Andy's Film Blog

A profile of the life of the 37th President and his tumultuous administration, starting with his humble beginnings in Stonewall, Texas an...

After unexpectedly winning a tight 1880 presidential campaign, James A. Garfield showed much promise in the job before being gunned down ...

From its start as a Dutch trading post through the immigrant experience up until present day, covering formative politicians including Bo...

Ripley: Believe It or Not, an American Experience entry, is a fine presentation of life and especially on the life’s work of Robert Riple...

The American Experience  two part docuseries on the retracted life, trials, and triumphs of the 35th President is occasionally enlighteni...

In Spring 1975, no longer fearing reprisals from Richard Nixon, the North Vietnamese Army began to rapidly retake South Vietnam and close...

Prior to 1910, Manhattan was completely isolated from rail traffic, and all commuters and cargo had to make to their way to the isle by w...

When William Randolph Hearst caught wind that RKO's boy wonder Orson Welles had chosen for his first feature film to tell the life st...

In the early 20th Century, the American household was chockfull of unregulated and highly toxic everyday items which were often used to p...

On the evening of October, 30th 1938, a country frazzled by economic depression, impending war in Europe, and a series of national catast...

In the mid-90s, PBS premiered two unremarkable documentaries on Westward Expansion, the first entitled The Way West  by Ric Burns, the se...

Overlooking a portion of the Blacks Hills of South Dakota, the sacred land of the Sioux, lies the sixty foot granite visages of George Wa...

John D. Rockefeller, the son of a traveling con artist and a devout mother, was a callous businessman with great disdain for his competit...

In 1846, just a few years before the Gold Rush, a group consisting of thirty six men, women, and children seeking a new start in Californ...

Henry Ford, a poor farm boy from rural Michigan, would open up the world for millions of people with his invention of the Model-T and dev...

In the late 1950s, a group of forward thinking inventors defected from their company, moved to an undeveloped portion of Southern Califor...

With approximately 620,000 lives lost during the Civil War, there was scarcely a household, North or South, that wasn't ravaged by th...

Whether it was a newspaperman who saw his life's work in abolition, a traveller through the South stunned by the brutalities of the i...

Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, at the southernmost part of Brooklyn near the western mass of Long Island, Coney Island is a small mass o...

From Cleveland, Ohio, Jesse Owens was a track and field star who, following a successful career at The Ohio State University, went on to ...