Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their...

Four different characters forge a friendship in the turmoil of the American Civil War.

Rare insight into the legendary civil rights leader's personal and public life is seen using interviews and rare footage of the Reverend.

Examines how the Roman Empire linked Western Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa into a commercial and political unit based on their cities. Macaulay visits historical sites throughout the once great Roman Empire, and tells how the structures were built and used. In animated segments, he tells the story of the construction and conflicts of a fictional Roman City in the newly conquered territory of Gaul. Includes visits to Pompeii, Herculaneum,...

New Orlean's Faubourg Treme is the oldest African-American neighborhood in the United States, the birthplace of the black civil rights struggle in the South and the home of jazz. Its unique past adds a revealing new dimension to black history and to the problems of racial inequality today.

With the United States Army deployed in a dozen hotspots around the world, on constant alert in Afghanistan, and taking casualties every day in Iraq, some current and former officers now say the army is on the verge of being "broken." The program digs into the aggressive attempts to assert civilian control and remake the military by the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his allies.