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Season 14 Episode 4: Woodrow Wilson: Episode One - A Passionate Man

36 SeasonsJan 06, 2002TV-PG55m6.9

A two-part profile of Woodrow Wilson in which news clips, atmospheric re-creations and readings (Rene Auberjonois and Blair Brown provide the voices of Wilson and his first wife, Ellen) supplement interviews with historians. Part 1 takes Wilson (1856-1924) from his Georgia childhood to the outbreak of World War I -- just as Ellen dies. "He's got to deal with the breakdown in the world," historian John Milton Cooper says. "And he's got to deal with the breakdown in his...

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Season 14 Episodes:

Episode 3 War Letters

3. War Letters

Aired: Nov 1, 2001

A documentary based on the book "War Letters; Extraordinary Correspondence Fr...

Episode 6 Mount Rushmore

6. Mount Rushmore

Aired: Jan 20, 2002

The grand vision of sculptor Gutzon Borgum and the logistics behind the massi...

Episode 7 Miss America

7. Miss America

Aired: Jan 27, 2002

Recalling the 80-year history of the Miss America Pageant and what narrator C...

Episode 8 Public Enemy Number 1

8. Public Enemy Number 1

Aired: Mar 1, 2002

"Zoot Suit Riots" recalls a week of violence that rocked Los Angeles in June ...

Episode 9 Monkey Trial

9. Monkey Trial

Aired: Feb 23, 2002

In 1925 a Tennessee high school teacher is arrested for teaching Darwin's the...

Episode 10 Zoot Suit Riots

10. Zoot Suit Riots

Aired: Feb 17, 2002

On August 1, 1942, a 22-year-old Mexican American man was stabbed to death at...

Episode 14 A Brilliant Madness

14. A Brilliant Madness

Aired: Apr 2, 2002

The conclusion of this biography of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) covers the las...

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Current Status: Currently Airing

Network: PBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Documentary, History, Biography