S29 Episode 1
Command and Control
An account of an incident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Ark., in 1980 that almost caused the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead 600 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The near-calamity was kicked off when a socket fell from the wrench of an airman performing maintenance in a Titan II silo and punctured the missile, releasing a stream of highly explosive rocket fuel.
55 mins · Tue, 10 Jan 2017
S29 Episode 2
Rachel Carson
She set out to save a species...us. An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world.
55 mins · Tue, 24 Jan 2017
S29 Episode 3
The Race Underground
The dramatic story of the country's first subway.
55 mins · Tue, 31 Jan 2017
S29 Episode 4
Oklahoma City
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by literature and ideas of the radical right, killed 168, and injured 675 others.
55 mins · Tue, 7 Feb 2017
S29 Episode 5
Ruby Ridge
A riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.
55 mins · Tue, 14 Feb 2017
S29 Episode 6
The Great War: Part 1
Part 1 of 3. President Woodrow Wilson vowed to keep the U.S. out of World War I after hostilities erupted in Europe in August 1914. It was a promise he kept until 1917, when the Germans resumed "unrestricted submarine warfare"— a policy it had started and then stopped in 1915 — and began sinking U.S. ships. An intercepted telegram also showed Germany trying to convince Japan and Mexico to declare war on America.
55 mins · Mon, 10 Apr 2017
S29 Episode 7
The Great War: Part 2
Part 2 of 3. America's entry into World War I is recalled, including the breathtaking speed of mobilization and the profound transformations required for America to play a central role in the conflict.
55 mins · Tue, 11 Apr 2017
S29 Episode 8
The Great War: Part 3
Part 3 of 3. In the fall of 1918: a major American offensive that could bring a swift end to the war, a lost U.S. battalion surrounded by German forces, a deadly flu epidemic on the homefront.
55 mins · Wed, 12 Apr 2017
