Sins Of The South

National Geographic: Icons of Power - Empress of Ambition documents the life and reign of Russia's Catherine the Great, widely considered one of the most controversial rulers in the history of the world.

Big Kenny and John Rich travel to Vietnam with their friend Nigel Harris to pay tribute to Harris's fellow soldiers who perished in combat on Nov. 8, 1965.

A documentary about life in Biei, a small town in Japan's Ishikari Province.

The journalist hosts a series of uplifting reports about "grassroots responses" to youth violence, street crime and hate crime in communities across the U.S. Included: a "truce" in a Washington, D.C., housing project that had been "ground zero for a bloody gang feud"; inmates at the Oregon State Penitentiary "reaching beyond prison walls to ensure that troubled youth stay out of jail; and the healing process that followed the burning of two black churches in Manning, S.C. Also: town meetings.

The origins of the shapes of America's states are traced, with examinations of the geographical, political and social factors that determined the borders.