The Congress

Series / 1 Season

For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. Using historical photographs and newsreels, evocative live footage and interviews, Ken Burns chronicles the events that have shaped the first 200 years of congress and, in turn, our country.

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A chronicle of three members of the most influential family in American politics.

The story of five teenagers who were wrongly convicted in the Central Park Jogger case.

Explore the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential figures.

A complex and comprehensive portrait of the man, his politics and the power he sought.

Ken Burns creates a moving portrait of this particularly American movement.

The story of the rise, rule, and fall of prohibition and the entire era it encompassed.

The Tenth Inning interweaves the story of the national pastime with the story of America.

Ken Burns reveals an American couple's secret 1939 mission to help refugees escape Nazis.

The dramatic story of the American Buffalo's near extinction—and the people who saved it.

An American epic overflowing with heroes and hopefuls, scoundrels and screwballs.

The remarkable story of the first person to cross the United States by car.

Trace the bridge's transformation from a feat of heroic engineering to an honored symbol.

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Benjamin Franklin

Huey Long

The Shakers

Prohibition

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Defying The Nazis: The Sharps' War

The American Buffalo

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Horatio's Drive

Brooklyn Bridge