Loreta Velazquez, secret soldier of the American Civil War.

1:22

Meet kungfu’s black pioneers and heroes who fluorished at the junction of African American and Asian cultures.

00:36

Remembering the beginnings of the AIDS crisis.

02:18

Daisy Bates was a feminist before the term was coined.

01:08

Part 2: The New Generation

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Part 3: From Selma to Soweto

00:25

Part 5: Free At Last

00:25

What do The Sound of Music, Blazing Saddles, and E.T. have in common?

01:01

A five-part series chronicling the history of the global anti-apartheid movement.

00:34

Jessie Little Doe Baird, a Wampanoag linguist, helps her tribe revive its mother tongue.

00:46

From the 1920s through World War II, The National Barn Dance unified rural Americans.

1:35

Visit an unusual summer camp for young women where they recreate life in the Antebellum South.

00:57

Witness a century of defiant victories that impact Mexico to this day.

00:33

One woman filed a historic lawsuit that forever changed the relationship between religion and schools.

02:13

Back in the USSR, one man created a secret collection of suppressed masterpieces.

02:39

Follow the unlikely story of America's original shock-jock.

00:31

William Burroughs was an iconoclast who himself became an icon.

00:28

The death of Longoria tore a Texas town apart and sparked a civil rights movement.

00:26

When the ANC won power in South Africa, they had to govern alongside their oppressors.

2:00

It's not every 77-year-old American Jewish woman who becomes president of a South American nation.

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