 2008

Paul Robeson was great at everything he did. And he did a lot: an acclaimed singer, actor, all-American football player…

Robert Goddard - Mr. Rocket Science poster

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April 29, 2008

Since our ancestors first stood on two legs, we've looked up at the universe with wonder. And we've been lighting up th…

Jazz - Rhythms of Freedom poster

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April 29, 2008

Jazz was born in America, in cotton fields and cities... in brothels and churches. In the opera house, and the night cl…

Al "Scarface" Capone - The Original Gangster poster

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April 29, 2008

In the 1920s the sprawling, brawling, skyscraper-studded city of Chicago ruled the American heartland. And one man seem…

Prohibition - America on the Rocks poster

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April 29, 2008

On October 10th, 1919, for the first time in American history, lawmakers voted to change the Constitution and strip awa…

On the Trail of Eliot Ness poster

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April 29, 2008

In the late '20s, gangland killings were tearing Chicago apart, as mob leader Al Capone battled to be top dog. Valentin…

Louis Armstrong - Ambassador of Jazz poster

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April 29, 2008

At the height of his career, Louis Armstrong and his band toured Europe. The sextet had come to perform America's great…

Ben Hecht - Shakespeare of Hollywood poster

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April 29, 2008

Chicago in the roaring twenties was a hotbed of activity -- mostly criminal. Mobsters controlled gambling and the flow …

Hellfighters - Harlem's Heroes of World War I poster

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April 29, 2008

On July 14, 1919, French, British and American troops paraded down the Champs-Élysées in Paris, celebrating their trium…

Tin Pan Alley - Soundtrack of America poster

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April 29, 2008

Perhaps no artistic medium has acted as a more accurate cultural barometer than the popular song -- charting the nation…

Wonderful Nonsense - The Algonquin Round Table poster

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April 29, 2008

"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening." / "That woman speaks 18 languages and ca…

Broadway - America Center Stage poster

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April 29, 2008

The year was 1927, and the New York theater district called 'Broadway' was entering what would be its greatest season i…

Erich von Stroheim - The Profligate Genius poster

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April 29, 2008

He was unmistakable. With his suave demeanor, impeccable wardrobe and bullet head, on screen Erich von Stroheim played …

The Rise of the Moguls - The Men Who Built Hollywood poster

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April 29, 2008

To the outside world Hollywood seemed like a magic place. Here, the sun was always shining, everyone had a swimming poo…

Irving Thalberg - Hollywood's Boy Wonder poster

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April 29, 2008

Named for one of Hollywood's most legendary filmmakers, the Thalberg Award is given to "creative producers personally r…

The World of John Ford poster

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April 29, 2008

People called it the Dust Bowl, an environmental disaster that struck the Great Plains in the late 1930s, when the coun…

Historical Lecture: New Gods for Old poster

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April 29, 2008

Join H.W. Brands, professor of history at the University of Texas Austin, on the societal movements and massive cultura…