African American Lives

A cinema verité look at a pivotal school year for an urban high school in the U.S. capital. The film focuses on the struggles, triumphs, hardships, and observations of students, teachers, athletic coaches, and their charismatic school principal.

How has religious belief shaped American history? What role have religious ideas and spiritual experience played in shaping the social, political, and cultural life of what has become the world's most religiously diverse nation? GOD IN AMERICA, a presentation of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and FRONTLINE, will explore the historical role of religion in the public life of the United States. The six-hour series interweaves documentary footage, historical dramatization and interviews with religious historians.