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PBS Home Video Billy the Kid (American Experience)
2012 New.
On April 28, 1881, just days from being hanged for murder, 21-year-old Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, outfoxed his jailors and electrified the nation with the last in a long line of daring escapes. Just a few weeks later, he was finally gunned down by an ambitious sheriff, and the felling of one of the most notorious criminals of the age made headlines across the country. Running Time: 60 minutes. ~ DVD
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24.99 USD
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PBS Home Video Custer's Last Stand (American Experience)
2012 New.
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West. On June 26, 1876, Custer, a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. By day’s end, Custer and nearly a third of his army were dead. Running time: 120 minutes.~ DVD
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PBS Home Video Geronimo and the Apache Resistance (American Experience)
2007 New.
For years, Apache tribes had resisted the advance of the pioneers and their threat to the traditional ways of life. But Geronimo fought the longest, becoming one of the most famous, feared and misunderstood Indian warriors in our history. Now at last, descendants of those Apaches who fought so long ago tell their story as it has never been told. Running time: 56 minutes.~ DVD
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PBS Home Video Jesse James (American Experience)
2006 New.
The story of Jesse James remains one of America's most cherished and wrong-headed myths. Less heroic than brutal, James was a product of the American Civil War; a Confederate partisan of expansive ambition and cunning, who helped invent his own valiant legend. A member of a vicious band of Missouri guerrillas during the war, James sought redemption afterwards, but, rode further from it, redeeming instead the glorious memory of the Old South. Running time: 60 minutes. ~ DVD
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PBS Home Video Kit Carson (American Experience)
2005 New.
His exploits on the American frontier inspired dozens of dime novels, but these wildly popular books belie the complexities of the real Kit Carson. When the West was a mystery to most Americans, Carson mastered it, and his expertise made him not only famous but also sought-after. Eventually, by helping to spur a migration that would change the West forever, he unwittingly became an agent in the destruction of the life he loved. Running Time: 90 Minutes~ DVD
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PBS Home Video Public Enemy #1: The Legendary Outlaw John Dillinger (American Experience)
2009 New.
From 1933 to 1934, America was thrilled and terrorized by John Dillinger, bank robber and desperado whose reputation grew until he became the country's first Public Enemy No. 1. Hunted by every cop in America, Dillinger became a minor folk hero, garnering the support of ordinary Americans hard hit by the Great Depression. Betrayed by a mysterious woman, Dillinger finally fell to the guns of the F.B.I., led by J. Edgar Hoover. Running Time: 60 minutes. ~ DVD
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PBS Home Video The Donner Party: A Film by Ric Burns (American Experience)
2005 New.
Trapped in the Sierra Nevadas during the bitter winter of 1846, nearly 90 members of the Donner and Reed families longed for California's "Promised Land." But an untried shortcut became a death warrant for half of them: victims of madness, death, and cannibalism. The program re-creates the Donner Party's journey from family journals, newspaper accounts, and interviews with historians and descendants. Running time: 90 minutes. ~ DVD
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PBS Home Video The Gold Rush (American Experience)
2006 New.
At the end of 1853, San Francisco was a city on the fast track. A few years earlier, the seaside town had been a sleepy village of just 800 people. But the sight of gold in the waters of the American River set the stage for an event that would forever change a city, a fledgling state, and the nation. Incorporating rare and exquisite daguerreotypes and original recreations, this film offers a vivid portrait of a seminal event in America’s history. Running time: 120 minutes. ~ DVD
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PBS Home Video Wyatt Earp (American Experience)
2010 New.
Wyatt Earp has been portrayed in countless movies and television shows but these popular fictions belie the complexities and flaws of a man whose life is a lens on politics, justice and economic opportunity on the American frontier. He was a caricature of the Western lawman, and after his death in 1929, distressed Americans transformed him into a folk hero: a central figure in how the west was won, a man who took control of his own destiny. Running Time: 60 minutes. ~ DVD
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