Movies: Smithsonian Channel

  • 2019
    The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

    The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (2019)

    The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

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    In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws we...

    The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
  • 2019
    Memphis Belle in Color

    Memphis Belle in Color (2019)

    Memphis Belle in Color

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    In January 1942, the U.S. military created a new bomber command, the Eighth Air Force, and sent a small contingent of men overseas to loosen the Nazis' grip on Europe. The command's star player was the B-17, a fast, heavily armed aircraft that change...

    Memphis Belle in Color
  • 2014
    Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink

    Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink (2014)

    Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink

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    It's death on an unimaginable scale, when a majority of Earth's species quickly die out. It's called "mass extinction," and it's happened at least five times before. Cataclysms, such as supervolcanoes or asteroids, are thought to cause these events, ...

    Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
  • 2019
    The Day We Walked on the Moon

    The Day We Walked on the Moon (2019)

    The Day We Walked on the Moon

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    On July 16, 1969, hundreds of thousands of spectators and an army of reporters gathered at Cape Kennedy to witness one of the great spectacles of the century: the launch of Apollo 11. Over the next few days, the world watched on with wonder and raptu...

    The Day We Walked on the Moon
  • 2015
    SEAL Dog

    SEAL Dog (2015)

    SEAL Dog

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    On the surface, they appear to be ordinary dogs, but these canines have a secret identity. They are the Pentagon's stealth warriors, with specialties in explosives detection, tracking, laser target acquisition and bite work. Meet the U.S. Navy SEALs'...

    SEAL Dog
  • 2015
    The Day Hitler Died

    The Day Hitler Died (2015)

    The Day Hitler Died

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    The story of Hitler’s final hours told by people who were there. This special features exclusive forgotten interviews, believed lost for 65 years, with members of Hitler’s inner circle who were trapped with him in his bunker as the Russians fought to...

    The Day Hitler Died
  • 2012
    Titanic's Final Mystery

    Titanic's Final Mystery (2012)

    Titanic's Final Mystery

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    The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th century. For decades, investigators and amateurs alike have floated theories for why it occurred and who was to blame for the extraordinary loss of l...

    Titanic's Final Mystery
  • 2022
    Master of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly

    Master of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly (2022)

    Master of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly

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    Chihuly is widely known as the enigmatic figure behind impressive glass sculptures that are both well-integrated yet strikingly imposing as they float through Finland's rivers, crowd the narrow canals of Venice, blossom across the ceiling of the Bell...

    Master of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly
  • 2017
    Battle of Okinawa in Color

    Battle of Okinawa in Color (2017)

    Battle of Okinawa in Color

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    By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the fighting is still going strong on a small island in the Pacific. Okinawa was the site of the last battle of the last great war of the 20th century, wi...

    Battle of Okinawa in Color
  • 2019
    Le pouvoir des prêtresses égyptiennes

    Le pouvoir des prêtresses égyptiennes (2019)

    Le pouvoir des prêtresses égyptiennes

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    Le pouvoir des prêtresses égyptiennes
  • 2021
    Cher & the Loneliest Elephant

    Cher & the Loneliest Elephant (2021)

    Cher & the Loneliest Elephant

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    "The World's Loneliest Elephant" Kaavan will finally experience freedom, thanks to his biggest champion, the one & only Cher. We'll follow Cher, Free The Wild, Four Paws International, and Kaavan on every step of the trip....

    Cher & the Loneliest Elephant
  • 2013
    The Day Kennedy Died

    The Day Kennedy Died (2013)

    The Day Kennedy Died

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    The doctor who tried to save him. The Secret Service agent who was seconds too late. The man wrongly accused of his murder. And the woman who unwittingly sheltered an assassin. The death of JFK has inspired thousands of books and debates over the las...

    The Day Kennedy Died
  • 2014
    Shark Girl

    Shark Girl (2014)

    Shark Girl

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    For 20-year-old Madison Stewart, nothing feels safer or more natural than diving straight into shark-infested waters. Since childhood, growing up by the Great Barrier Reef, she's treated these predators as family. But they're vanishing from existence...

    Shark Girl
  • 2018
    The Pharaoh in the Suburb: Uncovered

    The Pharaoh in the Suburb: Uncovered (2018)

    The Pharaoh in the Suburb: Uncovered

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    A chance find in a suburb of Cairo has shed new light on an all but forgotten Pharaoh, Psamtik I. Discovered in 2017, an eight-tonne fragment of a statue has led experts to believe that he was, in fact, one of Egypt’s greatest leaders, as this docume...

    The Pharaoh in the Suburb: Uncovered
  • 2018
    The Mountain Lion and Me

    The Mountain Lion and Me (2018)

    The Mountain Lion and Me

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    On the outskirts of Yellowstone National Park is Paradise Valley, Montana, home to bears, wolves, elk, and an animal so secretive, few ever get to see it: the mountain lion. Wildlife filmmaker Casey Anderson became one of those lucky few after follow...

    The Mountain Lion and Me
  • 2019
    Adolf Island

    Adolf Island (2019)

    Adolf Island

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    Caroline Sturdy Colls, a world leader in the forensic investigation of Nazi crime scenes, is chasing clues to an unsolved case: a concentration camp that existed on the British island of Alderney. Witnesses and survivors claimed that thousands died t...

    Adolf Island
  • 2017
    Aerial Ireland

    Aerial Ireland (2017)

    Aerial Ireland

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    Take a cross-country flight over Ireland's natural wonders and ancient ruins. In this spectacular overview of the historically significant Emerald Isle, we soar over Neolithic tombs of the Celtic era, medieval castles of the Vikings, and modern citie...

    Aerial Ireland
  • 2020
    Aboard Air Force One

    Aboard Air Force One (2020)

    Aboard Air Force One

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    Air Force One is a marvel of military engineering. For more than half a century, the presidential fleet of armed jumbo jets has served as a flying fortress for America's commanders-in-chief, carrying them in victory, in shame, and even death. Join us...

    Aboard Air Force One
  • 2016
    Castro's Secret Reef

    Castro's Secret Reef (2016)

    Castro's Secret Reef

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    Cuba's enforced isolation has resulted in the unlikeliest of marine reserves: a huge, rambling archipelago known as Jardines de la Reina, or "Gardens of the Queen." Stretching around 140 miles along the southern coast of Cuba, it's one of the longest...

    Castro's Secret Reef
  • 2013
    40 Under 40

    40 Under 40 (2013)

    40 Under 40

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    Some of them move. Others make noise. One weighs in at 700 pounds. Collectively, they represent the future of contemporary craft. Go behind the scenes of the "40 under 40: Craft Futures" exhibition, featuring traditional and non-traditional works of ...

    40 Under 40