The Best Episodes Directed By Rob Rapley

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.0/10(3 votes)

   #1 - The Abolitionists: 1820s-1838

   S25:E11/8/2013

   The story of how abolitionist allies William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.

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   3.6/10(7 votes)

   #2 - The Man Who Tried to Feed The World

   S32:E34/21/2020

   Explore the life of 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, who tried to solve world hunger. He rescued India from a severe famine and led the "Green Revolution," estimated to have saved one billion lives. But his work later faced criticism.

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   3.2/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Flood in the Desert

   S34:E35/3/2022

   Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing water to the city via aqueduct.

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   2.1/10(8 votes)

   #4 - Voice of Freedom

   S33:E22/15/2021

   Explore the fascinating life of celebrated singer Marian Anderson. In 1939, after being barred from performing at Constitution Hall because she was Black, she triumphed at the Lincoln Memorial in what became a landmark moment in American history.

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