Americans spend $40 billion a year on books, products, and programs designed to help us lose weight. Today's dieters have a dizzying array of weight loss programs from which to choose - yet the...

The second episode charts the erosion of the consensus between military and press during the Cold War conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and examines the backlash against the media that took place in...

The first episode recounts the story of Napoleon's extraordinary rise from the obscurity of his Corsican childhood to the victories in Italy that made him a hero to the French people and convinced...

This episode provides an alarming look at extinction, emphasizing the new realization that saving wildlife means preserving or restoring habitat -- sometimes large areas of it. Alda travels the...

This series explores the events surrounding the conflict between neighboring nations struggling for land, power and national identity. Despite its enormous impact, the war is a chapter in history...

The placebo effect -- for years sneered at as a distraction from "real" medical treatment -- now turns out to be a true phenomenon and a potential addition to modern medicine.

In May of 1942, across the rugged sub-Arctic wilderness of Alaska and Canada, thousands of American soldiers began one of the biggest and most difficult construction projects ever...

They've pledged to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine. They reject Israel's right to exist. And now the Palestinians have voted them into power. In a journey across Gaza and the...

With the presence of water, Mars is the only other planet in the solar system where humans could live. This program illustrates how people could be landing on Mars within the next 20 years....

In World War II, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were forced into relocation camps across the US. This film traces the lives of the 16,000 people who were sent to two camps in southeast...