APM Reports Documentaries

Four American presidents tried to end the conflict in Vietnam. The lessons they learned echo sharply today.

During an 18-month investigation, the 9/11 Commission heard extraordinary testimony about the terrorist attacks on Ameri... Read more

In April 1994, the central African nation of Rwanda exploded into 100 days of violence, killing 800,000 people. Most tur... Read more

Mississippi led the South in an extraordinary battle to maintain racial segregation. Whites set up powerful citizens gro... Read more

Public schools are denying children with dyslexia proper treatment and often failing to identify them in the first place... Read more

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognit... Read more

Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators don't know th... Read more

President Barack Obama wants to create jobs by building infrastructure. So did another president. Franklin Delano Roosev... Read more

Researchers have long been searching for better ways to learn. In recent decades, experts working in cognitive science, ... Read more

The '60s were a time of social movements and big changes, but a quieter revolution was underway too -- one led by a few ... Read more

Advocates for kids are pushing for a new approach to combating underage prostitution: treating young people caught up in... Read more

Peabody-award winning documentary that chronicles the sounds and voices of the World Trade Center and its surrounding ne... Read more

Nonprofits are being asked to step in to address some of America's most pressing social ills as government steps back.

What should children learn in school? It's a question that's stirred debate for decades, and in 1974 it led to violent p... Read more

In the 1970s, the founder of the National Institute on Aging convinced a nation that senility was really Alzheimer's and... Read more

The most popular college major in America these days is business. Some students think it doesn't pay to study philosophy... Read more

A get-tough attitude prevailed among educators in the 1980s and 1990s, but research shows that zero-tolerance policies d... Read more

In the 1950s, the United States came up with a plan to solve what it called the "Indian Problem." It would assimilate Na... Read more

The nation's high school graduation rate is at an all-time high, but high-poverty schools face a stubborn challenge. Sch... Read more

To many people, global youth culture means rock and roll and other Western fashions. But for more and more young people ... Read more