This wartime drama is based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1945 novel. It stars Anthony Hopkins as Ravic, a German who helped Jews escape Nazis. He has left his country and now, in 1939, lives without documents in Paris, under a false name. There he starts a romance with the beautiful Joan Madou. Also starring Lesley-Anne Down and Donald Pleasence.

When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, California, in 1848, some 300,000 people from the rest of the United States and abroad flooded the region to try to strike it rich. Using re-creations, archival photos, and interviews with noted historians, this program examines the quest for wealth as well as the far-reaching impact the Gold Rush had on the nation's economic, geographic, and psychic landscape.

On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shaking hands with the public at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, when anarchist Leon Czolgosz stepped up and shot McKinley, mortally wounding him. This program details the events in which the 25th President of the United States was assassinated - an action that elevated Vice President Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency, where he would go on to vigorously lead Congress and the...

Tells how fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are diagnosed, the primary and secondary disabilities associated with FASD, and it's human cost. Addresses the in-utero effects of alcohol, including the facial, bodily, neurological, cognitive, and behavioral characteristics of FASD.

Through personal accounts, original film footage and narration, a history and the horrors of the Korean War are depicted.

This ABC News program spotlights the work of Doug Owsley, curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, who is a keen interpreter of the silent yet expressive language of bones. Owsley and his biographer, Jeff Benedict, give examples of how he has used bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology to unravel mysteries ranging from identifying an exhumed Civil War cavalryman to determining the true cause of death of Branch...

After Don Plutarco and his family are forced to flee their village due to their support of a guerilla movement acting against the local government, Plutarco revisits the village with his violyn posing as a musician in order to gain access to the amunition he had hidden in his corn fields.

Tells about the lives of ordinary Roman citizens and slaves. The lodgings and workshops, bars and baths of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome itself are explored as they follow in the footsteps of an average tradesman and his wife. Topics include hygiene, work, recreation, marriage, slavery, and the inequity between rich and poor.

Follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968. Drawing on revelatory stories from his inner circle of friends, the film provides a clear window into the civil rights leader's character, showing him to be a man with an unshakeable commitment to peaceful protest in the face of an increasingly unstable country. Illuminating and...

Examines sociolinguistic questions and the dynamic state of American English, a language rich in regional variety, strong in global impact, and steeped in cultural controversy. Episode 2Follows Robert MacNeil as he travels down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Appalachia, Louisiana Cajun country, and the Tex-Mex border to examine Southern dialects and accents and the influences of French and Spanish on American English. Linguist Walt Wolfram, columnist...