June 22, 1938 saw the rematch between the African American heavyweight Joe Louis and his German opponent Max Schmeling. It was an historic event freighted with symbolic significance, both a...

Probing Earth's mysterious inner space, this program features an oceanographic expedition to the seas' permanently dark depths. Alan Alda joins researchers and scientists studying shark populations...

To many educators, nothing beats a contest to bring out the best in their science and engineering students. We follow three such contests: the grand-daddy of them all, the MIT design contest (this...

Opening with some of the earliest color motion picture images ever filmed-of a victory parade in Paris at the end of World War I-this episode takes viewers from the years leading up to the outbreak...

Spontaneous, funny or subversive, play can take many forms. The artists in this episode - Jessica Stockholder, Ellen Gallagher, Arturo Herrera and Oliver Herring - improvise games, draw inspiration...

This special examines the theories outlined by Gavin Menzies in his best-selling book. An amateur historian and former submarine commander in the British Navy, Menzies poses an argument that could...

Alan Alda investigates how people create memories and how as they age, memories become slippery and elusive, sometimes vanishing forever. He visits two men who live entirely in the present or the...

Jefferson, Coolidge, Hoover, Reagan: If the American national identity is less a condition than an idea, no one is better positioned to express it than the president. "The vision thing" is an...

It’s the CyberSquad’s biggest challenge ever - Hacker is in complete control of Cyberspace! Jackie, Matt, Inez and Digit must find a way to bring Motherboard back to power and oust Hacker. ...

THE OTTOMANS explores the rise of the Ottoman Empire, ending at the reign of Suleyman the Magnificent. In spite of the devastating Mongol invasions, Islam endured -- and grew. The Ottoman Empire...