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VIDEO: Surviving the Dust Bowl

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Surviving the Dust Bowl
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Length: 52:31
Posted: 11/17/2009

The Dust Bowl brought drought, dust, disease and death to the Midwest for nearly a decade. watch

VIDEO: Seabiscuit

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Seabiscuit
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Length: 53:37
Aired: 4/21/2003

An over-worked horse and a broken-down jockey capture the nation's imagination. watch

VIDEO: Hoover Dam

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Hoover Dam
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Length: 52:25
Aired: 1/18/1999

Hoover Dam tamed a wild river and renewed faith in American ingenuity and technology. watch

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Tonight's TV Hot List: Monday, Nov. 2, 2009

Dancing with the Stars
8/7c ABC
It's time once again for the celebrities to help design the costumes! From what we saw last week, Kelly may be putting Louis in a loud floral print, and Michael's designs may have Anna cursing him in Russian. However, let's hope Michael didn't spend too much time working on wardrobe at the expense of practicing, because he only narrowly escaped elimination last week by winning a dance-off against Louie Vito. Two stars exited in a double elimination last week, and tomorrow night two more will go.

Read on for previews of How I Met Your Mother, Greek, American Experience and Poliwood. read more

Lifetime Delivers a Memorable Daughter

In classic page-turner fashion, The Memory Keeper's Daughter opens on a dark and snowy night, with a fateful childbirth, the implications of which resonate over the next 20 years of secrets and lies, joys and sorrows. Lifetime chose well in adapting Kim Edwards' best-seller, which tells the best kind of what-would-you-do yarn. If the TV-movie is more labored and less affecting than the emotionally taut novel, it's ultimately satisfying and is just the sort of high-end tearjerker Lifetime should continue making. The story's irresistible hook comes early, as Dr. David Henry (Dermot Mulroney) is forced by weather and fate to deliver his own wife's baby, a "perfect" son. But there's a surprise twin: a girl with Down syndrome — this being 1964, he calls her a "mongoloid" — and he's so appalled he orders his adoring nurse, Caroline (Emily Watson), to whisk her to an asylum, telling wife Norah (Gretchen Mol) that Baby Phoebe died. This lie haunts and threa read more

Entourage concludes its entertaining Season 3

Can the professional marriage between Vince and Ari be saved? This burning question scorches its way with white-hot comic intensity through the second half of Entourage's ridiculously entertaining third season (Sundays, 10 pm/ET, HBO). When last we saw our Hollywood lads, back in August, movie star Vince Chase (Adrian Grenier) had just broken up with — as in, fired — his volatile agent, Ari Gold (Emmy winner Jeremy Piven). The fallout is like something from a turbocharged romantic comedy, with money and movie deals acting as aphrodisiacs in a ruthless mating dance. "I can't just be friends," insists a desperate Ari, engaged in a literal tug-of-war for Vince's loyalty and affections with his foxy new agent, Amanda (the sizzling Carla Gugino), who has certain seductive assets Ari can't quite match. There's no business as low as showbiz, and Entourage revels in it. The show is o read more

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Season 21, Episode 3
The dramatic manhunt following the assassination of President Lincoln.
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Length: 01:24:13
Aired: 2/9/2009
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Season 21, Episode 2
In the 1950's a Polio outbreak swept the U.S., devastating communities nationwide.
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Length: 53:25
Aired: 2/2/2009
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