The Great Adventure

The Hunley

During the Civil War, an engineer working for the Confederacy develops a primitive submarine that c...

The Death of Sitting Bull

The first of a two part episode, the US Government believes that Sitting Bull has joined the Ghost...

The Massacre at Wounded Knee

The second of a two part episode. Days after Sitting Bull's death, the US Army's bungled attempt to...

Six Wagons to the Sea

The attempt in 1894 by farmers from California's Central Valley to get their produce to market by w...

The Story of Nathan Hale

American Continental soldier turns spy against the British and gives all for a concept called Democ...

Go Down, Moses

Ruby Dee plays the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and her attempts to rescue enslaved family members...

The Great Diamond Mountain

In this humorous episode, two con men perpetrate the Diamond Hoax of 1872 in an attempt to swindle...

The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis

The Confederate Government of Jefferson Davis makes a futile attempt to escape Richmond and capture...

The Outlaw and the Nun

A nun comes to a town to teach school and finds that education is so undervalued by the community t...

The Man Who Stole New York City

The rise and fall of Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall political machine in 1860s New York City.

A Boy at War

The future seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is a 13 year old boy soldier str...

Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man

Down on his luck and in decline, Wild Bill Hickok arrives at the end of his trail in Deadwood in 18...

The Colonel from Connecticut

The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S.

Teeth of the Lion

Rodger Young

James MacArthur plays Rodger Young. The story of a young man that enlists in the Army despite havin...

The Testing of Sam Houston

In 1817, Andrew Jackson appoints a young Sam Houston to oversee the forced relocation of the Cherok...

The Special Courage of Captain Pratt

Richard Pratt's now controversial efforts to assimilate Native Americans into "white" society by ed...

The Night Raiders

A recounting of the events leading to John Brown's disastrous raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.

Plague

Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse attempts to convince the US Government and the public of the value of vacci...

The Pathfinder

The meeting of two great American Legends in 1846 California - Colonel John C. Fremont and John Sut...

The President Vanishes

In 1893 President Grover Cleveland embarks on a mysterious voyage into Long Island Sound aboard a f...

The Henry Bergh Story

A man crusades for better treatment of animals and forms the ASPCA in 1866. He later crusades for b...

Kentucky's Bloody Ground

The first of a two part episode recalling Daniel Boone's attempt to settle Kentucky and the events...

The Siege of Boonesborough

This two part episode recounts the story of Daniel Boone and the 1778 Siege of Boonesborough by the...

Escape

The true Civil War story of an escape by Union POWs from the Confederate Libby Prison in 1864. The...

The Pirate and the Patriot

Thirty four years later, General Andrew Jackson, commanding the US Army defending New Orleans, is a...