Unforgivable Blackness The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (20
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion
Empire of the Air The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
For 50 years, radio dominated the airwaves as the first mass medium Ken Burns examines the lives of three men who shared the responsibility for its invention and early success
Huey Long (1985)
Ken Burns portrait of Louisiana governorU S senator Huey Long
Thomas Hart Benton (1989)
Thomas Hart Bentons paintings were energetic and uncompromising Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people to appreciate
The Statue of Liberty (1985)
Documentary showing the history of the world famous Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, the impact it still has on people and the state of liberty as a personal and political concept in America in 1985