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
  • 2013
    Shackleton's Frozen Hell

    Shackleton's Frozen Hell (2013)

    Shackleton's Frozen Hell

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    In 1914, the world's first trans-Antarctic expedition came to a cold stop. Trapped in ice just 60 miles from their destination, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew found themselves in a dire situation that would play out as a two-year battle agai...

    Shackleton's Frozen Hell
  • 2017
    The Last Buffalo

    The Last Buffalo (2017)

    The Last Buffalo

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    For thousands of years, the Great Plains were home to countless numbers of American bison, but in the late 1800s, the number of bison dropped from nearly 30 million to just a few hundred in less than 100 years. What happened to place this national ic...

    The Last Buffalo
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2020
    Breaking the Sound Barrier

    Breaking the Sound Barrier (2020)

    Breaking the Sound Barrier

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    On October 14, 1947, Captain Chuck Yeager accomplished what many thought was impossible: he broke the sound barrier and in doing so, changed aviation history forever. Behind this remarkable achievement was a dedicated team of rocket scientists and en...

    Breaking the Sound Barrier
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2007
    America's Treasures

    America's Treasures (2007)

    America's Treasures

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    From the desk on which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence to Dorothy's ruby slippers, the National Museum of American History houses many of America's greatest treasures and icons. Learn the stories of how they came to be a part of the m...

    America's Treasures
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Sinking the Lusitania: An American Tragedy

    Sinking the Lusitania: An American Tragedy (2015)

    Sinking the Lusitania: An American Tragedy

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    The sinking of the Lusitania and the impact it had in determining the fate of World War I is widely known. But few know the stories of the passengers and crew aboard the doomed luxury liner, or the German commander who ordered the deadly attack on Ma...

    Sinking the Lusitania: An American Tragedy
  • 2007
    America’s Yellowstone

    America’s Yellowstone (2007)

    America’s Yellowstone

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    Welcome to Yellowstone, America's oldest and largest national park. Lose yourself in the majestic landscapes that serve as a giant natural laboratory, with over three million geysers, fifty species of mammals, and three hundred species of birds....

    America’s Yellowstone
  • 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
  • 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