Steven M. Gillon

Director Vikram Jayanti explores Abraham Lincoln's remarkable rise from humble beginnings to the highest office in the land. Was Abraham Lincoln's lifelong anguish the driving force behind his ultimate transcendence to America's most beloved President? Award-winning director Vikram Jayanti takes a look through Lincoln's eyes on his last day.

The Civil War ends and America desperately needs leadership. The president who'd seen the nation through its most divisive conflict is dead, leaving no road map for peace.

Thomas Jefferson is the most researched, most written about, most referenced, and most quoted of our Founding Fathers. And yet, somehow, he remains the most stubbornly inscrutable.

America emerges as a superpower. The Cold War presents the nation with nuclear annihilation. The struggle against the spread of communism abroad, and the corrosive effects of inequality at home, demands a steadfast leader.

In the 1920s, America is poised for a fresh start as the horrific brutality of the first global war ends. But as America crashes into Depression and another World War, a strong leader is needed.

Though Eisenhower and Kennedy charted its course, the Vietnam War quickly became known as Lyndon Johnson's war. Hear phone conversations that reveal his inner torment over the conflict that would become his unwanted legacy.