The Progressive Era
This installment of the "Just the Facts" documentary series covers the early decades of the 1900s.
This installment of the "Just the Facts" documentary series covers the early decades of the 1900s.
Bill Ratner
Narrator
This installment of the "Just the Facts" documentary series covers the early decades of the 1900s.
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Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the life of beautiful research assistant Lisa Fredericks.
In 1925, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly epidemic.
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.