Eisenhower's path to presidency and, how his national security policies and tactics kept a divided world at peace during the 1950s. Hosted by journalist and author Evan Thomas.

This series introduces the extraordinary body of English literature with such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, J. K. Rowling and more.

As the human population marches toward 10 billion people, understanding where people live, how they are connected, and how they are shaping different parts of the planet is essential.

Explores the dramatic discoveries of the forces shaping the planet Earth, open the door to a whole new way of seeing and making sense of the world we find ourselves in. Shot in HD.

Robert Hughes' history of Modern Art from Cubism to Pop and the Avant-Garde

James Burke looks at times when new knowledge or discoveries has altered that thinking and explores the cultural changes those discoveries effected.

As the Sherlock Holmes of science, Burke tracks through 12,000 years of history for the clues that lead us to eight great life changing inventions-the atom bomb, telecommunications, the computer, the production line, jet aircraft, plastics, rocketry and television.

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