Usa History Movies

For anyone who has ever wondered just what that mysterious pyramid on the back of the dollar bill really represents, investigative mythologist...

This short film recounts efforts in the 20th century to develop programs and procedures that protect human subjects of research. Citing selected...

Bob Childress was the founder and builder of the famous "Rock Churches" of southwest Virginia, all established between 1919 and 1954. In 2022, Buford...

The Brooklyn Bridge spans the East River and connects Manhattan and Brooklyn, the two centers of the port city of New York. Its architect Johann...

Music provided relief during the years of the Japanese American internment throughout WWII. Mary Nomura performed in Manzanar for the three years of...

The pioneer Jews of San Francisco arrived from Germany during the Gold Rush and were instrumental in building the city. The roles they were relegated...

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three...

Two British redcoats contemplate their place in the American Revolutionary War and the world at large.

African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slave era. The result is this documentary, which...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the...

A retrospective on the great election battles of the past in the United States: the Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, the first ever to be televised; the...

An intimate insider’s journey to uncover buried truths and explore how the community in Monroe, Georgia has been impacted by the 1946 quadruple...

This award-winning documentary shows the irreplaceable role classical Physical Education plays to develop smart, productive and mentally stable...

A short documentary looking at Altoona in its heyday.

"A Home On The Range" tells the little-known story of Jews who fled the pogroms and hardships of Eastern Europe and traveled to California to become...

Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s,...

Photographer Mike Lassiter journeys across South Carolina capturing the stories of historic, often family-run businesses that line main streets from...

US Dept of Agriculture film that shows how cane sugar is harvested and processed for sale.

An exploration of the visual and psychological parallels between the American western frontier and the conflict in the Middle East.