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motherroadThe Mother Road
This film celebrates Route 66, from Chicago to Los Angeles, where the filmmaker, Lauren Cardillo, and her 80-year-old mother, Irene, take the road trip of their lives in a Mustang convertible.
Heart LakeThe Adirondacks
Sprawled across six million acres in upstate New York, the Adirondack Park is the only one on the continent in which large human populations live.
Ten Sisters - A True Story tells the emotional life story of the 10 Waggoner sisters who grew up caring for one another in a two-room house wracked with parental discord and financial troubles.
America's Team: Being a U.S. Air Force Thunderbird
The Air Force Thunderbirds have been seen by millions of people all over the world but few have seen what it takes behind the scenes to safely execute their dazzling air show. This program also documents the journey of the first female pilot to fly with the team.
Robert GouletMy Music "50's Pop Parade"
My Music brings back more 1950's pop crooners in a new special featuring performers that define the pop music soundtrack from the 1940s, 50s and early 60s.
A Taste of HoneyMy Music "The 70s Experience"
My Music brings back "the 70s" mixing 1970s soft rock, pop, soul and disco for the "ultimate 70's party."
men on the riverDynamite, Whiskey and Wood - Connecticut River Log Drives 1870-1915
This program ventures down the Connecticut River, from the wilderness of northern New Hampshire, to the very depths of the river.
SnoopyPeanuts Gallery
In 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and beloved cartoonist Charles M. Schulz began an extraordinary friendship that would ultimately unite their creative talents in one masterwork.
street signsAmerican Experience "Summer of Love"
In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience, only to discover that what they had come for was already disappearing.
re-enactorsLiberty or Death
Patrick Henry's impassioned plea at the second Virginia Convention of 1775, "Give me liberty or give me death," defined the American Revolution. This docu-drama captures this seminal moment in American history.
Alaska: Silence & Solitude
Venture into the remote wilderness of Alaska to experience the spectacular scenery, encounter bull moose, caribou, and grizzly bears.
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