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Season 14 Episode 5: Woodrow Wilson: Episode Two - The Redemption of the World

36 SeasonsJan 13, 2002TV-PG55m6.7

Woodrow Wilson reluctantly enters World War I in an effort to "make the world safe for democracy" as this two-part profile concludes. He wins the war but loses the peace, as he's confounded first by the French and British at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919; then by the Republicans in the Senate, who thwart U.S. entry into the League of Nations. Meanwhile, Wilson marries Edith Bolling-Galt (voice of Marion Ross) less than a year after his first wife dies. Edith would emerge as ...

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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