The story, sound, and soul of a nation come together in the most American of art forms: Jazz. Ken Burns, who riveted the nation with The Civil War and Baseball, celebrates the music's soaring achievements, from its origins in blues and ragtime through swing, bebop, and fusion. Six years in the making, this "soundbreaking" series blends 75 interviews, more than 500 pieces of music, ...

Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Starring: Charles J. Correll, Freeman F. Gosden, Edward R. Murrow, Richard Nixon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

This animated time-travel adventure features a stellar cast and is a delight for kids and adults alike. When Matt, a black teenager, has to go on a class field trip to the museum of Martin Luther King Jr., he thinks that he'd rather play baseball. But the trip turns into an exciting adventure when he and his best friend, Randy, who's white, are sent back in time to meet Dr. King. The story is ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Edward Asner, Angela Bassett, Lucas Black, Theodore Borders, LeVar Burton
Directed By: Rob Smiley, Vincenzo Trippetti

Hailed as a documentary masterpiece without parallel, Ken Burns' filmed chronicle of America's most terrible and destructive conflict will hold you in thrall as it portrays the strategies and action of the war's famous battles, and tells the stories of illustrious generals and ordinary field soldiers, politicians and rogues, heroes and a beleaguered President. Winner of two Emmy Awards, the ...

Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Starring: David McCullough

A century before Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X, there was Frederick Douglass, arguably the most important and the earliest African American activist in United States history. This informative, inspiring documentary traces Douglass's heroic life and work. Born into slavery, Douglass was separated from his mother as a small child and forced into field labor on one of the largest plantations ...

Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Starring: Alfre Woodard
Directed By: Orlando Bagwell

He was a gifted athlete whose greatest feat came not on a playing field, but in smashing the color barrier that had denied so many others a chance to compete. Jackie Robinson was a collegiate All-American in baseball, football, basketball and track. But in an era of segregation he had little chance for a career as an athlete. His dramatic entrance into major league baseball in 1947 changed ...

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Jack Perkins, Peter Graves, Harry Smith, Dave Hoffman, Bill Mumy

So many slaves escaped into freedom along a route that could not be ascertained that the slave owners said there must be an underground railroad under the Ohio River and on to the North." Abolitionist William Cockrum, 1854. Join descendants and scholars as we tell the story of America's first civil rights movement.

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Alfre Woodard

A vital, valuable documentary. - People The documentary equivalent of Roots. - Orlando Sentinel Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged. Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery is the groundbreaking series that makes history by sharing it from a new perspective. Nearly ten years in the making, this landmark six-hour set exposes the truth through ...

Manufacturer: Wgbh Boston
Starring: Africans in America

Frontline profiles the most widely known and revered political leader in the world--Nelson Mandela. Credited with the reversal of apartheid in a South Africa controlled by two generations of stern Afrikaner leaders who enforced the ideology of racial separation, Mandela stands as an all-embracing giant who brought about his nation's extraordinary peaceful transformation to democracy. In the most ...

Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Starring: Jessica Savitch, Will Lyman
Directed By: Brent E. Huffman, Katerina Monemvassitis

Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s was the scene of a passionate outburst of creativity by African-American visual artists. This documentary tells how black artists triumphed over the prejudice and segregation that kept their work out of mainstream galleries and exhibitions, and recalls the vibrancy of Harlem in the roaring twenties. You'll view over 130 paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures, ...

Manufacturer: Pbs Home Video
Starring: Against the Odds-Artists of Th