Geoffrey C. Ward

A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War. (imdb)

Ken Burns' portrait of Louisiana governor/U.S. senator Huey Long. (imdb)

A biographical film about The United States' influential and profoundly enigmatic Founding Father. (imdb)

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion. (imdb)

The story of the two founding members of the woman's suffragette movement as told by one of the most storied documentarians of our time.

Story of Missouri-born author Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain), encompassing legend and fact with an exhilarating sense of adventure. Follows Clemens's literary odyssey around the globe, from unrivaled acclaim as a writer to near destitution and the devastating deaths of his wife and three children. (Amazon.com)

Documentary showing the history of the world-famous Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. (imdb)

Master documentary filmmaker Ken Burns paints a vivid portrait of artist Thomas Hart Benton in this riveting film. Benton, known for his lulling renderings of the American countryside, emerges as a complicated man who stayed on the fringes of the New York art scene, eschewing it. The film features Benton's home movies and paintings, along with interviews with those who knew him personally and professionally. (Netflix)

This documentary covers the history of the American West from the Native American tribes to their encounter with Europeans and how the Europeans conquered them and settled the land. In telling this story, the film takes into the account to both the viewpoints of Indians and other minorities to balance the white populations history. (imdb)

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. The series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides--Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. (PBS)

Explore the painstaking process through which Hemingway created some of the most important works of fiction in American letters. (imdb)