Schreiber, Liev

Explores the people, ideas, and events that shaped four hundred years of American history, focusing on the exploration and migration towards the west coast.

Traces the history of the United States, looking at its path to becoming a major player in global politics.

Explores the people, ideas, and events that shaped four hundred years of American history, focusing on the stories behind and leading up to the Revolutionary War.

Provides information about China's 8,000-year-old terracotta warriors that were created to protect the First Emperor of China in the afterlife and have been buried in the dust for two millennia. Examines how this large army was created using ancient technology.

Collects five episodes of "American Experience" that examine historical and significant events from the 1930s, covering the stock market crash of 1929, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the construction of the Hoover Dam, the Dust Bowl, and Seabiscuit.

Explores the technological changes that have transformed America in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and discusses how further changes will impact Americans in the future.

Explores the people, ideas, and events that shaped four hundred years of American history, focusing on the Civil War and events surrounding this time period.

Looks at how the discovery of oil in the United States in the early twentieth century affected the history of the country, sparking the growth of the automotive industry, engineering feats, the migration of African-Americans to northern cities, and other events.

Reports on the efforts of astronomers to study the expanding universe and to understand "dark energy," a force that seems to be determining the size, shape, and future life of the universe.

Looks at the Black Death and why some individuals managed to survive it while others were dying all around them. Also paints a portrait of life at the height of an epidemic, uncovers previously unknown elements of the Black Death, and reveals its mysterious link to HIV immunity in today's population.