- [Voiceover] Now streaming on the PBS app, the definitive collection of documentaries from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.
(dramatic music) Discover over 40 groundbreaking films that bring our history to life.
(cheerful jazzy music) - Muhammad Ali was the most important man in the world.
- [Crowd] Ali!
Ali!
- [Narrator] His magnetism just was amazing.
Who is this guy?
- [Commentator] He was a revolutionary.
He was a ground breaker.
- What are you gonna say about that now, huh?
(bell tolls) - The price of freedom comes high.
I have paid, but I am free.
(sweeping guitar music) - [Narrator] I hate the myth of Hemingway.
It obscures the man.
- His talent is stunning.
- He went against the grain.
- [Narrator] It's hard to imagine a writer who hasn't been influenced by him.
- In order to have something new to write he had to have something new to live.
(artillery gun fires) - [Narrator] And he fell in love quite a few times.
- He's complex and deeply flawed, but there he is.
Hemingway, the man, is much more interesting than the myth.
(inspirational music) - The American identity begins when Benjamin Franklin knit the American colonies together.
- [Narrator] Franklin is endlessly interesting.
- [Commentator] Printer, scientist, revolutionary.
- He is the only founding father who evidently had a sense of humor.
- His vision is broader than the American Revolution.
- The things that he spoke of, that he wrote about had a certain amount of power.
- He really was an American genius.
(suspenseful music) - [Narrator] Even though the Holocaust took place in Europe, it is a story that Americans have to reckon with too.
- The primary goal is get to the United States.
- The door was not quite open.
(dramatic music sustains) - Rule changes make it even harder for refugees to get in.
- We are a good people but that's not all there is to this story.
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