The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries

Unhealed Wounds - The Life of Ernest Hemingway

Apr 29, 200834 min

Ernest Hemingway was the best-selling, most celebrated author of his time. He wove war, love, pain and death into unforgettable patchworks of prose, and sought adventure and craved risk. Behind a cheerful façade were wounds much deeper than

The French Foreign Legion - The World's Most Legendary Fighting Force

Apr 29, 200830 min

For almost two hundred years one group of fighting men has held an unrivaled grip on the world's imagination. Shadowy pasts have made them outcasts. Glorious victories have made them heroes. And bitter defeats -- often in hopeless battles t

The Secret Life of Edith Wharton

Apr 29, 200829 min

In 1905, all of New York was riveted by the story of Lily Bart, a stunning young woman hoping to claim her place in society through marriage to a wealthy man. As her prospects for marriage unraveled, Lily's life spiraled downward. No longer

Lowell Thomas - American Storyteller

Apr 29, 200828 min

Over the course of his illustrious career, Lowell Thomas was an adventurer, a showman, the most familiar voice in radio, a television personality and a media pioneer. He was one of the first to be called a newscaster, but through it all, on

For the People, Despite the People - The Atatürk Revolution

Apr 29, 200830 min

At the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire paid the ultimate price for choosing the wrong side. The winners, Britain and France, marched in and began to carve it up. Then an army arose out of nowhere, expelled the invaders from its homel

The Greedy Heart of Halide Edib

Apr 29, 200828 min

In novels, memoirs, and essays, the Turkish writer Halide Edib chronicled the most cataclysmic change in the history of her country: its creation after World War I from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. She not only wrote about it, she was o