Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. (imdb)

Follows the history and culture of the Black church and explores African American faith communities on the frontlines of hope and change.

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality. (imdb)

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world's leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.

Mankind embraces a groundbreaking way of telling this epic human story. Drawing on a growing global interest in a revelatory field of history, now adopted by universities across the globe. 'Big history' focuses on the forces of nature to show how mankind's path is guided by events that stretch back, not hundreds, but thousands of millions of years. How the power of science, from geology and astronomy, to physics and biology combined to shape our shared human journey.

Filmmaker Charles Burnett examines the life of Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt in Virginia in 1831.