The Cold War forces the United States to build very high altitude U2 planes to record photographs of opposing nations.

The story of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the earliest days of aviation.

Orson Welles' movie stirs the ire of publisher William Randolph Hearst, the man who the film was patterned after.

Biography of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, considered one of the last major heads of big city "machine" politics in the United States.

The story of orphaned inner-city children shipped to rural locations and new lives as part of a social engineering experiment.

Inventor Thomas A. Edison experiments with electricity, long-burning filaments, and glass bulbs to give America an alternative to gas lights.

The nation is fascinated by the high-profile murder of a famous architect, apparently because of jealousy over a popular female stage performer.