Lionsgate

General George S. Patton was a walking, talking, fighting machine whose personality was bigger and noisier than one of his Sherman tanks. He was tough. He was vain. He was brilliant. And in a world gone mad with war, he was our greatest field commander. His slashing armored columns dismembered the panzers of Hitler's "Thousand Year Reich" with matchless thunder and dash. Passionate and arrogant, he slapped soldiers and cried over them; he was vilified and deified. But when it came time for the...

Descend into the dark world and tragic life of Edgar Allan Poe, the melancholy author who is the uncontested master of the macabre, and hear excerpts from his famous works. A genius whose gloomy nature made his own life as tragic as one of his strange tales, Poe's haunting poems and chilling stories established him as one of the most important men of American letters. But behind his popularity and artistic success was a personal life defined by broken hopes and failure. This extraordinary...

On a July morning 60 years ago, scientists and dignitaries gathered in a desolate area of the New Mexico desert aptly known as Jornada del Muerto Journey of Death to await the detonation of the first atomic bomb. Dubbed "The Manhattan Project," this top-secret undertaking was tackled with unprecedented speed and expense, the equivalent of nearly $30 billion in today's dollars. Although the bomb was built in the interest of peace, ethical conflicts and gut-wrenching decisions were inevitable....

As a young man, he experienced the brutality of slavery firsthand. As an outspoken leader of the abolitionist movement, he became one of the most powerful voices in American history. Frederick Douglass inadvertently found his calling while giving an impromptu speech at an anti-slavery meeting in 1841. As a formerly enslaved man, he quickly became not only a persuasive speaker, but also a poignant symbol of freedom. His insightful and eloquent lectures and tireless efforts to educate the public...

It has been among the most powerful fraternal organizations in America, boasting up to four million members, and has survived for more than a century by wrapping its doctrine of hate and intolerance around the ideals of Christianity and patriotism. THE KU KLUX KLAN: A SECRET HISTORY reveals the dark heart of this controversial organization. Join authors David M. Chalmers (Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan) and Wyn Craig Wade (The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America) as...

At 9pm on October 19, 1994, a frantic, crying woman showed up at a home in Unicon County, South Carolina and said a black man had stolen her car at gunpoint with her two young boys asleep in the back. For the next nine days, Union County and the entire nation shared Susan Smith's anguish and prayed that her beloved babies would be returned unharmed. AMERICAN JUSTICE: THE SUSAN SMITH STORY: A MOTHER'S CONFESSION revisits those nine days and the months that followed to tell the tragic story of a...

IR joins "Newsweek" magazine to look at childhood obesity, which threatens one in three kids in America. We look at the factors that are making kids fat, including fast food, a couch-potato lifestyle, parents who set a bad example, and the stress of modern life.

Called "one of the greatest comedies ever made" by Entertainment Weekly, THE LADYKILLERS showcases Alec Guinness in one of his most unforgettable performances as Professor Marcus, mastermind of a gang of vicious bank robbers who rent a room from an elderly widow. But when the dear old woman begins to meddle in their "perfect crime," the crooks decide that she might pose the biggest threat of all. Co-starring Peter Sellers in his first major screen role.

Long before his iconic acting career, Tony Danza received a degree in education. Teach: Tony Danza chronicles the experience of the veteran film, television and stage star as he returns to his roots to take on his toughest role yet, as a first-year teacher at Philadelphia's largest urban high school. Will his students take him seriously? Under the watchful eye of the high school principal and an in-classroom teaching coach, Danza applies incredible creativity and ceaseless dedication to his...

This feature-length film is a riveting chronicle of the bloodiest day in the history of organized crime in America, and the end of Capone's stranglehold on the Windy City.

This year it's a coast-to-coast road trip with Larry and his faithful TV crew as they hunt down everything that makes America great the people, the places, and the way we do things the things that make you say, \"Only in America!\" Larry's journeys take him wide and deep uncovering a whole lot of history you'll never find in the history books.

The very name conjures up images of the good life black tie affairs and high society balls. Yet their long saga proves that money is no guarantee of happiness or stability. John Jacob Astor built an empire by parlaying a job in the fur business into a real estate empire so vast he became the richest man in the world. Follow the fortunes of five generations of Astors in this special BIOGRAPHY. From John's son William, who doubled the family fortune and earned the nickname \"the landlord of New...