Ships sailing without a crew? Phantom destroyers? Boats that disappear, then reappear? Ships sailing without a crew? Phantom destroyers? Boats that disappear, then reappear?
A history of chain gangs in the United States, from their origins in the late 19th century as a reform for convict labor; through their own corruption; the reform following "I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang" (1932); their ending in the 1960s; and their rebirth in the 1990s.
In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual deep-ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake--and, incredibly, a farming community eleven miles inland--the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage: the first shark attacks on swimmers in U.S. history.
How Washington's spies Nathan Hale, John Honeyman, Benjamin Tallmadge, his spy network in New York known as the Culper Ring, and British spies Thomas Hickey, John Andre and Benedict Arnold played key roles in the Revolutionary War.
This program is part of the popular series from the History Channel that investigates some of civilization's unsolved mysteries and controversies. This episode investigates a controversial action taken by President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1906, a street shooting occurred in Brownsville, TX. Amid allegations that the culprits were black soldiers in the 1st Battalion of the 25th Infantry, Roosevelt took the unprecedented action of discharging without honor all 167 men. The documentary weighs old and newly discovered evidence in the case, using archival accounts and photographs and commentary by experts.
