Credited with both unifying China and tormenting its citizenry, Qin Shi Huangdi, the "first emperor of China," is one of the most controversial leaders in the nation's history. His reign brought advances such as standardized currencies, weights, and measures, unified written and spoken language and transportation systems. In battle, too, he was centuries ahead of his time--creating assembly lines to mass-produce precision-crafted swords, arrows and...

Four films exploring the intersection of everyday life with the single worst act of terrorism in United States history. 9/11: the firefighter's story: a documentary shot on the day of the attack and afterwards. Let's roll: the story of flight 93: a reenactment of the passengers' takeover of the fourth plane; produced by Granada Television in England. Rudy: A reenacted depiction of Rudy Giuliani focusing largely on the September 11th terrorist attack. Brothers...

Explores the controversy around the capitol of the United States and its connection to freemasons.

If you were born in the 60s, your decade opened with John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States; the cartoon The Flintstones appeared on Television for the first time; Chubby Checker started a new dance craze with the sensational twist; the U.S. men's ice hockey team won gold in the winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California; and Alan Shepard made the first U.S. space fight. Over-the-Hill Gang: With the help of three "over-the-hill"...

Prelude to war: Recounts the Japanese incursion into Manchuria, the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, and the beginnings of the Nazi takeover in Eastern Europe. The Nazis strike: Documents the relentless advance of Germany's military machine, as Hitler's armies terrorize their victims with blitzkrieg tactics and spread through the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

The high road: Among the earliest converts in Scotland, Margaret Kirkwood and her sons have given up everything to travel from their homeland to join the Saints in Zion. But as part of the Willie Handcart Company, their journey of sacrifice has just begun. Winter has settled upon the frigid plains, and James promises his mother he will safely lead his younger brother to the next camp, embarking on a dangerous trek that illustrates the powerful principle...

Documentary on the lives of Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, the Academy Award-winning songwriting team that defined family musical entertainment with songs such as A spoonful of sugar, from Mary Poppins, and I wan'na be like you, from The jungle book. Explores the deep and longstanding rift that has kept the brothers personally estranged throughout much of their professional partnership. Includes interviews with Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury,...

An inside look at the life of rock and roll's "King" from his earliest days through his army career and marriage to his era in movies and Las Vegas shows. Draws on rare documentary footage and interviews with many of the people who knew him best, including Presley's family members, his friends and employees, and his mentor and manager Colonel Tom Parker.

If you were born in the 50s your parents spurred the biggest story of the 20th century, the rise of the middle class, and millions of Americans left the cities for the suburbs to own a home of their own, a building boom was on. This was the decade where people built Bomb Shelters, if you were born in the early fifties you are a baby Boomer, the most influential and powerful group of Americans ever born. Last time I saw Paris: Tragedy strikes an American...

Inspiring stories from or about: Thomas S. Monson, Gordon B. Hinckley, Jeffrey R. Holland, David O. McKay, Joseph F. Smith, LaVell Edwards, Greg Olsen, Michael Ballam, Jane Clayson Johnson, Mike Leavitt, Jake Garn, Orrin Hatch, Sharlene Wells Hawkes, Al Young, Jerry Borrowman, Robin Russell Saeva, Brett Raymond, Gary Toyn and Mike Winder.