A biography of Philo Farnsworth, an inventor of the television.

The story of Carl Graham Fisher, an Indiana entrepreneur who created Miami Beach out of the Florida swamps.

In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept across the Southern Plains--the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and New Mexico. Topsoil that had taken a thousand years per inch to build suddenly blew away in only minutes. One journalist traveling through the devastated region dubbed it the "Dust Bowl." This American Experience film presents the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease--even death--for nearly a decade. Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California, typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," the Dust Bowlers who stayed overcame an almost unbelievable series of calamities and disasters.

The worst nuclear-power-plant accident in U.S. history.

En la primavera de 1927, después de semanas de lluvias constantes, el río Mississippi se desbordó desde Cairo, Illinois, hasta Nueva Orleans, Luisiana, inundando cientos de ciudades, causando la muerte de hasta mil personas y dejando a un millón de personas sin hogar. En Greenville, Mississippi, los esfuerzos por contener el río enfrentaron a la población mayoritariamente negra contra una familia aristocrática blanca, los Percys. También enfrentó a los Percys entre sí. Esta es una historia verdadera y dramática de avaricia, poder y raza durante uno de los mayores desastres naturales de Estados Unidos.

Soon after the United States entered World War II, President Roosevelt received information that Germany and Japan were developing biological weapons. In response, the U.S. and its allies rushed to develop their own germ warfare program, enlisting some of America's most promising scientists in the effort. This program examines the race to develop biological weapons in the 40s and 50s, and the challenges and moral dilemmas the scientists faced